College Basketball

Big Blue Nation has started to get excited about the 2026-27 season because the Kentucky basketball social media team has been posting photos and videos from practices. While fans are getting excited about the upcoming season, there has been one question BBN has had about these photos. That question is, why is Kam Williams not around? Last season, Williams transferred …

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The biggest piece Arkansas basketball needs to contend for a national championship this season is a big man. That’s been well documented as head coach John Calipari has gone through the roster-building process. To the Hall of Famer’s credit, he’s brought in several viable options: Miikka Muurinen, Cooper Bowser and Maper Maker are all solid players who …

Yesterday, Kentucky announced a few more of its non-conference games, and some folks are not happy about the quality of opponents that will come to Rupp Arena. The seven teams added to the schedule were Manhattan (November 3rd), James Madison (November 6th), Northern Arizona (November 13th), Grambling State (November 16th), Bryant (December 8th), Sacred Heart (December 22nd), and Gardner-Webb (December …

One of the advantages that the 2025-26 Iowa State Cyclones men’s basketball team had going into the season was its continuity. Tamin Lipsey was entering Year 4 with the program. Milan Momcilovic was in Year 3 and Joshua Jefferson was in Year 2. Nate Heise was coming off the bench and in his second campaign with Iowa State. Advertisement That …

A very important part of a successful college basketball team is having some players step up and be leaders. Big Blue Nation has been curious about who will be the leaders on this team, knowing there are a lot of new faces walking into the locker room, but two guys seem to be taking over as leaders early into the …

The Iowa State Cyclones men’s basketball team is going to look a lot different during the 2026-27 campaign than it did at the end of the 2025-26 season. Head coach T.J. Otzelberger remains as the leader of the program, but he had to replace two assistant coaches: JR Blount and Kyle Green. Both hired to become head coaches themselves, with …

Mark Few and the Gonzaga Bulldogs will hit the road out to Omaha to take on the Creighton Bluejays this winter, in the return game of a home-and-home series started in 2025-26. The game is set to take place on Saturday, Dec. 12, in Omaha, according to CBS reporter Jon Rothstein. Neither team has confirmed this report, and a time …

The Big Ten opponents have dropped for Greg Gard’s 2026-27 Wisconsin Badgers, and game one is just over four months away, so the doldrums of early summer seem like a perfect time for a ridiculously premature series of guesses about how the upcoming season will go. Let’s get right to it, shall we? Advertisement Best Case Greg Gard doesn’t rebuild, he reloads. So, in this optimistic scenario, losing John …

The Duke Blue Devils have one of the most loaded rosters in all of college basketball headed into next season, and a big reason why has a lot to do with the return of the team’s notable stars. This offseason, the team has lost many talents, such as Cameron Boozer and Isaiah Evans, to the draft. However, they’ve also been …

Gone are the days of UCLA, USC, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Arizona State… The Pac-12’s loss is our gain. We asked last week whether you thought the new Pac-12, which officially takes shape on July 1, would be considered a mid-major conference, and 67% of fans believe it will be. The Conference of Champions was whittled down to two football teams …

Many players in the Duke basketball family have gone viral this summer, like Joaquim Boumtje-Boumtje or Kon Knueppel’s younger brother, Kager. However, many Duke supporters haven’t been keeping up with JJ Redick’s son. Knox Redick, a current middle school prospect, has impressed for New Heights at the Global Games Youth Basketball Championship. In a recent video, Redick is seen knocking …

Jeremy Jenkins, a four-star power forward in the 2027 class, tells Rivals he’s down to ten schools. Moving forward, the 6-foot-9 rising senior out of Riviera Prep (FL) will consider Dayton, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Indiana, NC State, Texas A&M, Virginia Tech, Washington, West Virginia, and Xavier. Jenkins is currently in the process of scheduling official visits. Advertisement Prior to …

Indiana men’s basketball keeps adding onto its 2026-27 schedule… kind of. Indiana has added an exhibition matchup against North Carolina set to be played on Sunday, October 18, at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. It’ll be the first matchup between the two programs since 2022 but, unlike that 77-65 win at Assembly Hall, the game won’t count toward either team’s record, …

We already knew that Marquette men’s basketball was going to be in the 2026 Battle 4 Atlantis event in the Bahamas coming up this November. At the time back in May, it seemed that the event had shifted from an 8-team bracketed event where everyone plays three games to a pair of four team events with each team playing twice. …

Even Jay Wright didn’t see Jalen Brunson going Kobe Bryant in 2026 NBA Finals appeared first on ClutchPoints. Add ClutchPoints as a Preferred Source by clicking here. In the latest edition of The Rich Eisen Show, former Villanova University head coach Jay Wright spoke about Jalen Brunson’s NBA success. Wright coached Brunson when Villanova won the national championship in 2018. …

Good morning, BBN! The focus of the last few days has been the introduction of the new AD, J Blatt, alongside the start of offseason practice for Mark Pope and the Kentucky Wildcats. All the while, Nick Mingione and the Kentucky Baseball team have built a solid incoming transfer class. Advertisement Headlined by RHP PJ Craig and OF Alex Kelsey, …

Mark Pope has been on a tear this past month, landing his first top-10 high school recruit (Ryan Hampton) and a consensus top-three transfer portal player in Milan Momcilovic. That momentum is carrying over into the summer basketball circuit, and Kentucky Basketball just offered a really familiar name: Erick Dampier Jr. That’s probably going to make some of you feel …

The Kentucky Basketball team officially began summer practice on Monday, but fans got an early preview of the Wildcats’ new-look roster thanks to videos posted by the program over the last two days. On Sunday, Kentucky’s social media team shared footage of players going through various athletic tests, including agility challenges and vertical jump measurements. It served as a nice …

Virginia Tech women’s basketball garnered a commitment from international product Francesca Baldassarre, who enters the program as a 5-foot-9 freshman. The 5-foot-9 guard from Brindisi, Italy, will presumably have a full four years of eligibility. The 18-year-old spent two seasons with Afora Givova Battipaglia in Italy’s top league Serie A1. In her first season, she logged 2.2 points per game, …

Mark Pope made a splash addition to the 2026-27 roster, adding Iowa State transfer Milan Momcilovic. This addition officially has Big Blue Nation excited about the season, as fans believe that now this roster is a true contender. Momcilovic is known as a three-point shooter as he shot 48.7% from three on 7.5 attempts per game last season for the …

Mark Few and the Gonzaga Bulldogs made an international splash on Sunday, securing a commitment from 18-year-old French guard Juwan Ekanga-Ehawa. Ekanga-Ehawa has been a star in France’s youth leagues and has seen his stock rise over the past few months. He joins a Gonzaga roster that had virtually zero depth in the backcourt behind returners Mario Saint-Supery and Davis …

The Gophers have added a neutral-site nonconference matchup with SMU to their 2026-27 schedule, according to college basketball analyst Rocco Miller. The game is expected to be played on Dec. 12 in Frisco, Texas. Minnesota has recently added notable showdowns with St. Thomas and California to its nonconference slate for next season, and the Mustangs will now provide another formidable …

After Jaland Lowe hit the transfer portal, it was clear that Mark Pope and the Kentucky coaching staff would be looking for a new point guard, and they found a really good one. Coach Pope brought in Washington transfer Zoom Diallo, who put up some very impressive numbers last season in the Big 10 for the Huskies. Last year as …

The New York Knicks — featuring former Villanova Wildcats basketball players Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart and Mikal Bridges — secured the franchise’s first NBA title since 1973 with a Game 5 victory over the San Antonio Spurs on Saturday night. Brunson led the way for the Knicks as Finals MVP, averaging 32.6 points per game in the championship series. Hart …

With the addition of Mississippi State to the field, Texas A&M basketball’s opponents for the 2026 Battle 4 Atlantis were officially announced on Monday evening. According to a report from CBS Sports reporter Matt Norlander, the tournament has been changed to include two groups of four teams, with the Bulldogs being added. This means the Aggies will face Marquette and …