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Mick Cronin and the UCLA Bruins have just secured the commitment of a highly-touted talent, with 4-star guard Sebastian Mack (Class of 2023) committing to UCLA basketball. Mack announced his intention to play for the Bruins, per Travis Branham of 247 Sports. Mack believes that UCLA basketball will be the perfect program for him to […]

The Gonzaga Bulldogs take on the Texas Longhorns. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Gonzaga Texas prediction and pick. The Gonzaga Bulldogs were staring at the distinct possibility that they would lose their first really important game of the 2022-2023 college basketball season. They were down 12 points to the Michigan State […]

The South Dakota State Jackrabbits take on the Arkansas Razorbacks. Check out our college basketball odds series for our South Dakota State Arkansas prediction and pick. The South Dakota State Jackrabbits are offering every indication that they will be the favorite in the Summit League once again. They scored an impressive early-season victory last week, […]

The Texas Southern Tigers take on the Houston Cougars. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Texas Southern Houston prediction and pick. The Texas Southern Tigers trailed the Arizona State Sun Devils by 11 points, at 50-39, midway through the second half of this past Sunday’s game in the Pac-12/SWAC Legacy Series, a […]

The Florida Gulf Coast Eagles take on the Tennessee Volunteers. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Florida Gulf Coast Tennessee prediction and pick. The Tennessee Volunteers have never made the Final Four. They have had a lot of highly-seeded NCAA Tournament teams in recent years, not only under current coach Rick Barnes, […]

The Michigan Wolverines take on the Pittsburgh Panthers. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Michigan Pittsburgh prediction and pick. The Michigan Wolverines waited until the final month of the 2022 college basketball regular season to punch their ticket to the NCAA Tournament. In the middle of February, Michigan was squarely on the […]

The No. 1-ranked 2023 recruit in point guard Isaiah Collier committed to the USC Trojans basketball program, according to a Wednesday report from CBS Sports. 6-foot-3-inch guard passed up offers from Cincinnati, Michigan, UCLA and Alabama, all schools he took an official visit to, when he became the third commitment in USC basketball’s 2023 class. […]

Juju Watkins could have gone to any top-end program in the country. She has been described as a generational talent and, in a school with LeBron James’ son, is the best prospect Sierra Canyon H.S. has under its roof. Stanford and South Carolina were the two destinations that would have put her in the national […]

Baylor women’s basketball suffered a huge blow to its program when senior Aijha Blackwell went down late in the first quarter of yesterday’s 58-56 win over SMU. Blackwell, who transferred to Baylor this season after three seasons at Missouri, collapsed to the ground and suffered a non-contact injury. Bears head coach Nicki Collen didn’t have […]

Although the Kentucky Wildcats lost to the Michigan State Spartans Tuesday night in double-overtime (86-77), Kentucky basketball must still be happy to see that big man Oscar Tshiebwe is back playing again for the team after missing the first two games of the season. Tshiebwe did not look rusty at all against the Spartans, as […]

The unranked Michigan State Spartans pulled off an incredible victory Tuesday night, beating the #4 Kentucky Wildcats in double overtime in the first game of the Champions Classic. It’s obviously early in the season, but this can be a defining win for Michigan State. After the game, the most famous Michigan State basketball player of […]

The Michigan State Spartans are always going to be a dangerous team to face for as long as Tom Izzo is the program’s head coach. Michigan State basketball reminded everyone of that with a sensational double-overtime 86-77 victory Tuesday night against the No. 4 Kentucky Wildcats at Gainbridge Fieldhouse The Spartans were trailing Kentucky for […]

The Syracuse Orange lost to cross-town rival Colgate on Tuesday night, 80-68. The once-proud college basketball program has fallen on hard times recently. Last season, Syracuse lost to Colgate 100-85. They finished just 15-16 and was knocked out of the ACC Tournament by Duke in their second game. It was the first time in Jim […]

The Dayton Flyers take on the UNLV Runnin’ Rebels. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Dayton UNLV prediction and pick. This is a matchup of schools which have both competed in the NCAA Tournament national championship game. You know that UNLV won the 1990 national title under former coach Jerry Tarkanian, but […]

The Duke Blue Devils take on the Kansas Jayhawks. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Duke Kansas prediction and pick. The Kansas Jayhawks are the defending national champions. This game is the first true measure of their form and fitness, and how much fortitude they have. Last season’s team played its best […]

The San Diego State Aztecs take on the Stanford Cardinal. Check out our college basketball odds series for our San Diego State Stanford prediction and pick. The San Diego State Aztecs are known primarily as a defense-first team under coach Brian Dutcher. This identity under Dutcher flows seamlessly from their previous years of excellence under […]

The Gardner-Webb Runnin’ Bulldogs take on the North Carolina Tar Heels. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Gardner Webb North Carolina prediction and pick. The North Carolina Tar Heels are not playing particularly well. They have time to get into the flow of the season, and the first few games on their […]

The Kentucky Wildcats take on the Michigan State Spartans in the Champions Classic. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Kentucky Michigan State prediction and pick. The college basketball season began on Monday, Nov. 7, but this game in many ways feels like the true start of the season, the first game of […]

USC women’s basketball secured a massive signing for next season on Tuesday as Sierra Canyon HS star Juju Watkins, who is classmates with Bronny James, committed to the Trojans for next season. Via Woj: “ESPN Sources: Juju Watkins – No. 1 in ESPNW’s Class of 2023 and considered a generational basketball talent – plans to […]

For never meeting during their time dominating women’s basketball, Aliyah Boston and Caitlin Clark have gone toe to toe with one another multiple times. Last year, it was the Wooden Award debate that drove the discourse around the award in too many directions. Now they are at the top for those likely to win the […]

All signs are pointing toward Kentucky Wildcats star Oscar Tshiebwe finally making his season debut Tuesday night against the Michigan State Spartans. Kentucky basketball is off to a hot start, winning their first two assignments even without Tshiebwe, but those victories were against overmatched opponents unlike the team the Wildcats are about to square off […]

Geno Auriemma has seen a lot of great players come through his program. If Azzi Fudd somehow wasn’t on that list before, she sure is now after pouring in a career-high 32 points in UConn’s 83-76 win over Texas yesterday night. After Fudd torched the Longhorns, Auriemma shared a story about how the sophomore handled […]

When mock drafts come out for the first time, many fans and media have the same proclivity every year where they cling on to the players named at the top and never revisit other prospects who can bypass them as the season progresses. If No. 13 Indiana’s win over No. 11 Tennessee last night showed […]

Another year, another elite recruiting class for John Calipari and the University of Kentucky’s men’s basketball team. After the third and fourth overall high school prospects of the class of 2023, Justin Edwards and Aaron Bradshaw, announced their commitment to Kentucky, another top-ranked prospect in the country followed suit. On Monday, top prospect DJ Wagner […]

The University of Kentucky men’s basketball team is off to a promising 2-0 start, all without reigning AP Player of the Year Oscar Tshiebwe, who underwent a minor procedure on his left knee back in October. But if a recent injury update is any indication, Tshiebwe will make his season debut sooner rather than later. […]

Now that we are only a couple games into the NCAAW, it’s time to overreact. Some teams at the top of the mountain have looked like their foundation has been shaken while others, like South Carolina, are performing as expected. It’s way too early to take too much away from what we have seen as […]

The University of Virginia is in a state of mourning following a shooting that left three people dead and others injured. In response, Virginia basketball is canceling its Monday night game against Northern Iowa. “Tonight’s game vs. Northern Iowa at John Paul Jones Arena has been canceled,” said the Virginia men’s basketball program on Twitter. The shooting […]

When Paige Bueckers heard the news she wouldn’t be suiting up for UConn on the court this year, she couldn’t believe. In an interview on Nov. 7 that resurfaced yesterday, the 2021 national freshman of the year described her emotions of that reality setting over the next week. Every athlete who has experienced a season-ending […]

South Carolina’s women’s basketball team went into this season as the heavy favorites to win the NCAA tournament this year. So far, they have proven to everyone they are still the team opponents will have to go through if teams want to get their hands on the trophy. After beating No. 17 Maryland 81-56, the […]

For the second time in two weeks, Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry praised UConn’s Azzi Fudd. The Huskies’ star, who was last year’s No. 1 recruit, has become the focal point of her team’s offense after Paige Bueckers and Ice Brady were lost for the season due to lower body injuries. With her ability […]

The UC Irvine Anteaters take on the Oregon Ducks. Check out our college basketball odds series for our UC Irvine Oregon prediction and pick. The Oregon Ducks had one of the most disappointing college basketball seasons of any team in the country one year ago. Coach Dana Altman’s team stumbled out of the blocks, briefly […]

The Long Beach State 49ers take on the UCLA Bruins. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Long Beach State UCLA prediction and pick. The UCLA Bruins had the perfect path laid out before them. They just had to beat a No. 8 seed and a No. 15 seed, and they would have […]

The BYU Cougars take on the San Diego State Aztecs. Check out our college basketball odds series for our BYU San Diego State prediction and pick. The San Diego State Aztecs blew a late lead to the Creighton Bluejays and lost their first-round NCAA Tournament game last March. The memory of that failure has lingered […]

The Charleston Cougars take on the North Carolina Tar Heels. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Charleston North Carolina prediction and pick. The North Carolina Tar Heels came agonizingly close to winning the 2022 NCAA Tournament. They held a double-digit lead over the Kansas Jayhawks at halftime of the national championship game […]

The Michigan State Spartans take on the Gonzaga Bulldogs in the Armed Forces Classic. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Michigan State Gonzaga prediction and pick. The college basketball season began on Monday, Nov. 7, but Friday, Nov. 11 feels like the real opening day, with showcase games such as this one […]

The Houston Christian Huskies take on the Texas Longhorns. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Houston Christian Texas prediction and pick. The Texas Longhorns have been one of the more exasperating, frustrating college basketball teams of recent years. Texas gets high-end recruits and transfers into the program, but the Longhorns just can’t […]

The North Dakota Fighting Hawks take on the Creighton Bluejays. Check out our college basketball odds series for our North Dakota Creighton prediction and pick. The Creighton Bluejays overachieved richly and substantially in 2022. Coach Greg McDermott did his very best coaching job at Creighton, guiding his team through a number of significant injuries and […]

The Bethune Cookman Wildcats take on the Indiana Hoosiers. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Bethune Cookman Indiana prediction and pick. The Indiana Hoosiers enter a college basketball season with more hope than we have seen in several years. Indiana made the Sweet 16 in the 2016 NCAA Tournament under then-coach Tom […]

The Texas Southern Tigers take on the Texas Tech Red Raiders. Check out our college basketball odds series for our Texas Southern Texas Tech prediction and pick. The Texas Tech Red Raiders have made themselves nationally relevant as a program. The school which reached the 2019 NCAA Tournament national championship game and lost an overtime […]