College Basketball

There were two major events in the high school and college basketball recruiting world over Memorial Day weekend: the USA Basketball U18 Training Camp and Trials in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and then the Kansas City stop for the Nike EYBL, the premier grassroots basketball circuit. While some of the high-end prospects who usually perform on the EYBL circuit were in …

The Arkansas Razorbacks made a bold move when they hired John Calipari away from the Kentucky Wildcats. Calipari went 410-123 in 15 seasons at Kentucky and won a national championship in 2012. However, the Wildcats haven’t advanced past the second round of the NCAA tournament since 2019 and Calipari is tasked with rebuilding the entire Arkansas basketball roster. Every remaining …

The Kentucky Wildcats had a roller coaster of an offseason. After 15 seasons, John Calipari stepped down as the Kentucky basketball head coach to take the same job at Arkansas. His entire Kentucky basketball roster from the 2023-24 college basketball season either graduated or transferred, leaving Kentucky without a head coach or any scholarship players. The Wildcats turned to one …

When basketball legend Bill Walton passed away on Memorial Day, I didn’t think about him as the former No. 1 overall draft pick, an NBA champion and a league MVP. I didn’t think of him as a Hall of Fame broadcaster renowned for his eloquent, rambling commentary and philosophical musings in which he might be talking about how the game …

BYU plays Gonzaga, Jan. 12, 2023. | Nate Edwards, BYU Photo When Kevin Young said he wanted to make BYU “the best place in college basketball to prepare young men to play in the NBA,” he really wasn’t kidding. Russian star Egor Demin has announced his commitment to play for Young’s Cougars, ESPN NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski reported Tuesday. ESPN …

Daniel Jacobsen has made the Team USA U18 team that will be heading to Buenos Aires to compete in the 2024 FIBA U18 Men’s AmeriCup from June 3-9. Jacobsen’s a part of Purdue’s incoming freshmen class which has six true freshman coming to campus this June when they’ll be scheduled for summer classes and summer practices. This is a complete …

Mar 22, 2024; Memphis, TN, USA; New Mexico Lobos forward JT Toppin (15) shoots against the Clemson Tigers during the first half of the NCAA Tournament First Round at FedExForum. Coveted power forward JT Toppin, a top portal target for Texas basketball, announced his decision to withdraw his name from the NBA Draft and sign with Texas Tech on Tuesday. …

The Texas Longhorns basketball roster is still under construction after losing six players to the transfer portal. At this point in time only three players have committed elsewhere. The incoming class has a total of five commits with the latest coming on Apr. 29 with former Vanderbilt forward Malik Presley. Could the Longhorns add a former teammate of shooting guard …

New BYU basketball coach Kevin Young spreaks during a segment of “BYU Sports Nation” on May 10, 2024. | Nate Edwards, BYU Photo It’s been a busy spring for Kevin Young, but the new BYU basketball coach is finally taking some time to share about the work he’s been doing in Provo so far. Young recently joined CBS Sports college …

Memphis basketball coach Penny Hardaway will not retain assistant Andy Borman, an athletic department spokesperson told The Commercial Appeal. Borman − who played for his uncle, legendary coach Mike Krzyzewski, at Duke − spent two seasons on Hardaway’s staff. Before joining the Tigers, Borman was executive director of New York Renaissance, a longtime grassroots basketball program that is part of …

Former UCLA star Bill Walton, who blossomed at UCLA in the early 1970s under legendary coach John Wooden, died at the age of 71 after a prolonged battle with cancer, the NBA announced Monday. Walton, a three-time Naismith Award winner and a two-time national champion, is considered one of the greatest college basketball players ever.  After a historic college career …

Texas Tech landed one of the top available talents in the transfer portal on Tuesday, when former New Mexico forward JT Toppin signed with the Red Raiders. Toppin won Mountain West Rookie of the Year honors for 2023-24 and had also been exploring the NBA Draft process while determining his next steps. The 6-foot-9 forward should immediately slot in to …

The college basketball transfer portal continues to be active despite the closure of the entry process as the remaining prospects seek greener pastures at other schools. CBS Sports writer Gary Parrish has been updating his college basketball top 25-and-1 rankings during the offseason, accounting for the portal coups along the way, and has the Florida Gators among his top teams in the …

BYU fans cheer on the Cougars during game against the Texas Longhorns Jan. 27, 2024, at the Marriott Center in Provo, Utah. | Brooklynn Kelson, BYU Photo If BYU assistant basketball coach Chris Burgess is right, the next few days will be very significant for Kevin Young’s program. “We have four scholarships to fill,” Burgess told the “Y’s Guys” podcast. …

A college basketball and NBA legend died Monday. Bill Walton, a former UCLA three-time All-American center and three-time national college player of the year who turned into a two-time NBA champion and a Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame member, died at age 71 after a battle with cancer. Walton is also a member of the National Collegiate Basketball Hall …

Kasparas Jakucionis from Lithuania has committed to play for the Illinois basketball team in 2024-25, according to ESPN. Brad Underwood has gone back to Europe for his latest addition. The Illinois men’s basketball head coach reportedly received a commitment Tuesday from Lithuanian guard Kasparas Jakucionis, a possible first-round NBA draft pick in 2025. ESPN’s Jonathan Givony was the first to …

Camden senior DJ Wagner is the 2023 South Jersey Boys Basketball Player of the Year. Wagner is the son of Dajuan Wagner and the grandson of Milt Wagner, both legendary Camden players who went on to play in the NBA. DJ Wagner has found a new home with a familiar head coach. After playing one season at the University of …

Wisconsin basketball has experienced high-end roster turnover since the conclusion of the 2023-24 season. The Badgers saw the departure of stars Chucky Hepburn (transfer portal), A.J. Storr (transfer portal) and Tyler Wahl (graduation). 2024-25 figured to be an all-in season with Hepburn and Storr possibly returning. That plan was immediately thwarted when the two entered the portal, likely in order …

Wisconsin basketball extended an offer to class of 2025 point guard Josiah Sanders on Monday. The 6-foot-5 rising senior is 247Sports’ No. 32 point guard in the class of 2025 and the No. 1 recruit from his home state of Colorado. Representing Colorado Prep High School, Sanders has received offers from several Division I programs, including from Tennessee, Colorado, Minnesota, …

May 27—Today’s column fulfills a promise I made to Bill Walton. Not that we were buddies or anything, or that I have any extensive insights into his extraordinary life. But a promise is a promise. Walton, in the pantheon of great basketball players, college and pro, died on Memorial Day of cancer. In January, 2023, I’d been writing a number …

Tributes to Basketball Hall of Famer Bill Walton continued to pour in Monday following his death at 71. On Monday, Arkansas basketball coach John Calipari tweeted about the legendary basketball player, commentator and coach with a lengthy message about Walton on his X account (formerly Twitter). Walton died Monday after a battle with cancer. REQUIRED READING: Arkansas baseball to host …

Though the two were never teammates, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bill Walton have been linked for much of their lives. The two men, both centers, achieved national stardom at UCLA, where they helped sustain the Bruins’ basketball dynasty of the 1960s and 1970s. From there, they were No. 1 overall NBA draft picks who won multiple titles at the professional level …

Bill Walton, the game-changing Hall of Fame center whose larger-than-life charisma later endeared him to audiences as a basketball broadcaster, died Monday after a long battle with cancer, the NBA announced. He was 71. Walton won two NCAA championships under John Wooden at UCLA and two more titles in the NBA, first with the Portland Trail Blazers in 1977 and …

Bill Walton during a game between Arizona and UCLA Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020, in Tucson, Ariz. | Rick Scuteri Basketball legend Bill Walton died Monday after a long battle with cancer, the NBA announced on behalf of his family. Walton, who was 71, will be remembered for his college play at UCLA, his Hall of Fame NBA career and the …

D.J. Wagner is now the sixth player or recruit to follow John Calipari from Kentucky to Arkansas since he took the job in Fayetteville. (Jeff Moreland/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) John Calipari has brought another former Kentucky player to Fayetteville. Former Wildcats guard and five-star Rivals.com recruit D.J. Wagner has committed to play for Calipari at Arkansas next season, he …