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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. […]

Some really unfortunate news has come out of the UMass basketball program. Former Maryland Terrapins talent, turned assumed impact transfer, Jaylen Brantley is going to be sidelined with a heart ailment. To be clear: This actually ends his basketball career. UMass has a medical policy in which it administers an electrocardiogram (EKG) test as part […]

The DePaul Blue Demons are often touted as a sleeping giant type of program. That’s obviously a farce, as it is closer to being in a coma or even dead than it is to being inches away from relevance. Still, people do care about this program for one reason (Chicago) or another. Did you know […]

ESPN is eliminating the 24-hour college basketball marathon it has historically used to start each new season. Network spokesman Josh Krulewitz says the company may explore a return of the marathon concept at some point in the future. He noted that more than 3,500 college basketball games will air on ESPN’s platforms during the 2017-18 […]

The Arizona Wildcats are a program that seems to be in question in regards to the FBI’s probing around the sport. The program is not, however, the only entity close to campus directly impacted by the feds dropping in. Jahvon Quinerly, one of the nation’s top 2018 recruits and an Arizona commit, is a player reportedly […]

The Rhode Island Rams plan on its run of excellence to go beyond the few year stretch of greatness it is currently on. To help this happen, the announcement by 4-star talent Jermaine Harris that he will play for the Rams in college, couldn’t have come at a better time. A member of the 2018 […]

Louisville has announced that the only two remaining assistant coaches on the staff in the era of Rick Pitino, Jordan Fair and Kenny Johnson, have been placed on paid administrative leave as the school continues to investigate their involvement in allegations made in last week’s FBI complaint. Jordan Fair had been with the program for […]

The North Carolina State Wolfpack have made some nose on the recruiting trail, as the program has landed 4-star prospect Ian Steere. A member of the 2018 recruiting class, the 6-foot-9 Ian Steere was previously committed to Creighton, but he opted out of the commitment recently to play closer to his native North Carolina. As is […]

First-year Oklahoma State Cowboys coach Mike Boynton has many tough challenges ahead of him. It might be something that was left behind for him — by someone else, of all things — that might end up being his biggest hurdle. With the FBI probing all over college basketball, and Oklahoma State having to fire an assistant […]

The Louisville Cardinals basketball program isn’t exactly having the greatest run as of late. Despite that, interim head coach David Padgett believes things are starting to return to form. “We’re returning to some sense of normalcy,” Padgett said Wednesday, as written by the AP, “and we’re getting there because we’ve been able to practice and […]

Rick Pitino can continue to be defiant. Rick Pitino can claim both ignorance and innocence. But what the effectively fired Louisville Cardinals coach can’t do is prevent the flood of news coming out that continues to paint him in the most awful of lights. According to a report, the (again) effectively fired Louisville Cardinals coach […]

The best advice I could ever give someone is that working with and/or for family is an awful idea. Patrick McCaffery apparently does not care what I believe is the greatest life lesson bestowed upon me, as the 4-star prospect has committed to the Iowa Hawkeyes and father, Fran McCaffery. Patrick McCaffery is a member […]

Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets basketball coach Josh Pastner doesn’t have to worry about where will he get money to feed his family in 2022. This is after Georgia Tech inked Pastner to a one-year extension deal that effectively prolonged his tenure as coach of the team until the 2022-2023 season according to Ken Sugiura of […]

Last season, the American Athletic Conference had only two representatives in the NCAA Tournament, the SMU Mustangs and the Cincinnati Bearcats. The Mustangs got into the Big Dance automatically for winning the conference tournament championship, while the Mick Cronin-coached Bearcats had to wait for the selection committee to give them an at-large berth. This coming […]

The Michigan Wolverines are probably going to benefit from a lot of other programs seeming dirty in the wake of the FBI probe. It is why it came as no shock that 2018 4-star big man Colin Castleton committed to the program. As other major programs in the country are currently terrified of what happens […]

Tickle no one shocked and do not call them Nancy. Kentucky Wildcats coach John Calipari has had enough with the exploitation of college basketball players. If it were up to him, the players would be able to make money off their likeness. “Players should be allowed representation just like they have in baseball,” Calipari said, according […]

The Syracuse Orange should probably have more trouble landing top players on the recruiting trail with the program’s coach getting up there in age. However, age is apparently just a number and it didn’t stop 2018 4-star guard Jalen Carey from deciding to play basketball in the freezing winter weather in Syracuse. As an aside: […]

The North Carolina Tar Heels have landed the commitment of 5-star prospect Nassir Little. This is not only an interesting get by UNC because of the player’s abilities, but due to the fact he’s in the midst of being a figure in the FBI’s college basketball probe. For some context: The Miami Hurricanes decided with […]