College Basketball

[ad_1] After a fantastic Saturday at the Final Four, there will be another exciting game in Phoenix before Monday’s NCAA Tournament Championship Game. The third annual HBCU All-Star Game is set for Sunday at 4 p.m. ET at Global Credit Union Arena on the campus of Grant Canyon. The game will be televised on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. The …

[ad_1] HENDERSON, Nev. — Matt Holt pecked his keyboard, quickly calling up information to make his point. His screen lit up with wagering information regarding a late-season Monday Night Football game. Listed were approximately 3,000 prop bets. Proposition bets are micro-wagers that can be placed on everything from how long it takes a vocalist to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” to …

[ad_1] Teams looking to punch their ticket to the 2024 NCAA Tournament championship game clash when the 11th-seeded North Carolina State Wolfpack battle the top-seeded Purdue Boilermakers on Saturday. The Wolfpack (26-14), who have won nine in a row, are looking to reach the title game for the first time since 1983, the last time they won the crown. The …

[ad_1] USC has hired Arkansas men’s head basketball coach Eric Musselman to the same position, the school announced on Thursday. Musselman interviewed for the job Wednesday with Trojans athletic director Jennifer Cohen, sources confirmed to CBS Sports.  The Trojans poaching Musselman from Arkansas is a sport-shaking move. Once upon a time, the idea of a coach leaving the hoops hotbed of Arkansas …

[ad_1] ROMULUS, Mich. — There is no Nate Oats Gymnasium or Nate Oats Hall of Fame. The school isn’t located on Nate Oats Parkway, and the legacy of basketball success at Romulus High School transcends Oats’ 11 years as the coach here. But if you know where to look inside this school located just around the corner from the Detroit …

[ad_1] UCONN and Purdue are two of the heaviest favorites in the history of the Final Four. As the two season-long dominant forces in college basketball, the Huskies and Boilermakers appear to be on a collision course in the national title game Monday Night. Alabama and NC State are looking to wreck those plans. The game and player markets are …

[ad_1] Dawn Staley did a masterful job guiding a young South Carolina team back to the Final Four with an undefeated record for the second straight season. Staley was honored Thursday as The Associated Press women’s college basketball Coach of the Year for the second time. She received 27 votes from the 35-member national media panel that votes on the …

[ad_1] Award season in all major American sports should wait for at least some of the postseason to play out. And that’s why, for years now, we’ve done it this way. Put a lot of emphasis on regular-season performance, but don’t ignore the significance of what happens when the games mean the most. So we wait for all the conference …

[ad_1] Could the best player in men’s college basketball two years running be a good pro? Never mind a difference-maker or future All-Star — can all 7-feet-4, 300 pounds of Purdue star Zach Edey be utilized and fit within a system to play real minutes and impact the game at the next level? Sounds a rather crazy question to pose, …

[ad_1] Mady Sissoko has entered the transfer portal, a Michigan State basketball team spokesman confirmed Thursday. The center has a fifth year of eligibility remaining thanks to the NCAA waiver from his freshman season in 2020-21. Sissoko started 26 of 35 games this season for the Spartans and averaged 3.1 points and 5.1 rebounds, 0.4 blocks and 0.9 turnovers in …

[ad_1] The first member of Michigan State’s basketball roster to announce that they are leaving the program is center Mady Sissoko. The grad student will use his addition COVID fifth year of eligibility at a different university. The decision doesn’t come as a major surprise, as it has been speculated that Tom Izzo was searching the portal for a center, …

[ad_1] The Connecticut Huskies continue their quest toward back-to-back national titles on Saturday when they face the Alabama Crimson Tide in the Final Four of the 2024 NCAA Tournament. The Huskies (35-3) have been dominant in their run toward becoming the first back-to-back NCAA champions since Florida in 2006-07. Their 17-point win over Northwestern in the second round represents their …

[ad_1] COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho — Police investigating racist incidents directed toward the Utah women’s basketball team when they were near their Idaho hotel while in town for the NCAA Tournament say they’ve found an audio recording in which the use of a racial slur was clearly audible. The Coeur d’Alene Police Department said that it is working to determine the …

[ad_1] There’s not a lot for Dan Hurley to complain about right now. His UConn Huskies are two games away from their second straight national championship, something no team has done since Florida in 2006-07. His players, he says, “play every possession like it’s the end of the world.” They’ve been ending a lot of seasons doing it: The Huskies’ …

[ad_1] The North Carolina State Wolfpack attempt to pull off another upset when they face the Purdue Boilermakers on Saturday in the Final Four of the 2024 NCAA Tournament. As the 11th seed in the South Region, NC State (26-14) knocked off No. 6 Texas Tech and No. 2 Marquette before posting a 76-64 victory against fourth-seeded Duke in the …

[ad_1] Amaya Battle had 18 points, seven rebounds and four assists, and the Gophers held off Troy 74-69 in the semifinals of the Women’s National Invitation Tournament on Wednesday in Troy, Alabama. The Gophers (20-15) will play St. Louis (21-18), which defeated Vermont 57-54 in the other semifinal, in the championship game at 2 p.m. Saturday. The Gophers led 45-36 …

[ad_1] A full menu of betting markets for the NCAA Women’s Final Four are now available. Let’s dive in and have some fun. Friday, April 5, 2024 @ 7P ET on ESPNSite: Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland, OH 3-North Carolina State (+600) vs. 1-South Carolina (-800) Spread: Gamecocks -11.5 | O/U: 139.5 The Gamecocks and Dawn Staley are making their …

[ad_1] While certain conferences seemed to dominate the regular season, the 2024 NCAA Tournament Final Four displays no such favoritism. The Big East, SEC, Big 10 and ACC are all represented in the Final Four 2024, which begins on Saturday in Phoenix. Purdue vs. NC State (+9) tips off first at 6:09 p.m. ET as the former is making the NCAA …

[ad_1] The Indiana State Sycamores look to match the single-season program record for wins when they face the Seton Hall Pirates in the 2024 NIT Championship Game on Thursday. Indiana State (32-6), which won its first 33 contests in 1978-79 before losing to Michigan State in the National Championship Game of the NCAA Tournament, defeated Utah 100-90 on Tuesday in …

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[ad_1] Skyy Clark is headed home for his junior season. The former top-40 prospect will return to Los Angeles to play for UCLA, he announced Wednesday. It will be Clark’s third school in three years after the L.A. native began at Illinois and then spent the 2023-24 season at Louisville. With the Bruins looking to bounce back from a 16-17 …

[ad_1] Apr. 4—McHENRY — After beginning his college career in Division I, Garrett College standout Alex Vargo will return to college basketball’s top level. Vargo announced his commitment to the University of North Florida on Monday in a post on X, formerly Twitter. Vargo held offers from Morgan State and Mount St. Mary’s. Vargo began his college career at Division …

[ad_1] Everyone remembers the classic Sesame Street sing-song, “One of these things is not like the others, one of these things doesn’t belong.” A cursory inspection of this weekend’s Final Four qualifiers would indicate that “one of these things” is NC State. UConn, the defending national champion and the tournament’s top seed, was expected to be here all along. Same …

[ad_1] Wisconsin basketball assistant coach Dean Oliver announced on Wednesday night that he was leaving the Badgers program. Oliver has been a mainstay on Greg Gard’s staff for the last seven years after joining the program after the 2017 season. Related: Tracking Wisconsin basketball’s reported transfer portal visits and targets “Today, I informed Coach Gard that I am moving on from …

[ad_1] The boffo television ratings coming in for both the men’s and women’s NCAA tournaments will add even more fuel to the roiling debate within college athletics about whether to expand the postseason. On one side, proponents will see opportunity to squeeze even more revenue out of an event that seems to grow and grow regardless of the chaos currently …