NCAA Basketball Articles - Page 238

The Creighton Bluejays take on the BYU Cougars in Las Vegas. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Creighton BYU prediction and pick. The BYU Cougars are in real trouble. Coach Mark Pope has had to go deep into his bench this season, playing younger players with less experience. Guards Spencer Johnson and […]

The Arizona Wildcats take on the Indiana Hoosiers in Las Vegas. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Arizona Indiana prediction and pick. The Arizona Wildcats and Indiana Hoosiers have shown how good they can be, and how bad they can be when the wheels fall off. That shapes the backdrop to this […]

The Kansas Jayhawks take on the Misouri Tigers. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Kansas Missouri prediction and pick. The Border War is back. It returned last year when Kansas blew out Missouri. Now it comes back to Columbia, with Missouri relishing the chance to host the hated Jayhawks for the first […]

The Auburn Tigers take on the Memphis Tigers. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Auburn Memphis prediction and pick. The Memphis Tigers had a sluggish regular season one year ago. They looked like an NIT team and not an NCAA Tournament team in the middle of January, but then they beat the […]

As the 2022-23 NCAAW season enters conference play, teams are starting to settling into their identities the rest of the way. Here are the top-six teams in the country right now as we continue into December. No. 1: South Carolina Aliyah Boston has been on the same tear she has exhibited throughout her time with […]

No. 12 Arizona was the latest casualty to unranked opponents after losing 77-50 against Kansas. Coming off the loss where the Wildcats shot 30.9% from the field and 19% from the perimeter, Arizona head coach Adia Barnes didn’t mince words when evaluating her team. “This was a wake-up call and it’s probably what we needed […]

Any time UConn has lost a player, it has felt like Geno Auriemma has reached down into a Mary Poppins-like bag of top-end talent and plugged in the holes with it. After injuries have mounted for the Huskies, he may be running out of them. UConn suffered another loss to its roster after Nika Muhl […]

The Arkansas State Red Wolves take on the Air Force Falcons. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Arkansas State Air Force prediction and pick. The Arkansas State Red Wolves have had a bumpy ride so far this season. They’re 5-4 in nine games, and they have not been playing high-end opponents. Teams […]

The Washington Huskies take on the Gonzaga Bulldogs. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Washington Gonzaga prediction and pick. The college basketball season has not been what Gonzaga wanted it to be. Not only have the Zags lost big to Purdue and gotten handled by Texas and Baylor; even some of their […]

The Grambling State Tigers take on the Vanderbilt Commodores. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Grambling State Vanderbilt prediction and pick. The Grambling State Tigers were part of one of the more interesting stories in the early weeks of the college basketball season. You might have noticed — if you pay close […]

Ohio State and Rutgers were engaged in a heated battle of college hoops, well until Tanner Holden stepped in. As time clicked off the clock, the senior hoisted up a prayer, and led the Buckeyes to victory. With less than a second remaining, Holden got the pass and immediately put up an awkward looking three-pointer. […]

The Jacksonville State Gamecocks take on the Utah Utes. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Jacksonville State-Utah prediction and pick. The Utah Utes had a rocky beginning to the current college basketball campaign. Head coach Craig Smith was scrambling for answers. The Utes lost at home to Sam Houston State. They narrowly […]

The Michigan Wolverines take on the Minnesota Golden Gophers. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Michigan Minnesota prediction and pick. The Michigan Wolverines are dealing with a notable injury point guard Jaelin Llewellyn, who is out for the season with a torn ACL. He will have surgery in January. Llewellyn was averaging […]

The Iowa State Cyclones take on the Iowa Hawkeyes. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Iowa State-Iowa prediction and pick. The Iowa Hawkeyes were taken to school by Duke on Tuesday night in New York in the Jimmy V Classic. The Hawkeyes didn’t do anything particularly well. They had seven of their […]

The Marshall Thundering Herd take on the Duquesne Dukes. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Marshall Duquesne prediction and pick. The Duquesne Dukes have not been to the NCAA Tournament since 1977, one of the longer NCAA Tournament droughts of any program which has regularly competed in Division I NCAA men’s basketball. […]

The Rutgers Scarlet Knights take on the Ohio State Buckeyes. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Rutgers Ohio State prediction and pick. The Rutgers Scarlet Knights know how to win at home. That has never been a question for them. Even before coach Steve Pikiell elevated the program in recent years, Rutgers […]

Two in-state rivals with no love for one another will meet on the hardwood for the first time in over three seasons as the Colorado State Rams travel roughly 60 miles south to take on the Colorado Buffaloes in Boulder. With that being said, let’s check out our college basketball odds series, where our Colorado State-Colorado […]

In the early morning of November 19, New Mexico State Aggies forward Mike Peake got into a deadly shootout with a University of New Mexico student at UNM’s main campus. Several UNM students were reportedly trying to fight Peake due to an incident that occurred during a football game between NMS and UNM back in […]

The Hawaii Rainbow Warriors take on the UNLV Runnin’ Rebels. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Hawaii UNLV prediction and pick. This is an uncertain situation for the Hawaii basketball team. Do the Rainbow Warriors know how good — or limited — they are? They are 5-2 on the season, which seems […]

The UConn Huskies take on the Florida Gators. Check out our college basketball odds series for our UConn Florida prediction and pick. The UConn Huskies have a top-five national ranking. They have earned it. They haven’t lost a game, but more than that, they have beaten quality opposition. The Florida Gators begin a new era […]

The Nebraska Cornhuskers take on the Indiana Hoosiers. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Nebraska Indiana prediction and pick. The Nebraska Cornhuskers scored one of the most stunning upsets of the young college basketball season this past Sunday. They went into Omaha and not only defeated Creighton on the road; they won […]

The Dayton Flyers take on the Virginia Tech Hokies. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Dayton Virginia Tech prediction and pick. Virginia Tech enters this season with a target on its back. The Hokies are the defending ACC Tournament champions, led by coach Mike Young. The Hokies are 8-1, having stumbled against […]

The Michigan State Spartans take on the Penn State Nittany Lions. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Michigan State Penn State prediction and pick. The college basketball season is still generally in the midst of nonconference games, but one thing we have seen in recent years is the shift toward more conference […]

After starting off in the top-six of the Associated Press’ preseason rankings, Tennessee struggles continue to mount. To make matters worse, the Vols’ leading scorer Rickea Jackson is out indefinitely. ESPN first reported the news two days ago and The Next Hoop’s Gabriella Lewis reported that the status of Jackson and senior center Tamari Key […]

Dayton, Purdue and Texas A&M’s women’s basketball teams have all dropped out of an event held in Las Vegas after concerns the conditions would be similar to the one held in a Strip resort this past Thanksgiving. “We are all about giving our players the opportunity to play the game they love,” Texas A&M coach […]

The Texas Longhorns are undefeated no more. That is after Texas basketball suffered an 85-78 overtime loss at the hands of the Illinois Fighting Illini Tuesday night. Surely, there are a dozen of things running through the mind of Texas head coach Chris Beard, but he was not going to forget giving a classy shoutout […]

The James Madison Dukes take on the Virginia Cavaliers. Check out our college basketball odds series for our James Madison Virginia prediction and pick. The Virginia Cavaliers are unbeaten to start their season. They did not play especially well in their most recent game, however. They opened as an 18.5-point favorite at home against a Florida […]

The Iowa Hawkeyes take on the Duke Blue Devils in New York. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Iowa Duke prediction and pick. Iowa basketball has shown the ability to continuously produce NBA-level players under coach Fran McCaffery. Luka Garza has had a limited NBA career because of his lack of defensive […]

The Maryland Terrapins take on the Wisconsin Badgers. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Maryland Wisconsin prediction and pick. The Maryland Terrapins are unbeaten through one month of play. New head coach Kevin Willard, who came to the Terps from Seton Hall and replaced former coach Mark Turgeon, has made a notable […]

The North Florida Ospreys take on the Houston Cougars. Check out our college basketball odds series for our North Florida Houston prediction and pick. The Houston Cougars did beat the Saint Mary’s Gaels this past Saturday night in one of the more discussed and prominent college basketball games of the weekend. To that extent, they […]

The Illinois Fighting Illini take on the Texas Longhorns in New York. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Illinois Texas prediction and pick. The Texas Longhorns have started the season brilliantly under coach Chris Beard. They blitzed Gonzaga, but that was just one game. If the Longhorns could back that up with […]

The Connecticut women’s basketball team is dealing with a dastardly case of the injury bug, as its players are dropping like flies. The college basketball season began just a month ago, and the Huskies have already lost two more of its top players to injury.  UConn headed into the season without Paige Bueckers (torn ACL) […]

Not that the Louisville Cardinals needed a reminder of how bad the season is going for them, but the first edition of the NET rankings for the 2022-23 college basketball campaign has just been released and Louisville basketball doesn’t look so good in it. per Brett Dawson of Courier Journal Sports. “Louisville men’s basketball is […]

UConn women’s basketball can’t seem to catch a break after sophomore Azzi Fudd added to the injury woes the team has team dealt with all season. While ESPN’s Alexa Philippou was told by the school’s public relations staff Fudd is “OK,” the sophomore missed most of the game with what appeared to me a knee […]

Iowa women’s basketball superstar Caitlin Clark continues to propel herself among the greatest all-around players in Big Ten history after notching a conference-record seven career triple-doubles. The junior finished with 22 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists in the Hawkeyes’ 102-71 blowout over Wisconsin. Clark is now averaging 28.2 points, 7.1 rebounds and 6.9 assists […]

The Northwestern Wildcats take on the Michigan State Spartans. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Northwestern Michigan State prediction and pick. The Northwestern Wildcats started the season with several wins, but then they got derailed in two straight abysmal performances, one on offense and the other at both ends of the floor. […]

The California Golden Bears take on the Arizona Wildcats. Check out our college basketball odds series for our California Arizona prediction and pick. The Arizona Wildcats were roaring along and enjoying a very good season. They had won the Maui Invitational by beating San Diego State and then Creighton. Courtney Ramey, the transfer from Texas, […]

The Oregon Ducks take on the UCLA Bruins. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Oregon UCLA prediction and pick. The UCLA Bruins finally showed up this past Thursday. They played several games before Dec. 1, but the team which trounced Stanford in Maples Pavilion is the team most people expected to appear […]

The Minnesota Golden Gophers take on the Purdue Boilermakers. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Minnesota Purdue prediction and pick. The Purdue Boilermakers were not at their best this past week against Florida State in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge. Florida State entered the game with only one win, but the game was […]