College Basketball

Milan Momcilovic and the Kentucky Wildcats Basketball players have been making their way to Lexington. Milan had a message for the BBN as he arrived to campus. We also saw Zoom Diallo tell the BBN he’s ready to be a leader on this year’s team. And Franck Kepnang said the BBN can look forward to a lot of blocked shots. …

Throughout the offseason, the USC Trojans appear to have done a solid job adding talent through the transfer portal and high school recruiting, which could help USC to take a major step forward in 2026. With the additions that the Trojans have made, it seems that USC may be in a great spot in the Big Ten following a strong …

INDIANAPOLIS – Baron Walker had a far-fetched thought after the Indiana All-Stars’ game against Kentucky on Saturday night that actually might make some sense in this crazy transfer portal college basketball world. “I wish we could just form a college and be a college team if we could,” Walker said. Advertisement Indiana All-Stars’ coach Todd Woelfle, told of Walker’s idea, …

The Gonzaga Bulldogs will begin the 2026-27 season, their first in the new-look Pac-12, squaring off against the Purdue Boilermakers at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas as the first of two men’s basketball matchups in the Hall of Fame Series. The game was officially announced by Gonzaga in late February, and it was revealed on Thursday that this matchup will …

Syracuse received a commitment from 2026 guard Ethan Butler, he announced on social media. Butler spent the 2025-26 season playing in the Overtime Elite basketball league for the Pheonix-based Diamond Doves. Advertisement He appeared in 17 game and averaged 5.2 points, 3.1 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game. Prior to his time in Overtime Elite, he led St. Francis Prep …

By now, the Villanova pipeline to the New York Knicks is well documented. Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart, and Mikal Bridges were teammates on a Wildcats roster that won national championships in 2016 and 2018. Eight years later, the trio is doing their thing in New York and only two games away from bringing the Larry O’Brien trophy to the Big Apple. …

College basketball fans are used to it by now. Programs load up their schedule to play games in NBA arenas, international venues, and even baseball stadiums. Revenue growth and brand exposure drive these decisions, which will continue to be paramount in the NIL era. While schools constantly review their bottom lines, the bottom line for local fans and students is …

The North Carolina Tar Heels have had no downtime this offseason, with developments and updates constantly revolving through the doors in Chapel Hill. Last week, we learned of the Tar Heels’ home and away ACC schedule, and earlier in the offseason, a portion of their non-conference schedule was released. Late Thursday, North Carolina was informed of another non-conference game, and …

It’s become a regularity for Duke fans under head coach Jon Scheyer that the Blue Devils will face one of the toughest non-conference schedules in college basketball each season. The 2026-27 campaign will be no different. The Blue Devils are slated to go up against three of last season’s Final Four clubs, including both squads that played in the National …

For Virginia Tech men’s basketball, the 2026-27 season is still around five months away – the roster itself, though, looks like a recipe that is nearly done cooking. Here’s a look at what I think is one strength and one weakness of the 2026-27 roster: Strength: In the aggregate, there’s a lot of depth. Last year’s Virginia Tech unit struggled …

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The 2026-27 men’s college basketball season is still several months away from tipping off, Louisville’s roster for their third season under head coach Pat Kelsey is likely set – at least in terms of scholarship players. While a whopping 11 players have departed the program in some form or fashion this offseason, six players have opted to …

The matchups for the 2026 ACC/SEC Challenge have been released, and this year poses for one of the better events since its inception in 2023. The ACC, at least on paper, looks deeper and more talented from top to bottom than it has in any of the past five or six years. The SEC has arguably been the best conference …

Mick Cronin has added another piece to the roster for next season. 18-year-old 6’7″ forward from Real Madrid, Gunars Grinvalds, has announced that he will play for the Bruins next season. Grinvalds started playing professionally in Spain with Real Madrid last season, making debuts in both the ACB and EuroLeague in 2025. The 18-year-old helped Real Madrid win the LigaU …

The Duke basketball program has added another elite matchup to its already stellar non-conference schedule. The matchups for the 2026 ACC/SEC Challenge were released, and the Blue Devils will take on Florida for the second consecutive year. In 2025-26, the Gators came to Cameron Indoor Stadium, where Duke won in a thriller, 67-66. This time around, Duke will make the …

Good morning, BBN! A new basketball game has taken the internet by storm this week. You’ve probably seen a thousand screenshots showing off their 82-0 rosters. Now, Kentucky Basketball has its own version, and the goal is to go 40-0 from Big Blue Roulette. Advertisement When you spin the wheel, it runs through previous Kentucky Wildcat teams, and you get to …

As a sophomore, Anthony Robinson II changed the dynamics of the Missouri basketball roster. The expectations outside the program were for Tony Perkins to be the lead guard and Robinson to enter into a larger role than he saw as a freshman, but still largely a backup. But 30 starts later, Robinson had inserted himself as one of the most …

LEXINGTON, Ky. – There is still a game to go, but Dikembe Shaw already sounded nostalgic about Indiana All-Star week on Friday night. “Being around so many individuals who are so skilled and doing the thing I love, and I’m sure they love, and how they approach the game and their lives, I’ve just learned so much,” said Shaw, the …

The dog days of summer are underway, and three of the four newest Gonzaga Bulldogs recruits through the 2026 class have arrived a month early before the official team workouts start. Through the incoming NCAA transfer portal haul, both 6-6 Houston Cougars sophomore shooting guard/wing Isiah Harwell and 7-1 Arizona State Sun Devils sophomore center Massamba Diop are on campus …

The biggest risk when it comes to the proliferation of legal sports betting comes from the possibility of players deliberately losing games. The NCAA has found that four Alabama State basketball players did just that, in December 2024 against Southern Mississippi. Advertisement Per the NCAA’s negotiated resolution, Amarr Knox, Shawn Fulcher, Corey Hines and Tony Madlock accepted a total of …

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The hero of Alabama State’s first NCAA Tournament win and three of his teammates on the 2024-25 team were ruled permanently ineligible for accepting payment from gamblers to fix the outcome of a game that season, the NCAA announced Friday. Amarr Knox, Shawn Fulcher, Corey Hines and Tony Madlock were alleged to have engaged in game manipulation …

While the frontcourt deservedly got much of the attention during Virginia’s surge to a second-place finish in the ACC basketball standings in Ryan Odom’s first year as head coach, there was another underappreciated factor in that success. In the final minutes of close games, Odom often employed two point guards on the court at the same time: nominal starter Dallin …

The first year of Jai Lucas saw the team battle back from the worst season in program history and put together one of the best seasons. The Miami Hurricanes are starting to take off in year two, and way-too-early projections also rank the Canes among the top 25 teams in the country across many publications. The Hurricanes are returning two …

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The play was not necessarily designed for Brianna Wilkins to take the final shot. With 3.2 seconds left in the girls’ Indiana All-Star game against the Kentucky All-Stars on Friday night, Indiana’s Brooklynn Renn drilled two free throws to tie the score. Kentucky called timeout to advance the ball to halfcourt (a rule that is used in …

The Ole Miss Rebels tried to pull off the unthinkable last season. After going 15-20 on the season, and just 4-14 in the SEC, the Rebels knew they had to take home the SEC Tournament in order to keep dancing into March Madness. Unfortunately, the Arkansas Razorbacks and their one-man show, Darius Acuff, stuffed the Rebels from just reaching the …

Kentucky Basketball is officially coming together in Lexington, as players have begun moving into the Wildcat Coal Lodge, with the entire roster expected to be on campus by this weekend. The first to arrive was class of 2026 4-star point guard Mason Williams, which makes sense given that his father, Mo Williams, is an assistant coach for Kentucky and a …