He went on to spend four years playing in the NBA, the top basketball league in the world, with Orlando Magic, Utah Jazz and Houston Rockets.
In 2012, teams like Kansas expect to draw 16, 300 fans to their Midnight Madness events and most other top basketball programs expect to sell out their arenas.
Galaxy realizes that it has an uphill battle if it hopes to bring back the And1 line to its position as one of the top basketball brands in the world.
There is less wealth disparity among the top college basketball teams than the top football teams mainly because television money is more evenly distributed in basketball.
Today, top NCAA basketball programs from Kentucky to Kansas and Syracuse to North Carolina will host Midnight Madness events.
Six more Top 25 college basketball teams went down Saturday, including two of the top five.
Last season, after decades of fielding mediocre basketball teams, Harvard was ranked among the nation's top 25 in basketball, and at the heart of the basketball team's success was a program dogged by controversy ever since Harvard hired former University of Michigan coach Tommy Amaker in April 2007.
And Part II provided an overview of the top revenue generating basketball programs in the country.
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But here's the extraordinary thing about Smith and Burke ascending to the top of college basketball: They went mostly overlooked in high school.
My goal on top that church basketball court in Harlem was simple: Keep as many kids happy for three hours and avoid being destroyed.
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Syracuse (20-4) is one of the top teams in college basketball this season and ranked No. 6 in the Associated Press poll.
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After 37 seasons at Syracuse, he's just not sure how long it's going to be before he decides to do something else besides coach the Orange, a team he's elevated to the top rung of college basketball over the past four decades.
The top current Olympian outside of basketball players besides Phelps, Misty May-Treanor, is known by 33% of the public.
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The Mountain West Conference, judged one of the top two leagues in college basketball all season, fell to 1-3 so far this week.
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That is still less than a top American sports star such as basketball's Michael Jordan can command, but perhaps not for long.
The NBA, the big money organization that supplies Olympic basketball with most if its top talent, would benefit quite a bit more by sending its young guns to the Games.
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Part I of our coverage of the economics of college basketball compared the revenues of the top 14 rated Division I conferences as listed by the RPI ratings.
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The top selling footwear categories include training, running, basketball, sports-inspired casual shoes, kids shoes.
As for NBA Europe Live, those four countries are four of the top markets we have in Europe in terms of basketball popularity and business metrics.
Ware, a sophomore from the Bronx who averages 4.6 points per game as a reserve for the top-seeded Cardinals, played high-school basketball 30 minutes from the Georgia Dome, the site of next weekend's Final Four.
If this holds true again, that's bad news for four of the top seven teams in the current Associated Press men's basketball poll.
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We decided on a mathematical approach to historically rank the top North American single-season teams in football, baseball, basketball and hockey.
An avid watcher of college basketball, Boeheim was talking about the wild season where top five teams lose games just like anybody else.
And as their billionaire owners continue to spend big on top-level players, traditional American sports such as baseball and basketball are being pushed down the list.
Auriemma, who is also head coach of the University of Connecticut women's basketball team, is considered among the nation's top coaches, steering the Huskies to seven national titles over his 27 years with the team.
That means it will soon be much more difficult for the Big East to build upon its television revenue with wealthy bowl game payouts and revenue earned through the NCAA basketball tournament (the Big East has traditionally been the top earner from tournament play).
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Louisville is the top seed in the NCAA tournament after a topsy-turvy season in college basketball, capped by another round of upsets over the weekend.
Although there are more than a dozen basketball player endorsers, Westbrook joins Chris Paul and Carmelo Anthony as the top NBA endorsers of Jordan Brand.
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The study evaluated each of the top 20 teams in the National Football League, Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League based on media market size.
The corporate appeal of baseball players in general is not quite the same as it is for individual sport athletes, basketball players, and even select football players if you review this list of top earning American athletes.
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