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Now that the calendar has turned from October to November, you know what that means, right? No not another Terrell Owens trade demand. Or Los Angeles Angels playoff meltdown. Nope, it means it’s time for college basketball season!

And while we usually celebrate the start of the season by asking ourselves hypothetical questions like, “How many white guys you think Duke is going to start this year?” and “Think there’s any possibility that Pat Summit is actually a man? You know, maybe like 20 percent?” that’s not the case this fall.

As a matter of fact, instead, college basketball is coming off a summer of scrutiny the likes of which it has never seen.

Following North Carolina’s title run in March, here are the three biggest headlines the sport saw in the past six months:

1. The shocking, bizarre and wildly unco