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Florida A&M and Barber-Scotia College were among the eight teams selected to play in the inaugural HBCU Hoops Invitational, founded by NBA referee Haywoode Workman. But the matchup between the two programs became shrouded in controversy, including a “forfeit” by Barber-Scotia and conflicting statements by both institutions. The Rattlers were scheduled to play Barber-Scotia in […]

With the Gonzaga basketball team dreadfully losing to the Michigan Wolverines last Wednesday, 101-61, the team would come out with full force against the University of Kentucky, and dominated them on Friday, 94-59. As the season for the program has been filled with great outings, such as the Gonzaga basketball team’s upset of the Alabama […]

The Kansas Jayhawks are looking to get back in the win column following their loss to the UConn Huskies this week, as they face off against the Missouri Tigers on Sunday. Missouri comes in at 8-1 while Kansas is 6-3. But Kansas is expected to receive a major boost in the form of Darryn Peterson […]

According to a report from CBS, the rich capital of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will host a college basketball tournament in November 2026 called the Royal Palm Invitational. St. John’s, however, wants no part of it. The report noted that multiple teams from major conferences are expected to join, with a hefty […]

No. 9 Oklahoma women’s basketball narrowly beat NC State 103-98 in overtime Wednesday, overcoming a 10-point second-half deficit behind freshman guard Aaliyah Chavez’s season-high 33 points in the ACC/SEC Challenge. Chavez, who entered the game off a 29-point performance against Florida State, delivered what Oklahoma coach Jennie Baranczyk described as a defining step in her […]

NCAA Basketball tournaments are what make the sport what it is today. The NCAA Tournament (March Madness) is one of the biggest tournaments in the world, and fans all over the world watch it to see who emerges as the National Champion. The NCAA has started to make a bigger deal about the early-season tournaments. […]

The USC Trojans are off to a strong start to the 2025-26 season at 8-0, and they’re coming off of an 82-77 win against Oregon in their Big Ten Conference opener. The Trojans cracked the top 25 in the AP men’s basketball poll this week at No. 24, and good news could be on the […]

Southern University women’s basketball pulled off a phenomenal upset victory over the previously undefeated Arizona Wildcats, winning a hard-fought contest 63-57. The Lady Jaguars entered the game with a challenging 1-4 record, having suffered losses to highly ranked opponents, including third-ranked UCLA, but they proved they were on a mission. Both men’s and women’s SWAC […]

Arkansas basketball head coach John Calipari found himself in a familiar rivalry setting on Wednesday night, only this time, he was wearing Arkansas colors instead of Kentucky blue. His No. 25 Razorbacks delivered one of their most complete performances of the season, knocking off No. 6 Louisville, 89-80, in a matchup that never saw the […]

No. 10 Iowa State Cyclones delivered one of the most explosive offensive performances of college basketball by dismantling Alcorn State 132-68 on Wednesday and rewriting multiple record books in the process. The Cyclones improved to 8-0 while setting a new program scoring record, their 64-point margin also tied for the fifth-largest in school history. “Iowa […]

The Alabama Crimson Tide basketball team picked up a big win on Wednesday night, outlasting the Clemson Tigers 90-84 in the ACC/SEC Challenge. Sophomore guard Labaron Philon Jr. delivered a standout performance, and head coach Nate Oats used the moment to issue a pointed challenge aimed at pushing his young star to elevate his overall […]

The Minnesota Golden Gophers men’s basketball team delivered its biggest moment of the season on Tuesday night, stunning the No. 22 Indiana Hoosiers 73-64 in their Big Ten basketball opener. The upset instantly energized the home crowd at Williams Arena and gave head coach Niko Medved an emotional breakthrough in his first conference game leading […]

NBA referee Haywoode Workman is set to launch the inaugural HBCU Hoops Invitational college basketball tournament in Orlando, Florida, from December 4th to 6th. The event will be held at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex. Workman, a former basketball and football player who began his college career at Winston-Salem State before transferring to […]

Duke basketball survived a tense finish at Cameron Indoor Stadium, edging Florida 67-66 in a matchup that highlighted both the Blue Devils’ resilience and their reliance on star freshman Cameron Boozer. Boozer once again delivered under pressure. The 18-year-old phenom poured in 39 points on 10-of-21 shooting, marking 90 points across his last three games, […]

The No. 16 ranked North Carolina Tar Heels clawed out a 67-64 road win vs. the No. 18 ranked Kentucky Wildcats Tuesday night, led by star freshman forward Caleb Wilson’s impactful double-double in a tight ACC-SEC top-25 battle. The result marked a strong lift for North Carolina basketball, underscoring the team’s defense and resilience in […]

The No. 5 UConn Huskies scored a huge win Tuesday night, with Dan Hurley’s team scoring a 61-56 true road game victory over the No. 21 Kansas Jayhawks at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence. Perhaps even more surprising from that triumph for UConn basketball is the fact that it was the program’s first-ever win against the […]

Former Duke standouts Cooper Flagg and Kon Knueppel delivered a landmark moment for both the Blue Devils and the NBA as a whole this week. On December 2, the NBA announced that the former teammates had been named Rookie of the Month in their respective conferences, marking the first time since the honor was introduced […]

Duke basketball head coach Jon Scheyer has refrained from comparing Cameron Boozer to Cooper Flagg, but people will inevitably juxtapose two star freshmen who played for the Blue Devils just a year apart from one another. Well, on Tuesday, the future NBA Draft prospect accomplished something that not even the lauded Dallas Mavericks rookie did […]

Duke escaped by the skin of its teeth on Tuesday after beating Florida, 67-66, at Cameron Indoor Stadium in the ACC-SEC Challenge. Isaiah Evans was the hero for the fourth-ranked Blue Devils, as he drained the game-winning three-pointer with 20 seconds left. It was his lone three-pointer in eight attempts. The 15th-ranked Gators had multiple […]

The entire city of Durham must be screaming in celebration right now. There is nothing more exciting for the constituents of Durham than a Duke basketball win, other than, perhaps, any sort of win over UNC. And on Tuesday, the fourth-ranked Blue Devils faced the 15th-ranked Florida basketball squad and came out on top in […]

Undoubtedly, UConn women’s basketball is one of the most storied programs in all of college sports. Altogether, they have won 12 national championships and produced some of the biggest names in basketball history.  All under the leadership of head coach Geno Auriemma. Even with all that, there is still one record that stands out. When […]

No. 21 Kansas is moving on after a successful Players Era Tournament in Las Vegas, where the team ended 3-0. The Jayhawks took down Notre Dame, Syracuse, and No. 17 Tennessee to secure the three-game sweep in three days. Bill Self and his squad did this without star player Darryn Peterson. Peterson is one of […]

The Kansas basketball team has been without star Darryn Peterson for a good while. Peterson is battling a hamstring injury. He will again miss a game on Tuesday against UConn, per ESPN. “Darryn is not going to play tonight,” Kansas coach Bill Self said in a statement. “He is very close. He has worked his […]

The No. 16 North Carolina basketball is scheduled to take on the No. 18 Kentucky Wildcats in a marquee blue blood matchup at the Rupp Arena in Lexington this coming Tuesday night. However, they will not be at full strength, as they remain without star senior guard Seth Trimble, who is still recovering from an […]

Feast Week has come and gone in college basketball, and with it came plenty of change in ClutchPoints’ power rankings. With a number of big in-season tournaments having come to a conclusion, how does the top-25 stack up? 25. St. John’s Georgetown and NC State both fall out of the top 25, and St. John’s […]

Iowa State brought down previously undefeated Indiana in a 106-95 win at the Coconut Hoops Blue Heron Division Championship at the end of Feast Week on Sunday, but the Cyclones wouldn’t have clinched such a decisive win without their star junior. Audi Crooks put up a school record-setting 47 points in the outing, easily leading […]

The early portion of the 2025-26 NCAA women’s college basketball season, including Feast Week, often provides the first real evidence of who may be prepared to contend in March. While preseason polls and projections offer a baseline, what happens on the court in November and early December begins to shape which programs have the talent […]

Michigan basketball was on a roll during the Players Era Festival, and they ran through some of the top teams in the field. They were able to defeat Auburn and Gonzaga by 30-plus points in order to win the championship of the 18-team event. With that, they were awarded in the AP Poll, passing Duke […]

The college basketball season is in full swing! Feast Week brought a whole lot of great basketball, and even more discourse about the crowds at the Players Era Festival. Fan discourse aside, Las Vegas was the center of the college basketball world leading up to Thanksgiving, and it was the Michigan Wolverines that made a […]

St. John’s basketball head coach Rick Pitino talking college football wasn’t on anyone’s minds Sunday. Yet Lane Kiffin bolting from Ole Miss to LSU sparked quite the conversations — including from Pitino himself. Pitino shares this commonality with LSU’s future leader: The basketball legend also has coached at multiple places. Yet he summed up Kiffin’s […]

The Michigan Wolverines spent three days in Las Vegas proving they belong in a different conversation than the rest of college basketball. The Wolverines didn’t just win the Players Era Festival championship. They obliterated it. Dusty May’s squad dismantled the San Diego State Aztecs by 40, crushed No. 21 Auburn Tigers by 30, and embarrassed […]

Arkansas left Durham with another missed opportunity and a clear message from coach John Calipari. The Razorbacks have to figure out how to finish games. That issue again overshadowed stretches of promising play in an 80-71 loss to fourth-ranked Duke. The Razorbacks jumped to an early lead and traded blows with the Blue Devils throughout […]

The Duke Blue Devils (8-0) entered Thanksgiving night unbeaten, but they were tested early and often by a physical Arkansas Razorbacks (5-2) squad under head coach John Calipari. Despite a slow opening stretch, Duke’s star Cameron Boozer overcame a smothering Arkansas front that limited him to just two points over the first 13 minutes. Once […]

The No. 24 Vanderbilt Commodores defeated VCU 89-74 in the Battle 4 Atlantis semifinals on Thursday. The team improved to 7-0, their best start since 2007-08, and is now averaging 98.1 points per game through seven contests, the highest scoring pace by an SEC team since the 1993-94 Arkansas Razorbacks, according to ESPN Insights. Vanderbilt’s […]

UCLA women’s basketball (7-1) should be operating with a strong sense of urgency during the 2025-26 campaign, for this is Lauren Betts’ final season of eligibility. The All-American and Naismith Defensive Player of the Year led the Bruins to their first-ever Final Four appearance in the 2024 NCAA Tournament, and she returned to finish the […]

Rori Harmon had a historic night on top of making a game-winning shot in the No. 4 Texas Longhorns’ 66-64 victory against the No. 2 South Carolina Gamecocks in the championship game of the Players Era Championship on Thursday night. This was a huge matchup in the women’s basketball world. Texas and South Carolina last […]

Duke is surely grateful that it has Cameron Boozer. Boozer took charge anew for the Blue Devils as they held off Arkansas, 80-71, on Thanksgiving Day at United Center. The 18-year-old forward finished with a game-high 35 points on 13-of-18 shooting. He also had nine rebounds, three assists, and two steals. No. 4 Duke remained undefeated […]

Cameron Boozer boasts impressive strength, footwork and versatility, but in addition to those important qualities, Duke basketball head coach Jon Scheyer believes he possesses the most important trait a top prospect can have. “Cam Boozer’s a winner, man,” the two-time ACC Tournament champion told CBS Sports reporter Jon Rothstein after the Blue Devils’ 80-71 victory […]

Nick Boyd made impressive history that the college basketball world hadn’t seen in 15 years following the Wisconsin Badgers’ performance against the Providence Friars on Thursday night. Boyd is progressing through the final year of his collegiate career. After an incredible stint with the Florida Atlantic Owls from 2020 to 2024, he went to the […]