[ad_1] Ranking Celtics’ top competitors in East at NBA All-Star break originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston The defending NBA champion Boston Celtics were the preseason favorite to win the Eastern Conference entering the 2024-25 season, and that hasn’t changed at the All-Star break. Despite being 5.5 games behind the Cleveland Cavaliers in the East standings, the Celtics remain the …

[ad_1] Four of the Atlantic 10’s top teams take the floor on Saturday for a men’s college basketball doubleheader on USA Network. Conference leader George Mason hosts Saint Joseph’s at 12:30 PM ET, with Duquesne and Dayton following at 2:30 PM ET. Read further to learn how to watch both matchups, plus more Atlantic 10 games this season on Peacock …

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[ad_1] Incredible Steph stat shows rejuvenation since Butler trade originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area Steph Curry found a second wind after the Feb. 6 NBA trade deadline. Curry leads the NBA in total points (161), 3-pointers made (29) and field goals made (51) in the week since the trade deadline (h/t StatMuse). The two-time NBA scoring champ has …

[ad_1] Michigan State men’s basketball has lost 3 of 4 games after starting the season 18-2. The Spartans are more than capable of turning things around, but they must do so against a brutal schedule. Lansing State Journal columnist Graham Couch and Detroit Free Press beat writer Chris Solari discuss the latest with Spartan basketball and how they must rebound …

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[ad_1] Karl-Anthony Towns, seen here at last year’s All-Star game, will be among the players in this year’s All-Star round robin tournament. (Justin Casterline/Getty Images) The 2025 NBA All-Star game won’t just be an East vs. West game like it has been, instead, it will be a mini-tournament where three teams, whose players were selected by Charles Barkley, Shaquille O’Neal …

[ad_1] Alabama head coach Nate Oats, left, shakes hands with Auburn head coach Bruce Pearl. Both have helped revive the basketball programs at their traditionally football-obsessed schools. (AP Photo/Butch Dill) The epicenter of college basketball this weekend won’t be Storrs, Connecticut, Lawrence, Kansas, or somewhere on Tobacco Road. All eyes will be on a pigskin-obsessed state long synonymous with football. …

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[ad_1] Checking in on our bold Celtics preseason predictions at All-Star break originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston Two thirds of the 2024-25 NBA season is in the rearview mirror as the league speeds into the mid-February All-Star break. The brief regular-season respite offers us a chance to take inventory, including a check in on how our trusty crystal ball …

[ad_1] Alabama and Auburn have never played a rivalry game like this. Not in football and certainly not in basketball. Yet when the Crimson Tide and Tigers square off for the 171st edition of the “Iron Bowl of Basketball” Saturday at Coleman Coliseum, with ESPN’s “College GameDay” on hand, it will mark the first meeting between the two rivals as …

[ad_1] It’s a good time to own an NBA franchise. Fifteen years ago in 2010, Joe Lacob and Peter Guber paid $450 million to purchase the Golden State Warriors. Four championships and a new arena in the heart of San Francisco later, that franchise is worth $9.4 billion, according to new franchise valuations put together by the team at CNBC. …

[ad_1] Grand Canyon’s men’s basketball team committed 22 turnovers for the second straight game. This time, the Lopes got clutch play from Tyon Grant-Foster to overcome the miscues and beat Tarleton State 64-60 in a crucial road win to keep them in the hunt for the regular season WAC title. GCU (18-6, 8-2) is a game behind first-place Utah Valley …

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[ad_1] Each week during the 2024-25 NBA season, we will take a deeper dive into some of the league’s biggest storylines in an attempt to determine whether trends are based more in fact or fiction moving forward. [Last time: Domantas Sabonis is The Biggest Snub of the 2025 NBA All-Star Game] Fact or Fiction: Nikola Jokić is enjoying the greatest …

[ad_1] Sacred Heart at South Carolina — SECN+ Holy Cross at Auburn — SECN+ COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) St. Francis (PA) at Central Connecticut — NEC Front Row Holy Cross at Lehigh — ESPN+ La Salle at Rhode Island — ESPN+ Pennsylvania at Brown — ESPN+ Villanova at Providence — Fubo Sports US COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S) La Salle at Rhode Island …

[ad_1] The Knicks head into All-Star Weekend with a record of 36-18, sitting comfortably in the Eastern Conference’s third seed coming off nine wins in their last 11 games. Those results should be something to celebrate, being a historic start to the season, but some fans feel this team isn’t reaching its potential. After a 131-104 blowout loss to the …

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[ad_1] With the frenzy of the 2025 NBA trade deadline now behind us, the attention of the NBA-watching world now shifts to the Bay Area for the high-octane basketball exhibition/convention/trade show that is 2025 All-Star Weekend. Here are a few things to keep an eye on as the league’s best and brightest strut their stuff across three days of basketball-adjacent …

[ad_1] Dontaie Allen, winner of the 2019 Kentucky Mr. Basketball award, is the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit filed against the NCAA on Jan. 31 in the Eastern District of Kentucky. The Allen v. NCAA lawsuit includes 33 current and former Division I men’s basketball and football players — seven with ties to the commonwealth. It argues that the NCAA …

[ad_1] SAN FRANCISO — It was the highlight of the 2024 All-Star Weekend in Indianapolis: Stephen Curry had to get red hot late to beat Sabrina Ionescu’s impressive score in a 3-Point Shootout on All-Star Saturday Night. There will be no repeat of the event this weekend in San Francisco, despite it being on Curry’s home court and Ionescu being …

[ad_1] After months full of talking about the hypothetical matchup, the time has now officially come for episode No. 1 of the 2024-25 “IBOB,” or the “Iron Bowl of Basketball,” between two of the nation’s premier college basketball programs, as well as in-state rivals, the Alabama Crimson Tide and Auburn Tigers. Taking a look at Auburn in particular however, most …

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[ad_1] Riding a four-game winning streak, the Nebraska men’s basketball team played host to No. 25 Maryland on Thursday night. Though the Huskers brought momentum to the game with their winning streak, they failed to extend it, falling to the Terrapins 83-75. After trading blows early on, Maryland held the lead for the final 27 minutes of play and went …

[ad_1] When UCF and Colorado meet, one team will end their season-long losing streaks. The Knights have lost dropped five in a row, the fourth such streak under coach Johnny Dawkins, while the Buffaloes hold the fifth-longest losing streak in the nation at 13 consecutive games and remaining winless in conference play. It’s been a disappointing stretch for UCF (13-11, …