College Basketball

The 2026 football season is rapidly approaching and, no surprise, the Duke Blue Devils are receiving little to no respect in preseason polls and articles. The ACC media preseason poll predicts Duke will finish 10th out of 17 teams. ESPN analytics predict Duke will win only five of 12 games. It is time for our Blue Devils to outperform the …

With the NCAA’s recent federal court injunctions creating additional eligibility for countless players around the country, schools are getting a chance at a “second” offseason with transfers who weren’t previously thought to be available. Kansas is one of several programs looking to make another addition to round out the 2026-27 roster. On Monday, the Jayhawks were linked to yet another …

Prepare to alter your sleep schedule, college basketball fans. If you stay up late for Game 7 of the World Series on Halloween night, then wake up early to watch Notre Dame and Villanova open the season at 9:30 a.m. Eastern on Sunday, Nov. 1, you should prepare to spend your football Sunday in a siesta. That’s because the Field …

The Duke basketball program returned three starters from a team that won the ACC regular-season and tournament titles, earned the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament, and made the Elite Eight. All three of those starters, Dame Sarr, Caleb Foster, and Patrick Ngongba, were massive retentions. Not only did head coach Jon Scheyer and his staff get rotation …

If there’s one thing that Mick Cronin and UCLA basketball do well, it’s taking care of the basketball. Looking ahead to the 2026-2027 UCLA basketball season, I asked myself, what has UCLA done well, and what can it improve upon? From there, I found an answer in the same vein as the game. When plotting steals versus turnovers, nearly the …

Florida basketball stayed on top of the CBS Sports Top 25 And 1 rankings on Monday, following updates made after the court ruling that granted Class of 2022 players a fifth year of eligibility. That same ruling ended the question of whether Florida would get Denzel Aberdeen back or not. The Kentucky transfer guard who spent his first three seasons …

UCLA basketball has not been what it once was, to say the least. In the past three seasons, the Bruins have finished the year with fewer than 25 wins and have not advanced past the second round of the NCAA Tournament. In fact, most Bruin fans are still holding on to that Final Four run in 2021. With the status …

Ahead of the 2026-27 season, we will compare Virginia’s starting lineup with the rest of the ACC. The Cavalier starters have yet to be finalized, but four of the five are essentially locks to take the floor first (Chance Mallory, Sam Lewis, Thijs De Ridder and Johann Grunloh). The five on five series begins with Duke, which beat Virginia in …

Big Blue Nation is very excited to see this year’s Kentucky basketball team take the floor when November rolls around, and it sounds like the Wildcats had a really good summer camp. The summer has come to an end for Pope and the Wildcats, and for the most part, Coach Pope is happy. There are some areas where this Kentucky …

The American Volleyball Coaches Association released its preseason rankings on Monday and Florida volleyball will open the season ranked No. 17 in the AVCA/TARAFLEX Preseason Top-25 poll. That makes it 36 straight years that the Gators have been included in the preseason poll. It also represents the seventh-straight preseason top-25 appearance for head coach Ryan Theis during his head coaching …

Duke Brennan was a big part of Villanova last season as the Wildcats were able to return to the NCAA Tournament. The big man is now looking for a home for the upcoming season in his fifth year. Brennan has narrowed his list to five teams and they all bring different fits. Advertisement Brennan averaged 12.4 points and 10.3 rebounds …

The Arkansas basketball Bahamas tour was a success. We aren’t revising that fundamental assessment. The Razorbacks showed a lot of promise, flying across the court on defense and dominating at that end of the floor. They showed shotmaking ability, balance, versatility, depth, and tenacity. Their young players began to grow up. Scorers showed they could pass the ball and facilitate …

There’s no question that J Batt is off to a great start as the Director of Athletics at the University of Kentucky. However, a longtime Kentucky employee is now departing for the Big 12, and it’s a significant person from UK Athletics. Marc Hill, Kentucky’s Deputy Director of Athletics, is departing Lexington for Provo, Utah, where he will join BYU’s …

1 / 16 Summer practice for NKU men’s basketball | Photos NKU senior Noah Pagotto goes up for a shot during Northern Kentucky University men’s basketball practice July 21, 2026, at Truist Arena. (James Weber/The Enquirer) 1 / 16 Summer practice for NKU men’s basketball | Photos NKU senior Noah Pagotto goes up for a shot during Northern Kentucky University …

Never one to shy away from a tough schedule, Tom Izzo and his Michigan State basketball team announced on Tuesday that they will be adding two additional non-conference games to their 2026-27 schedule, and one of those games will be against an old nemesis. The Spartans announced the following two games, both of which will be played at home in …

Kentucky Basketball is getting closer and closer to having a final product when it comes to the schedule for the 2026-27 men’s basketball season. However, the final touches are still being worked on, and we’ve got a pair of new games confirmed. Advertisement On Friday morning, KSR reported that Appalachian State and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock were …

Tennessee dodged some potentially rough news this week regarding one of their new faces. One of the Tennessee Vols’ big men just suffered a big setback early on in his time in Knoxville. Virginia Commonwealth transfer forward Christian Fermin suffered a hand injury on Monday during practice and had surgery to repair the injury on Thursday, according to On3 Sports/VolQuest’s …

On Wednesday, Illinois released a two-minute clip of “summer pickup” highlights. There are obvious caveats anytime we try to draw conclusions from footage of this kind, including: 1) The competitions appear to be open runs, not structured five-on-five scrimmages; 2) it’s mid-July; and 3) we’re watching a fraction of the action – and only what the program wants us to …

Over the last few seasons, the Illinois basketball team has caught the eye of the national media once again. We drifted off into outer space after the 2005-06 campaign, the final one of Dee Brown’s great career with the Illini. For nearly two decades, no one outside the Illinois fanbase really cared what was going on in Champaign. Advertisement An …

Former Purdue men’s basketball and Butler assistant Terry Johnson is reportedly staying in-state for his next coaching job. Johnson will join Evansville as associate head coach, ESPN’s Pete Thamel reported Thursday. It would be Johnson’s fifth stint on a staff in his home state. Advertisement Johnson left Matt Painter’s staff after this past season, his fifth with the program. He …

JJ Crawford is just a rising sophomore at Ranier Beach High School in Seattle, jWash. But the five-star prep has been playing on the Nike EYBL stage since he was a mere middle schooler shining against high school kids. And on Thursday morning, his latest stellar performance came at Peach Jam with Duke basketball head coach Jon Scheyer sitting courtside. …

We are heading into late July, and more non-conference games are being announced and rumored to be played for the Red Raiders men’s basketball team. First, even though dates and times have not been announced, the Red Raiders know how many games they will play and whether those games are home or away for Big 12 conference play in the …

All signs point towards a bounce back season for the Oregon Ducks men’s basketball program in 2026-27, as a revamped roster built through the transfer portal will look to stay above water in the Big Ten and compete for a spot in the NCAA Tournament. Earlier this week, CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein tabbed the Ducks as his sleeper candidate in …

The first day of the live period at Peach Jam is here. On Thursday, 2027 Kentucky commit Ryan Hampton took the floor for Nightrydas Elite in front of Kentucky coach Cody Fueger, who arrived in North Aususta on Thursday along with many other coaches. How did Kentucky’s first 2027 commit do on Thursday? First of all, it was a thrilling …

Scared money don’t make money, and that is the phrase Brad Underwood must be living by going into next season. Illinois is coming off its first Final Four appearance since 2005 and came up just short against UConn, but it doesn’t feel like the Illini were just a one-hit wonder. Sure, Illinois will be without breakout star Keaton Wagler, who …