College Basketball

Hubert Davis is out as the head men’s basketball coach at North Carolina, the school announced late Tuesday. Davis’ exit ends a five-year run for the former North Carolina shooting guard. Davis was a longtime assistant under Hall of Fame coach Roy Williams and took over the program upon the coaching legend’s retirement following the 2020-21 season. Advertisement “We appreciate …

North Carolina makes final decision on Hubert Davis’ future originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. Hubert Davis will not return as North Carolina’s head coach, according to ESPN Pete Thamel. This ends his five-year tenure that included both historic highs and late-season frustrations in Chapel Hill. Advertisement Davis compiled …

Ranking March Madness Sweet 16 coaches, from Rick Pitino to Sean Miller originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. The rest of the NCAA Tournament could be a chess match. Advertisement While plenty of stars remain alive in March Madness, from Darius Acuff and Cameron Boozer to Braden Smith and …

Top 5 Hubert Davis replacements as next North Carolina basketball coach appeared first on ClutchPoints. Add ClutchPoints as a Preferred Source by clicking here. On Tuesday evening, North Carolina basketball made the expected decision to fire head coach Hubert Davis. The move came on the heels of a 19-point blown lead against No. 11 seed VCU in the first round …

New Providence men’s basketball coach Bryan Hodgson walked to the podium Tuesday to talk about rebuilding a program in Rhode Island. He was supposed to talk about restoring pride and drawing the map of the future of Providence hoops. Instead, he turned his introductory news conference into something far more human … and far more viral. “If you ever wanna …

Scott Van Pelt lays out hard truth about Hubert Davis’ North Carolina tenure appeared first on ClutchPoints. Add ClutchPoints as a Preferred Source by clicking here. North Carolina basketball is one of the most prominent brands in college hoops history. It is not supposed to be a punchline. Despite coming just short of a national championship in his first year …

WHO: No. 3 Michigan State Spartans (25-7) vs. No. 2 Connecticut Huskies (29-5) WHAT: Sweet Sixteen – Men’s NCAA Tournament WHERE: Capital One Arena in Washington, DC WHEN: Friday, March 27 | 9:45 PM ET WATCH: CBS Michigan State is back in the Sweet Sixteen—right where Mr. March, Tom Izzo, and the Spartans always seem to belong. Advertisement But the …

Any review of the 2025–26 BYU basketball season, which ended last Thursday with a discouraging loss to Texas in an NCAA Tournament first-round game, has to begin and end with AJ Dybantsa, the generational talent who led the country in scoring while leading the Cougars further into the national spotlight. It will be remembered as the Season of AJ, assuming …

The NCAA Tournament isn’t even over, and we’ve begun to see plenty of movement in the world of college basketball. For the Virginia Tech Hokies, the season ended two weeks ago with a disappointing first-round loss to the Wake Forest Demon Deacons in the ACC Tournament. The Hokies entered the ACC Tournament as one of the top four teams out, …

MUNCIE — The Chris Capko era of Ball State basketball has officially begun. Ball State introduced Capko to the Muncie community as the school’s next basketball coach with his introductory news conference Tuesday. The Ball State Alumni Center was standing room only as it was packed with fans, alumni, administrators, fellow coaches and former basketball players who all wanted to …

North Carolina must now go outside the family to replace Hubert Davis, and that’s a good thing originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. If you wish to look at things from the most positive perspective possible, Bill Guthridge, Matt Doherty and Hubert Davis reached a combined three Final Fours …

MUNCIE — The Chris Capko era of Ball State basketball has officially begun. Ball State introduced Capko to the Muncie community as the school’s next basketball coach with his introductory news conference Tuesday. The Ball State Alumni Center was standing room only as it was packed with fans, alumni, administrators, fellow coaches and former basketball players who all wanted to …

North Carolina and men’s basketball coach Hubert Davis have parted ways after five seasons leading the tradition-rich program. The school announced the decision Tuesday night, saying it had made “a leadership change” to end Davis’ tenure as successor to retired Hall of Fame coach Roy Williams. That run featured featured multiple high points, but also wild swings of results, an …

Kentucky Basketball’s offseason shakeup continued Tuesday night with news that assistant Jason Hart was leaving the program to join the SMU Mustangs coaching staff. KSR’s Jacob Polacheck broke the news first. Hart, who came to Kentucky as part of Mark Pope’s first coaching staff in Lexington, was working on a two-year contract that will expire this summer. That’s the case …

Hubert Davis won nearly 70% of his games as North Carolina head coach. But that wasn’t enough to keep him in the job at his alma mater. Davis led the Tar Heels to the national championship game in his first season 2021-22 and back to the Sweet 16 in 2023-24. But UNC missed the tournament altogether in 2022-23 and was …

Hubert Davis is out at North Carolina. That means one of the most well-resourced, tradition-rich jobs in all of college basketball is open. Expect some of the sport’s biggest names linked to the opening. Will UNC stay in the family like it did with Davis, Roy Williams, Matt Doherty and Bill Guthridge since Dean Smith retired after the 1997 season? …

The North Carolina Tar Heels will be on the market for a head men’s basketball coach. They’ve parted ways with head basketball coach Hubert Davis, according to Pete Nakos. Davis was the successor to legendary head coach Roy Williams. He was an assistant coach to Williams from 2012 until Williams’ retirement in 2021, and he helped coach the Tar Heels …

A changing of the guard is going to take place in Chapel Hill. According to ESPN’s Pete Thamel, the North Carolina Tar Heels are set to part ways with head coach Hubert Davis after this season, where the Tar Heels failed to make it past the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Davis coached for five seasons at North Carolina, …

There may be a head coaching job opening within the North Carolina Tar Heels basketball program, and analysts are saying Arizona Wildcats head coach Tommy Lloyd fits the bill. Four days after UNC’s March 19 First-Round loss to VCU in the NCAA Tournament, famed college basketball analyst Jeff Goodman cited the Arizona head coach as a name that is “floating …

The Chris Capko era of Ball State basketball has officially begun. Ball State officially introduced Capko to the Muncie community as the school’s next head basketball coach with his introductory press conference on Tuesday, March 24. The Ball State Alumni Center was standing room only as it was packed with fans, alumni, administrators, fellow coaches and former basketball players who …

St. Mary’s star forward Paulius Murauskas is entering the transfer portal, he told DraftExpress’ Jonathan Givony. The move comes shortly after longtime St. Mary’s head coach Randy Bennett left to take over the Arizona State Sun Devils. Murauskas emerged as one of the best players in the West Coast Conference as a junior. The Kaunas, Lithuania native made the First …

Texas basketball’s Sean Miller credits SEC gauntlet for unlikely March Madness run appeared first on ClutchPoints. Add ClutchPoints as a Preferred Source by clicking here. The Texas basketball team is in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament. That is a great start to the tenure of head coach Sean Miller, who is in just his first season in Austin. …

Until Rick Pitino took charge of the program in 2023, St. John’s basketball in this century was defined by their repeated failed efforts to live up to the standard set by Lou Carnesecca. Every successive head coach fizzled out due to incompatibility or incompetence, any glimmer of a turnaround was a mirage, and one could bank on an uneventful March …

Hello Sweet Sixteen! The Texas Longhorns have stormed through the NCAA Tournament so far, winning its play-in game against NC State and upsetting two highly thought of higher seeds in BYU and Gonzaga. The three wins in five days have made UT one of the rare First Four teams to advance this far and are the lowest seed left in …

With coaching changes come roster turnover. The Arizona State men’s basketball team has its first newcomer, as four-star guard JRob Croy has flipped his commitment from Saint Mary’s to Arizona State, following coach Randy Bennett’s move to Tempe. Advertisement Croy, a 6-foot-5 guard out of Riverside (Calif.) Poly High School had offers from the likes of Stanford, Oregon, USC, and …