College Basketball

It is a great time to be a Bruins fan. Their football team is sitting at No. 5 in the rankings. Their women’s basketball team are the reigning national champions. Now, their men’s basketball team has upset No. 5 Arizona to start their season. They took down the Wildcats 84-75 to cap off the Naismith Hall of Fame Showcase in …

LOS ANGELES – The 2026-2027 season for USC basketball is officially underway. It began with an emphatic 95-63 victory over the Milwaukee Panthers on Monday night at the Galen Center, providing the first glimpse of a revamped Trojans roster. Expectations have certainly been raised for the program this year after an offseason spent compiling some of the most notable transfer …

The No. 22 UCLA Bruins defeated the No. 5 Arizona Wildcats 84-75 at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nev. to open the season on Monday. The Bruins will likely jump up the rankings as they appeared to more physical team in a matchup that looked more like a game during March than the season opener. UCLA head coach Mick …

For a mid-major team looking to bounce back from a miserable 2025-26 season, starting on the road against a ranked opponent with 7-footers in the middle was a tough ask. That’s what the Milwaukee Panthers did, though, on opening night of college basketball season Nov. 2 and they suffered the sort of fate one might expect, a 95-63 loss to …

Tounde Yessoufou playing for St. John’s Getty St. John’s started off on the right foot, picking up a season-opening 78-63 win over Monmouth on Monday night. The Red Storm are loaded with talent, more than capable of winning a third straight Big East title. It helps that they’re led by none other than head coach Rick Pitino. Advertisement Pitino made …

If last season taught us anything, the best way to kick start a run to the Final Four is to make an opening-month statement in Las Vegas. UCLA would like to make the claim this time around. The Bruins started the college basketball season with the most impressive outing of opening night, notching the first top five upset of the …

It’s a good thing Oregon Ducks men’s basketball coach Tony Stubblefield is already bald. Because if he wasn’t, this team would certainly cause him to lose some hair. This Ducks team has the ability to look so good in one moment and then, in the next moment, look like they’ve never played basketball in their lives. Fortunately, in the season …

Despite coach Mark Few having 11 newcomers, the No. 15 Gonzaga Bulldogs (1-0, 0-0 Pac-12) looked like a group that has known each other for years in this neutral environment at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. This team has only had a short time together with all the offseason mumbo-jumbo, yet they look already extremely comfortable with one …

After scoring just 16 points in the first 13 minutes, BYU’s offense woke up in a big way the rest of the game in a 94-83 win over Ohio State on the opening day of college basketball. BYU was down 37-34 at halftime and trailed by as much as 11, but BYU outscored the Buckeyes 60-46 in the second half. …

The Ohio State Buckeyes men’s basketball team is back in action as the season tipped off tonight against the BYU Cougars at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. After leading at halftime, the Buckeyes (0-1) fell to the Cougars (1-0), 94-83. The Buckeyes got the scoring started from Amare Bynum with a three-pointer. Bynum had the first five …

It didn’t always look great, but at the end of night, the Wake Forest Demon Deacons are 1-0 with a 21 point win over the Maryland-Eastern Shore Hawks. The story in this one is Gavin Placide. The true freshman was completely dominant in his first real game as a Demon Deacon, finishing with 20 points, 7 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 …

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Andrej Stojakovic and Stefan Vaaks each scored 20 points Monday night as No. 3 Illinois opened its season with a 120-45 win over Fairleigh Dickinson. The Fighting Illini made a program-record 19 3-pointers, had six players score in double figures and outrebounded Fairleigh Dickinson 65-21. Advertisement The 75-point margin of victory was the largest for Illinois …

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Tre White scored 22 points, top recruit Tyran Stokes added 15 in his Kansas debut, and the No. 17 Jayhawks overcame early stretches of sloppy offense and porous perimeter defense to beat Fordham 95-65 in their season opener Monday night. Leroy Blyden Jr. also had 15 points after transferring from Toledo, Melvin Council Jr. scored 10 …

Tom Izzo opened the season without Jesse McCulloch, so center Anton Bonke drew the start in the Michigan State frontcourt. McCulloch sat out with what Izzo called a “minor, minor concussion” on his pregame radio show, and Bonke took the opening it created, leading all players with 13 rebounds as the Spartans beat the Quinnipiac Bobcats 96-59 and won the …

The Monmouth men’s basketball team came away with a mixed bag of bright spots and concerns but ultimately lost the season opener 78-61 to St. John’s, No. 14 in the USA Today Coaches’ Poll, Monday night inside Carnesecca Arena in Queens, New York. The Red Storm, coming off back-to-back Big East regular season and tournament championship sweeps, got off to …

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Damarion Dennis scored a career-high 22 points in his Texas Tech debut, and the No. 19 Red Raiders opened the season with a 47th consecutive nonconference home win, beating Jackson State 76-42 on Monday night. Cruz Davis, another transfer among nine newcomers after two seasons at Hofstra, had 15 points, six rebounds, five assists and a …

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Dame Sarr scored 16 points and freshman Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje had 15 points in his collegiate debut as No. 2 Duke had big scoring runs to begin each half in an 84-50 season-opening win over Army on Monday night. Patrick Ngongba II added 10 points for the Blue Devils, who started their 19th straight season with …

Duke and Army kicked off the men’s college basketball season against each other inside Cameron Indoor on Monday, Nov. 2. But before tip-off, ESPN and both programs paused to honor the late Chris Spatola, a former Army standout who later served in the U.S. Army, coached at Duke under his father-in-law, Mike Krzyzewski, and went on to become a respected …

For the second straight year, Michigan basketball opened up the season against in-state Oakland University. But would the result of the game — and the season — be the same as last year? The Wolverines broke the Big Ten national championship drought, one that lasted 25 years. But it’s a new (ish) regime in Ann Arbor, with former assistant Mike …

The Ohio State Buckeyes (0-0) face the No. 25 BYU Cougars (0-0) at the Delta Center on Monday night to open the 2026-27 men’s college basketball season. Mar 1, 2026; Columbus, Ohio, USA; Ohio State Buckeyes guard John Mobley Jr. (0) celebrates during the second half against the Purdue Boilermakers at Value City Arena. Mandatory Credit: Joseph Maiorana-Imagn Images How …

Northwestern men’s basketball’s Luke McEldon, a fourth-year transfer forward from Mount Saint Mary’s, is taking an indefinite leave of absence from the program, the team announced via X at 5:45 p.m. on Monday. The 6-foot-10 McEldon was projected to be Northwestern’s starter in its 2026-27 season opener Monday night against Binghamton. His leave of absence was announced just over an …

After a three game exhibition season, the time has come for Michigan State basketball to begin the real deal, opening the 2026-27 regular season against the Quinnipiac Bobcats. The Spartans will be coming into the game as the No. 6 team in America, while Quinnipiac has upset on their mind. With the expectations of the upcoming season, it is imperative …

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. − The new-look UTEP basketball team had a quite familiar old problem in its opening 84-76 loss to Northern Kentucky: The Miners still lose games from the free-throw line. Playing against a team that won 20 games last year as a member of the Horizon League, UTEP knocked down 14 of 24 free throws while the Norse …

We are finally here! Our long national nightmare is over! In a little over an hour Purdue men’s basketball will tip off the season against Gonzaga out in Las Vegas. How lucky we are to be alive right now! There is unease and trepidation around this year’s men’s basketball team as Purdue lost 4 starters from last year’s team. That’s …

The 2026-27 college basketball season is underway Monday night with a heavyweight matchup between Gonzaga and Purdue in the Hall of Fame Series at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Oct 24, 2026; Fayetteville, AR, USA; Gonzaga Bulldogs forward Braden Huff (34) gets ready to shoot a free throw during the second half against the Arkansas Razorbacks at Bud Walton Arena. …