College Basketball

[ad_1] New Texas Longhorns men’s basketball coach Sean Miller has a long history coaching college hoops. With two stops at Xavier and more than a decade at Arizona, Miller will now continue his career in Austin. Miller has worked his way up the ranks, but his basketball beginnings go back farther than playing for Pitt. As a kid, Miller made …

[ad_1] Gophers men’s basketball player Brennan Rigsby is entering the NCAA transfer portal, a source confirmed to the Pioneer Press on Thursday. This leaves new men’s basketball coach Niko Medved with two scholarship players for next season: rising sophomores Isaac Asuma and Grayson Grove. Rigby’s exit leaves the U with 11 open scholarships for the 2025-26 season. Rigsby, who joined …

[ad_1] FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — George Mason basketball coach Tony Skinn has agreed to a one-year contract extension that ties the Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year to the school through the 2029-30 season. The university announced the deal Thursday. Skinn, a player on the George Mason team that reached the 2006 Final Four, coached the Patriots to a share …

[ad_1] RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Since 2002, VCU has had to hire a basketball coach seven times. The last five have all led the Rams to the NCAA Tournament. So, as he spoke to the media, boosters and fans on Thursday during his introductory press conference, Phil Martelli Jr. knew what kind of expectations he would be taking on as …

[ad_1] Andy Mathis  |  Special to USA TODAY Duke, Arkansas, and Houston headline Men’s Sweet 16 With the Sweet 16 upon us, USA Today Sports’ Mackenzie Salmon previews a few of the top matchups we’re most looking forward to. Sports Seriously Ole Miss coach Chris Beard utilizes a “Michigan State rebounding” drill in practice as an homage to Tom Izzo’s …

[ad_1] DALLAS (AP) — New SMU athletic director Damon Evans is taking over a department enjoying momentum it hasn’t seen in decades after the Mustangs exceeded expectations in their first year in the Atlantic Coast Conference. The football team didn’t lose an ACC regular-season game and qualified for the first expanded, 12-team playoff. The men’s basketball team flirted with an …

[ad_1] BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — When North Carolina’s Courtney Banghart and Duke’s Kara Lawson took over their respective programs in back-to-back seasons, the questioning was loud. Could they return the ACC powers to prominence? Carry them deep into the NCAA tournament? Pour more fuel on the the UNC-Duke rivalry? “When you take these jobs, you know that, and you hear it …

[ad_1] INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Nearly every year there’s at least one lovable underdog that rises from obscurity in the NCAA Tournament to capture the hearts of basketball fans and bust their brackets. Not this year. All 16 regional semifinalists are from power conferences for the first time since the bracket expanded to 64 teams in 1985. The popular theory is …

[ad_1] Who does Graham Couch of the Lansing State Journal like in this NCAA Tournament game between the Spartans and Rebels? Will Michigan State basketball get back to the Elite Eight for the first time since 2019 on Friday night? Graham Couch of the Lansing State Journal is here to provide his thoughts on this. Michigan State will battle No. …

[ad_1] Penn hired Fran McCaffery as its men’s basketball coach on Thursday, two weeks after he was fired at Iowa in a season where the Hawkeyes won their fewest games and had their lowest Big Ten regular-season finish in seven years. Penn fired Steve Donahue earlier this month after the Quakers went 8-19 in his ninth season on the job. …

[ad_1] BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Duke women’s basketball will have ACC Rookie of the Year Toby Fournier in its Sweet 16 matchup against North Carolina on Friday in the 2025 NCAA Tournament at Legacy Arena. The Blue Devils were without Fournier in their second-round game over Oregon, coach Kara Lawson saying postgame that the Canada native “wasn’t feeling well,” and that …

[ad_1] Marquette men’s basketball team’s reaction to earning No. 7 seed Here is the Marquette men’s basketball team’s reaction on Selection Sunday after learning it will play New Mexico in the first round of the NCAA tournament For the first time in two years, the Marquette men’s basketball team is losing a player to the NCAA transfer portal. Al Amadou, …

[ad_1] Penn hired Fran McCaffery as its men’s basketball coach after he was fired at Iowa in a season where the Hawkeyes won their fewest games and had their lowest Big Ten regular-season finish in seven years. Penn fired Steve Donahue after the Quakers went 8-19 in his ninth season on the job. McCaffery played three seasons with the Quakers …

[ad_1] It is now officially game day for the Alabama Crimson Tide once again, as the program gets set to take on the BYU Cougars in the Sweet 16 round of the 2025 men’s NCAA Tournament. The No. 6 seed in the East Region, BYU is one of the top offensive teams remaining in the NCAA Tournament, one that could …

[ad_1] SAN FRANCISCO — In an NCAA Tournament sorely lacking in Cinderella stories, coach John Calipari has the unusual role of being the closest thing to it. After routinely taking powerhouse teams in his first decade at Kentucky to the Sweet 16 and beyond, Calipari surprisingly has done the same in his first season at Arkansas with the 10th-seeded Razorbacks …

[ad_1] Kansas basketball coach Bill Self talks Arkansas loss in March Madness Check out everything Kansas basketball coach Bill Self and his players had to say following a NCAA tournament loss in March Madness against Arkansas. LAWRENCE — KJ Adams’ recovery process from the injury he sustained during Kansas basketball’s NCAA tournament loss against Arkansas is underway. According to a …

[ad_1] Vanderbilt basketball enters its offseason looking to build off a successful first year under Mark Byington that resulted in the team’s first March Madness berth in eight years. The Commodores used the transfer portal to great success in 2024 after the departure of Jerry Stackhouse left them with just one returning scholarship player. That player, JQ Roberts, entered the …

[ad_1] NEWARK, New Jersey — You’ve probably seen the video by now. After being controversially ejected from Saturday’s Round of 32 matchup with Wisconsin, Dawson Baker was banished to BYU’s locker room, forced to watch the game’s thrilling conclusion on television despite being just yards away from the action. A camera in the locker room captured Baker during the game’s …

[ad_1] MSU basketball: Video analysis of the Spartans’ win over New Mexico Lansing State Journal columnist Graham Couch, Freep MSU beat writer Chris Solari and Freep columnist Shawn Windsor discuss MSU’s win over New Mexico. Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo’s coaching staff is full of familiar faces, including former players and longtime colleagues.Izzo has relied heavily on his assistants …

[ad_1] Illinois’ second-round NCAA tournament exit allows college basketball writer Scott Richey to hunker down Thursday night for a quartet of Sweet 16 games. Before they tip off, he’s got the game-by-game breakdown: No. 2 Alabama vs. No. 6 BYU, 6:09 p.m., CBS Why to watch:These two teams are out to prove that offense, in fact, can win championships. The …

[ad_1] Michigan State basketball head coach Tom Izzo is known around the college basketball world as “Mr. March.” Over the 30 years he has been at the helm, Izzo has racked up one national championship, eight Final Four appearances, and 16 Sweet Sixteen runs. The Spartans have reached the NCAA Tournament for 27 consecutive years—the longest standing record in the …

[ad_1] Xavier will play Iowa on the road at Carver-Hawkeye Arena next season, according to CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein. Xavier and Iowa agreed to a home-and-home series prior to naming new head coaches this week, Rothstein said in his report Wednesday. Xavier announced the hiring of New Mexico’s Rick Pitino on Tuesday night. Earlier that day, Ben McCollum, who led …

[ad_1] Should the NCAA transfer portal open before the end of March Madness? Rick Pitino, John Calipari, and even J.J. Watt sound off on the transfer portal opening during the NCAA tournament. Sports Seriously The highest-scoring game in NCAA men’s tournament history came in 1990, when Loyola Marymount beat Michigan 149-115 in the second round. A week later, the Lions …

[ad_1] A former member of the Nebraska basketball staff has landed his first college head coaching job. Ali Farokhmanesh has accepted the position of head basketball coach at Colorado State University. Farokhmanesh has been an assistant for the Rams since 2018 and is taking over for Niko Medved after Medved departed for Minnesota. Farokhmanesh was at Nebraska as a graduate …

[ad_1] While some people may decry the lack of upsets in the first two rounds of the men’s NCAA Tournament, the result is a Sweet 16 filled with the best teams in the country. All four No. 1 seeds are still alive, and there’s plenty of talent on the rosters who are trying to upset them en route to the …