College Basketball

Greenville, S.C. — The preseason hype surrounding a kid named Keaton Wagler felt rather obscure back then. Today, Keaton Wagler is considered one of the recent great Illini to grace the wooden State Farm Center court. On Tuesday, Illinois freshman Keaton Wagler was named to the All-American Second Team, the first Illini Freshman ever to receive such an honor. Advertisement …

It was the return of playoff basketball for the Nevada men’s basketball team, hosting a first-round NIT game against Murray State. The storylines between these programs have been a topic of discussion ever since this matchup was announced, and Nevada came out on top 89-75. Advertisement These two squads almost played each other in August in the Bahamas. Murray State …

Continuing his own March Madness tradition, former president Barack Obama unveiled his NCAA Tournament brackets on Wednesday. Obama, who has been doing this since his presidency in 2012, has Arizona winning the men’s tourney and UConn coming out on top among the women. Both brackets are fairly chalky, as is often the case with Obama. Advertisement He has all four …

After practice before the Gonzaga Bulldogs’ first-round matchup of the NCAA Tournament at the Moda Center in Portland, Oregon, the players spoke with the media in the locker room. One of those players was redshirt junior forward Braden Huff, who hasn’t spoken to the press since he dislocated his left knee back during practice on Jan. 14, just a day …

PORTLAND, Ore. — Texas doesn’t want your sympathy. It’s been an exhausting 24 hours for the Longhorns, who played in the First Four round of the NCAA Tournament Tuesday night in Dayton, Ohio, then caught a red eye flight after the game and arrived in Portland, Oregon at 6:30 a.m. on Wednesday. Advertisement A round of 64 matchup with BYU …

March Madness is underway and the transfer portal will open in just a few short weeks, but there is still plenty to sort out of with some of the top high school basketball recruits in the country. Of the top 50 prospects in the Rivals Industry Rankings, 43 have either committed or signed to a school after USC landed Five-Star …

Miami RedHawks guard Eian Elmer, a former Taft High School standout, joined the 1,000-point club during a huge first half in their NCAA Tournament First Four game March 18 against the SMU Mustangs at University of Dayton Arena. Elmer had 14 points in the first half, and made 4-of-6 from 3-point range to help give the RedHawks a halftime lead. …

It’s here, March Madness, one of the most exciting events on the sports calendar. This year, Kentucky Basketball is a 7-seed for the first time in program history and starts NCAA Tournament play in St. Louis, within driving distance for much of Big Blue Nation. Advertisement Their first-round opponent, the 10-seeded Santa Clara Broncos, who are making their first NCAA …

The final weekend before the NCAA tournament saw the last wave of conference tournaments. It became an especially big weekend of college basketball for CBS, which drew historic TV ratings for the Big Ten title game between Purdue and Michigan. Sunday’s Big Ten tournament championship was the most-watched game of championship week, topping the ACC title game, which aired Saturday …

Happy Madness Eve, TOC Nation. This week we asked for your predictions on the Men’s and Women’s Basketball Teams results for the opening weekend of their respective tournaments. Ladies first, even though they will start tournament play a day later. Impressively, 58% believe Robyn Fralick’s squad will pick up two wins, the second of which will presumably be against Oklahoma …

As the title of the article states, Drew Scharnowski, a 6’9”, 230-pound rising redshirt-junior forward for the Belmont Bruins, recently entered the transfer portal. Joining his teammate, reigning MVC Player of the Year Tyler Lundblade (who I wrote about here). This is obviously pertinent to Kansas State because its new head coach, Casey Alexander, was at Belmont last season. Scharnowski …

We are just one day away from the start of March Madness, as the No. 5 seed Wisconsin Badgers will take on the No. 12 seed High Point Panthers in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Thursday, with tip-off slated for 12:50 p.m. CT. The Badgers are riding hot heading into the tournament, thanks to strong final six …

The history books will rightfully remember last year’s March Madness as a chalk, with four No. 1 seeds in the Final Four and three No. 2 seeds in the Elite Eight. But as the first round of the 2026 NCAA Tournament first round gets set to begin on Thursday, March 19, it’s perhaps worth noting what happened to the bracket …

The Michigan Wolverines will take on Howard in the Round of 64 on Thursday in Buffalo, New York, officially kicking off the 2026 NCAA Tournament. They opened as the clear favorites to make it to Indianapolis out of the Midwest region (-130 on FanDuel), and they are now the co-favorites to win the National Championship Game (+360) along with Arizona, …

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Duke coach Jon Scheyer says starting big man Patrick Ngongba II is “very unlikely” to play Thursday’s first-round game against Siena in March Madness because of soreness in his right foot. The 6-foot-11, 250-pound sophomore has missed four straight games for the Blue Devils (32-2), first as a game-time decision for the regular-season finale against rival …

The All-American first team looks like the next wave of NBA stars originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. The college basketball All-American team has always been an achievement that players aspire to. However, since the addition of the ‘one-and-done’ dynamic, over time the All-American team has become an even …

No team has made more 3-pointers, nor launched more, than Alabama in the past four seasons. And nothing will shake coach Nate Oats from believing they’re at the core of building a winner in modern basketball. Teams might struggle to match the Crimson Tide’s sheer volume heading into March Madness, but they’re leaning into those long-distance shots, too. Advertisement “Finding …

Want to get more Covers content? Add us as a preferred source on your Google account here. The first round of the NCAA Tournament is chaotic as 64 of the best college basketball teams in the nation clash in a win-or-go-home scenario over two days. Advertisement Trying to make a perfect March Madness bracket is practically impossible, and trying to …

The Big Ten Conference tied its record by sending nine teams to this year’s NCAA Men’s Tournament, just one behind the SEC’s ten bids in 2026. Still, the league is chasing its first national title since 2000, when the Michigan State Spartans, led by Tom Izzo, cut down the nets. With nine teams in the field this year, all seeded …

The Michigan Wolverines officially have their first-round opponent in the NCAA Tournament, as Howard defeated UMBC on Tuesday night in the play-in game to advance to the Round of 64. Michigan and Howard will tip-off in Buffalo, New York on Thursday at 7:10 p.m. ET on CBS. Wolverine fans are in for a treat, as Brian Anderson and Jim Jackson …

The No. 9-seeded TCU Horned Frogs (22-11) are set to square off against the No. 8-seeded Ohio State Buckeyes (21-12) in the first round of the East Region in the 2026 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. The Horned Frogs, who’ve won nine of their last 11 games, are currently 2.5-point underdogs to the Buckeyes, who’ve won four of their last five …

Former Georgia Bulldogs basketball star guard Silas Demary headlines the three Georgia basketball transfers that have made the NCAA Tournament. Demary and the No. 2 seed UConn Huskies open the NCAA Tournament against No. 15 seed Furman. ESPN ranks Demary as the No. 33 player in March Madness. Demary’s transfer departure certainly hurt Georgia basketball, but the Bulldogs still managed …

This article was first published in the Cougar Insiders newsletter. Sign up to receive the newsletter in your inbox each week. BYU will play its first-round game in the NCAA Tournament in Portland on Thursday as a No. 6 seed in the West Region. Led by projected No. 1 NBA draft pick AJ Dybantsa, the Cougars hope to ride an …

March Madness is finally here and the stage is set for this season’s superstars to etch their names into NCAA tournament lore. Does this year’s tourney have an Ali Farokhmanesh or a Harold Arceneaux in its midst? How about a Bryce Drew or even, dare we say … a Stephen Curry? All it takes is one freak performance or a …

North Carolina opens NCAA Tournament play in the South Region on Thursday, and unlike past years when it came in as a No. 6 seed or lower, the Tar Heels draw a dangerous first-round matchup with No. 11 seed VCU. The Rams have reached the NCAA Tournament 15 times since 2004. In those 15 appearances, they have advanced out of …