Willie Warren News

Blake Griffin is gone, yet the best player in college basketball is still at Oklahoma.

Sherron Collins scored 19 points and Cole Aldrich had 13 points and 13 rebounds, leading No.

The Sporting News has named Oklahoma's Willie Warren its preseason national player of the year.

The departure of Blake Griffin could change the face of Big 12 basketball this season.

AP preseason ranking : No. 16. Head coach : Jeff Capel . Last season : 30-6 overall, 13-3 Big 12 .

Coach: Jeff Capela '69-33 at Oklahoma, 148-74 overall. '08-09 Record: 30-6 overall; 13-3 Big 12 .

ONE TEAM is being turned inside out. Another is getting the point. A third is growing with Moses.

Tulsa's Jerome Jordan is one of 50 players named to the Naismith Trophy Preseason Watch List.

Kansas basketball senior Sherron Collins , junior Cole Aldrich and freshman Xavier Henry have been named to 50-member Naismith Award Preseason Watch list for 2009-10 the Atlanta Tip-Off Club announced Thursday.

National player of the year Blake Griffin may be gone, but it doesna t sound as if Oklahoma basketball coach Jeff Capel is feeling too sorry for himself, or his first team without Griffin.

Oklahoma forward Tiny Gallon weighs 290 pounds and is known for his dexterity. Kansas forward Thomas Robinson has raised the level of effort at practice on a team that features two senior all-America candidates.

Kansas CITY, MO. - What does it say about Big 12 men's basketball when it can lose the nation's best player - former Oklahoma star Blake Griffin - and still expect the upcoming season to be its strongest ever? What does it say about a conference that has a team such as Iowa State that features a unanimous preseason all-league player and the Big 12 ...

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Kansas has those two stars, that loaded recruiting class, five straight conference titles, won a national championship two years ago, will likely be the preseason No.

Texas basketball coach Rick Barnes mused this week about team chemistry. It could be one of the intangibles that will determine how far the Longhorns, widely considered a preseason top-five team nationally, go in the 2009-2010 season.

October 14, 2009--Kansas City, Mo--The University of Oklahoma men's basketball team is picked to finish third in the Big 12 Conference race in a poll of the league's head coaches released today.

It didn't take long for the former, or the current, Arkansas coaches to be sold on Rotnei Clarke.

KANSAS CITY, Mo.- The preseason honors keep rolling in for the Kansas basketball team.

Big 12 Coach Snubs Aldrich, Warren: While definitely not as silly as "accidentally" leaving Tim Tebow off your All-SEC ballot , an as-yet unidentified coach in the Big 12 left Kansas center Cole Aldrich and Oklahoma guard Willie Warren off of his preseason ballot.

Oklahoma State junior guard James Anderson and Oklahoma sophomore guard Willie Warren were among six players named Thursday to the 2009-10 preseason All-Big 12 basketball team.