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As we took the court this past week for our two exhibition games, it was hard not to think back to three very important players who have left our program.

Talent pool Forward Jason Love is the top returning scorer and rebounder . He's also a solid defender.

Xavier's basketball season was already going to be a big one for Jamel McLean, who has stepped into an expanded role following the departure of NBA-bound Derrick Brown.

Tonight the Xavier Musketeers begin their season in an exhibition game vs. the Rollins College Tars at the Cintas Center .

Well with basketball season upon, the sports writers at the Examiner will vote in our own Top 25 for the beloved readers of the Examiner.

He has won 82 games and lost just 24. He's 3-for-3 in NCAA tournament berths and never failed to win at least one game in the Big Dance.

He hasn't played a single game for his new team, but Xavier guard Jordan Crawford already is the Atlantic 10's most famous player.

Friday marks the first day of regular-season Xavier men's basketball practice in the Chris Mack era, but the first-year head coach said it won't be dramatically different than years past.

For better or for worse, Jordan Crawford will always be known for The Dunk . There's just no getting around it.

The Cleveland Browns have signed second-round pick David Veikune. Veikune, a linebacker and the third of the team's three second-round choices, was the 52nd overall selection of the draft.

Associated Press Nike says it is returning videotapes it confiscated of NBA star LeBron James getting dunked on at a recent basketball camp.

It has been 100 days since Chris Mack took over as Xavier's men's basketball coach, and the former Musketeers assistant feels that he and the program are where they should be.

The home of the La Salle Explorers is doubling as an off-season facility for local collegiate basketball stars.

The Sixers/Nets team got off to a slow start in game two of the OPSL, and never really woke up, as they dropped Tuesday's game to the Jazz, 83-68. Chris Douglas-Roberts was the standout player for the Sixers/Nets .A The only player on the team with more than 6 points in the first half, he had 13 on 5-7 shooting in the first, ending up with a ...

Josh Duncan arrived at summer league as an undrafted forward from Xavier -- the campus located just 10 minutes from his home in Cincinnati -- having averaged a modest 6 points and 2.3 rebounds playing in France last season.

Barely two months after the Jazz's season came to an end, Kosta Koufos reported to summer league having bulked up by 15 to 20 pounds, weighing in at a noticeably bigger 275 pounds.

Jeff Robinson, a 6-9 and 210-pound forward from Indianapolis Lawrence North High School, has signed scholarship papers and begun summer school classes at Xavier University.

Arizona coach Sean Miller's ability to pull off recruiting coups this past spring was quite simply superb.

Derrick Brown doubted himself when he was a gangly, too-thin freshman at Xavier.

We're four days past the NBA draft, when pro teams decided -- or at least tried to decide -- the best fit for their teams.