College Basketball

If you want more Action Network content, be sure to add us as a preferred source on Google. The Purdue Boilermakers take on the Gonzaga Bulldogs in Las Vegas, NV. Tip-off is set for 7:30 p.m. ET on TNT. Advertisement Gonzaga is favored by -5.5 points on the spread with a moneyline of -245. The total is set at 154.5 …

If you want more Action Network content, be sure to add us as a preferred source on Google. The Ohio State Buckeyes take on the BYU Cougars in Salt Lake City, Utah. Tip-off is set for 9 p.m. ET on Fox Sports 1. Advertisement BYU is favored by -3.5 points on the spread with a moneyline of -176. The total …

Tar Heel Nation, this is your official welcome to the Michael Malone era. Tonight at 7 p.m., the UNC men’s basketball team hosts Western Carolina to begin its highly-anticipated regular season. North Carolina has all the looks of a deeper, more talented team from last year (24-9, 12-6 ACC), winning two of its first three preseason games. Chapel Hill native …

In his first year at Villanova, Head Coach Kevin Willard went 24-9 and led the Wildcats back to the NCAA tournament for the first time since Jay Wright’s final season in 2022. Nova finished third in the Big East last year. Even so, they were well behind back-to-back champion St. John’s and the since-retooled UConn Huskies. Willard looked to build more …

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri will begin the basketball season without projected starter Jaylen Carey, who has been suspended for a violation of team rules, and DePaul transfer CJ Gunn, who has been ruled ineligible by the Southeastern Conference after signing a professional contract in May. Tigers coached Dennis Gates announced Carey’s suspension Monday, the day before their opener …

During the dark times between NBC’s previous and current NBA media rights deals, the iconic Roundball Rock theme aired during Fox Sports’ college basketball coverage. Fox licensed the John Tesh jam in 2018 and has used Roundball Rock to intro Big East, Big Ten, and Big 12 college basketball games since then. In fact, that deal was still in place …

The wait is finally over. College basketball is back and the UCLA Bruins are beginning the 2026-2027 season in the forefront, as No. 22 UCLA will take on No. 5 Arizona Monday night in Las Vegas in part of the Hall of Fame Series. It’s two storied programs squaring off, with Mick Cronin’s team getting an immediate test. Arizona has …

Coach Jennie Baranczyk and the Oklahoma Sooners face the North Carolina Tar Heels on Monday in the women's college basketball season opener in Paris, France. Here's how to watch the Sooners-Tar Heels game, including time, TV schedule and streaming information: More: How is OU women's basketball star Aaliyah Chavez approaching Year 2 with Sooners? Watch OU women's basketball live with ESPN+ Oklahoma vs North Carolina live score …

Former Tennessee basketball forward Jaylen Carey has been suspended indefinitely by Missouri, according to Tigers coach Dennis Gates on Nov. 2. Gates said the senior transfer was suspended for a “violation of team rules.” He did not give a timetable for his return to the team and chose not to provide any additional details on the suspension when asked by …

Grambling starts hoops season with clutch 3 AM victory over Northern Illinois appeared first on ClutchPoints. Add ClutchPoints as a Preferred Source by clicking here. Grambling State University basketball kicked off its season in an unusual way as the college basketball season starts this week. Grambling faced off against Northern Illinois in the Field of 68’s opening-day marathon. The marathon …

When I wrote the Player Preview, I walked out the idea that maybe, just maybe, if everything shakes out in the right direction for Marquette men’s basketball this season, maybe Nigel James has a pathway to being the national player of the year. I know it’s a bit crazy to think about, Marquette has had just one NPOY in the …

If you listen closely, you can still hear the sound of Villanova turning the ball over. A brand-new Wildcats roster looked like a team playing together for the first time on Sunday morning. Villanova squandered away a game where it led for a majority of the time thanks to 20 turnovers and a cold stretch over the final five minutes. …

Kansas Basketball remains in the mix for one of the top players left in the 2027 class. Five-star small forward Malachi Jordan remains focused on three schools and the Jayhawks are in the mix. Jordan will now decide between Kansas, St. John’s, and Vanderbilt. Advertisement Jordan is currently ranked as the No. 8 player in Florida and No. 6 small …

It’s been just 24 months since I was writing and all of us were talking incessantly about the desire for the Louisville men’s basketball program to return to a state of normalcy”normal.” It might as well have been 24 years ago. Advertisement Chucky Hepburn, Terrence Edwards and “The Revivalists” will be remembered forever. Of this I have no doubt. The …

MADISON – Wisconsin men’s basketball is starting the 2026-27 season with some familiar and not-so-familiar faces. The Badgers have eight newcomers and seven returning players. Key returners include Nolan Winter, Austin Rapp and Jack Janicki, and UW fans soon will get their official introduction to offseason additions such as Owen Foxwell, Eian Elmer and others. Advertisement Here is a look …

Ladies, gentlemen, basketball season is here. On Monday we embark upon a five month national journey, with our sights steadfastly set on what in basketball, is both a physical and temporal end: March. For Northwestern, the season will tip off at 7 p.m. CDT at Welsh-Ryan Arena against Binghamton. The ‘Cats will debut a lineup full of new faces and …

The calendar just flipped to November, which means that college basketball season has arrived. Last season ended with the Michigan Wolverines taking down UConn 69-63 in the national championship. The Wolverines were the No. 1 seed in the 2026 NCAA tournament and won five of their six tourney games by double digits. This season, oddsmakers expect other teams to be …

November is here and with it is the return of College Basketball and the four month prelude to the greatest sporting event of the year. Xavier returns very little from a team that endeared and entertained but did not achieve all that much in year one under Richard Pitino, but the transfer portal has been good to the Musketeers and …

Indiana men’s basketball (0-0, 0-0 Big Ten) is set to welcome Eastern Illinois (0-0, 0-0 Ohio Valley) this evening for the 2026-27 season opener at Assembly Hall in Bloomington. It’s the official debut of the Hoosiers’ new-look roster in the second season of the Darian DeVries era in Bloomington. Indiana reloaded through the transfer portal this past offseason and looks …

Tournament expansion finally arrived with the addition of eight new at-large bids in time for the 2027 NCAA Men’s and Women’s Division I Basketball Tournaments. With the Pac-12 returning after a two-season hiatus, that means this season’s field—and those in the foreseeable future—will feature a combination of 32 automatic bid winners and a whopping 44 at-large teams. In the final …

The greatest sport in the world is officially back on Monday, and with the return comes a pretty loaded opening slate. Here’s a quick look at the five best games of college basketball’s opening day. Advertisement 5. No. 18 Iowa State vs. Memphis (Sanford Pentagon: Sioux Falls, SD) (7 p.m. ET/FS1) T.J. Otzelberger and company will look to make an …

Happy opening week of college basketball to everyone who has spent the offseason convincing themselves this is finally the year their team figures it out. The transfers fit, the freshmen are ready, the coach loves the depth, and there is still time to believe the exhibition problems were just things the coach wanted to work on. Enjoy this part. Last …

Wisconsin Badgers men’s basketball officially opens its 2026-27 regular season on Monday night, welcoming Denver to the Kohl Center. The Badgers look to carry some momentum from their exhibition slate into the regular season after closing it out with an 82-65 win over Oklahoma State. Advertisement Wisconsin knocked down 18 three-pointers in that victory, with eight different players connecting from …

Indiana men’s basketball kicks of the 2026-27 season, the second under Darian DeVries, Monday night against Eastern Illinois on Big Ten Plus. This is the kind of game made for Big Ten Plus, as Eastern Illinois starts the year 360th out of 365 teams ranked nationally by KenPom. You’d have to go back to the first year of the Archie …

College men’s basketball returns on NBC and Peacock with the UConn Huskies season opener against Gardner-Webb out of the Big South. Dan Hurley and co look to make another deep run in March Madness after losing in the national title game to Michigan last season. More information below on Gardner-Webb and No. 4 UConn and how to watch the game. …