College Basketball

The Wisconsin men’s basketball team will host UW-River Falls for an exhibition matchup at 7:00 p.m. CT at the Kohl Center on Wednesday night. The team is on the cusp of launching their ninth full season with Greg Gard as the head coach. In the offseason, the Badgers saw the departure of a handful of significant players. Forward Tyler Wahl …

There were lots of smiles, laughs, high fives and rings passed out before Grand Canyon took the floor against Eastern New Mexico in Tuesday’s basketball exhibition. It took a while, after unfurling the WAC championship banner, for the 2024-25 Lopes to get into sync in an 87-57 victory over Division II ENMU before a sellout crowd of 7,244 at Global …

Tennessee freshman quarterback Peyton Manning runs from pressure applied by Kentucky’s defense Saturday, Nov. 19, 1994, at Neyland Stadium. Manning threw two touchdown passes, including a 38-yard bomb to Joey Kent, and ran one in himself from 10 yards out. Tennessee’s 52-0 rout of the Wildcats was the largest margin of victory in the Beer Barrel rivalry. © News Sentinel …

An offseason coaching carousel that spun at dizzying speed. A 2024 freshman class loaded with top-tier talent. Rising NIL budgets that enable fringe NBA prospects to earn more money staying in college than turning pro. Add that all up and what do you get? One of the more compelling college basketball seasons in recent memory. The new season tips off …

KANSAS CITY, Missouri — The Big 12 Conference is set to play 20 league games in men’s basketball this season, up from 18 last season, but as Brett Yormark talked at media days in October he left open the possibility that could change in the future. Yormark, the Big 12’s commissioner, outlined that they’re going to see how it goes this …

Seems like a good time for a hoops interlude. While Missouri football is on its second idle week of the season (and after a blowout loss at Alabama), Missouri basketball will get its 2024-25 campaign underway. Missouri has already hit the court in the 2024-25 season, defeating Division-II Lincoln in an exhibition, 90-45, last Saturday at Mizzou Arena. There are …

WEST LAFAYETTE — Purdue women’s basketball tips its season off next Wednesday against Purdue Fort Wayne at Mackey Arena. The spring was busy for the Boilermakers, who finished 15-19 overall and 12th in the Big Ten Conference standings yet defeated Northwestern in the conference tournament and reached the Great 8 of the WNIT. Purdue saw the departure of Big Ten …

WEST LONG BRANCH – Any success Monmouth has this season will hinge in great part on the play of redshirt sophomore forward Jaret Valencia and sophomore guard Abdi Bashir Jr. But there’s more to it in college basketball during the era of NIL and the transfer portal. It’s an open market for talent, with big bucks at stake, placing incredible …

This episode of The C.L. Brown Show features Louisville basketball players J’Vonne Hadley, a Colorado transfer on the men’s team; and women’s team members Olivia Cochran and Mackenly Randolph. Hadley discusses the presence of Alpha Dogs on the Cards’ roster, his perception of ACC basketball and how, with a group of 12 transfers, U of L is building its culture in Year …

LEXINGTON — In April, one chapter of Kentucky basketball history ended. And another began. John Calipari, who led the Wildcats for 15 seasons, stepped down April 9. One day later, Arkansas announced Calipari as its new coach. UK then took a page from its past to tab Calipari’s successor: Mark Pope, who spent three seasons in Lexington under former coach Rick …

WEST LAFAYETTE – This Purdue basketball team opens the season with a mindset unique to the past 40 years of program history. Matt Painter admitted last season’s long-awaited Final Four run brought “relief.” The tension which built throughout the entire Boilermakers experience in previous years should not constrict around this squad. Also, three-fifths of the expected opening night starting lineup …

BLOOMINGTON – It’s probably fair to say Mike Woodson enters the upcoming season on a seat as warm as any coach in this newly expanded, coast-to-coast Big Ten. It’s more than fair to say Woodson also brings what looks on paper like his best, deepest and most talented team to that growing conference party, a group picked by a poll …

WEST LAFAYETTE − Last Saturday’s exhibition loss was a needed reminder of how far Purdue basketball has to go before next week’s season opener. And that was before the Boilermakers and Bluejays even tipped off. “Some of our guys didn’t know what to do at shootaround,” assistant coach Paul Lusk said. “Like, what’s the process?” Minor things now in order, …

Coverage from the game: Kentucky basketball can score. Mark Pope, Wildcats can beat teams with more than just 3s Coverage during the game: LEXINGTON — Just one more outing separates Kentucky basketball from the 2024-25 regular season. UK and first-year coach Mark Pope host their second Division II team in as many weeks at 7 p.m. today. The opponent for tonight’s exhibition: …

LEXINGTON — There’s a belief surrounding Kentucky basketball in 2024-25 that it will live and die by the 3. Shoot them early. Shoot them late. Shoot them when they’re open. Shoot them when they’re guarded. The UK coaching staff is as guilty as anyone — particularly assistant (and offensive coordinator) Cody Fueger — of furthering that line of thinking, regularly voicing its …

1. MSU’s exhibition win over Ferris State is revealing of lineup possibilities EAST LANSING – Ferris State made Michigan State work for this win. There’s good and bad in that for the Spartans. The good being that the competitive nature of the game and the ways the Bulldogs pushed MSU revealed some things — strengths, concerns and, most of all, …

Injuries have been a steady subplot in the Gophers men’s basketball team’s preseason. Point guard Lu’Cye Patterson returned from a shoulder injury for the second exhibition game — a 79-57 win over Hamline at Williams Arena on Tuesday — but starting forward Frank Mitchell left with an apparent shoulder injury of his own very early in the first half. Minnesota …

EAST LANSING – Less than a week away from the start of the regular season, Tom Izzo wanted Michigan State’s final preseason preparation to be about basketball instead of an event. Ferris State obliged and provided a much stiffer test than Northern Michigan. That allowed Izzo to see some things he wanted from his team. Namely the Spartans’ ability to …

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — RJ Davis accomplished enough in four years at North Carolina for his jersey to eventually earn a place among the honored numbers in the Smith Center’s rafters for the blueblood program. Yet he’s still here. “With five years, I know some people may say, ‘Oh, you need to go get a job now,’” Davis said …

EAST LANSING – Less than a week away from the start of the regular season, Tom Izzo wanted Michigan State’s final preseason preparation to be about basketball instead of an event. Ferris State obliged and provided a much stiffer test than Northern Michigan. That allowed Izzo to see some things he wanted from his team. Namely the Spartans’ ability to …

EAST LANSING – Less than a week away from the start of the regular season, Tom Izzo wanted Michigan State’s final preseason preparation to be about basketball instead of an event. Ferris State obliged and provided a much stiffer test than Northern Michigan. That allowed Izzo to see some things he wanted from his team. Namely the Spartans’ ability to …

Michigan State’s Jaxon Kohler celebrates a Ferris State turnover during the second half on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024, in East Lansing. Michigan State basketball utilized a second-half run to pick up a convincing exhibition victory over Ferris State on Tuesday night. Michigan State had to fight off an early second-half run from the Bulldogs to pick up the 85-67 victory. …

Michigan State’s Xavier Booker looks to pass against Southern Indiana during the second half on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023, at the Breslin Center in East Lansing. Michigan State basketball is considered one of the teams with the best odds to win the National Championship from the Big Ten. Jeff Goodman of the Field of 68 posted the BetMGM odds for …

LAWRENCE — Kansas basketball will have another opportunity to play a preseason exhibition game Tuesday, at home against Washburn. The Jayhawks are coming off of a recent exhibition defeat at Arkansas. Following Late Night in the Phog earlier this month, this Washburn matchup will be the first opportunity for KU fans to see their team go up against another inside a …

MANHATTAN — Kansas State basketball will publicly unveil its 2024-25 roster on Tuesday night in a preseason exhibition against Division II Fort Hays State at Bramlage Coliseum. Jerome Tang enters his third season as K-State coach and has a 45-25 overall record. The Wildcats return just three players from last year’s team that went 19-15 and lost to Iowa in …