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Kentucky Wildcats men’s basketball guard Otega Oweh could have stayed in the NBA Draft and played professionally next season. Instead, he’s headed back to Lexington with All-American expectations, and no one was more excited about it than his head coach. Oweh put Kentucky coach Mark Pope on the spot on Sunday, putting a mic and […]

A successful first season of the Darian DeVries era for Indiana men’s basketball may hinge on the health of the coach’s son, Tucker DeVries. Tucker transferred to Indiana from West Virginia when his dad got the Hoosiers job, but played just eight games last year due to a shoulder injury. Now, the team has “mostly” […]

College sports will enter a new era of NIL following the approval of the house settlement this past week. Michigan State Spartans head coach Tom Izzo to provide his thoughts on the ever-evolving situation. The house settlement allows the NCAA to implement guardrails on NIL for teams and players. Players will continue to earn money […]

Danny Sprinkle and the Washington Huskies made a solid addition from the transfer portal, landing Desmond Claude from the USC Trojans. Claude announced his decision to transfer from the Trojans to the Huskies on Sunday, per On3 insider Joe Tipton. He leaves USC after one season, averaging 15.8 points, 4.2 assists and 3.5 rebounds per […]

Dusty May just finished up his first season as the head coach of the Michigan basketball team, and it was a good one. He led the Wolverines to a Big Ten Tournament title and Sweet 16 berth. Now, May is getting ready for year two, and he has brought in some huge transfer portal additions. […]

The Duke Blue Devils begin a transition as they see the departure of longtime coach Will Stephens. Stephens spent his entire collegiate career with the Blue Devils, joining them in 1998. He served as the Head Sports Performance Coach for the men’s basketball program, and 17 years in the same role with women’s basketball until […]

South Carolina women’s basketball head coach and WNBA legend Dawn Staley has another role to fill, as she’s now part of CBS Sports’ new pregame show, “WNBA Tip Off.” The show debuted on Saturday, just before the marquee matchup between the Indiana Fever and the Chicago Sky at the United Center in Chicago. During the […]

The Michigan basketball team recently learned that it will indeed have Yaxel Lendeborg for the 2025-26 season. Lendeborg was the best player in the college basketball transfer portal, and he committed to the Wolverines. However, he only recently signed with the program as he was testing the NBA Draft process. Now, he will officially wear […]

The House Settlement is approved by a judge, and that is good news for thousands of former NCAA athletes. The NCAA is agreeing to pay $2.8 billion in lost NIL earnings to athletes, per Yahoo Sports. Schools are also chipping in to help cover all the costs, per college sports reporter Ross Dellenger. NIL stands […]

College sports is headed in a new direction after the House settlement passed on Friday night following a long battle between the NCAA and the House. The ruling will have massive implications on the structure of college sports moving forward, and other changes are already coming as a result of the domino effect. One of […]

The landscape of college sports has been in constant change over the last few years, and now a major development has taken place that will ensure it is never the same again. On Friday night, Judge Claudia Wilken approved the House settlement in the House vs. NCAA lawsuit. The biggest point in the settlement is […]

Even after the departure of Larry Vickers to Auburn, Norfolk State is still looking to compete with the best teams in college basketball. On Friday, Norfolk State and Duke announced a home-and-home series set to start in 2025. The Spartans are set to visit Duke’s Cameron Indoor Stadium on November 12, 2025. The following season, […]

Houston basketball came so close to winning a first-ever national title after seven Final Four tries. Now head coach Kelvin Sampson wants to beef the schedule up. His Cougars will walk into next season as the hunted in the Big 12 Conference. But Sampson is open to additional competition for the national title game runner-up. […]

South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley will step off the court and into the studio this summer, joining CBS Sports’ new WNBA pregame show as an analyst. The show will debut Saturday, airing ahead of the Indiana Fever vs. Chicago Sky game —featuring former Gamecocks coached by Staley — the first-ever primetime WNBA regular-season […]

BYU basketball is making massive moves. Head coach Kevin Young came over from the NBA last season after spending four years as an assistant coach with the Phoenix Suns. He moved to BYU after Mark Pope left to take the Kentucky job. The Salt Lake City native made the Cougars a must-watch team in college […]

It’s been a while since Yaxel Lendeborg announced his commitment to the Michigan basketball program, but Wolverines fans never got their hopes up too high. Lendeborg committed, but there was a chance that he never actually played at Michigan. He was testing the NBA Draft process, and last week, Lendeborg announced that he will play […]

Villanova basketball has gained a unique celebrity fan. Pope Leo XIV is an alumnus of the Catholic university. But even the new pope isn’t afraid to sport his school colors — even in front of the Vatican. Pope Leo gave a new, stunning reason to remove his zucchetto. He got handed a Villanova hat — […]

North Carolina Central has been hit with a wrongful death lawsuit following the passing of former Eagles basketball player Devin Butts. According to the Charlotte Observer, a lawsuit filed this week in Durham County claims that NCCU did not provide proper medical supervision during an offseason practice and lacked adequate emergency protocols. Butts, 22, collapsed […]

Ole Miss basketball coach Chris Beard has been busy in the offseason. Three four-star recruits are going to Oxford, Mississippi, with another six transfers coming in. Beard had a massive task in overhauling a roster with 12 total seniors. His latest transfer portal commitment was from an impact player at a team in last season’s […]

The Duke Blue Devils and head coach Jon Scheyer picked up one of the biggest commitments of the offseason with the addition of incoming freshman guard Dame Sarr. A native of Italy, Sarr turned heads back in April during the Nike Hoop Summit. As he prepares for his freshman season with the Blue Devils, Sarr […]

With the New York Knicks firing Tom Thibodeau, speculation is growing as to who will be his replacement. Although there hasn’t been any buzz about the potential of UConn head coach Dan Hurley showing interest in the job, the two-time NCAA champion broke his silence about the head coach opening in New York. Hurley only […]

The UConn basketball team is going to be challenged during its non-conference schedule as head coach Dan Hurley is not shying away from marquee matchups. The Huskies already had an incredibly difficult slate lined up, and then they went and added in a couple more on Wednesday just for good measure. UConn will take on […]

The University of Florida made a big change this summer when it poached former University of Michigan president Santa Ono to come be the president in Gainesville. The move was announced back in early May, and all indications were that Ono was coming to represent the blue and orange as the new head of the […]

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey has never had much interest in making friends out of college sports fans, and his latest March Madness expansion take won’t help matters. Sankey appeared on the Dan Patrick Show on Monday where he made his pitch for a 76-team NCAA Tournament — an eight-team increase from the current 68-team format. […]

Ohio State picked up a 2025 commitment on Monday and the name might be ring a bell for basketball fans. Myles Herro, the younger brother of Miami Heat guard Tyler Herro, has committed to the Buckeyes out of Whitnall High School in Wisconsin, Myles told On3. “I chose Ohio State because it felt like the […]

The UConn Huskies and the Illinois Fighting Illini are reportedly on the verge of making official a Black Friday date at Madison Square Garden in New York, according to college basketball insider Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports and College Hoops Today. “NEWS: UConn and Illinois are finalizing an agreement to meet on November 28th — […]

Will Wade is back at the center of college basketball, and he is wasting no time building a big-time contender in the ACC. After Wade took McNeese to the second round of the NCAA Tournament, with a stunning upset of Clemson in the first round, he took the head coaching job at NC State. Now, […]

South Carolina Women’s Basketball coach and basketball legend Dawn Staley is all over the place. In late April, the city of Columbia honored Staley with a statue celebrating her accomplishments for the state and the sport.  Her recently published memoir  “Uncommon Favor: Basketball, North Philly, My Mother, and the Life Lessons I Learned from All […]

The Mississippi State basketball team picked up an intriguing college basketball transfer portal commitment on Friday. A lot of teams are done shopping in the portal, but the Bulldogs went out and bolstered their roster with former Montana State forward Brandon Walker. Walker started his college basketball career in 2022 at UT Arlington, and then […]

Sean Miller and Xavier eliminated the Texas basketball team from the NCAA Tournament this past season, and now, Miller is the head coach of the Longhorns. Texas decided to fire former head coach Rodney Terry after the First Four defeat against the Musketeers, and the school was able to get Miller to leave the Big […]

USC men’s basketball is strengthening its roster from top to bottom. Recently, USC secured top scorer Jordan Marsh from UNC Asheville in the transfer portal.  Now, they’re adding a new dimension to their coaching staff with the hiring of former NBA player Earl Boykins as an assistant coach, per Ryan Kartje of the Los Angeles […]

As one of the greatest coaches in college basketball history, St. John’s Rick Pitino has seen it all. While not typically a fan of how NBA teams defend, Pitino offered one of his greatest compliments to the Oklahoma City Thunder. One day after the Thunder clinched the NBA Finals with a Game 5 win over […]

The topic of March Madness expansion has come up a lot this week as NCAA president Charlie Baker recently revealed that the goal is to get the tournament field bigger ahead of this next season. Right now, 68 teams qualify for the NCAA Tournament. Eight teams go to the First Four, so by the time […]

Asa Newell was one of three five-star prospects entering the NCAA ranks from Montverde Academy in 2024. The other two were Cooper Flagg, who will be the first pick in the 2025 NBA Draft, and Derik Queen, who is expected to be a lottery pick. Like his close friends, Newell is also hoping to hear […]

The Florida basketball team just won the national championship last month, and now the Gators are thinking about how they can do it again next season. There were a lot of question marks regarding what kind of talent Florida would get back for next season, and after the NBA Draft withdraw deadline, the team appears […]

The Michigan basketball team is going to have an exciting non-conference slate this season. The Wolverines recently set up a matchup with Duke in February in Washington D.C., and now Michigan is finalizing a home-and-home series with Villanova. The two teams will meet up in Ann Arbor next season with a return game at Villanova […]

It’s been two months since Texas basketball hired Sean Miller as head coach after firing Rodney Terry. It was an offer Miller couldn’t pass up after coaching at Xavier. Texas is coming off a challenging debut season in the SEC, where they went 19-16 and lost in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Speaking […]

There has been a lot of chatter about potential College Football Playoff expansion, but let’s not forget about March Madness. There have been some rumblings about it in the past, but it was unclear how much support the idea was getting. Well, NCAA president Charlie Baker says that expansion could be coming sooner than people […]

The Alabama basketball team got some surprising news on Wednesday night as Labaron Philon announced that he will withdraw from the NBA Draft and return to the Crimson Tide for one more season. At the conclusion of this past season, Philon decided that he was going to explore the NBA Draft process, and it sounded […]