College Basketball

Sitting at 9-2 on the young season, the Iowa Hawkeyes look as though they may be making a return to the NCAA Tournament, a goal of theirs that is just the tip of the iceberg under head coach Ben McCollum. While the season is very young, and there is still more than enough work to do for the Hawkeyes to …

When: Wednesday December 17 – 7:00 PM Where: James T Valvano Arena at William Neal Reynolds Coliseum TV: ACC Network Extra Opponent: Texas Southern Tigers (Southwest Atlantic Conference (SWAC) ) Advertisement Prediction – KenPom (KP) / Bart Torvik (BT): NC State 94-65 / NC State 97-67 Wolfpack Snapshot: NET Ranking: NET 36, 7th in ACC Conf NET rankings NET performance: Q1 (1-3), Q2 (1-1), …

Tennessee is recruiting toward its 2026 basketball signing class. Five-star point guard Deron Rippey Jr. will announce his college commitment between Tennessee, Duke, Texas, Miami and North Carolina State on Dec. 30, according to Joe Tipton of On3. Advertisement The 6-foot-2, 175-pound prospect is from Blair Academy in Blairstown, New Jersey. 247Sports ranks him as the No. 1 point guard …

The no. 5 UConn men’s basketball team came out of its historical non-conference gauntlet with an impressive 9-1 record. Now, a new challenge awaits; avoid landmines in the graveyard that is the Big East. First up on the conference slate is 8-2 (1-0) Butler, one of the few Big East teams that has exceeded expectations so far. The Bulldogs rank …

The North Carolina Tar Heels continued their winning ways on the basketball court Saturday afternoon, beating USC Upstate in a tougher-than-expected, 80-62 win. UNC (9-1) trailed by one with nearly six minutes left in the opening half, only for hot shooting and strong defense to take over. North Carolina shot the ball particularly well from deep, going 10-of-23 (43 percent), …

Another week of college basketball action saw significant movement in the Big 12 Conference. Iowa State and Arizona appear to be the top two teams in the conference, taking over the reins from Houston and BYU. Kansas is back where it belongs in the Big 12’s upper tier. With four teams ranked in the top 10 and two more in …

What channel is UConn vs. Butler on? Time, TV schedule, live stream to watch men’s college basketball game originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. Men’s college basketball continues this week with a Big East matchup between No. 5 UConn and Butler Tuesday. Advertisement UConn has proven its dominance early …

Central Indiana will get a closer look at the progress 2025 Mr. Basketball Braylon Mullins has made since leaving Greenfield-Central. The 6-6 sharpshooter who scored 2,158 points for the Cougars missed the early weeks of this season with an ankle injury, but he has quickly become a factor for No. 5 UConn. In his second game, he scored 17 points …

NEW YORK — Rick Pitino doesn’t expect St. John’s to go 18-2 in Big East play again. But the head coach believes his Johnnies have what it takes to repeat as conference champions, even if this season’s team remains a work in progress. Advertisement “We’re not as good as UConn right now, but you wouldn’t expect that because UConn had …

The man has two gears. There’s the laid-back, considerate, happy-to-support AJ Dybantsa. Then there’s the ticked off, angry Dybantsa that obliterates defenses and takes over games for No. 10 BYU. When Dybantsa won MVP honors at the 2025 FIBA U19 World Cup, he was very much that first guy. Advertisement Gear 1. In that championship series against the best players …

It was a great week of action across the league. While there wasn’t a ton during the weekdays, Saturday had a gargantuan slate, highlighted by marquee opportunities for teams like Illinois, Nebraska, and UCLA. Of course, all that action shook things up considerably. So, let’s jump into this week’s Power Rankings. Advertisement #1 – Michigan Wolverines (—) The Wolverines had …

Iowa State basketball is one of seven undefeated men’s teams entering the week of Dec. 15. The Cyclones improved to 11-0 overall after a 66-62 win over Iowa in the Cy-Hawk game on Dec. 11, and they followed up with a 78-53 victory over Eastern Illinois on Dec. 14. Advertisement With finals week underway at Iowa State, the Cyclones have …

Iowa (9-2, 1-1 Big Ten) stayed just inside the latest USA TODAY Sports Men’s Basketball Coaches Poll rankings. The Hawkeyes are the nation’s No. 25 team, sliding two spots after last week’s action. Iowa earned 71 points from the voters. Michigan occupies the nation’s top spot for the second week in a row. Other Big Ten teams inside the rankings …

For the second week in a row, both the Michigan men’s and women’s basketball teams are in the top six, with both squads standing pat in a rather calm week of college hoops. The men are still ranked No. 2, right behind Arizona for the top spot. The Wildcats beat a good Alabama team for a semi-away game in Birmingham, …

No. 1 Arizona and No. 2 Michigan remained locked in place atop The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll released Monday while No. 15 Nebraska jumped to its highest Top 25 ranking in nearly 35 years. The Wildcats had 42 of 61 first-place votes to hold the top spot while the Wolverines received 15 to keep the teams at 1-2 …

Vanderbilt basketball moved up two spots to No. 12 in the USA TODAY Coaches Poll after a win over Central Arkansas. The win over the Bears on Dec. 13 came after more than a week without playing. Before that, the Commodores (10-0) had most recently defeated SMU in the ACC/SEC Challenge. Alabama and Illinois, which had previously been ahead of …

Indiana women’s basketball has lost a starter, as Valentyna Kadlecova has decided to return to her native Czech Republic to play professionally. Kadlecova, a 6-foot sophomore, appeared in 11 games, averaging 21.7 minutes and 5.4 points per game. She was benched out of the starting lineup in Thursday’s win over Louisiana-Monroe in favor of freshman and reigning Indiana Miss Basketball …

Things didn’t go Iowa’s way in the second half of a Cy-Hawk loss to Iowa State on Thursday. They had plenty of chances to win the game, but couldn’t quite execute enough down the stretch to pull the upset. Luckily for the Hawkeyes, they didn’t have to wait long to get back on track. A Sunday afternoon matchup with Western …

The Illinois women’s basketball team has extended their winning streak to eight games after a dominating performance against North Texas. It was the one-sided affair that we were all expecting, with head coach Shauna Green’s squad taking down the Mean Green by a score of 81-69. The Illini, once again, dictated the pace of the game from the opening tip …

The Syracuse Orange (6-4) entered this season with the pressure to get back into the NCAA Tournament. Saturday’s 70-69 home loss to Hofstra is going to make that task a lot harder for Adrian Autry’s squad. It’s too early to call this season over, but the margin for error the rest of the way is that much smaller now. Here …

Date: Tuesday, Dec 16Tip Time: 7:00 PMGame Location: Clemson, SC – Littlejohn ColiseumTV: ESPN2 Gauging Clemson So Far I predicted Clemson to finish 22-8 (12-6) and make the NCAA tournament. With the loss to BYU, Clemson is now one game behind my projected pace. Thankfully it is just one game, because on Saturday it was near catastrophe against Mercer. The Mercer Bears are …

UNC basketball is 10 games into its 31-game schedule in the regular season. Ranked No. 15 in the USA TODAY Sports coaches poll and No. 14 in the AP Top 25, the Tar Heels (9-1) are off to their best 10-game start since the 2017-18 season. Advertisement Here are 10 thoughts on the Tar Heels through 10 games in the …

For the first time in over a month, Florida A&M men’s basketball will play a home game. On Monday, Dec. 15, the Rattlers (1-5) host NCAA Division II opponent Albany State Golden Rams (2-5) in a non-conference game added to FAMU’s schedule. Advertisement FAMU will play on campus at the Al Lawson Center for the first time since losing its …

To the uninitiated, it may sound like Louisville basketball fans are booing Sananda Fru whenever the 6-foot-11 German does something impressive on the court. His mom thought that was the case the first time she heard the KFC Yum! Center shout his last name in unison, elongating the vowel, through her television back home in Berlin. “I was like, ‘Why …

The Virginia Tech Hokies improved to 10-2 on the season Sunday with an 82-53 win over the Maryland Eastern Shore Hawks. The Hawks were competitive early, taking their first lead, 9-7, at the 15:32 mark of the first half. However, a layup from sophomore guard Ben Hammond two minutes later gave the Hokies an 11-10 lead that they would never …