College Basketball

[ad_1] Stunningly, Arkansas has tabbed Kentucky’s John Calipari as its next head basketball coach. Calipari will replace Eric Musselman, who bolted for USC last week. The deal worth nearly $8 million annually was completed in the weekend’s final hours. Now that Arkansas has its man, what is next for Kentucky? The Athletic has pieced together several potential candidates for the …

[ad_1] GLENDALE, Ariz. — College basketball’s biggest game of the season will be played Monday night inside State Farm Stadium. So, it’s only fitting that on the sport’s biggest stage with the biggest possible stakes, the head-to-head matchup between the two biggest players — Zach Edey of Purdue and Donovan Clingan of UConn — will likely determine which team cuts …

[ad_1] After 15 years at the helm of one of the blue bloods of the sport, John Calipari is departing his post as the Kentucky Wildcats basketball coach and heading to the Arkansas Razorbacks. Calipari is coming off a first-round March Madness exit and is a dozen years removed from his lone NCAA Tournament championship in Lexington. Calipari, a four-time …

[ad_1] Chicago Bulls coach Billy Donovan is being thrown around as a Kentucky Wildcats possible replacement after reports have tied John Calipari to the Arkansas Razorbacks cocahing vacancy. Reports Sunday have John Calipari departing the Kentucky Wildcats and Rupp Arena to take over the recently vacated Arkansas Razorbacks job, but who will take the helm in Lexington? There’s plenty of …

[ad_1] Wisconsin basketball is in pursuit of former Ohio State transfer forward Zed Key, according to a report on X. Key entered the portal earlier this month after four years with the Buckeyes. He played just 15.4 minutes per game in 2023-24, with averages of 6.6 points, 4.1 rebounds, 0.5 assists, 0.4 steals and 0.6 blocks on 50% shooting from …

[ad_1] OSU men’s basketball guard Javon Small- officially entered the transfer portal on Monday, according to multiple reports. The 6-foot-3 junior shined in his lone season with OSU. He averaged 15.1 points, 4.7 rebounds and 4.1 assists per game, which earned him an All-Big 12 honorable mention. Small, who denied he was in the portal last month after the firing …

[ad_1] There is no coaching job in college basketball like Kentucky, and thus there are no coaching searches quite like the one athletics director Mitch Barnhart is about to undertake after with John Calipari leaving for Arkansas following 15 seasons that included 410 wins, one national title and four trips to the Final Four. There simply aren’t many coaches out …

[ad_1] Lost in the hullabaloo of Arkansas’ search for its next basketball, a search that has reportedly yielded an unexpected hire in John Calipari, was another exit from the basketball team. Razorbacks wing Tramon Mark, who led the team in scoring and was Arkansas’ most consistent player in a season that lacked consistency, announced he was entering the transfer portal …

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[ad_1] The 2024 NCAA Tournament National Championship Game takes place in Phoenix on Monday. For the 11th time since seeding was introduced in 1978, No. 1 seeds will go head-to-head in the final. No. 1 overall seed UConn is the defending national champion and the Huskies have won their first five games during March Madness 2024 by double-digits. Meanwhile, Purdue …

[ad_1] GLENDALE, Ariz. — Zach Edey still seethes as he tells the story of how little he was recruited during high school. He was an afterthought even though he played for one of the nation’s most high-profile prep school programs. Edey didn’t make IMG Academy’s top-tier team until his senior year and even then he barely played behind two more …

[ad_1] LEXINGTON — Kentucky basketball appears to be in unfamiliar waters: For the first time in more than 15 years, it reportedly will have to navigate a coaching search. According to reports that began circulating Sunday night, Calipari will be the next coach at Arkansas. Calipari, who won 76.9% (410-123) of his games with the Wildcats, experienced dizzying success in …

[ad_1] No. 1 seeds will battle for the 2024 NCAA men’s national championship game when the Purdue Boilermakers face the defending national champion UConn Huskies on Monday in Glendale, Ariz. The Boilermakers (34-4), who are seeking their first-ever national championship, earned the regular-season Big Ten title with a 17-3 record. The Huskies (36-3), who have five national titles and all …

[ad_1] GLENDALE, Ariz. — On the night of his most public, humiliating failure as a college coach, Purdue coach Matt Painter got a text message from Virginia’s Tony Bennett. It was March 17, 2023 − the date a second member joined a club no basketball coach ever wants to be in. Painter’s team had just lost to Fairleigh Dickinson, joining …

[ad_1] The UConn Huskies seek their second consecutive national title and the sixth in program history when they take on the Purdue Boilermakers in the National Championship Game of the 2024 NCAA Tournament on Monday. UConn (36-3) has yet to lose in the title game, improving to 5-0 when it rolled past San Diego State last year. The Huskies extended …

[ad_1] Arkansas will handle what Mitch Barnhart failed to do. The Razorbacks are getting John Calipari out of Kentucky, according to multiple reports. Wow. Until I saw confirmation from ESPN that Arkansas is finalizing a deal with Kentucky’s coach, I almost couldn’t believe it. It makes sense, though, on a few levels. Although Barnhart, Kentucky’s athletic director, retained Calipari, the …

[ad_1] USC guard Isaiah Collier drives to the basket in front of Long Beach State guard AJ George during a game on Dec. 10. It remains to be seen if Collier will play for the Trojans next season. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) With a to-do list as long as his and a cupboard as bare as USC’s, Eric …

[ad_1] Donovan Clingan and No. 1 Connecticut. Zach Edey and No. 1 Purdue. Getting the no-doubt top two teams of this season to meet for the national championship is enough to make Monday night must-see TV. Adding in this matchup of big men might make this one of the most exciting pairings in recent NCAA men’s tournament history. Edey is …

[ad_1] The moment that the past five months have been building to has finally arrived. A college basketball season that began in early November will come to a close on a Monday night in early April, with the sport’s two best teams for much of the 2023-24 season facing off to determine who will earn the right to forever be …

[ad_1] It’s rare when the NCAA men’s tournament title game comes down to the two best teams entering the start of March Madness. But that is what we will be treated to when defending champion Connecticut faces Purdue for all the marbles Monday night. The matchup is made further intriguing by having a showdown of the two best big men …

[ad_1] Remember how Purdue basketball was everyone’s choice to beat NC State in the national semifinals? The Boilermakers are on the other side of the equation for the national championship game. Purdue is a 6.5-point underdog against Connecticut on Monday night. UConn has won all its NCAA Tournament games by double digits, while the Boilers have been challenged more along …

[ad_1] History will be on the line Monday evening at State Farm Stadium. Only seven men’s teams in NCAA history have ever won back-to-back championships, the last coming in 2006-07 when Florida did so under coach Billy Donovan. Before that, you have to go back to Duke and Mike Krzyzewski in 1992. In the last 25 years, Connecticut has morphed …

[ad_1] LEXINGTON — Kentucky basketball appears to be in unfamiliar waters: For the first time in more than 15 years, it reportedly will have to navigate a coaching search. According to reports that began circulating Sunday night, Calipari will be the next coach at Arkansas. Calipari, who won 76.9% (410-123) of his games with the Wildcats, experienced dizzying success in …

[ad_1] It will be a battle between the two most dominant programs in men’s college basketball this season as No. 1 seed UConn will face fellow No. 1 seed Purdue in the NCAA National Championship game as UConn aims for a chance to repeat. Purdue will be heading to its first national championship game since 1969, when it lost to …

[ad_1] On Saturday, Purdue continued its national championship run with a 63-50 win over NC State. The Boilermakers are one win from making history and the program’s first NCAA title. While NC State defied the odds to make it to the Final Four, they had no answer for Purdue and their talented center, Zach Edey. The Toronto native continued to …