Andy Rautins is out for the new season (2007-2008)

New commitments at Florida, Alabama, Arizona, New Mexico and more at Recruiting Wars

Part II of their NCAA shooting analysis has been posted at A Sea of Blue

Andy Rautins is sadly out for the 2007-2008 season after injuring his knee during the FIBA Americas championship tournament in Vegas

Goodman looks at the 2007-2008 Illinois and their losses (in recruiting and elsewhere)

Providence and VCU (the Duke Slayers) are featured in this blog update from Goodman

CBS Sportsline top stories include: Ron Steele's 2nd surgery, the loss of 84 year old coach van Breda Koff, and David McClure missing 6-8 weeks. Also it's almost a year since the tragic shootings at Duquesne, and Ricky Stokes won't take an admin position at East Carolina. All this from CBS Sportsline. Also there Jamar Smith's DUI and a report on Illinois

Speaking of reports, CHN continues their 144 previews with St Mary's, Wyoming, Winthrop, Central Michigan, Siena and Fordham

Huggins team at Cincinatti West Virginia is at #49 in Rivals Top 64 2007-2008 teams.

Bob McClellan at Rivals breaks down the ACC schedule. As expected Coach K avoids the road while Carolina has two TV road games at Ohio State (the battle of the freshmen in 2006-2007) and at new Kentucky.

DeCourcy breaks down Duke's schedule, which opens with Barton College (NCAA DII champs) on November 3

John Clay's Sidelines Report has an update on how Billy Gillispie is doing at Kentucky

2007 NCAA College Basketball Tournament games on DVD!