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The Duke Blue Devils take on the Purdue Boilermakers. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Duke Purdue prediction and pick. The Purdue Boilermakers lost Jaden Ivey to the NBA. When a team loses a top-five NBA draft pick — which is what Ivey was and is — that is generally supposed to […]

The North Carolina Tar Heels take on the Alabama Crimson Tide. Check out our college basketball odds series for our North Carolina Alabama prediction and pick. The North Carolina Tar Heels are not playing particularly well. They have finally lost a game, having dropped a decision to Iowa State this past Friday in Portland, but […]

A subpar setup for the Las Vegas Invitational NCAA women’s basketball tournament starting last Friday led to a missed opportunity to truly showcase the No. 6-ranked Indiana Hoosiers’ ability to take sweeping victories, nine-year Hoosier head coach Teri Moren said Saturday. “What was disappointing was the aesthetics,” Teri Moren said. “It’s not a fan-friendly environment. […]

Only a couple weeks into the season, women’s college basketball has already seen some of the top teams around the country be taken down by their underdog counterparts. UConn head coach Geno Auriemma believes college fans should get used to it. “You’re going to see that happen more and more,” Auriemma told ESPN. “Hell, that’s […]

Kelly Graves has coached many great teams during his 28-year career but he feels like this year’s Oregon team is one of the best he has ever had. After the Ducks, currently placed at 18th in the Associated Press’ top-25 rankings, couldn’t pull off an upset against No. 8 North Carolina, Graves was optimistic about […]

After coming in this week being ranked as the No. 1 team in the country, the UNC Tar Heels suffered a shocking, 70-65, loss on Friday to the Iowa State Cyclones in the semifinals of the Phil Knight Invitational. After the game, UNC graduate student Pete Nance exclaimed that the Tar Heels can’t get too […]

Iowa State pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the 2022 college basketball season after taking down no. 1 UNC basketball during Friday’s showdown at the Phil Knight Invitational tournament. Naturally, it sent the whole Twitterverse buzzing. The Iowa State Cyclones have Caleb Grill to thank for the win. He banked 31 points to […]

No. 8 Duke Blue Devils avoided an upset Thursday, escaping their meeting with unranked Oregon State Beavers with a 54-51 victory. Duke basketball had a hard time pulling away from the Beavers, which many expected the Blue Devils to do. One huge reason for that was the Blue Devils’ historically atrocious accuracy on offense. As […]

It may only be November, but Wisconsin and Kansas sophomore guard Bobby Pettiford Jr. ensured that college basketball was back in full swing. Bobby Pettiford Jr. nearly stunned the basketball world on Thursday when he made a reverse layup at the last possible second against the Wisconsin Badgers to prevent a crushing upset for the […]

It seems Appalachian State senior basketball forward Dibaji Walker didn’t know his own strength when he threw down a dunk over East Tennessee State sophomore forward Jalen Haynes so hard, he almost hurt himself on Wednesday. Dunked it so hard he hurt himself 😳 (via @AppStateMBB)pic.twitter.com/zTJEyluFXh — Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) November 24, 2022 The senior […]

The Louisville Cardinals are having a nightmare of a season. They remain winless through six games after they just got blasted by the Cincinnati Bearcats Wednesday to the tune of an 81-62 score. Louisville basketball even had it worse in the game prior to that, as the Cardinals got absolutely hammered by the Texas Tech […]

The Pepperdine Waves take on the UCLA Bruins. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Pepperdine UCLA prediction and pick. The UCLA Bruins have not begun this season the way they wanted to. They just finished a brutal weekend in Las Vegas, losing to Illinois on Friday and then Baylor on Sunday. The […]

The Butler Bulldogs take on the Tennessee Volunteers. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Butler Tennessee prediction and pick. The Tennessee Volunteers have to get rid of one really bad and persistent habit they haven’t been able to shake: Under coach Rick Barnes, this team goes through games and stretches of play […]

The Little Rock Trojans take on the Indiana Hoosiers. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Little Rock Indiana prediction and pick. The Indiana Hoosiers look like a team ready to deliver on its promise and potential. Star big man Trayce Jackson-Davis came back for this season, which instantly and dramatically elevated the […]

The Creighton Bluejays take on the Arizona Wildcats. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Creighton Arizona prediction and pick. The Arizona Wildcats lost Bennedict Mathurin and Christian Koloko from last season’s roster, which earned a No. 1 seed in the 2022 NCAA Tournament and won the Pac-12 title. Mathurin was a full-speed […]

New Mexico State Aggies basketball junior forward Mike Peake was identified as a wounded student during a fatal shooting that took place on the university’s campus this weekend, according to a Wednesday report from CNN. An altercation broke out between Peake and 19-year-old Brandon Travis at about 3 a.m. MST on Saturday morning, according to […]

The North Florida Ospreys take on the Kentucky Wildcats. Check out our college basketball odds series for our North Florida Kentucky prediction and pick. The Kentucky Wildcats have a big and obvious problem: Who other than Jacob Toppin will help Oscar Tshiebwe this season? Toppin is a fairly reliable member of the Wildcats’ rotation, but […]

Tennessee women’s basketball isn’t having the start to the season it envisioned when it loaded up its roster this past offseason. After a promising season the previous year, the Vols added WNBA prospect Rickea Jackson from Mississippi State, guard Jasmine Powell from Minnesota and Missouri State forward Jasmine Franklin through the transfer portal. After a […]

It’s finally that time of year again. You know it: when everyone meets on the fourth Thursday of November, makes a feast before gathering together around the T.V. to watch women’s hoops. Did I get that right? Well, if not, that is exactly what you will be able to do tomorrow as Feast Week continues […]

There is a lot to celebrate when it comes to the progress in women’s hoops has made over the last seven years. TV ratings continue to soar year after year and the talent pool has risen with more opportunities made available to young women. However, NCAAW basketball fans were reminded again television stations still don’t […]

Heading into this season, UConn looked like it could implode as a perennial contender. Former national player of the year Paige Bueckers tore her ACL during a pickup game, ending what could have been another leap in her young career. To make matters worse: highly touted freshman Ice Brady dislocated her patella and put her […]

Any time a player’s name is uttered in the same sentence as Diana Taurasi and Maya Moore, they must have done something historic. That is exactly what Azzi Fudd has done so far in her second year at UConn. The sophomore has scored 32 points in each of her first two games, making her the […]

The University of Texas men’s basketball team is off to a blazing start to the 2022-23 season. The Longhorns are currently ranked No. 4 in the AP Top 25 poll, behind only North Carolina, Houston, and Kansas, and boast a 3-0 record. Furthermore, head coach Chris Beard and Texas have some recruiting wins that will […]

College sports went through its second tragedy involving gun violence this past week when New Mexico State junior forward Mike Peake was a part of a fight that ended with him being shot and him killing another student. According to police reports, Peake was lured to University of New Mexico’s campus by four of its […]

UConn women’s basketball team dealt with a scary moment Sunday afternoon when associate head coach Chris Dailey collapsed right after the national anthem ahead of the Huskies’ 91-69 win over No. 10 N.C. State. She received medical attention and was helped off the floor in a stretcher. Dailey waved the crowd as she left the […]

The Kentucky Wildcats suffered their second loss of the season Sunday, as John Calipari and his boys absorbed an 88-72 defeat in Spokane at the hands of the Gonzaga Bulldogs. Not a lot went in favor of Kentucky basketball in that game, especially on offense.  The Wildcats shot just 39.1 percent from the field. They […]

The Houston Cougars take on the Oregon Ducks. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Houston Oregon prediction and pick. The Oregon Ducks had a really bad start to their season last autumn. In November of last season — nearly 12 months to the day of this reunion — Oregon lost to Houston, […]

The Colorado Buffaloes take on the Boise State Broncos. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Colorado Boise State prediction and pick. The Colorado Buffaloes are, quite simply, the weirdest and most unpredictable college basketball team in the country through two weeks of play. Doubt us? Think that’s a crazy and premature statement […]

The Kentucky Wildcats take on the Gonzaga Bulldogs. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Kentucky Gonzaga prediction and pick. The college basketball season is off to a fascinating start. By all appearances, both Kentucky and Gonzaga are going to have trouble matching their NCAA Tournament seeds from last season, Kentucky being a […]

The UCLA Bruins take on the Baylor Bears in Las Vegas. Check out our college basketball odds series for our UCLA Baylor prediction and pick. UCLA and Baylor almost met in the 2021 national championship game of college basketball. Baylor won its Final Four national semifinal against Houston. Then UCLA faced Gonzaga in a classic […]

The Illinois Fighting Illini take on the Virginia Cavaliers. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Illinois Virginia prediction and pick. The Virginia Cavaliers won the 2019 national championship because they married Tony Bennett’s signature “pack line” defense with an offense which could produce. Virginia knows how to defend; the question is always […]

UConn women’s basketball team can’t catch a break after it lost another member of its team to injuries. The program announced 6-foot-5 forward Dorka Juhàsz broke her thumb and will be out for at least three games. That brings UConn’s roster down to eight active players after only three games. The Huskies went into the […]

The first stretch of the season for women’s basketball is supposed to be the easiest for ranked teams. So far this season, that has not been the case for the Texas Longhorns and the other current members of the Top-25 teams in the nation. According to Alexa Philippou of ESPN, there has only been one […]

The New Mexico State vs New Mexico basketball game was postponed due to a campus shooting, per Jeff Goodman and Stadium. The incident, being labeled as an overnight homicide, may have involved a New Mexico State player on the Lobos’ campus. But differing sources have said otherwise. Details are still being collected from the incident. […]

The Utah Tech Trailblazers take on the Arizona Wildcats. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Utah Tech Arizona prediction and pick. The Arizona Wildcats know they have some big shoes to fill on their new roster. They lost Bennedict Mathurin and Christian Koloko from the team which gained a No. 1 seed […]

The UL Monroe Warhawks take on the TCU Horned Frogs. Check out our college basketball odds series for our UL Monroe TCU prediction and pick. The TCU Horned Frogs have had an injury-plagued start to their new college basketball season. That having been said, even a less-than-100-percent TCU team should not be losing to Northwestern […]

The UC Riverside Highlanders take on the Creighton Bluejays. Check out our college basketball odds series for our UC Riverside Creighton prediction and pick. The Creighton Bluejays are part of a Big East Conference which is very much up in the air this season. Villanova, under new coach Kyle Neptune, is struggling. The Wildcats are […]

The SC State Bulldogs take on the Kentucky Wildcats. Check out our college basketball odds series for our SC State Kentucky prediction and pick. The SC State Bulldogs played a competitive game against South Carolina a week and a half ago, but we all know they’re unlikely to mount an especially robust challenge to the […]

The No. 11 Texas Longhorns gave Brooklyn Nets superstar Kevin Durant something to feel good about Wednesday night, as Chris Beard’s squad pummeled the No. 2 Gonzaga Bulldogs in Austin, 94-74. Yessssssssiiirrrr @TexasMBB — Kevin Durant (@KDTrey5) November 17, 2022 After opening the season with two wins in a row against lowly teams in the […]