College Basketball

NIL has forever changed the landscape of college athletics. The Wisconsin Badgers men’s basketball program will try to be active in the transfer portal, but bringing top players to Madison isn’t going to be easy. Advertisement In a new report from On3’s Pete Nakos, numerous teams are “gearing up to spend $10M+” in the transfer portal. Rivals’ Joe Tipton chimed …

UConn men’s basketball (33-5) will look to get to its seventh national title game in program history as the Huskies are set to take on 3-seed Illinois (28-8) in the Final Four on Saturday evening at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, the eighth Final Four appearance for the team since 1999. The Fighting Illini came out of the South Region …

1-seed Michigan basketball takes on 1-seed Arizona on Saturday, April 4 (8:49 p.m., TBS), in the 2026 NCAA Tournament national semifinal at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. The Wolverines opened as 1½-point favorites and have stayed there throughout the week. Here’s how three Free Press sports writers see the game going down, as well as the rest of the weekend’s …

Free Press sports writer Ryan Ford previews the Final Four matchup between Michigan basketball and Arizona, set for Saturday, April 4, in Indianapolis. Fast facts Matchup: Midwest 1-seed Michigan (35-3) vs. West 1-seed Arizona (36-2); NCAA Tournament national semifinal. Tipoff: 8:49 p.m., Saturday, April 4; Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis. At stake: Winner faces Saturday’s winner between 3-seed Illinois or 2-seed UConn for the …

Final Four announcers 2026: Meet the TBS broadcasters, from Ian Eagle to Grant Hill originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. It feels like the 2026 NCAA Tournament just began, but all of a sudden, there are just three games left before a champion is crowned. Advertisement The 2026 Final …

Kentucky Wildcats guard makes big transfer portal decision appeared first on ClutchPoints. Add ClutchPoints as a Preferred Source by clicking here. Kentucky Wildcats freshman guard Jasper Johnson plans to enter the NCAA transfer portal when it opens on April 7, Jonathan Givony of Draft Express reported on Friday. The move will end a one-season stay in Lexington that fell short …

International players in Final Four: How Illinois, Michigan, Arizona, UConn used global influence for rosters originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. The 2026 Final Four teams have been set. Illinois, Michigan, Arizona and UConn have advanced to the 2026 NCAA Tournament semifinals with one win standing between them and …

Who is Dan Hurley’s mom? Meet Christine Hurley, mother of UConn coach going viral for NSFW reactions originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. UConn was on the ropes in the 2026 Elite Eight. The Huskies went into halftime trailing No. 1 Duke 44-29. Head coach Dan Hurley must have …

Illinois would happily welcome – and, frankly, would be over the moon – to face Michigan or Arizona one game from now. Simply because that would mean the Illini are still alive on Monday, college basketball’s final day of the season. To play for a national championship, though, Illinois must first take care of business against UConn – which is …

With a 19-point lead against UConn, many fans believed Duke was on its way to back-to-back Final Four appearances. That unfortunately did not happen, as UConn freshman guard Braylon Mullins broke Blue Devil hearts with a logo three at the buzzer. Now, Jon Scheyer will have a significantly different roster heading into next season. Cameron Boozer, Isaiah Evans, and Patrick …

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 …

There aren’t many sportscasters as beloved as Bill Raftery. Fans have grown to love his infectious energy over the past four decades. Raftery joined CBS Sports’ college basketball crew in 1993. He has worked with James Brown, Sean McDonough, Jim Nantz and Verne Lundquist among other notable broadcasters. On Saturday night, Raftery will call both Final Four games alongside Ian …

INDIANAPOLIS — It feels like a misprint — some kind of mistake. Connecticut an underdog? The same Huskies, who own the most national championships (six) since 1999, and have won it all two of the previous three seasons? Advertisement And, yet, that’s their narrative in this Final Four. They are a 1.5-point underdog to third-seeded Illinois Saturday night. If the …

Where to watch NCAA Final Four in Canada: Times, TV channels, live streams for March Madness basketball originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. The college basketball season has reached its final stage with the NCAA Final Four set for this weekend in Indiana. Advertisement Arizona, Michigan, Connecticut and Illinois …

INDIANAPOLIS — Yaxel Lendeborg accepted his fate. College wasn’t for him. “I was working at a warehouse,” Michigan’s star forward said on Friday. “I was getting used to that lifestyle, this is going to be [my life]. I didn’t have any other aspirations or goals in mind.” Advertisement His mother, Yissel Raposo, wouldn’t accept it. She forced him to go to …

PHOENIX (AP) — Madison Booker has led Texas’ offense all season, so it was little surprise that she hit a jumper less than a minute into the game to give the Longhorns an early two-point lead. It was the last shot she would make for more than three quarters. Advertisement The AP All-America forward missed her next 17 attempts from …

The Brief Tampa Catholic assistant basketball coach Thomas Dziagwa played his college hoops at Oklahoma State. Dziagwa’s two head coaches in Stillwater — Brad Underwood and Mike Boynton — are now coaching in this year’s Final Four. Underwood is the head coach at Illinois while Boynton is an assistant at Michigan. TAMPA, Fla. – If you’ve attended any Tampa Catholic …

The NCAA transfer portal doesn’t open until next week, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t been busy. For the fourth time since a disappointing 19-13 season ended last month, the Virginia Tech Hokies saw a fourth player reveal his intention to enter the portal. On Friday, junior guard Jaden Schutt became the latest Hokie expected to depart. The 6-foot-5, 200-pound …

Coming out of high school, Terrence Hill Jr. was an unranked prospect out of Roosevelt High School in Portland, OR. He committed to the VCU Rams, seeing little run as a freshman. But he burst onto the scene during the 2025-26 season, averaging 15.0 points, 2.8 assists and 2.7 rebounds per game on 46.6% from the field. He was named …

Jaden Schutt, a sharpshooter who ranked No. 75 overall on the 247Sports 2022 Composite, arrived in Durham four years ago as a four-star shooting guard prospect in what was the first Duke basketball recruiting haul under the command of now-fourth-year head coach Jon Scheyer. But he saw action in only 14 contests as a freshman for the 2022-23 Blue Devils …

Want to get more Covers content? Add us as a preferred source on your Google account here. Yaxel Lendeborg has been the straw that stirs the drink for the Michigan Wolverines this season, leading them into their Final Four matchup against Arizona on Saturday. Advertisement My Michigan vs. Arizona predictions are backing Lendeborg to stuff the stat sheet in this …

The NCAA appears to be moving closer to expanding one of its most iconic events. According to Ross Dellenger of Yahoo Sports, the Men’s and Women’s NCAA Tournaments are expected to grow from 68 to 76 teams in the near future. Under the proposed format, the expansion would add eight additional games to the current First Four structure. Instead of …

Even in their best season in the last 8 years, one of Ann Arbor’s own feels that everything is not perfect with the Michigan Wolverines. Dusty May’s team is through to the March Madness for the first time since 2018, where they will face the Arizona Wildcats. Yet, despite this historic season, some flaws could severely limit their ceiling against …

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 …