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This NBA season has provided one of the closest MVP races in recent history. With a handful of players playing high caliber basketball there can only be one of them to take the league's best player award home. Many analyst have Steph Curry has there MVP frontrunner and I can't blame them. The Golend State point guard had led his team to the NBA's best record and in prime position to make a title run. Other may give a slight edge to the explosive Russell Westbrook. With all of the injuries to the OKC team, the All-Star MVP leads the league with 11 triple-doubles and is fighting with New Orleans for the 8th and final playoff spot. Both Curry and Westbrook are having an outstanding season but the MVP has to go to the Houston Rockets shooting guard James Harden. James Harden is leading the Houston Rockets to a top 3 seed in the tough western conference. Most of the season the Rockets were without big man Dwight Howard which put an bigger scoring load on Harden. James Harden i

Last week before the men's final four Geno Auriemma made some interesting comments about men's college basketball stating that it is 'a joke' and that there are only 10 teams out of 25 that play the type brand basketball that people would want to watch.  Geno, I understand where you are coming from. Since the NBA implemented the one-and-done rule there has been a decline in overall competition within men's college basketball. With the best college basketball players going to the NBA after one or two seasons, men's college basketball is left with "2nd tier" caliber basketball talent. Also with the one-and-done system, college basketball coaches have a more difficult time implementing coaching systems and strategies. By now men's basketball coaches are adjusting to the rule change and hopefully we will see a more widespread of talented basketball teams throughout the country.  But Geno? You are a women's college basketball c