College Basketball

Indiana needed to reload its backcourt after losing Conor Enright, Lamar Wilkerson and Tayton Conerway to graduation, and everyone else to the portal. Darian DeVries went out and landed one of the best point guard prospects in the portal, Markus Burton, who was the sixth best point guard in this transfer class, per 247Sports. Burton comes to Indiana after three …

Ten for Ten is Inside NU’s new weekly Big Ten basketball column. Every week, Adam and Donovan will sound off on 10 of the biggest questions buzzing around the conference and keep tabs on its best players, coaches and teams. THREE. MORE. SLEEPS. And the wait will be over. The ribbon will be cut. Advertisement After a long offseason of …

Much like relief pitching in baseball, you can never have enough rebounding in college basketball. Last year, depending on which end of the court the shot was missed, Xavier was anywhere from kind of bad to really bad at securing rebounds. With Mike Nwoko and Nikos Chitikoudis also in the fold, Xavier added on Rolyns Aligbe to further beef up …

Arkansas (28-9, 13-5 SEC) The 12th-ranked Razorbacks go into their third season with coach John Calipari with a new-look roster after making the NCAA Sweet 16 each of his first two seasons. There are nine freshmen and two transfers. The only significant returner is 6-foot-7 junior wing Billy Richmond. Advertisement Players to watch Richmond started 19 of the Hogs’ 37 …

St. John’s (30-7, 18-2 Big East) Coming off their first Sweet 16 appearance since 1999, the 13th-ranked Red Storm enter their fourth season under 74-year-old Hall of Fame coach Rick Pitino. The revamped roster includes 11 newcomers and players from 10 countries. For the second consecutive offseason, the Johnnies have the nation’s top-rated transfer class according to 247Sports. Advertisement Players …

Kansas (24-11, 12-6 Big 12) The Jayhawks endured a rollercoaster last season, beginning with injuries to Darryn Peterson — the one-and-done No. 2 overall NBA draft pick — and continuing right through a lopsided loss to Houston in the Big 12 Tournament semifinals and a second-round ouster by Louisville in the NCAA tourney. But the Jayhawks have reloaded with the …

Texas Tech (23-11, 12-6 Big 12) The 19th-ranked Red Raiders go into the season with All-America post player JT Toppin still rehabbing from a torn ACL last February. But 6-foot-6 forward Darrion Williams — after a season away when he led N.C. State in scoring — and guard Donovan Atwell are both back and eligible with court orders in legal …

Indiana women’s basketball beat Marian 87-39 on Wednesday afternoon in the Hoosiers’ lone exhibition matchup ahead of the 2026-27 season. The matchup provided a first look at Indiana’s largely rebuilt roster as the Hoosiers look to turn last season’s NCAA Tournament miss into a one-off rather than the start of a trend. There’s only so much you can take away …

Indiana men’s basketball’s 2026-27 season, the second under head coach Darian DeVries, is set to tip off on against Eastern Illinois on Monday evening at Assembly Hall in Bloomington. DeVries and the rest of the staff led a drastic roster makeover this past offseason after missing the 2026 NCAA Tournament with an emphasis on size in the frontcourt. Just one …

#1 — Who’s going to start alongside Halle Vice? I think we can agree that after starting all 62 games of Cara Consuegra’s tenure as head coach to this point, Halle Vice is going to keep on starting for the Golden Eagles. Seems like a safe bet. Advertisement The other four spots? I have no idea, and unless this is …

The college basketball season officially starts Monday night, with Duke taking on Army in Durham. This figures to be a game that Duke is going to easily come away with, but it’s important that the program comes out and takes care of business on both sides of the basketball. Advertisement Entering the season at No. 2 in the AP poll, …

Kentucky’s 14-point win over UCF hides a major concern before College Basketball season originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. The Kentucky Wildcats finished their preseason exhibition schedule with a perfect record Wednesday night, but anyone who simply checks the final score might walk away with a misleading impression of …

Illinois basketball rounded out the exhibition series on Wednesday night. The Illini faced off against the UIC Flames. This could have easily been a close game, considering Illinois was missing two starters – Andrej Stojakovic and David Mirkovic – and our defensive stalwart off the bench – Zvonimir Ivisic. Advertisement Illinois’ freshmen and the rest of the roster met the …

Coach Brad Underwood’s Illinois Fighting Illini basketball team is ranked No. 3 in the nation heading into its season opener against the Fairleigh Dickinson Knights on Nov. 2 at State Farm Center in Champaign, Illinois, giving the team a little time to tighten up its rotations. The Fighting Illini looked good against the UIC Flames on Wednesday night, winning their …

FAYETTEVILLE – Arkansas leads Memphis 48-34 at halftime of Wednesday’s exhibition game inside Bud Walton Arena. Here are three takeaways from the first half of action. Jordan Smith Jr. gets going Arkansas’ most highly-touted recruit struggled offensively against Gonzaga. Smith scored only one point on 0-9 shooting, and while he greatly affected the game defensively, his offensive production left much …

LAWRENCE, KANSAS – OCTOBER 25: Patrick Ngongba II #21 of the Duke Blue Devils drives against Tyran Stokes #4 of the Kansas Jayhawks (L) during the second half of an exhibition game at Allen Fieldhouse on October 25, 2026 in Lawrence, Kansas. (Photo by Reed Hoffmann/Getty Images) | Getty Images We tend to think of college teams gearing their schedules …

North Carolina will start its official season next week, taking on Western Carolina on Monday night. This should be one of the more lopsided opening-night games in college basketball, though one could argue that North Carolina hasn’t shown much throughout the preseason and has to be very careful how it plays against some of the teams on its out-of-conference schedule. …

When Kentucky Basketball landed Mason Williams on March 27, everyone assumed it was just because he was a package deal with his father, who would be hired as an assistant at Kentucky a few days later. Skip ahead seven months, and that 4-star from Tennessee Collegiate has been the best guard in our backcourt through the preseason for Kentucky. Advertisement …

Buy stock now. When you see those three words, you know college basketball season is approaching. That’s the advice college basketball analyst Jon Rothstein would give you when identifying an under-the-radar player before the season tips off. Advertisement Rothstein, a self-admitted college basketball junkie, travels all over the country to visit the top programs in basketball. Last week, he was …

Although the 2026-27 Iowa basketball season doesn’t officially begin until Nov. 3, the Hawkeyes still gave the student body and local fans an impressive showing in an 88-64 exhibition win against Illinois Springfield at Coralville’s Xtream Arena on Tuesday, Oct. 27. While the Prairie Stars were expectedly outmatched by the Hawkeyes, the exhibition gave fans and media a preview of …

Everyone has a team they follow religiously. You were born into it, or you went to school there, or you moved to a new city and adopted them as your own. Most people, especially college basketball fans, also root for other teams or players on the side. It’s not cheating! You don’t cheer for them if they play your team, …

As fifth-year Duke basketball head coach Jon Scheyer reiterated to his team this week and during his appearance on the latest edition of Fast Break with Jon Scheyer on Wednesday night, it’s important for the preseason No. 2-ranked Blue Devils to remember that their 3-0 exhibition run doesn’t actually count toward their overall record. No, they sit at 0-0 while …

On Wednesday night, Kentucky Basketball welcomed Johnny Dawkins’ UCF Knights to Rupp Arena for the third and final exhibition before the real thing gets started. The contest against UCF brought us the good, the bad, and the ugly. Let’s talk about one piece of the good from this one. Advertisement Braydon Hawthorne showed flashes of what he could turn into …

Mark Few and the Gonzaga Bulldogs head into the 2026-27 college basketball season with most, but not all, of their outstanding eligibility situations resolved. And the final piece, at long last, could be getting positive news after making a dramatic change to his legal approach. Advertisement Chauncey Wiggins, who has been ineligible since early September when a stay request was …

Texas A&M is on the outside looking in the top 25 rankings in both major preseason polls before the Aggies open up the 2026-2027 season against Alabama State on Tuesday, November 3, as second-year coach Bucky McMillan looks to make it back to the NCAA Tournament after clinching a 9-seed in the tourney and defeating Saint Mary’s in the first …