College Basketball

[ad_1] CHAPEL HILL — Entering his third season as the head coach of North Carolina basketball, Hubert Davis has seen the Tar Heels thrive and take a dive. Following a run to the 2022 national championship game, UNC started last season as the top-ranked team in the nation before missing the 2023 NCAA Tournament. Plagued by poor outside shooting, stagnant …

[ad_1] More details of the Memphis men’s basketball team’s 2023-24 schedule were released Thursday. The recently expanded American Athletic Conference announced its scheduling pairings for the 14 teams in the league, including the Tigers. Each team will play 18 conference games — five home-and-home, four home-only, and four away-only. Among the Tigers’ home-and-home opponents is FAU. The Owls defeated Memphis …

[ad_1] Another one of the top high school basketball prospects in the state is headed to prep school. Jalen Haralson, a 6-7 junior-to-be at Fishers, announced Wednesday he will enroll at La Lumiere in LaPorte, a prep school in Northwest Indiana that has attracted some of the top players in the country in the past decade. Haralson, a five-star guard …

[ad_1] Jul. 19—The Dayton Flyers and Cincinnati Bearcats men’s basketball teams will meet for the first time since 2010 in the Hoops Classic on Dec. 16 at the Heritage Bank Center in Cincinnati. The matchup, first reported in May by Jon Rothstein, of CBS Sports, was officially announced Wednesday in a press conference outside the Heritage Bank Center on Cincinnati’s …

[ad_1] Tampa, Fla., (July 20, 2023) — The American Athletic Conference announced the men’s basketball league schedule pairings for the 2023-24 season, South Florida’s first under new coach Amir Abdur-Rahim. Every team in The American will play 18 league games, including five of its 13 conference opponents twice and the other eight once – four at home and four on …

[ad_1] The Basketball Tournament is now in its 10th edition and in most of the years that it has been contested, K-State has had a team made up of former players (and some ringers) compete as “Purple and Black.” Purple and Black is 4-6 all-time in TBT and got a big win last season when Jacob Pullen hit a game-winning …

[ad_1] Jul. 19—Cumberland University director of athletics Ron Pavan has elevated men’s basketball assistant coach Eric Evans II to interim head coach after Jeremy Lewis stepped down. “First, I want to give God the glory. Without Him, I wouldn’t be where I am and who I am today,” Evans said. “I also want to thank both Coach Lewis and Coach …

[ad_1] Kansas Athletics announced this week that Lew Perkins has died. He served as the university’s athletic director from June 2003 to Sept. 2011. LAWRENCE — Lew Perkins, a former athletic director at the University of Kansas, died Tuesday in Lawrence at 78 years old. Kansas Athletics announced the news Wednesday, citing family confirmation. Perkins served as KU’s athletic director …

[ad_1] Tom Izzo is never afraid of putting together a tough schedule and that will again be the case for the Spartans during the 2023-24 season. Over the past few months there have been schedule updates and reports of Michigan State basketball matchups for the upcoming season. We have yet to receive the official schedule, but at this point in …

[ad_1] Former Tennessee basketball transfer commitment Chris Ledlum has found a new home. Ledlum committed to St. John’s, he announced Wednesday on Instagram. The announcement comes six days after he left Tennessee and re-entered the transfer portal. Ledlum, a Harvard transfer who committed to the Vols on April 19, was second in the Ivy League in scoring last season at …

[ad_1] Nebraska basketball announced three new additions to its nonconference schedule for the 2023-24 season. The Cornhuskers will host Duquesne, Stony Brook, and Rider in the Cornhusker Classic this season. The Cornhusker Classic is a three-game round-robin tournament that will take place from November 13th to November 22nd. Nebraska will host three games during the event. They’ll play November 13th …

[ad_1] For the first time since suffering back-to-back losses to Xavier in 2012 and 2013, the University of Cincinnati will play basketball in downtown Cincinnati. This time the opponent will be the Dayton Flyers whom the Bearcats last played in the regular season Nov. 27, 2010 at what was previously known as Riverfront Coliseum. The building now known as Heritage …

[ad_1] Jul. 19—The Dayton Flyers and Cincinnati Bearcats men’s basketball teams will meet for the first time since 2010 in the Hoops Classic on Dec. 16 at the Heritage Bank Center in Cincinnati. The matchup, first reported in May by Jon Rothstein, of CBS Sports, was officially announced Wednesday in a press conference outside the Heritage Bank Center on Cincinnati’s …

[ad_1] High-major recruit. That’s the tag now attached to Kelvin Odih. It’s been quite a summer for the former boys basketball standout at La Salle. Odih will reclassify and repeat his junior year in the prep ranks at South Kent School in the fall. He’ll carry some noteworthy fresh college offers, including a pair with Big East ties and one from his home state. There should be more yet to come for the …

[ad_1] TORONTO — Kentucky coach John Calipari huddled with graduate transfer Tre Mitchell, whose neck was draped with a gold medal from the GLOBL JAM, and asked how his hurt ankle felt. “It feels good right now,” Mitchell replied. “But I’m still running on adrenaline.” The same could be said of the Wildcats’ expectations following their performance representing USA Basketball …

[ad_1] DURHAM — Duke basketball’s Ryan Young went from a program that has 23,000 followers on Twitter to one that has 2.1 million. After four years at Northwestern, Young joined the Blue Devils as a graduate transfer ahead of the 2022-23 season. Now, in his final year of eligibility, Young is hosting a Duke podcast. The Brotherhood Podcast, a weekly …

[ad_1] Jul. 18—PEMBROKE — Two of the best college basketball programs in the country well welcome The University of North Carolina at Pembroke to their campuses for preseason exhibition games this fall. UNCP will travel to Houston for an Oct. 28 contest before the shorter trip to Durham to play Duke at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Nov. 1, Houston and …

[ad_1] Kentucky won big in its brief trip to Canada this past week while participating in the GLOBL JAM, where it returned home with the gold medal after winning all four games and gained valuable experience for an overhauled roster (while apparently hanging out at Drake’s crib in the process).  But it wasn’t all big wins for Big Blue up …

[ad_1] Michigan State basketball might be heading back to Detroit this winter, against a Big 12 power it has yet to beat. The Spartans and Baylor are working on scheduling a Dec. 16 game at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, according to a report from CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein. The Free Press confirmed with a source that the two schools …

[ad_1] Duke basketball announced its full nonconference schedule for the 2023-24 season on Tuesday, highlighted by games against Arizona, Arkansas, Baylor and Michigan State. Expected to be among the favorites to win the national championship, the Blue Devils will open their 11-game nonconference slate against Dartmouth on Nov. 6 in the season opener at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Coming off a …

[ad_1] Michigan State basketball might be heading back to Detroit this winter, against a Big 12 power it has yet to beat. The Spartans and Baylor are working on scheduling a Dec. 16 game at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit, according to a report from CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein. The Free Press confirmed with a source that the two schools …

[ad_1] Roy Williams and Mike Krzyzewski are back on the court together for the first time since the retirements of the two legendary coaches — well, sort of. The two coaches were guest speakers at the 75th annual NCCA Coaching Clinic at the Greensboro Coliseum. They spoke at the clinic with announcer Wes Durham sharing insights on their coaching careers. …

[ad_1] The second season under Jon Scheyer as coach of Duke will begin Nov. 6 against Dartmouth. The program announced its full non-conference slate on Tuesday afternoon, with preseason dates to note and games against mid-major programs filling in what was already known about the schedule. Duke’s previously announced games have been the four against power conference teams — Arizona, …

[ad_1] Duke coach Jon Scheyer navigated the unenviable task of replacing the legendary Mike Krzyzewski with reasonable success last season, guiding an inexperienced Blue Devils’ squad to a 27-9 record, the ACC Tournament title and a No. 5 seed in the NCAA Tournament. But as the 35-year-old former Duke star enters his second season on the job, the pressure to …

[ad_1] Duke coach Jon Scheyer navigated the unenviable task of replacing the legendary Mike Krzyzewski with reasonable success last season, guiding an inexperienced Blue Devils’ squad to a 27-9 record, the ACC Tournament title and a No. 5 seed in the NCAA Tournament. But as the 35-year-old former Duke star enters his second season on the job, the pressure to …