College Basketball

Divine Ugochukwu is leaving Michigan State basketball. The combo guard reportedly will transfer to Louisiana State after one season with the Spartans, according to On3.com. The former Miami (Florida) guard from Sugar Land, Texas, has two years of eligibility remaining. Advertisement The 6-foot-3, 195-pound Ugochukwu averaged 5.1 points, 1.5 rebounds and 1.5 assists and started 12 games for the Spartans …

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Players Era will expand from 18 to 24 teams this year and split into two tournaments, with the two most recent national champions headlining a pair of loaded fields. Michigan, which won the national title in April, will be in the Players Era Sixteen on Thanksgiving week in Las Vegas. The Wolverines routed Gonzaga 101-61 …

Will Wade is still settling in as the LSU Tigers’ men’s basketball coach. It was a shocking move when he left the NC State Wolfpack after just one season and an NCAA Tournament appearance to lead the Tigers. Early into his tenure with LSU, Wade hasn’t found much success with the transfer portal. The Tigers had 11 players depart during …

Next year’s Players Era Festival will have a new format, it was announced Thursday. Access the St. John’s beat like never before Join Post Sports+ for exciting subscriber-only features, including real-time texting with Zach Braziller about the inside buzz on St. John’s. Advertisement TRY IT NOW The tournament, held in Las Vegas, will expand to 24 teams and be televised …

The NCAA Tournament has officially voted to expand. There’s been a lot of talk about the NCAA Tournament expanding in recent years. The 64-team NCAA Tournament moved up to 68 teams several years ago. However, that’s felt like that perfect number. Advertisement Until now, of course. The NCAA Tournament, on both the men’s and women’s side, will be expanding from …

Bill Self and the Kansas basketball coaching staff added another impact player through the transfer portal on Thursday after the Jayhawks received a commitment from Radford transfer Dennis Parker Jr. The 6-foot-6 guard averaged 18.3 points and 5.9 rebounds per game this season for the Highlanders while shooting 48.4% from the field and 37.7% from 3-point range. Advertisement His biggest …

The Kentucky Wildcats finished the 2025-26 college basketball season on a disappointing note. Entering March Madness as a No. 7 seed, they suffered a second-round loss to the No. 2 Iowa State Cyclones. Throughout the offseason, Mark Pope and his staff have struggled to utilize the transfer portal. With four additions and seven losses, Kentucky’s transfer class ranks 16th in …

The NCAA Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournaments will be expanding to 76 teams, beginning next season. CBS Sports college hoops insider Matt Norlander confirmed the news. “The voting in favor of expanding March Madness was unanimous from the men’s and women’s committees, per a source,” Norlander reported on Thursday afternoon. Advertisement “An emergency joint meeting for the men’s and women’s …

The magical March Madness cocktail will now include eight more teams, eight more games and more of one other ingredient, too: beer. Maybe wine, too. The NCAA on Thursday announced a long-expected expansion of its men’s and women’s basketball tournaments to 76 teams each starting next season, explaining that it made the money part work by opening sponsorship opportunities to …

Expansion is coming to the NCAA men’s basketball tournament whether the fans like it or not and judging by the responses, the answer is decisively “not.” On Thursday, the NCAA formally announced that the tournament will be expanding from 68 to 76 teams starting next year. The first 12 games will be called the March Madness Opening Round rather than …

NCAA SVP of basketball issues statement on 76-team March Madness bracket appeared first on ClutchPoints. Add ClutchPoints as a Preferred Source by clicking here. As the debate rages on about the potential expansion of the March Madness tournament to 76 teams, a high-ranking NCAA official is giving the measure his vote of support. NCAA Senior Vice President of Basketball Dan …

The NCAA announced Thursday that it will expand its two March Madness tournaments by eight teams each next season, a move that will drop more early-round games into the first week of the highly popular and lucrative showcase without substantially changing its overall form. The new 76-team brackets will jam eight extra games — for a total of 12 games …

A final piece appears to have been locked into place for the USC men’s basketball team. The commitment of transfer Isaac Bruns, a 6-foot-5 guard from South Dakota, may have completed the Trojans’ roster for next season. Former South Dakota guard Isaac Bruns announced his commitment to USC basketball on Thursday. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect The Trojans have now …

Mark Few and the Gonzaga Bulldogs have never been afraid to challenge themselves during the non-conference portion of the schedule, which is what made the Players Era Festival so appealing last season. That, and the $1M NIL payout to every participating team. Advertisement This year, that payout will still be in effect, but nearly everything else about the fledgling event …

UConn basketball HC Dan Hurley recalls emergency birthday gift for wife after a loss appeared first on ClutchPoints. Add ClutchPoints as a Preferred Source by clicking here. UConn basketball remained in the spotlight Thursday after a humorous Dan Hurley story surfaced online, providing a lighter look at one of college basketball’s most intense coaches. Advertisement The Huskies have rebuilt their …

The Illinois basketball team stunned people this season by making a Final Four run. A 28-win campaign was impressive. The Illini made it in the postseason as a No. 3 seed, and we worked wonders only to fall short to UConn in an attempt to get back to the national championship. Advertisement Brad Underwood has the Illinois basketball program clicking, …

GAINESVILLE, Fla.– For the second straight season, the Florida Gators will play in Las Vegas, this time as part of the two-bracket Players Era Tournament. Florida, a strong contender to be the preseason No. 1 team in the country, headlines the Players Era Eight bracket, which will be played the week of Nov. 16. Joining the Gators are Auburn, Houston, …

Illinois basketball has been chugging along under Brad Underwood, but it sounds like we got a safety net on Thursday afternoon. There is a popular saying of the more the merrier. On Thursday afternoon, the NCAA committee took that saying to heart, and they all but guaranteed the Illini will make the NCAA tournament for the rest of time. Advertisement …

Pistons’ Daniss Jenkins is one of the NBA’s coolest stories originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. Daniss Jenkins didn’t travel the journey of a basketball phenom to reach this point. Advertisement But the winding road led him to a pivotal role for the Eastern Conference’s top-seeded Detroit Pistons anyway. …

NCAA Announces Men’s And Women’s March Madness Expansion originally appeared on NESN. Add NESN as a Preferred Source by clicking here. College basketball will have more March Madness games to pick next year. Advertisement The NCAA announced Thursday that the men’s and women’s basketball tournament fields will increase from 68 to 76 teams. Eight at-large bids will join the fold …

NCAA SVP of basketball fires back at critics of March Madness expansion appeared first on ClutchPoints. Add ClutchPoints as a Preferred Source by clicking here. As the NCAA moves closer to expanding the men’s and women’s March Madness tournaments to 76 teams, there’s been widespread criticism from fans and prognosticators alike that the move is unnecessary. But regardless of the …

Just when it looked like the Kansas basketball offseason was winding down, Bill Self gave fans another reason to be excited for the upcoming season. The program landed Radford transfer Dennis Parker Jr. out of the portal to fill one of KU’s final spots. Parker, who previously played at NC State for two years before transferring to the Big South, …

North Carolina is still trying to assemble its basketball roster under the first year of the Michael Malone era as it looks to add two or three more players. It may take a bit longer for everything to come together, with the staff currently scouting players in Europe and trying to determine what they actually need to ensure each player …

The NCAA will expand its DIvision I basketball tournaments from 68 to 76 teams next season. The change isn’t expected to radically disrupt the familiar bracket for most casual fans. Here is a breakdown of some key numbers to know: 0 — The number of mid-major schools that advanced past the first weekend of either tournament the last two seasons. …

The magical March Madness cocktail will now include eight more teams, eight more games and more of one other ingredient, too: beer. Maybe wine, too. The NCAA on Thursday announced a long-expected expansion of its men’s and women’s basketball tournaments to 76 teams each starting next season, explaining that it made the money part work by opening sponsorship opportunities to …