Big 12 Conference

VILLANOVA, Pa. -- For the entertainment portion of their Hoops Mania event on Oct. 23, Villanova's players performed a version of Michael Jackson's Thriller with the school's dance team, and as the Wildcats' senior...

MANHATTAN, Kans. -- There was a class observing Kansas State's practice last Tuesday, and so, for the sake of decorum, coach Frank Martin spared junior forward Curtis Kelly of what might have been an epic reaming,...

LAWRENCE, Kan. -- It's a fine late-October afternoon on Massachusetts Street, sunny and just south of 60 degrees, and I'm eating fried dill pickles at Jefferson's Restaurant with a very tall man who's missing his...

Every major-conference team that I'd consider ranking in a preseason top 25 -- well, every team other than Mississippi State -- has made its 2009-10 schedule public, and I spent the last few days poring over them.

The latest subject of our Hoops Q&A series is Kansas State's Denis Clemente, a 6-foot-1 senior guard from Bayamon, Puerto Rico. He played his first two seasons at Miami, then transferred to K-State after being...