NCAA Basketball Articles - Page 25

Over the last year, Nike has been hard at work bringing back some of their most classic basketball models from the last three decades. Few athletes have had a successful signature line like that of Phoenix Suns’ star Kevin Durant over at Nike, recently unveiling his latest Nike KD 18. This next release throws it […]

The Houson women’s basketball team may not have made it to this year’s women’s March Madness tournament, but it’s still making big moves this month. The program has hired former Kentucky coach Matthew Mitchell as the squad’s next leader and eighth coach in its history. Mitchell beat out multiple other finalists for the opportunity to […]

The Sweet 16 gets underway on Thursday night, and there are a lot of good matchups lined up for the next two days. One of the most intriguing matchups of the round will go down on Friday night as Ole Miss will go up against the Michigan State basketball team in Atlanta. The Rebels are […]

The college basketball transfer portal has only been open for a few days, but there are already a lot of intriguing names that have been entered. Perhaps the most intriguing so far is Donovan Dent. Dent is transferring from New Mexico after winning Mountain West Player of the Year. Dent reportedly had some initial interest […]

Elite 2025 five-star power forward Koa Peat made his college decision on Thursday, and he is going to play for the Arizona basketball team. Peat is one of the top players in the 2025 class, and he chose the Wildcats over Arizona State, Baylor, Houston and Texas. “BREAKING: Top-10 senior Koa Peat has committed to […]

A lot of college basketball fans were disappointed with the little amount of upsets during the first weekend of March Madness, but that has set up some great matchups for the Sweet 16. There were still some underdogs that found a way to get wins last weekend, but only one double-digit seed made it to […]

UCF guard Mikey Williams entered his name into the transfer portal earlier this week, and the Memphis basketball team is reportedly a team to watch. Williams has a complicated past; he was once enrolled at Memphis, but he never actually played for the basketball team. Williams was facing numerous felony charges related to a shooting, […]

Only a handful of people can call themselves NBA players each year. In fact, BETMGM even published a statistic that says the odds of a college basketball player making the NBA is only 1.2%. For high school players, the probability decreases to .03%. Prior to the start of the 2024-2025 season, only 552 players were […]

Colorado State head coach Ali Farokhmanesh responded to a post on Twitter that will fire up fans of the program. The Northern Iowa legend created one of the greatest moments in NCAA Tournament history with his game-sealing three against No. 1 overall seed Kansas in 2010. Now, more than a decade later, Farokhmanesh has been […]

The Duke basketball team will be playing Arizona in Thursday’s Sweet Sixteen matchup. Former Blue Devils forward and Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum wasn’t shy about sporting his alumni colors ahead of Wednesday’s NBA regular season clash with the Phoenix Suns. Tatum, who’s averaging 27.1 points on 45.5 percent shooting this season as the Celtics […]

Villanova basketball remains with an empty seat inside the head coach’s office. The Wildcats have yet to find a replacement for Kyle Neptune, who Villanova fired on March 15. But a current March Madness coach could be on his way to ‘Nova, per one insider Wednesday night. Signs point to Kevin Willard of Maryland taking […]

The Cinderella will have to wait until next year, as most of the top seeds have rolled through the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament and into the Sweet 16. All four top seeds are still battling for the title as well as three of the No. 2 seeds, and Auburn basketball is at the […]

Maryland basketball has NIL and the future of Kevin Willard at the forefront. Both front and center ahead of the Terrapins’ Sweet 16 game in March Madness. The Terps’ NIL situation came to light before facing Colorado State. Willard himself acknowledged Maryland’s NIL state is low. And those words came before Derik Queen hit the […]

Ahead of Texas Tech basketball’s Sweet Sixteen contest against Arkansas on Thursday, the Red Raiders have received positive injury news on senior guard Chance McMillian. Head coach Grant McCasland’s No. 3 scoring leader is looking more on track to play against the Razorbacks, per RedRaiderSports.com. McMillan has been sidelined since leaving his last appearance against […]

One of the potential darlings in this NCAA Tournament was Colorado State basketball, and the Rams certainly had the most tragic ending of any of the Cinderella candidates. Despite knocking off fifth-seed Memphis and leading for most of the second round against No. 4 seed Maryland, an incredible buzzer-beater by freshman Derik Queen sent the […]

Chicago Sky star and 2023 NCAA Women’s National Champion Angel Reese sent a special message to an HBCU star who she has a special tie to from her childhood. Southern University had an astounding run to the SWAC championship and a rather dominant showing in the First Four against UC San Diego that set them […]

The college basketball transfer portal is officially open for business, and there have already been a few big names who have entered their name in the portal. There hasn’t been any big commits yet, until Wednesday when the Creighton Bluejays landed Owen Freeman out of the transfer portal, as per Joe Tipton of On3 Sports. […]

It’s time to continue our College Basketball odds series with a Purdue-Houston prediction and pick. Find out how to watch Purdue-Houston. The Houston Cougars are having to play a de facto road game in the Sweet 16. They are the No. 1 seed in the Midwest Region, and being a No. 1 seed should generally […]

UConn basketball head coach Dan Hurley broke his silence on the viral clip of him blaming the referees for the loss against Florida. The Huskies went out on their shield against the red-hot Gators squad in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. While Dan Hurley’s team mostly controlled this classic in the second half, […]

Big East Coaching Legend from Seton Hall PJ Carlesimo says the way referees officiate the games in the conference is different from the SEC because of how much physicality they allow before calling fouls. Carlesimo appeared as a special guest on an episode of The Ryen Russillo Podcast on Wednesday. He says that the refs […]

Duke basketball is set for a Sweet Sixteen clash with Arizona on Thursday. Head coach Jon Scheyer has revealed an update on junior forward Maliq Brown as the Blue Devils hope to continue their NCAA Tournament run. Brown has been one of the team’s strongest role players throughout the season, and it appears that he […]

The West Virginia Mountaineers will bring in a new era for the men’s basketball program after hiring Ross Hodge to be their next head coach. Hodge made the announcement official on Wednesday, leaving the North Texas Mean Green after eight seasons. He stated in his press release about how proud he was to take the […]

A lot of college basketball fans were disappointed with the little amount of upsets during the first weekend of March Madness, but that has set up some great matchups for the Sweet 16. There were still some underdogs that found a way to get wins last weekend, but only one double-digit seed made it to […]

Omaha basketball rose to national attention during its first March Madness run. Marquel Sutton spearheaded the Mavericks’ season by dropping 19.3 points per game each night. Now he’s entered the college basketball transfer portal — making him highly coveted this offseason. Sutton informed Jonathan Givony of ESPN his intentions to enter the portal Wednesday. The […]

Paige Bueckers is nearing the end of her collegiate career as one of the best players in the sport. UConn Huskies head coach Geno Auriemma wants her to be proud of that. Bueckers is going through her last season of eligibility before taking her talents to the WNBA, having won multiple Player of the Year […]

It’s time to continue our College Basketball odds series with a Michigan-Auburn prediction and pick. Find out how to watch Michigan-Auburn. The Michigan Wolverines have found a higher gear, and they have also shown us why coaching matters so much in college basketball. Dusty May has taken a program which was a total mess last […]

Bill Self and the Kansas Jayhawks provided a big injury update on KJ Adams. Adams tore his Achilles in the Jayhawks’ first-round matchup against the Arkansas Razorbacks on March 20 in the NCAA Tournament. With the team’s season officially over, Self announced on Wednesday that Adams had surgery to repair it. “KJ had successful surgery […]

With the new hire Will Wade, NC State will be looking to add more talent after guard Marcus Hill announced that he’ll be entering the transfer portal after one season with the team, according to Field of 68’s Jeff Goodman. “NC State guard Marcus Hill is entering the transfer portal, source told The Field of […]

The list of players who have played against the Duke Blue Devils as many times as Arizona Wildcats guard Caleb Love has is not a long one. Already, the graduate senior has gone head-to-head with the bluest of college basketball’s blue bloods nine times, and on Thursday, March 27th, Love will take the court for […]

Arizona faces Duke in the Sweet 16. The Wildcats looked great in their first two games, but they are facing the best team in college basketball this season in Duke with all of the Blue Devils’ talent. It’s time to continue our College Basketball odds series with an Arizona-Duke prediction and pick. Arizona is 24-12 […]

It’s time to continue our College Basketball odds series with a Kentucky-Tennessee prediction and pick. Find out how to watch Kentucky-Tennessee. The Tennessee Volunteers have never reached the Final Four. Rick Barnes made a Final Four with Texas in 2003, but he hasn’t been back since, and he has never been able to break through […]

It’s time to continue our College Basketball odds series with an Ole Miss-Michigan State prediction and pick. Find out how to watch Ole Miss-Michigan State. The Michigan State Spartans are part of a fascinating story at the South Regional in Atlanta. Not only does Michigan State have a chance to make the Final Four, but […]

The St. John’s basketball team had an outstanding regular season as they won the Big East title and made the NCAA Tournament as a two-seed. The Red Storm unfortunately went down in the round of 32 against 10-seed Arkansas, but Rick Pitino is clearly building something special in the Big Apple. Pitino is already working […]

When the West Virginia Mountaineers hired Darian DeVries away from the Drake Bulldogs on March 24, 2024, the assumption was that the successful mid-major coach would likely be around in Morgantown for the long haul. However, less than one full year later, DeVries decided that West Virginia was not the place he belonged, hopping on one of […]

Chelsea Gray can relate to what USC Trojans star JuJu Watkins is going through with her ACL injury, having dealt with a similar situation herself. Gray appeared as a special guest on an episode of the Run It Back podcast on Tuesday. She had dislocated her knee during her junior year at Duke which caused […]

After 15 years of representing the Iowa Hawkeyes men’s basketball team, head coach Fran McCaffery will reunite with his alma mater at Penn. McCaffery joins the fifth team of his head coaching career as he enters his 30th year as a head coach (44th overall). Penn marked the start of his career, being an assistant […]

The college basketball transfer portal opened on Monday with over 1,000 players entering as of Wednesday morning. Despite the Sweet 16 beginning on Thursday, the portal has been buzzing and active. Amid all the coaching changes, a lot of programs are going to look much different in 2025-26. One of them is the Indiana basketball […]

The Michigan State basketball team has had a special season, and it isn’t over yet. The Spartans earned a two-seed in the NCAA Tournament after winning the Big Ten regular-season title, and they advanced to the second weekend of March Madness with wins over 15-seed Bryant and 10-seed New Mexico. The Spartans are in the […]

Thursday’s Sweet 16 games conclude as Arkansas faces Texas Tech. It’s time to continue our College Basketball odds series with an Arkansas-Texas Tech prediction and pick. Arkansas is 22-13 on the year, and earned a ten-seed in the NCAA tournament. This resulted in a first-round game with Kansas. It was a tight first half, with […]