College Basketball

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 …

Want to get more Covers content? Add us as a preferred source on your Google account here. West Virginia and Creighton meet in the semifinals of the College Basketball Crown postseason tournament on Saturday afternoon. Advertisement Creighton is playing to try to send retiring head coach Greg McDermott out on a winning note, while West Virginia is looking to win …

INDIANAPOLIS – The greed is astounding. Not from the athletes, who the power brokers and even the president of the United States would have you believe are bringing about the ruin of college sports. No, the people who have broken the system are the esteemed leaders of college sports, the commissioners and university presidents willing to burn it all down …

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 …

As we wrap up our coverage of the 2025-26 basketball season and the ongoing search for North Carolina’s next head coach, we continue our player reviews. Next up is senior guard Seth Trimble. While Trimble was the third scoring option behind Caleb Wilson and Henri Veesaar, he was the team’s most important player as its leader and the only one …

We’ve made it through another week folks. The Final Four is right around the corner, or so I’ve heard, despite my hope that they would cancel the rest of the tournament after last weekend. Fletcher Loyer is preparing to compete in the Final Four Three Point shootout as I type this. And I hope you’ve got two days off from …

INDIANAPOLIS—The largest arena in the NBA in terms of capacity is the United Center in Chicago, which can hold 20,917 fans. The biggest in college is Louisville’s KFC Yum! Center, which has a capacity of 22,090. When the 2026 Final Four gets underway on Saturday, with Illinois and UConn meeting in the first semifinal, more than 70,000 people could be …

Jasper Johnson, a highly touted in-state recruit, is entering the transfer portal after just one season at Kentucky, marking another offseason departure for the Wildcats after Jaland Lowe entered the portal a few days ago. Johnson’s journey to Lexington was closely followed. The Kentucky native began his high school career at Woodford County before playing at Link Academy in Missouri …

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 …

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 …

The irony is not lost on former Illinois coach Bruce Weber. The most frequent complaint Weber heard throughout his nine-year tenure in Champaign was that he didn’t land enough elite Chicago-area recruits for Illinois to compete for Big Ten titles and national championships. Now, the Illini are back in the Final Four for the first time in 21 years despite …

INDIANAPOLIS — The sequence of events that led to Tommy Lloyd spurning North Carolina and signing a five-year contract extension with Arizona on the eve of the Final Four began with one simple premise. Arizona, in the end, is where he wanted to coach. Advertisement “That was the driving force behind everything,” Lloyd said, revealing the news at his regularly …

INDIANAPOLIS—The way the 2025-26 season played out, it was inevitable that Arizona and Michigan would end up facing each other. That it’s not for the national title is the only surprising part. Since the Wolverines demolished Gonzaga by 40 points in November in Las Vegas, the same place the Wildcats began their season with a takedown of defending NCAA champion …

INDIANAPOLIS – Amid the excitement of the Men’s Final Four, Tommy Lloyd quieted a fast-moving rumor: He will remain the coach of the Arizona men’s basketball team, he said Friday. “Arizona basketball needs to become a locomotive where everything surrounding it is pushing it forward,” Lloyd said. “It’s my opportunity right now to be the captain of the ship … …

Want to get more Covers content? Add us as a preferred source on your Google account here. We’re down to the Final Four of March Madness, and the matchups are mouth-watering for college basketball fans. Advertisement On one side of the bracket, UConn attempts to establish itself as a modern-day dynasty and faces an offensive juggernaut in Illinois. Meanwhile, Arizona …