College Basketball

The college basketball landscape is dominated by NIL money and the transfer portal. As a result, traditional powers get richer, while the rest scramble to field competitive rosters. Before the NIL/transfer portal era, you had traditional Blue Bloods. North Carolina consistently competed for National Championships, while Kansas and Kentucky typically remained amongst the NCAA Tournament’s Final Four. Advertisement UNC is …

The first month of the Kansas basketball offseason has been controversial among the fanbase. While Bill Self added several mid-tier transfers and top-ranked 2026 prospect Tyran Stokes, KU lost starters Flory Bidunga and Bryson Tiller in the frontcourt, along with the rest of the starting five. Given how other schools around the country are spending their NIL money, some of …

Duke basketball head coach Jon Scheyer and his staff have tapped into the transfer portal much more than they did previously since the NIL era took over college basketball, and it has paid off big time. Typically, the Duke program has relied on freshman talent to lead its programs. Just take a look at the past two years with Cameron …

It hasn’t been all that long since Dan Hurley’s 2-seeded UConn Huskies shattered the hearts of Duke fans everywhere after defeating the 1-seeded Blue Devils 73-72 in the 2026 Elite Eight. However, what these two programs are both doing, which no other program in the sport has been able to accomplish, is continue to operate at a blue-blood level through …

The Duke basketball program, in all likelihood, will not be led by a freshman, which hasn’t been how the program has typically operated over the last decade. In seven of the past nine years, the Blue Devils’ leading scorer has been a first-year player. This offseason, head coach Jon Scheyer and his staff have prioritized bringing back key rotation pieces …

When Texas Longhorns head coach Sean Miller is asked about rising junior center Matas Vokietaitis, there’s one reliable anecdote Miller often falls back on to describe the 7’0, 255-pounder. When Miller was at Arizona and the late, great Bill Walton was around, Walton liked to remind Miller that big men come in two categories — those who play the game …

A return to familiar ground is next for former Clemson men’s basketball guard Asa Thomas. After a winding college path that included time in the ACC and Southern Conference, Thomas is heading back to Illinois to join the UIC Flames men’s basketball. The Chicago-area product entered the transfer portal earlier this offseason after spending the 2025-26 year at Furman Paladins …

LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska coach Fred Hoiberg announced that assistants Nate Loenser, Ernie Zeigler and Pat Monaghan and general manager Luca Virgilio have signed contract extensions following the best season in program history. Hoiberg, the Associated Press national coach of the year, also named Loenser associate head coach. Contract terms immediately were not announced. Advertisement The Cornhuskers finished 28-7 overall, …

BYU and Utah State announced a two game series Tuesday morning. The teams will play December 9, 2026 in the Marriott Center and again in 2027 in the Delta Center in Salt Lake City. This is the first meeting between the schools since 2021. BYU has won the past 10 matchups. Utah State’s release says the ticket allotment for 2027 …

Billy Donovan as next Magic coach? We’ve seen this before (SN Archive — 2007) originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. Nearly two decades after changing his mind about becoming the next coach of the Orlando Magic, Billy Donovan is once again considered a top candidate for the Magic’s opening. …

Tennessee basketball entered May already with one of the best transfer portal classes in the country. Coach Rick Barnes wanted to improve the offense, and the Vols found high-end scoring at every position. USA TODAY ranked the Vols’ portal haul at No. 2 behind Indiana. That was before they added one of the best players available when Wake Forest guard …

Famed college basketball announcer Dick Vitale couldn’t hide his emotions after receiving a message from Michigan State Spartans head coach Tom Izzo on Monday. Vitale, who started as a broadcaster with ESPN in 1979 and became a popular voice in college hoops, is currently battling cancer. He revealed earlier in April that he was diagnosed with melanoma in his lung …

After the Michigan Wolverines won the National Championship, head coach Dusty May and his staff had little time to waste before jumping into the transfer portal to replenish their roster for next season. With the transfer portal opening minutes after the final buzzer, May had to quickly come up with a plan for how he was going to construct a …

The sting of the transfer portal is nothing new on the Main Line, but seeing the names Acaden Lewis and Bryce Lindsay pop up in Gary Parrish’s Way-Too-Early Top 25 for 2026 — in uniforms other than Villanova’s — feels like a particularly sharp twist of the knife. Last season was supposed to be the foundational year of the Kevin …

Few, if any, people on the planet love college basketball more than Jon Rothstein. So, it’s not a great sign for the sport when even he hates the reports that the NCAA is in the “final steps” of expanding the NCAA Tournament to 76 teams. Rothstein voiced his concerns about expanding the NCAA Tournament during the latest edition of CBS …

Fresh off a visit to Charlottesville, former Arkansas State guard Christian Harmon has announced his commitment to Ryan Odom and the Virginia Cavaliers. The junior from Rochester, New York, has one year of eligibility remaining, but, as a true senior, could get a second year if the NCAA’s new five-in-five eligibility concept is approved. Harmon was a third-team All-Sun Belt …

After the news broke about the Duke-Amazon deal to stream three games, and then the Big Ten’s reaction, we started looking for interesting responses. The smartest, most informed post we saw about it was from North Carolina IP attorney David McKenzie, who is also a Duke grad. His post on Twitter was pretty remarkable, because it appeared to thoroughly deconstruct …

Make no mistake, the toughness, the drive, the refusal to give in to an injury that would keep most players out for weeks, that was more Jordan than any turnaround jumper or soaring dunk could ever be. “I mean, nobody expected him to play,” said guard Mike Conley, who scored 12 points on 4-of-7 shooting from 3-point range. “Just his …

Dana Altman faced a difficult challenge on the heels of his worst season in Eugene. After the Oregon Ducks finished just 12-20 last season, the Ducks saw significant departures in the transfer portal, including Jackson Shelstad and Kwame Evans Jr., while Nate Bittle exhausted his eligibility. Although the Ducks missed out on some key targets, Altman has been able to …

The transfer portal was once again busy this spring for the Ohio State Buckeyes. While its died down, one former OSU basketball player has found a new home. The college basketball transfer portal made for a wild couple of weeks in April and it’s still wrapping up with players finding new homes. For the Ohio State basketball program, they have …

From the moments after winning the national championship, the Michigan Wolverines put their name in the Juke Harris sweepstakes. A top performer at Wake Forest last season, Harris was one of the hottest names in the transfer portal this offseason. Even though he took a visit to Ann Arbor for the championship celebration, Harris chose to commit to Tennessee on …

The Big Ten, by all quantifiable accounts, should be college hoops’ premier conference once again in the 2026-27 season. And that’s a notion seconded by the metrics, as Bart Torvik – which is an analytical tool used by the NCAA Tournament selection committee – placed a whopping 11 Big Ten squads in the top 40 of its early 2026-27 projection. …

It’s still early, and Kentucky Basketball’s roster likely isn’t completely finished yet, but national projections headed into a critical Year 3 for Mark Pope are not the most optimistic. ESPN’s Jeff Borzello recently released his Way-Too-Early Top 25, and Kentucky didn’t make the cut. In fact, Kentucky didn’t make the cut of the next five out. Advertisement Borzello ranked Florida …

Rutgers men’s basketball has added its second center in the 2026 transfer portal, as former Kansas State center Dorin Buca has committed to play his final season in Piscataway, according to Jonathan Givony of Draft Express. Buca only has one season of college basketball experience at Kansas State. The 7-foot-2 big man will be 24 years old by the time …

This is no longer Miller’s first rodeo on the Forty Acres. On the day that Miller was named the 27th head basketball coach for the Texas Longhorns last year, the NCAA transfer portal window opened. It was another month until Miller officially announced his five assistant coaches, general manager, strength coach, and chief of staff. Advertisement “It was just really …