NCAA Basketball Articles - Page 204

Before Matt Painter took over for Purdue basketball, it was Gene Keady that paved the way for the Boilermakers’ success. His greatness netted him six national Coach of the Year awards and seven Big Ten Coach of the Year honors. He has produced countless NBA-level talents and even dabbled to coach the 2000 Team USA […]

The mania surrounding Iowa women’s basketball star Caitlin Clark hit another level this week when a butter sculpture of Clark was submitted to the Iowa State Fair. Clark has already become one of the most famous college athletes and NIL stars, but her reign on the court received a different kind of recognition in the […]

The Coastal Athletic Association (CAA) recently announced the 2023-2024 men’s & women’s basketball schedule for Hampton University. Hampton is starting their second season in the conference after joining in July 2022. Specific dates have yet to be announced for either team but the schedule features nine home and away games against CAA opponents. Both men’s […]

Conference realignment has been a really hot topic in recent days. The Pac-12 is taking the most hits after they were just left four teams in the 2024 season. It is still unclear how they plan to keep the competition afloat or if there are talks about disbandment going on. Although, there a new challenges […]

The Nike Basketball Academy is being held this week at the company’s headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. The event runs from Aug. 7 until Aug. 8 and features some of the top high school and college basketball players in the country for both men and women. For many of the high school prospects, this is a […]

Cooper Flagg could become the face of Duke basketball in the next several years. The five-star forward from Montverde Academy in Florida put on a show at the Nike Academy on Wednesday. The 6’8″, 195-lb Flagg ramped up the intensity on the offensive end by making shots from various distances. Flagg was so good, ESPN […]

It has been 369 days since UConn women’s basketball star Paige Bueckers tore her ACL, and she took to Instagram to announce that she has been fully cleared to play live basketball. “All cleared and ready for takeoff🚀 369 days… GOD DID!” Paige Bueckers said in the caption of her Instagram post. Getting Bueckers back […]

The Overtime Elite has become a much bigger deal, especially after Amen and Ausar Thompson both got selected in the top 10 of the 2023 NBA Draft. The 2024 NBA Draft has a few Overtime Elite players who are projected to go pretty high, so more and more players are considering joining the league. However, […]

The Big Ten and Big 12 decimated the Pac-12 through conference expansion. The Mountain West could potentially finish the Pac-12 off. The Mountain West is exploring its own path to expansion. Washington State and Oregon State are logical targets for the conference. The Mountain West released a statement Wednesday, acknowledging that it is looking at […]

The Pac-12 is currently in absolute shambles as eight universities have left the conference this summer. Washington State is one of the four remaining Pac-12 schools, and president Kirk Schulz opened up on the difficulty of dealing with this entire saga, reports ESPN’s Pete Thamel. “It’s like a breakup; it’s awkward. No one wants to […]

The Howard University women’s basketball will make an appearance in the second annual Bad Boy Mowers Women’s Battle 4 Atlantis Tournament, as reported by HBCU Sports. The tournament is set to take place from November 18th-November 20th at the Imperial Arena in Atlantis Paradise Island. Howard is set to make history as the first HBCU […]

As USC incoming freshman Bronny James continues to work his way back to full health after suffering cardiac arrest late last month, he and father LeBron James — a superstar forward for the Los Angeles Lakers — were recently spotted in Minnesota, with many linking their appearance around the local Mayo Clinic to their desires […]

USC basketball is beginning their summer tour without Bronny James as he recovers from cardiac arrest. Despite not having Bronny James, the squad should be ready to go and get in some good hoops as they travel internationally for some friendly exhibitions. When and Where does USC basketball play? The USC basketball summer tour will […]

The landscape of the NCAA is dramatically changing quickly because of conference realignment. Amid the Big Ten and Big 12 practically crippling the Pac-12 with their own conference expansion, NCAA President Charlie Baker indicated that he’s troubled by recent events. The additions of Oregon and Washington are set to give the Big Ten 18 teams. […]

The Pac-12 is getting absolutely tethered across the sports world after programs opted to leave for the Big 12 and Big Ten. Ole Miss football coach Lane Kiffin is the latest to torch the conference, responding to a Pac-12 athlete who explains why she chose the conference and why she is now upset. “I chose […]

Jackson State University‘s Head Women’s Basketball Coach Tomekia Reed has been appointed as a member of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Oversight Committee, per a press release by the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC). The committee ensures that NCAA Division I women’s basketball is supervised properly, while also working to improve the public image and […]

There are only a few weeks left before college basketball season resumes en route to March Madness. Recruitment is still ongoing for most schools as blue-blood universities get the most attention from prospects. Jon Scheyer’s Duke basketball program is doing just that as they aim to get Jared McCain or Cooper Flagg a running mate […]

In an early 2024 NBA Mock Draft, The Athletic draft analyst Sam Vecenie made an intriguing pick for the No. 1 pick, selecting not 18-year-old G League Ignite forward Ron Holland or UCLA freshman center Aday Mara, but Kentucky freshman wing Justin Edwards. Edwards, a five-star high school recruit out of Imhotep Institute in Philadelphia, […]

The matchups for the Jimmy V Classic at Madison Square Garden on Dec. 5 at Madison Square Garden were announced, with Florida Atlantic taking on Illinois and UConn facing off against North Carolina. UConn basketball coach Dan Hurley spoke about what it means for his program to play in the Jimmy V Classic, a yearly […]

Arizona is one of the latest programs from the Pac-12 to announce their departure from the conference for greener pastures. Arizona will be playing in the Big 12 starting in 2024, and their president Bobby Robbins recently spoke out on how moves to the Big 12 and Big Ten materialized for all of the former […]

Rumors of a merger between the Mountain West and Pac-12 have been circling recently ever since the Pac-12 started to lose programs left and right. Speaking on the potential merger of his school’s conference, Wyoming athletic director Tom Burman gave his candid thoughts on a union, reports Casper Star Tribune’s Ryan Thorburn. “For Wyoming, we […]

Rumors have been swirling of San Diego State and Oregon State switching over to the Big 12 amid massive conference transformation across college sports. However, these rumors have now been hit with a massive road block, The Athletic’s Max Olson reports. “The Big 12 is not discussing adding Oregon State or San Diego State at […]

Stephen A. Smith has no problem speaking his mind, and he did just that recently on his podcast. Smith, a Winston-Salem State basketball alumnus, spoke about his support of HBCUs in a rant aimed at media members he perceived were slighting him over his latest business endeavor. The “First Take” star recently received criticism for […]

Every season, there are breakout candidates that basketball fans, analysts, coaches and executives are on the lookout for, and the 2023-24 campaign for NCAA men’s basketball should be more of the same. In fact, with San Diego State recently reaching the NCAA Championship for the first time in history last season, Miami (FL) recently reaching […]

Last year, both UCLA and USC announced their intentions to leave the Pac-12 Conference and join the Big 10 Conference for the 2024-25 season. It was a shocking decision amid the Pac-12’s search for a new media deal. As it turns out, the departure of those two schools was only the beginning. There had been […]

The Pac-12 is currently in shambles as programs are deciding to leave the conference left and right. It all started when UCLA and USC opted to leave for the Big Ten starting in the 2024 scholastic year, and this was the first domino that has set off a wild chain of events. The next team […]

Rumors have been swirling around the college sports world in regards to conference expansion lately, specifically surrounding the Pac-12. Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti received the green light to pursue expansion on Thursday, and many believed that Oregon and Washington would be the next teams to move. However, those rumors have now lost traction according […]

Prairie View A&M has finally found its new athletic director, hiring Anton Goff to lead the program. Goff currently serves as the Senior Associate Athletics Director at Northern Illinois University. The University announced the hire on Thursday. “We conducted an extensive national search for this position,” said President LeGrande in a statement released by the […]

The Pac-12 might have been resurrected overnight. Oregon and Washington are now looking unlikely to leave the Pac-12 for the Big Ten, according to reports. Arizona’s potential move to the Big 12 may also have been put on hold. After Big Ten school presidents gave Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitte the go-ahead to explore making […]

The existence of the Pac-12 as a viable conference might hinge on a handful of schools, chief among them Oregon. The Big Ten is exploring the idea of further expansion by examining the addition of more Pac-12 schools, including Oregon and Washington, according to ESPN. Will the Ducks accept a Big Ten invitation and leave […]

The 2023 NCAA Tournament will always have a “what could have been” wistfulness attached to it for UCLA basketball fans. While UConn proved to be one of the most dominant forces that we have ever seen in the month of March, the Bruins could have been a tall hurdle to clear had Jaylen Clark not […]

Drexel men’s basketball player Terrence Butler — a native of Upper Marlboro, MD — was found dead in his on-campus apartment on Wednesday, according to various reports. Though no official cause of death has been determined, authorities have ruled out foul play, per the school. In response to the news about Butler’s passing, Drexel president […]

After an early exit as the #1 seed in last year’s NCAA Tournament, Kansas basketball looked to reload before the upcoming 2023 season to make sure that doesn’t happen again. The Jayhawks snagged the top transfer portal player in the class, Hunter Dickinson, from Michigan basketball and seemed to have all the pieces in place. […]

There’s no denying that sports betting has become extremely popular in recent years. It’s become a method for sports fans to try and use their knowledge to win money. What isn’t allowed though is players themselves betting on games, especially ones that they’re playing in. A member of the University of Iowa football team as […]

This past season, the Northwestern Wildcats made it to the NCAA Tournament for only the second time in program history. The Wildcats basketball team is something for the school to be proud of considering the hot water their football team currently finds themselves in. The first time Northwestern made it to the NCAA Tournament was […]

Grambling State basketball is heading to Puerto Rico for a series of exhibition games. The G-Men are scheduled to play a select team of players from Liga de Baloncesto Puertorriquena in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on August 8th. Liga de Baloncesto Puertorriquena plays in a FIBA-sanctioned league founded by the Puerto Rican Basketball Federation. Grambling […]

Three Winston-Salem State basketball alumni will be hooping at Rucker Park this weekend. Former CIAA ballers Robert Colon, Raven Fields, and Cam Campbell will be featured in the HBCU All-Star Dream Classic. Colon and Campbell will play in the men’s game and Raven Fields will play in the women’s game. The HBCU All-Star Dream Classic […]

The ongoing litigation against former Coppin State basketball coach Juan Dixon just got a major update. Baltimore Circuit Court judge Melissa K. Copeland dismissed the lawsuit against Dixon, based on legal grounds. The complaint, however, can be amended. “At this juncture, we are very much at the very beginning of the case,” Copeland said of […]

The Duke basketball program and Jon Scheyer are reportedly having 2025 power forward prospect Cooper Flagg on campus for an unofficial visit on Tuesday, according to Blue Devils on Twitter. Cooper Flagg’s unofficial visit with the Duke basketball program is the first he will be taking. He is a huge target as a member of […]