College Basketball

Michigan State basketball’s Coen Carr is considered the best dunker in the Big Ten, according to his peers. Big Ten Basketball Media Days were held on Thursday, and the conference’s social media team put out a fun video of players saying who’s the best dunker in the league. To no surprise, Carr was the hands-down winner. Check out the clip …

ROSEMONT, Ill. – Purdue men’s basketball coach Matt Painter stood out as the exception among his peers at Big Ten Media Days. Almost to a man, the conference’s other coaches spoke enthusiastically about their program’s transfer portal success in the offseason. Some added one crucial piece. Some rebuilt their roster out of necessity. The Boilermakers, though, assembled a roster exclusively …

Oregon head coach Dana Altman takes a question at the podium Thursday during the 2024 Big Ten Men’s Basketball media day in Rosemont, Ill. The Oregon men’s basketball team left the Pac-12 as the conference tournament champion. The Ducks will soon find out if they can recreate that level of success in their new conference. The 2024-25 season begins for …

BLOOMINGTON — The Indiana men’s basketball guard Trey Galloway hopes to be “full go” next week at practice. Galloway continues to take his time rehabbing the knee injury he suffered at the end of the 2023-24 season as the Hoosiers opened practiced at the end of September. “It’s been good, it’s been great to be back out there with the guys,” …

Michigan State basketball is heading to where it all began for head coach Tom Izzo in a few weeks. And he’s excited about it. Izzo was in Chicago on Thursday for the annual Big Ten Media Days event, and he was asked about the Spartans’ upcoming exhibition game at Northern Michigan next Sunday. He played for Northern Michigan — which …

The sports world is abuzz across southeastern Michigan. To start the week, the Detroit Lions topped the Seattle Seahawks, 42-29, on Monday Night Football. Then, the Detroit Tigers took the baton, went into Houston and swept the Astros to win their American League wild-card series and advance to the ALDS for the first time since 2014. Oh, and Michigan football …

ROSEMONT, ILL. – Wisconsin’s Greg Gard helped kick off Big Ten men’s basketball media day Thursday at Donald E. Stephens Convention Center by taking part in the first panel discussion of the day. The Badgers coach shared the stage with Illinois’ Brad Underwood and Michigan’s Dusty May. Here are the highlights. Sophomore Nolan Winter could be a potential breakout player …

The sports world is abuzz across southeastern Michigan. To start the week, the Detroit Lions topped the Seattle Seahawks, 42-29, on Monday Night Football. Then, the Detroit Tigers took the baton, went into Houston and swept the Astros to win their American League wild-card series and advance to the ALDS for the first time since 2014. Oh, and Michigan football …

The start of the 2024-25 college basketball season is just over a month away and you’ll be able to watch the Xavier Musketeers on multiple networks this year. Xavier announced its times and broadcast coverage for the 2024-25 season on Wednesday. In total, Xavier will play 18 games on FS1, four on FOX National, three on CBS Sports Network and …

Another year, another example of the Big Ten and national college basketball media not believing in Greg Gard and the Wisconsin Badgers. This now feels like an annual occurrence. Wisconsin experiences a rough season or loses a few key players and everybody expects it to suddenly finish 12th in the Big Ten and miss the NCAA Tournament. Related: Big Ten …

Oct. 2—CHAMPAIGN — I’m closing in on a decade of covering Illinois men’s basketball. This season, in fact, is my 10th. Never has there been this much hype surrounding the program heading into a season. And never have I had as little feel for both this Illini team and the Big Ten at large. That made filling out my ballot …

LEXINGTON — Regardless of how things shake out on the court in 2024-25, Kentucky basketball’s upcoming season will be one for the ages. That’s because, for the first time since the end of the 2008-09 campaign, someone other than John Calipari is guiding the program. Mark Pope, an alum and a team captain of the 1996 squad that won the …

Three major networks and multiple national cable outlets will carry Providence College men’s basketball games in the 2024-25 season. CBS, Fox and NBC will feature at least a combined four games in Big East play — two against former coaches, two against the two-time national champions. The Friars could also see their regular-season finale flexed from FS1 to Fox if …

Rutgers Latham Sommerville and Emmanuel Ogbole talk during break in action. Rutgers Intrasquad Scrimmage at Rutgers Athletic Center in Piscataway, NJ on September 28. 2024. PISCATAWAY, N.J. — It was the kind of dime you’d expect to see from a playmaking guard — a one-handed skip pass from the top of the key that hit cutting wing P.J. Hayes perfectly …

LAWRENCE — Kansas basketball’s non-conference slate for the 2024-25 season has its share of high-profile matchups. The Jayhawks have North Carolina coming to Lawrence in early November. Not many days later, they’ll face Michigan State in the Champions Classic in Atlanta. Later that month, they’ll tip off in Las Vegas against Duke. But all of that comes before what will …

Can you really say someone’s coaching career has ended prematurely when they are 75 years old and they’ve been doing it for 45 years? The 2020-21 basketball season would have been Steve Konchalski’s 46th and final one at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, N.S., and he was supposed to transition the head coaching job over to Tyrell Vernon. Instead, …

Oct. 2—Eric McClellan, an entertaining follow on social media, recently posted snapshots of himself and John Jakus during a Florida Atlantic basketball practice wearing T-shirts reading: “Relationships over everything.” It’s not some random cookie-cutter slogan for the two. It’s essentially the reason McClellan revitalized his playing career after transferring to Gonzaga and how he became an FAU graduate assistant under …

Oct. 2—Gonzaga’s schedule release on Wednesday didn’t reveal anything new in terms of opponents, dates or destinations, but viewing the Zags’ 13 nonconference opponents on one page may have given fans and college basketball purveyors a better sense of what Mark Few’s team is up against this season. The official schedule, sent out via social media platforms on Wednesday morning, …

NCAA Basketball The NCAA is sticking with two regionals for the women’s basketball tournament through at least 2028. Las Vegas and Philadelphia will host the two 2027 regionals and Portland, Oregon, and Washington will be the sites for the 2028 Sweet 16. The NCAA switched to a two-region format in 2023. “The selection of Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Portland, and Washington …

One of the most-anticipated seasons in recent memory was celebrated Tuesday evening at Fifth Third Arena as the University of Cincinnati men’s basketball program held its Tip-Off dinner to donors and season ticket holders. Proceeds went to UC’s Name, Image, Likeness (NIL) collective, Cincy Reigns. The event was presented by the Herche Family Foundation. UC head coach Wes Miller helped …

BLOOMINGTON – Here goes nothing. That’s how one esteemed voter in this year’s media-organized preseason Big Ten men’s basketball poll led into their ballot this fall. And with good reason. Ballooned to 18 teams and chockablock with transfers and intriguing freshmen, I can’t remember a time when the conference was so hard to forecast. The schedule has never been more …

Dawn Staley COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina already is on the way to leading women’s college basketball in average attendance for an 11th straight season. The defending national champion Gamecocks have sold out their allotment of season tickets, a program-record 13,046 at 18,000-seat Colonial Life Arena. The school said the rest of the available seats would be sold on a …

NBC Sports and Peacock’s coverage of Big East men’s basketball begins during the 2024-25 season with 30 total games. NBC will carry two regular season games that will also be simulstreamed on Peacock; in addition, Peacock will have exclusive rights to 25 other regular season games as well as the first round and quarterfinal double-header of the Big East Tournament. …

Chris Jeffrey, a four-star point guard from Brooklyn, New York, verbally committed to Maryland men’s basketball on Wednesday. Jeffrey, who picked Maryland over Texas A&M and Mississippi State, announced the news on his Instagram account. Jeffrey becomes the second member of coach Kevin Willard’s 2025 recruiting class, joining Baltimore native Marcus Jackson, a 6-foot-8 forward-center. Jackson picked Maryland over Auburn …

BLOOMINGTON – Here goes nothing. That’s how one esteemed voter in this year’s media-organized preseason Big Ten men’s basketball poll led into their ballot this fall. And with good reason. Ballooned to 18 teams and chockablock with transfers and intriguing freshmen, I can’t remember a time when the conference was so hard to forecast. The schedule has never been more …