College Basketball

[ad_1] Most of the offseason attention surrounding UNC basketball has centered around players leaving or joining the Tar Heels. After missing the NCAA Tournament last season, third-year coach Hubert Davis had seven players enter the transfer portal and five join the program via the portal. Davis also added a pair of freshmen — Elliot Cadeau and Zayden High — to …

[ad_1] Aug. 16—Kaden Perry penned a heartfelt message to Gonzaga fans on Tuesday while announcing he’d be stepping away from college basketball as a result of ongoing back injuries. Perry, who underwent surgery for herniated discs before arriving at Gonzaga in 2021-22, indicated in a social media post that issues stemming from the same injury have now forced him to …

[ad_1] Everybody wants to crash the Caitlin Clark party. That includes the USC Trojans men’s basketball team. In the midst of their own overseas trek across Greece and Croatia, USC made sure to swing by in Dubrovnik to watch the Iowa Hawkeyes dominate the Croatia All-Stars. The Trojans were treated to a pair of vintage Clark trifectas and a nine-point …

[ad_1] BATON ROUGE — LSU men’s basketball announced its 2023-24 nonconference schedule on Wednesday. The Tigers will open the season at home against Mississippi Valley State on Nov. 6 and Nicholls State on Nov. 10 before traveling to South Carolina to face Dayton in their opening game at the Charleston Classic on Nov. 16. LSU will play three games at …

[ad_1] The 2023 college basketball season is still a couple months away, but the Badgers men’s basketball non-conference schedule has been announced. Greg Gard and his Wisconsin squad are looking to return to the National Tournament after missing it last year. They did end up advancing all the way to the semifinals of the NIT though, losing to the eventual …

[ad_1] Conference realignment continues to rock the foundation of college sports, dissolving geographical ties and separating schools into more distinct classes of wealth. While football is at the root of realignment, the fallout will certainly be felt on the court. Take Oregon, for example. Instead of a conference slate featuring nearby Oregon State and other teams in the Pacific time …

[ad_1] For months there’s been suspense in college basketball regarding two of its biggest programs on opposite ends of the country. Would Connecticut and/or Gonzaga ultimately abandon their basketball-first leagues for the Big 12? Was the Big 12 even that keen on adding the Huskies or Bulldogs? To whatever extent, that push came primarily because Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark …

[ad_1] MADISON – The Wisconsin men’s basketball team is set to open the 2023-24 season Nov. 1 with an exhibition game against visiting UW-Stevens Point. The Badgers’ first regular-season game is five days later, against visiting Arkansas State. UW officials released the full nonconference schedule Wednesday. Wisconsin guard Kamari McGee battles Marquette’s Sean Jones during last season’s game. Arkansas State …

[ad_1] Aug. 16—Welcome to “Good Morning, Illini Nation,” your daily dose of college basketball news from Illini beat writer and AP Top 25 voter Scott Richey. He’ll offer up insights every morning on Brad Underwood’s team: Another class was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame this past weekend. International NBA stars Dirk Nowitzki, Tony Parker and Pau …

[ad_1] West Virginia announced Bob Huggins’ resignation one day after his DUI arrest this summer, though he later tried to walk that back. (Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) Former West Virginia basketball coach Bob Huggins has entered a 12-month diversion program to resolve his DUI arrest earlier this summer, according to The Associated Press. Huggins, who has been in …

[ad_1] It appears the UConn men’s basketball team will welcome home a familiar face for its season opener, which will likely also be a celebration of the 2023 national championship, after Northern Arizona released its 2023-24 schedule online. According to their website, the Lumberjacks will be heading to Storrs for a first-ever matchup against UConn on Nov. 6. Tim Russo, …

[ad_1] Nigel James is making the case that he is an elite guard and why he is a priority recruit for Rutgers basketball. In early August, James announced that he will be playing this upcoming season at Long Island Lutheran (Glen Head, N.Y.). Last year, James was enrolled at Cushing Academy in Ashburnham, MA. In late June, James was offered …

[ad_1] The Kansas State men’s basketball team got its first real-game experience on Tuesday with an exhibition contest against an Israeli Select team and rose to the challenge. The Wildcats, who are in the middle of a 12-day tour of Israel and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, answered a furious fourth-quarter rally by Israel Select with a strong closing run …

[ad_1] Oklahoma’s 2023-2024 men’s basketball season schedule is taking shape, and the nonconference portion is officially locked in. Oklahoma’s nonconference opponents and the games’ dates, times, and locations were officially announced on Tuesday afternoon. The out-of-conference slate includes a pair of headliners that will move the needle. They’ll face off against blueblood UNC in the Jumpman Invitational for Jordan Brand-affiliated …

[ad_1] STARKVILLE — Mississippi State basketball will face Tulane on Dec. 9 at State Farm Arena in Atlanta as part of Holiday Hoopsgiving, it was announced Tuesday. Indiana will play Auburn in the other half of the doubleheader. Tickets go on presale at 9 a.m. Friday via Ticketmaster. General release sales open at 9 a.m. on Sept. 18. The matchup …

[ad_1] Kansas State basketball coach Jerome Tang has showed that recruiting knows no boundaries. While the Wildcats were playing the first exhibition game of their Middle East summer trip in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Tuesday, former Samford guard Ques Glover announced that he would meet them in Manhattan as the latest member of the 2023 recruiting class. Glover, a 6-foot, …

[ad_1] Aug. 15—Editor’s Note: This is the sixth installment in a series looking at Oklahoma’s schedule for the 2023-2024 season. The Transcript will rank all games by evaluating their significance, difficulty and entertainment value. This article previews Kansas, which is ranked seventh among Sooner opponents in the series. Last season was the first time since 2009 that Oklahoma and Kansas …

[ad_1] Then-Grantsville High School basketball coach and former BYU basketball player Nate Austin poses for a portrait at Grantsville High School in Grantsville on Thursday, May 13, 2021. Austin has been named BYU’s director of basketball operations, after three seasons as Grantsville’s coach and a brief stint as an assistant coach at Salt Lake Community College. | Annie Barker, Deseret …

[ad_1] Ques Glover, who started his college career at Florida before starring at Samford the past two seasons, signed with BYU as a graduate transfer. Now the graduate transfer guard is reportedly headed to Kansas State after reopening his recruitment. | John Amis, Associated Press In May, former Samford guard Ques Glover signed with BYU as a graduate transfer addition. …

[ad_1] See you in San Diego! The Iowa Hawkeyes will reportedly face the Oklahoma Sooners in the inaugural Rady Children’s Invitational in San Diego per Jon Rothstein of College Hoops Today. Rothstein reports that there is no timetable for an official announcement, but sources indicate that the event will be held during Thanksgiving weekend. The other two teams set to …

[ad_1] Louisville had its worst season in program history in 2022-23. The debut campaign of first-year head coach Kenny Payne was, any way you look at it, an abject disaster. The season ended with four wins, a whopping 28 losses and a whole lot of uninspired effort on both ends. None of the four wins came outside the KFC Yum! …

[ad_1] Jerome Tang is just like the rest of us, even while on vacation he is still getting some work done. Okay, he isn’t really on vacation per se, but he is overseas in Israel currently on K-State’s foreign tour, but he still managed to deliver a commitment and fill one of the final two scholarship spots for K-State’s upcoming …

[ad_1] The Oklahoma men’s basketball team announced its non-conference slate on Tuesday. The Sooners open their season with four straight home games at Lloyd Noble Center against Central Michigan (Nov. 6), Mississippi Valley State (Nov. 10), Texas State (Nov. 14) and the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (Nov. 17). The first road trip comes on Nov. 23-24, where the …

[ad_1] The USC basketball European summer tour taught the Trojans a lot of lessons. One of the biggest ones is how to stay out of foul trouble and generally manage one’s body and game over the course of 40 minutes. You will recall that when Vince Iwuchukwu suffered an episode of cardiac arrest last July, he didn’t play a game …

[ad_1] When he committed to head coach Kenny Payne and the Louisville men’s basketball team in March, Trentyn Flowers labeled himself a “program changer.” Less than five months later, one of the most promising newcomers in Payne’s top-flight 2023 recruiting class is leaving the program without having suited up for the Cardinals. Flowers, a 6-foot-8 guard/forward who had reclassified to …