Conference championship races in college basketball are starting to heat up, and this weekend's college basketball slate could go a long way in determining pretenders from contenders. The fun begins when No.

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He doesn't recall much about that Jan. 6, 1996, meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee, the third time in 12 months his UConn Huskies faced Pat Summitt's Tennessee Lady Vols. But he remembers how electric the environment was, how there wasn't an arena of that size, with that energy, on any other college campus in the country.

Tonight’s schedule features a major top-25 matchup in the Big East. The red-hot St. John’s Red Storm will travel to Storrs to take on the UConn Huskies. Who has the advantage in that game? Meanwhile,