College Basketball

[ad_1] Apr. 10—The search for the next Kentucky basketball coach is still in its “throw names at a wall and see what sticks” phase. What we do know is John Calipari is leaving Lexington, Ky., which he officially announced in two videos posted to social media Tuesday afternoon. The same clip, actually, but just once with watchable video quality. Next …

[ad_1] An era of Kentucky basketball is over with John Calipari’s departure after 15 years of leading the Wildcats. The 2012 national championship-winning coach is heading to the SEC West to coach the Arkansas Razorbacks, the team announced on Wednesday, leaving the Kentucky basketball coaching search wide open. The Wildcats have the best winning percentage of any Division I college …

[ad_1] Arkansas has hired Hall of Fame coach John Calipari, who announced Tuesday in a video posted to social media that he was stepping away from Kentucky after 15 seasons with the program. Calipari replaces Eric Musselman, who made a surprising move of his own from the Razorbacks to USC.  Calipari’s contract is for five years and starts at $7 million per …

[ad_1] PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA – MARCH 20: Head coach John Calipari of the Kentucky Wildcats speaks during practice day at PPG PAINTS Arena on March 20, 2024 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images) A day after he resigned at Kentucky, John Calipari is formally Arkansas’ head coach. The Razorbacks announced Wednesday that Calipari is the school’s new men’s basketball …

[ad_1] Nick Lucero/Rivals.com The coaching change that shocked the college basketball world has had some time to marinate in the minds of those that follow the sport, but the ripple effect of the move has just begun. Today, Rivals national analyst Rob Cassidy takes a look ahead to the class of 2025 prospects with whom Arkansas could suddenly find itself …

[ad_1] With Arkansas’ hiring of former Kentucky Wildcats’ head coach John Calipari all but official, players from the Hall-of-Famer’s 23-year career have spoken up with their thoughts on the situation and Calipari as a whole. One prominent player to make his opinion known is former one-and-done Demarcus Cousins, who averaged 15.1 points, 9.8 rebounds and 1.8 blocks per game for …

[ad_1] FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Arkansas basketball hiring John Calipari as its next head coach sent shockwaves throughout the country, and those reverberations were felt across the Natural State’s high school basketball landscape. In his final season, dwindling in-state ties became a point of concern for former head coach Eric Musselman, who accepted the same position at Southern Cal last week. …

[ad_1] Brad Underwood coached Illinois basketball to the NCAA Elite Eight this season. The coach’s sustained success at the Big Ten Conference program means his name has surfaced in media reports as a possible replacement at Kentucky following coach John Calipari’s reported departure to Arkansas. Underwood just completed his seventh and most successful season at Illinois. The 60-year-old led the …

[ad_1] Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin native Seth Trimble announced his decision to enter the transfer portal via Instagram on Tuesday. At 6-foot-3, Trimble played his first two seasons of collegiate basketball for head coach Hubert Davis at the University of North Carolina. The Wisconsin native averaged 17.1 minutes per game in 35 appearances during the 2023-2024 season. Wisconsin offered Trimble on …

[ad_1] The world of the NCAA transfer portal is ever changing day by day. With guys coming off of the board, and new guys entering, the options are fluid. One guy who just entered the portal is a guy who Michigan State should heavily consider taking a long look at. Tennessee center Tobe Awaka made the decision to enter the …

[ad_1] With the addition of Houston this season and Arizona next season, Big 12 men’s basketball is getting even better. The conference should sustain juggernaut status in the 2024-25 season. Iowa State should be a legitimate national title contender. Kansas should be back to being Kansas. Baylor is in limbo (more on that below), and Cincinnati and BYU are dark horses …

[ad_1] The C.L. Brown Show Podcast This week’s episode of The C.L. Brown Show features an all-star trio to discuss the biggest news from the final weekend of college basketball: John Calipari’s decision to leave Kentucky for Arkansas. Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde admits being surprised by the move and discusses why Calipari cut and ran instead of staying to fix …

[ad_1] BLOOMINGTON – College basketball’s transfer window will emerge from its Final Four-enforced slowdown at the end of this week, when the dead period lifts and visits can resume. Indiana, still light six scholarship players with plenty of work to do, will dive right back in. The Hoosiers are lining up visitors for the coming weekends, with a heavy emphasis …

[ad_1] UNC basketball struck gold in the transfer portal last season when it landed guard Cormac Ryan and forward Harrison Ingram. It was the first time head coach Hubert Davis got the chance to put together a team made up of mostly the players he wanted to have on the roster. The changes paid off with an ACC regular-season championship …

[ad_1] This second week in April is always bittersweet for me. Spring is blooming, but I know it’ll be seven months before I watch another college basketball game. So while the final horn of the 2023-24 season is still echoing, I’m cleaning out my Tennessee March Madness notebook. Unlucky 13: The number of power conference schools who have never reached the …

[ad_1] Mar 2, 2024; Louisville, Kentucky, USA; Louisville Cardinals guard Tre White (22) shoots against Syracuse Orange forward Maliq Brown (1) during the second half at KFC Yum! Center. Syracuse defeated Louisville 82-76. Mandatory Credit: Jamie Rhodes-USA TODAY Sports Former Louisville player Tre White has committed to coach Brad Underwood and the Illinois basketball men’s basketball team, he announced on …

[ad_1] It’s been less than 24 hours since UConn was crowned as national champions for the second straight year after a resounding 75-60 win over Purdue at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. Who knows what the college basketball landscape will look like in a few weeks, let alone in a few months? The transfer portal changes by the day, …

[ad_1] The 2023-24 college basketball season came to a close on Monday, with No. 1 overall seed UConn once again claiming the NCAA Tournament national championship with a 75-60 win vs. Purdue. Next up: looking ahead to the 2024-25 season, and to which team might be the last one dancing in March Madness next year. Of course, the prospect of …

[ad_1] Tobe Awaka is entering the transfer portal after two seasons with Tennessee basketball, he announced Tuesday. The rising junior forward had been a staple of the Vols’ post rotation the past two seasons. Awaka averaged 5.2 points and 4.6 rebounds in 13.1 minutes per game this past season. He played exceptionally well in the NCAA tournament, including a 10-point, …

[ad_1] This job is not like other jobs. Meaning this coaching search is expected to be unlike other coaching searches. When most coaching positions open, you throw big names against the wall in the early days of the search, knowing they probably won’t stick. But this is Kentucky basketball. You throw big names against the wall with the understanding that …

[ad_1] GLENDALE, Ariz. — Dan Hurley is a perfect college basketball villain; as cocky as he is good, as inevitable as he is hot-headed. On Monday night, Hurley gesticulated and screamed and bullied his way to a second straight national title, his UConn Huskies once again rolling through an NCAA Tournament without much of a challenge — including from Purdue, …

[ad_1] The Illinois basketball team ended the 2023-24 season ranked No. 7 nationwide in the final USA TODAY Sports Coaches Poll, released on Tuesday, one day after the NCAA championship game. The Illini (29-9) jumped three spots in the final coaches’ poll to their highest of the season. The Fighting Illini finished second in the Big Ten Conference and won …

[ad_1] CLEMSON — After its improbable NCAA Tournament run, Clemson basketball is ranked No. 15 in the final USA TODAY Sports Men’s Basketball Coaches Poll, its highest finish since 2018. The Tigers (24-12) entered the NCAA tournament as a No. 6 seed after being one of the first four teams left out of March Madness last season. This year, after their …

[ad_1] LSU basketball is looking to continue its positive momentum as it enters the 2024-25 season. Matt McMahon’s squad will look different next season, though. The Tigers will lose players to graduation, the transfer portal, and the NBA draft, while bringing in new freshmen and transfers to take their spots. Here’s a look at LSU basketball’s roster changes. This story …

[ad_1] The Mark Mitchell double-digit tracking ends here — and will be continued somewhere other than Duke. Mitchell entered the portal on Tuesday afternoon, leaving the Blue Devils after two seasons in which he started 67 of Duke’s 72 games. The 6-9, 232-pounder was both integral to Duke’s success in Jon Scheyer’s first two seasons as coach and played through …