College Basketball

The NCAA is looking to expand March Madness, and a decision is coming soon. NCAA leadership and members of the association’s basketball committees are expected to finalize an expansion of the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments to 76 teams, as reported by Yahoo Sports’ Ross Dellenger. If this comes to frution, eight games would be added to the current “First …

It’s Good Friday, but boy, there are many bad March Madness brackets out there shot to smithereens. In fact, not many people have all four of their Final Four picks still alive in their bracket. That’s according to stats compiled by NCAA.com. Advertisement The gist: Only a select few picked all four teams in Saturday’s two semifinal matchups. RELATED: Final …

Want to get more Covers content? Add us as a preferred source on your Google account here. West Virginia and Creighton meet in the semifinals of the College Basketball Crown postseason tournament on Saturday afternoon. Advertisement Creighton is playing to try to send retiring head coach Greg McDermott out on a winning note, while West Virginia is looking to win …

INDIANAPOLIS – The greed is astounding. Not from the athletes, who the power brokers and even the president of the United States would have you believe are bringing about the ruin of college sports. No, the people who have broken the system are the esteemed leaders of college sports, the commissioners and university presidents willing to burn it all down …

Wisconsin men’s basketball’s 2026-27 nonconference schedule will include at least one marquee SEC opponent. The Badgers will play Auburn on Dec. 19 in Nashville, a team source confirmed to the Journal Sentinel. It will be at Bridgestone Arena, where the NHL’s Nashville Predators play their home games. Advertisement Auburn has gone 21-16 so far this season. The Steven Pearl-coached Tigers …

As we wrap up our coverage of the 2025-26 basketball season and the ongoing search for North Carolina’s next head coach, we continue our player reviews. Next up is senior guard Seth Trimble. While Trimble was the third scoring option behind Caleb Wilson and Henri Veesaar, he was the team’s most important player as its leader and the only one …

We’ve made it through another week folks. The Final Four is right around the corner, or so I’ve heard, despite my hope that they would cancel the rest of the tournament after last weekend. Fletcher Loyer is preparing to compete in the Final Four Three Point shootout as I type this. And I hope you’ve got two days off from …

INDIANAPOLIS—The largest arena in the NBA in terms of capacity is the United Center in Chicago, which can hold 20,917 fans. The biggest in college is Louisville’s KFC Yum! Center, which has a capacity of 22,090. When the 2026 Final Four gets underway on Saturday, with Illinois and UConn meeting in the first semifinal, more than 70,000 people could be …

Jasper Johnson, a highly touted in-state recruit, is entering the transfer portal after just one season at Kentucky, marking another offseason departure for the Wildcats after Jaland Lowe entered the portal a few days ago. Johnson’s journey to Lexington was closely followed. The Kentucky native began his high school career at Woodford County before playing at Link Academy in Missouri …

Wisconsin men’s basketball’s 2026-27 nonconference schedule will include at least one marquee SEC opponent. The Badgers will play Auburn on Dec. 19 in Nashville, a team source confirmed to the Journal Sentinel. It will be at Bridgestone Arena, where the NHL’s Nashville Predators play their home games. Advertisement Auburn has gone 21-16 so far this season. The Steven Pearl-coached Tigers …

Wisconsin men’s basketball’s 2026-27 nonconference schedule will include at least one marquee SEC opponent. The Badgers will play Auburn on Dec. 19 in Nashville, a team source confirmed to the Journal Sentinel. It will be at Bridgestone Arena, where the NHL’s Nashville Predators play their home games. Advertisement Auburn has gone 21-16 so far this season. The Steven Pearl-coached Tigers …

The irony is not lost on former Illinois coach Bruce Weber. The most frequent complaint Weber heard throughout his nine-year tenure in Champaign was that he didn’t land enough elite Chicago-area recruits for Illinois to compete for Big Ten titles and national championships. Now, the Illini are back in the Final Four for the first time in 21 years despite …

INDIANAPOLIS — The sequence of events that led to Tommy Lloyd spurning North Carolina and signing a five-year contract extension with Arizona on the eve of the Final Four began with one simple premise. Arizona, in the end, is where he wanted to coach. Advertisement “That was the driving force behind everything,” Lloyd said, revealing the news at his regularly …

INDIANAPOLIS—The way the 2025-26 season played out, it was inevitable that Arizona and Michigan would end up facing each other. That it’s not for the national title is the only surprising part. Since the Wolverines demolished Gonzaga by 40 points in November in Las Vegas, the same place the Wildcats began their season with a takedown of defending NCAA champion …

INDIANAPOLIS – Amid the excitement of the Men’s Final Four, Tommy Lloyd quieted a fast-moving rumor: He will remain the coach of the Arizona men’s basketball team, he said Friday. “Arizona basketball needs to become a locomotive where everything surrounding it is pushing it forward,” Lloyd said. “It’s my opportunity right now to be the captain of the ship … …

Want to get more Covers content? Add us as a preferred source on your Google account here. We’re down to the Final Four of March Madness, and the matchups are mouth-watering for college basketball fans. Advertisement On one side of the bracket, UConn attempts to establish itself as a modern-day dynasty and faces an offensive juggernaut in Illinois. Meanwhile, Arizona …

It’s a wild time in the college basketball offseason, with the Final Four set to be played over the weekend, and the opening of the transfer portal on Tuesday, Apr. 7. As the portal date gets closer, more and more names are set to enter, looking for new homes in 2026. Once such player is a name Kentucky Wildcats fans …

NCAA Final Four 2026: Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd decides against Heel turn, accepts extension from Wildcats originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. INDIANAPOLIS – The first two games of the 2026 Final Four do not arrive until Saturday evening, but there already were some huge winners Friday at Lucas …

INDIANAPOLIS — As Illinois head coach Brad Underwood grazed the halls of Lucas Oil Stadium, an ear-to-ear smile lingered. He couldn’t seem to shake off his grin; in fact, he hasn’t been able to all week. Advertisement Who can blame him? For the first time in his 36 years of coaching, he’s reached the biggest stage in the sport of …

It was reported Friday night that Kansas sophomore forward Flory Bidunga would be entering the Transfer Portal and declaring for the 2026 NBA Draft. Bidunga immediately shot to the top of On3’s top available transfers rankings. This season, Bidunga emerged as one of the most dominant defensive players in all of college basketball. The Congo native averaged 13.3 points, 9.0 …

INDIANAPOLIS — Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd said Friday he’s remaining with the Wildcats after being mentioned as a potential candidate to fill the coaching vacancy at blueblood program North Carolina. “I’m happy to announce I’m staying at Arizona,” Lloyd said during his pre-practice news conference at the Final Four. “We’ve been able to get some things done the past couple …

Arizona’s Tommy Lloyd turns down UNC, becomes one of college basketball’s highest-paid coaches originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. Arizona made moves to keep Tommy Lloyd in Tucson. Advertisement The Wildcats coach has agreed to a contract extension through 2031, according to ESPN’s Pete Thamel. A deal to make him …

Fred Hoiberg of Nebraska was named The Associated Press men’s basketball coach of the year on Friday following a 28-win season that included the Cornhuskers’ first NCAA Tournament win and a run to the Sweet 16. Hoiberg received 17 votes from a 61-person media panel, edging Duke’s Jon Scheyer (13) to become the Big Ten’s first national coach of the …

Florida State forward Alier Maluk will enter the transfer portal when it opens, according to a report from 247Sports. The sophomore appeared in 21 games with three starts this season under first-year coach Luke Loucks, averaging 1.6 points and 1.8 rebounds in 6.6 minutes per game, with his best outing coming Dec. 19 against Mississippi Valley State, when he logged …

After a sensational freshman season, the honors continue to pour in for Duke’s Cameron Boozer. The latest: he was named the AP National Player of the Year, receiving 59 of 61 votes (the other two went to BYU’s AJ Dybantsa). Modestly, Boozer told the AP that “…it just goes to show more about what our team has done, just because …