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By and large, the Arizona Wildcats are having a successful season. They just won the Pac-12 regular season title after taking down the struggling California Golden Bears in Tucson on Saturday, and are virtual locks to have a spot in the upcoming NCAA National Tournament. A recruitment controversy brought to light by an FBI investigation, […]

College basketball is in the middle of a tough stretch due to the FBI’s investigation of corruption in the NCAA. March Madness is just several days away, but the top association of amateur basketball in the nation is still dealing with the scandal that has rocked it to its core. With the changes in the […]

Barack Obama has always been a big basketball fan dating all the way to his high school days where he played on the school basketball team. He has always said he was never really good, but he has also kept a love for the sport, especially for his Chicago Bulls. Since leaving the office of […]

F0r years many have believed that the NCAA had a problem with athletes being paid by schools or even agents, and that sways players to go to specific schools. According to a Yahoo! Sports report from Friday morning, it might even be bigger than many realize. They went over hundreds of federal documents over a […]

With the NCAA Tournament (and SEC Tournament before that) coming up right around the corner, the Missouri Tigers have received some good news, as their star freshman Michael Porter Jr has been cleared to return to all basketball activities. This is according to college basketball writer Jon Rothstein of CBS. Missouri freshman Michael Porter Jr. […]

Big East legend and former NBA player Patrick Ewing is in his first year as head coach of the Georgetown Hoyas, and he wants his team to know that he has no time for any shenanigans from his players. During a timeout in Tuesday’s road game against the DePaul Blue Demons, Ewing gave one Hoya […]

There are plenty of interesting things that happened today in college basketball. Among them was the huge game the No. 4 Duke Blue Devils got from their freshman sensation, Marvin Bagley III. With Bagley spearheading the Blue Devils, Duke was able to get their first conference win of the season, as they took down the […]

Oklahoma Sooners freshman point guard Trae Young is making a strong case for winning this season’s Naismith Men’s College Player of the Year award. If he sustains the level of which he is playing, he’s likely to take home the honor down the road. Young, a five-star recruit by Oklahoma out of Norman North High […]

UCLA was at the center of the biggest NCAA scandal this offseason following the arrests of three of their players for shoplifting. Needless to say, the tumultuous series of events that ensued accumulated to the point where even the President of the United States had to get involved. As a result, all three players had […]

It was announced last week that Missouri freshman forward Michael Porter Jr. was presumably declared out for the year due to a spinal disc surgery. However, Porter Jr. recently took to Instagram to brush aside the projected timetable of three to four months for him to fully recover from the procedure. Posted on Michael Porter […]

With the 2017-18 NBA season well underway, basketball fans recently got a little more bang for their buck with the recent start of the 2017-18 NCAA season as well. Unfortunately, one of its projected biggest stars in Missouri freshman Michael Porter Jr. has already been ruled out for the year after undergoing a season-ending back surgery. […]

Heading into this collegiate season, Missouri freshman forward Michael Porter Jr. was viewed as potentially being the No. 1 overall pick in next year’s NBA Draft. However, it appears those aspirations could be pushed back as the 19-year-old has undergone spinal disc surgery that is expected to keep him out for the remainder of the […]

President Donald Trump may be many things to a lot of people, but in this one case, he definitely deserves some credit for a win — at least for the UCLA Bruins and the Ball family. LiAngelo Ball, Cody Riley, and Jalen Hill were taken into custody and detained during UCLA’s visit to China due […]

According to David Nakamura of the Washington Post, President Donald Trump called Chinese President Xi Jinping in hopes of resolving the shoplifting case against UCLA Bruins freshman basketball player LiAngelo Ball and two of his college teammates. Trump brought attention to the legal matter to Xi during his two-day stay in Beijing. It was just one day […]

Will Commissioner Adam Silver be the NBA’s Bad Guy? Unlike his predecessor David Stern and NFL counterpart Roger Goodell, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has maintained a relatively positive image from fans, media, owners and players of the league he governs. Stern became a villain after trying to change the material of the basketball without the […]

With a 37-game winning streak over the Cornell Big Red basketball team, many college basketball fans can anticipate the Syracuse Orange basketball team to dominate in their season opener on November 10th, 2017. Syracuse is ready to unleash against Cornell for an exciting introduction to college basketball, but I am probably one of the only […]

2019 4-star recruit, point guard De’Vion Harmon has committed to Oklahoma, he tells ClutchPoints. The Texas native chose the Sooners over Baylor, Marquette, Oklahoma State, and Texas, all of which were among Harmon’s final five schools, alongside Oklahoma. 247Sports ranks Harmon as the No. 41 prospect in the 2019 class. “I just felt like [Oklahoma] […]

2019 5-star small forward Joey Baker has committed to Duke, he announces on Twitter. The North Carolina native chose the Blue Devils over Kansas, Louisville, and UCLA, among others. He is Duke’s first 2019 commitment to this point. I'm joining the brother hood 🔵⚪️ pic.twitter.com/kDBB8iwfBp — Joey Baker (@Joey_bvker) October 30, 2017 247Sports ranks Baker […]

The Arizona State Sun Devils have made some real headway on the recruiting trail. 4-star guard Luguentz Dort, who is a member of the 2018 recruiting class, has committed to the university. Maybe it pays to not be named in any of the FBI’s current probing of college basketball. I kid … but only kind of. […]

With Rick Pitino later going on television to address his situation, former Louisville Cardinals buddy Tom Jurich had already been fired by the program. With now both being unemployed, maybe they could go clubbing together or something. In what felt like the inevitable, Louisville “officially” canned Tom Jurich. That’s the immediate news bit here. Pitino and […]

The Missouri Tigers are looking to have a program resurgence. There is good reason to think that can happen too, especially with the arrival of super-freshman Michael Porter Jr. As do most sane people, I have long assumed that Michael Porter Jr. will go to Missouri for a season, do some incredible things, then enter […]

5-star basketball prospect Emmitt Williams has yet to choose where he’ll enroll in college, but he’ll have to think about that inside a jail for the meantime after being arrested Wednesday on charges of felony sexual battery and false imprisonment. This is according to multiple reports, including one by Gary Parrish of CBS Sports. Plenty […]

Miami Hurricanes basketball head coach Jim Larranaga might have found himself in hot water after a grand jury subpoenaed the coach for texts, emails, and other items, Nathan Fenno of the Los Angeles Times reported. Miami coach Jim Larranaga received a grand jury subpoena for texts, emails and other items in the college hoops bribery […]

Disgraced ex-Louisville Cardinals basketball head coach Rick Pitino isn’t going down without a fight – or at least without being an annoying figure hellbent on squeezing out whatever dignity is left inside of him. In a direct path to weird logic in an attempt to avoid accountability, Rick Pitino is claiming Adidas did things under […]

The Wisconsin Badgers basketball program just lost a Herro. Tyler Herro that is. This is a relatively huge loss for the Badgers, as Herro is both a rising prospect and already considered a 4-star talent. Herro, ranked 27th among all 2018 prospects by ESPN, announced that he is backing out of his verbal commitment to […]

Conference realignment be damned, but does (did) it ever make for great potential. The latest is the idea that the Big East Conference could play up to 20 league games, but only if an 11th program is added to the fold. This was first reported by Jon Rothstein. The league currently has 10 teams and […]

Iowa Hawkeyes coach Fran McCaffery is a lot of different things to a lot of different people. But if you ask the coach himself, he is most certainly not a cheater. In fact, Fran McCaffery has publicly admitted he has no shame in snitching. “I’ve turned programs in and I’ll continue to do that when […]

With the FBI literally probing college basketball, it seems as though every coach in the country is asked for his thoughts regarding every little detail happening. Kansas Jayhawks coach Bill Self is no different in this regard, but he is not holding back when it comes to his feelings on Adidas. In an interview with […]

The North Carolina Tar Heels were able to hang some banners on Friday with some sense of relief. The NCAA, after over three years of investigating, decided it would not do anything in regards to UNC’s alleged academic fraud which both normal students and student-athletes benefited from. The governing body of college sports basically said […]

Buzz Williams won’t allow the Virginia Tech Hokies to be the forgotten program in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Starting with exceeding expectations first, now the coach is coupling that with excellence on the recruiting trail, landing 2018 4-star prospect Landers Nolley. Per social media era bylaws, Landers Nolley made his announcement on the mean streets […]

Jamie Dixon is doing something special with the TCU Horned Frogs. After having exceeded expectations in season-one with his old playing stomping grounds, Dixon is now doing work on the recruiting trail, landing 2018 4-star talent Kaden Archie. This continues a trend of how Dixon has been recruiting — at least so far — for […]

Nassir Little, who was once heavily recruited by Miami, claimed the Hurricanes did not offer him or his father anything other than a scholarship during his recruiting process. While the deniability seems like the logical claim, Nassir Little did this under oath. “I state unequivocally that, with the exception of athletic scholarships customary to attendant […]

The USC Trojans basketball program took a hit this weekend, as it appears to have lost a four-star recruit in J’Raan Brooks. Brooks earlier committed to play for the Trojans next year, but withdrew his pledge via Twitter, noting the “recent news” surrounding USC’s athletics as his primary reason to back out. https://twitter.com/JraanBrooks/status/918954374780608519 The Trojans […]

The Kansas Jayhawks can’t be stopped. 5-star prospect in the 2018 recruiting class, Devon Dotson, announced he was committing to Bill Self and company on the mean streets of Twitter. KU LETS GOOOO ❤️🏀💙#RockChalkJayhawk pic.twitter.com/EDPCFqkjjA — Devon Dotson (@d_dotson1) October 13, 2017 Devon Dotson, who is considered a top-20 prospect, is a 6-foot-2 guard. He […]

The Providence Friars continue to benefit off the brilliance of head coach Ed Cooley, as the program landed 5-star talent David Duke on the recruiting trail. David Duke, a native of Providence, becomes Cooley’s second top-50 commitment in the 2018 class with Duke’s Mass Rivals teammate AJ Reeves being the first commitment for Cooley back in […]

The NCAA had over three years to decide what to do about the supposed academic fraud happening at North Carolina and, at least apparently, they couldn’t figure a single thing out. On Friday morning, the NCAA announced it would release whatever punishment it had for North Carolina in regards to the alleged academic fraud. As […]

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is reporting that the Border War is making a return … kind of. Reportedly, the Kansas Jayhawks and Missouri Tigers are working together to figure out a way to have an exhibition game later in the month. This isn’t inherently being done for the fans. Instead, more nobly, it is an attempt to […]

Some relatively good news is finally coming out of the Louisville Cardinals basketball program. In a statement, the university announced the hiring of Trent Johnson as an assistant coach. It is certainly worth noting that this came after the school announced that assistant coach Jordan Fair had been terminated. David Padgett released a statement in […]

The UCLA Bruins will not, apparently, be hurt by any of the FBI’s probing of college basketball. While that is not yet shocking, since the Bruins weren’t named in the FBI’s reports (or even hinted at), it still has to feel good to be a UCLA fan and see good recruits commit to the program. […]