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Bracketologists speak: What NCAA tournament forecasters expect from odd 2020-21 season
ESPN bracketologists Joe Lunardi and Charlie Creme look ahead to March and size up the implications of Wednesday's announcement on the NCAA hoops tourneys.
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THE SEASON AHEAD
Same as it ever was? Look closely, and 2020-21 college basketball season has plenty of precedent
Afraid of the altered look of the upcoming college basketball season? Relax. Even in our brave, new world, much of what's to come is not new.
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2021 PROSPECTS
Breaking down the top 2021 women's basketball prospects in the espnW 100
We picked the top five women's basketball prospects overall and five who rose up the rankings for the Class of 2021.
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2021 espnW 100: Ranking the top women's college basketball prospects
We ranked the top 100 women's college basketball prospects for the Class of 2021.
UCONN
WOMEN'S COLLEGE HOOPS
UConn's Paige Bueckers: Expectations, pandemic don't dampen start of college career
Bueckers might be a generational talent, but first she has to get through a year that will shape a generation -- and hopefully include a college hoops season.
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THE UNDEFEATED
The Undefeated
Former UT basketball star Imani McGee-Stafford wants her alma mater to show up for its Black student-athletes
'I love the University of Texas ... but at the same time, like when you love something, you critique it because you expect it to be better.'
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The coronavirus and college sports: NCAA reopening plans, latest news, program cuts, more
After first postponing its college football season, the Big Ten is now set to begin play the weekend of Oct. 24. Here's the latest on how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting the college sports world.
NCAAM
NCAA approves start date for college basketball season
Jeff Borzello explains the plan the NCAA put in place for the college basketball seasons to begin Nov. 25.
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- MAAC first to announce its schedule model
- NCAA: Men's, women's hoops can start Nov. 25
- NCAA gives D-I athletes day off for Nov. elections
- Capping coaches' salaries discussed at hearing
- Vanderbilt hires La. Tech AD as new deputy AD
- UConn may go beyond patches in support of BLM
- Washington St. to cut jobs, reduce coaches' pay
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Saving the hoops season
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Can college basketball avoid a repeat of college football's calamity?
A void in leadership and absence of crisis preparation have made a mess of the 2020 college football season. Can college basketball's stakeholders avoid a similar fate?
