College Basketball

The Duke basketball program will once again enter the college basketball season as the team to beat out of the ACC, but this is probably the deepest the league has been in any of the last several seasons. Squads such as Louisville, Virginia, Miami, and North Carolina all have the potential to challenge the Blue Devils for the ACC crown …

WEST LAFAYETTE − Purdue basketball fans in Fort Wayne will have a short drive to catch an early glimpse of the 2026-27 Boilermakers. Purdue will play at Allen County War Memorial Coliseum on Oct. 22 in an exhibition game against the Purdue Fort Wayne Mastodons. Advertisement It’s the third exhibition contest for the Boilermakers, who’ll play their lone home exhibition …

If you’ve ever played NBA 2K, you’ve likely tried to assemble a team of players solely from your favorite college team. For some schools, such an exercise ends up with a super team. For most other teams, it’s impossible to create. Today, we’re going to rank each school that’s capable of putting together a starting five using NBA players, as …

Sixers draft profile: Isaiah Evans fires away from long range originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia A scouting report on NBA draft prospect Isaiah Evans: Height: 6-foot-5.5 (without shoes) Strengths Evans had a substantial jump in playing time and production from his freshman to sophomore year. He started every game last season for a 35-3 Duke team and averaged 15.0 …

Jamal Crawford has become one of the most talked about subjects in the Big Blue Nation (BBN) discussion forums after he refused to turn down the possibility of joining the Kentucky Wildcats as a coach, but it appears that the initial optimism might finally turn into a degree of skepticism. That’s because Crawford has now put out a post on …

Tennessee baseball coach Josh Elander made a big — and perhaps somewhat unexpected — move last week and it’s already paying off in a big way for the Volunteers. Tennessee Vols baseball coach Josh Elander made a big move last week, and it’s already paying off for UT baseball. Advertisement Late last week, Elander and the Volunteers parted ways with …

The New York Knicks have become an extremely close team with the presence of the Villanova trio in the starting lineup. The relationship began during the days at Villanova but it apparently did not start out positively for Josh Hart. Advertisement During a media availability ahead of the 2026 NBA Finals last week, Hart joked about his first impressions of …

Coming out of a 31-win season, the Zags watched 11 players leave the roster this offseason, Five seniors aged out. A program-record six more hit the portal. All of it landed right as Gonzaga prepares to officially join the new-look Pac-12 on July 1, a league where San Diego State, Utah State, and Boise State will not care about anyone’s …

The Minnesota Gophers men’s basketball team returned to practice for the first time since they were booted from the College Basketball Crown Tournament back on April 1 by the Baylor Bears. Since then, the roster has seen quite a few changes. New names fans will get used to hearing include transfers Kyan Evans (UNC), Kai Shinholster (Colorado State), Winters Grady …

Welcome to the Morning Commute Today we’re talking about Mizzou Basketball It was reported for a while now but made official on Monday. Mizzou vs SLU basketball has been set for Friday, November 6th at the Enterprise Center in St. Louis. SLU joins Marquette (reported, but not official), Pitt, Kansas, Nebraska, and Illinois for a loaded non-conference slate thus far …

In 1983, people weren’t really taking Mike Krzyzewski and Duke very seriously. They also weren’t geeked up over Bobby Cremins at Georgia Tech. Duke was coming off a 10-17 season, which only improved to an 11-17 season in 1982-83. Meanwhile, in Atlanta, Cremins was 10-16 in his first season, and would finish 13-15 in 1982-83. Advertisement It took a lot …

As teams begin their preparations for the upcoming 2026-2027 season, ACC and SEC teams are also preparing to face off against one another, and that includes North Carolina. This will be Mike Malone’s first true test as a head coach for the Tar Heels, as their opponent for that game will be none other than the Arkansas Razorbacks and their …

Former Gonzaga Bulldogs forward Pavle Stosic is on the move once again. The 6’9 Serbian forward has landed at Fairleigh Dickinson for his redshirt junior year, as announced by the program on social media last Thursday. Stosic is now on his fourth college program after beginning his career at Gonzaga in the 2023-24 season. Advertisement Stosic was a very, very …

Over the last four seasons, there haven’t been more coaches who have been as steady as Clemson basketball’s head coach, Brad Brownell. However, the national media still hasn’t picked up on it. Advertisement ESPN’s Jeff Borzello released his top 25 rankings ahead of the summer, and names like Florida, Duke and Michigan, of course, topped the rankings. Going down the …

Mark Pope and the Kentucky Wildcats were able to land five-star Ryan Hampton on Sunday morning, and this was massive for the outlook of this staff. There are a ton of narratives about Pope not being a good recruiter, but he just landed one of the top players in the 2027 class. Funny enough, Hampton might not be the biggest …

The University of Washington basketball team reportedly will add a new assistant coach to Danny Sprinkle’s third-year staff in DeAndre Haynes, who most recently was at Marquette, though the UW hasn’t made any formal hiring announcement yet. Basketball insider Jon Rothstein for CBS Sports first reported this development online, citing a source. The school didn’t immediately respond to a request …

Coming off a strong campaign in the 2025-26 season, the Iowa State Cyclones will be hoping to be even better next year. However, a lot of that success will rely on some players developing. While it might have been a frustrating exit for the Cyclones in the Sweet 16, the program has to be pleased with how they performed overall. …

The Big Ten conference announced home and away games for each team for the 2026-27 season. Each team will play an 18-game schedule, playing 16 opponents once and one opponent twice. USC and UCLA women’s basketball will see each other twice during the regular season for the crosstown rivalry game. Due to UCLA and USC’s location, the Bruins and Trojans …

The gang is (almost) all here. With summer workouts getting underway in less than a month, the Gonzaga Bulldogs are beginning to file into Spokane to get settled before the first team event in early July. Isiah Harwell, a former McDonald’s All-American and transfer from Houston, made his arrival in Spokane public last Friday after posting a picture on Gonzaga’s …

The college sports world was rocked to its very core on Monday morning as embattled Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby won a temporary restraining order against the NCAA that will enable the transfer from Cincinnati to play for the Red Raiders this season despite having admitted to an addiction to gambling, including bets placed on his own team. Local Texas …

After former assistant coach Luke Murray announced that he was leaving for the head coach job at Boston College in late March, Dan Hurley and the rest of the staff did their due diligence and finally found a replacement in Mike Pegues, according to multiple reports. Pegues has been a high major assistant every season since 2012-13, accumulating stops at …

When John Mauer took over the Kentucky Wildcats for the 2027-28 season, he had to rebuild after the team went through a disastrous 3-13 season the year before. Luckily, the former Illinois star turned things around quickly, and led them to a 12-6 record. That winning record would start a run of winning seasons that would go on for 60 …

Illinois basketball has added a three-star guard from Kankakee to its 2026 recruiting class. Lincoln Williams has signed with the Fighting Illini, becoming the sixth incoming freshman for head coach Brad Underwood. Williams, a 6-foot-5 guard/forward, had scholarship offers from Arizona State, Virginia Tech, TCU and DePaul. Advertisement “Lincoln is an outstanding in-state player who we have recruited for many years,” …

Want to get more Covers content? Add us as a preferred source on your Google account here. The NCAA announced on Friday that four Alabama State men’s basketball players engaged in match-fixing for the purposes of winning sports bets. Advertisement The Division I Committee on Infractions panel confirmed that one former student-athlete agreed to the violations, while three either chose …

For the first time since 2008, Team USA did not capture the FIBA U18 Americup gold medal. BYU freshman Bruce Branch III and his USA teammates dropped a heartbreaker to Canada in Sunday’s tournament final, missing out on the gold to receive a silver medal. Advertisement Branch scored six points in 22 minutes of play, shooting 3 of 5 from …