College Basketball

The college basketball offseason has reached the place where most programs feel confident with how their rosters look for the coming year. One or two spots may be left to fill, but generally teams have transitioned from building a roster to setting those pieces in place ahead of summer exhibition trips. The Big 12’s 16 programs underwent an array of …

2025-26 Season Recap: 16-16 record, 8-12 in conference play Finished in 6th place in the Big East Lost to Georgetown in the Big East Tournament (Opening Round) Head Coach: Chris Holtmann returns for his third season at the helm. Departing players: CJ Gunn – Graduation (13.1 PPG) NJ Benson – Graduation (11.7 PPG) Brandon Maclin – Graduation (10.5 PPG) Advertisement …

College basketball has quickly become characterized by the transfer portal and NIL. Nowadays, players flip-flop from team to team on a year-to-year basis. And after Michigan won a national championship with a transfer-heavy unit in 2026, that trend is only likely to continue. Yet there still are those who elect to go against the grain – can we call them …

Team: Villanova Wildcats 2025-26 Record: 25-8, 16-4 Big East 2025-26 Big East Finish: Second, four games behind UConn, and four games ahead of a tie between Seton Hall and Marquette. Final 2025-26 Rankings NET: #35Her Hoop Stats: #36BartTorvik.com: #28 Advertisement Postseason? Villanova toppled Providence and Seton Hall in the Big East tournament for the right to lose by 39 points …

Incoming Duke freshman Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje was a late addition to head coach Jon Scheyer and his staff’s 2026 recruiting class, but he is one of the most polarizing recruits of the last few years. At 7’1″ and 230 pounds, Boumtje Boumtje has the offensive skill set of a guard with his proven three-point shot, ability to create off the …

You can’t expect this North Carolina team to look anything like last season. With a brand new head coach and a roster full of talent that is still a bit unknown, this team will be very interesting to watch when the college basketball season finally arrives. Mar 23, 2025; Houston, Texas, USA; Denver Nuggets head coach Michael Malone reacts during …

7-foot-3 ex-Missouri center sworn in as insanely tall police officer in Texas originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. Jordan Wilmore was one of the tallest players in college basketball in a journey that took him from Missouri to Northwestern State to Austin Peay. Advertisement Now, he’s going to be …

Head coach Jon Scheyer and his staff have built arguably the deepest rotation in all of college basketball heading into the 2026-27 season. It’s a pretty good problem for the Duke Blue Devils to have. There’s a real case to be made that if you took Duke’s 6th to 10th guys and put them in a starting lineup, it would …

While the North Carolina Tar Heels have certainly brought in a very talented transfer portal class, the point guard position remains a major question mark. Notably, UNC lost its starting point guard in the transfer portal this offseason, Derek Dixon, who entered the lineup roughly halfway through last season and showed serious potential as the team’s future floor general. However, …

After months without new additions to the roster, Kevin Young and the BYU basketball program added Lithuanian combo guard Dovydas Buika on Wednesday. With Buika on board, BYU still has multiple roster spots to fill for the 2026-2027 season. In this article, we will get an updated look at next year’s BYU basketball roster. Advertisement Departing Players Between graduation, the …

Ohio’s four high-major men’s basketball programs will compete in an outdoor preseason exhibition doubleheader this fall. The CareSource Invitational will feature Xavier against Dayton and UC against Ohio State at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason on Wednesday, Oct. 7, The Enquirer has confirmed. The event will raise awareness and funds for mental health and suicide prevention. Advertisement Per …

Duke head coach Jon Scheyer doesn’t lose too many recruiting battles. Scheyer is arguably the best recruiter in college basketball, with his No. 1-ranked 2026 high school recruiting class marking the third straight year Duke has sealed the nation’s top class. Advertisement The Blue Devils are bringing in four 5-star prospects in Cameron Williams, Deron Rippey Jr., Bryson Howard, and …

Dayton gets new partner in NCAA opening round hosting duties appeared first on ClutchPoints. Add ClutchPoints as a Preferred Source by clicking here. March Madness will experience growth once the 2027 NCAA Basketball Tournament arrives. A new 76-team format received unanimous approval back in May 2026. That also means Dayton will receive some help. Advertisement Wichita will serve as another …

The point guard position is one that has been elite at Villanova for two decades. The Wildcats saw Acaden Lewis put up impressive numbers during his freshman year before entering the transfer portal. With Tyler Perkins returning to Villanova, head coach Kevin Willard was hard at work looking to retool the backcourt — primarily at the point guard spot. In …

During this episode of Oskee Talk I discuss men’s basketball season tickets selling out (3:56), a new home for Mihailo Petrovic (10:20) and the Illini’s newest non-conference additions (11:52).  I also look back on how things have changed since Illinois’ last hoops matchup with Winthrop (15:46) and break down the way too early men’s Top 25 (23:47) and 2027 NBA …

Five-star power forward Marcus Spears Jr., who is one of the nation’s top prospects announced his commitment to the Longhorns on Thursday. He also revealed that he will reclassify from the 2027 recruiting class to 2026. The move allows the star to suit up for Sean Miller’s squad in the upcoming season. Spears Jr. is the son of former NFL …

In a major win for Mick Cronin, UCLA has reportedly secured the signing of Nikola Kusturica, amid major competition from other programs, including Kentucky. The 17-year-old is reportedly signing a multi-year deal with UCLA and will be eligible to declare for the NBA draft in 2028. Kusturica is already being considered a first-round pick in the 2028 NBA draft owing …

The Illinois basketball program is poised to make big strides in 2026, and they will do it against a bevy of non-conference opponents with interesting backstories. The Illini, who retained over 60% of their offense from a year ago, will have plenty of interesting matchups against teams from outside of the Big Ten. They will be tested on multiple occasions, …

Fifth-year Duke basketball leader Jon Scheyer and assistant Emanuel Dildy were at the Las Vegas Convention Center on Thursday evening to check out 2027 Blue Devil recruiting pledge Kager Knueppel and potential commit Beckham Black in talent-stacked Nike EYBL Session IV action. The pair of Duke recruiters sat courtside behind the basket as Wisconsin Lutheran School four-star power forward Kager …

Redoing the roster, the University of Washington basketball team has been busy this offseason bringing in new players from overseas. Yet in the case of Nikola Dzepina, one of just five scholarship returnees, the Huskies sent him back home to Europe in pursuit of glory. Advertisement The 6-foot-10 Dzepina will play for the Serbian national team in the FIBA U20 …

The college basketball world received major news on Thursday afternoon, with Marcus Spears Jr., ESPN’s No. 1 recruit in the class of 2027, reclassifying to the class of 2026 and joining head coach Sean Miller at Texas. He will play two seasons of college basketball before becoming NBA Draft eligible, following in the footsteps of recent top-20 pick Jayden Quaintance, …

The Gonzaga Bulldogs received a significant financial windfall on Thursday, and it comes from a familiar face. Domantas Sabonis, who starred at Gonzaga in the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons before embarking on what has been an outstanding NBA career so far, recently provided the school with a “transformative gift”, and had the program’s basketball strength and conditioning center named after …

photo via Spokesman-Review’s Colin Mulvany The not-so-well-kept secret is out. Three-time NBA All-Star forward/center Domantas Sabonis of the Sacramento Kings made a “transformative investment” to both the men’s and women’s basketball programs. While the exact amount isn’t disclosed, it is the largest ever made by a former player. Advertisement Sabonis took part in a golf clinic put on by Bank …

The NCAA has announced the second site for the Opening Round of the Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] Wichita, Kansas, will join Dayton as the two host cities for the Opening Round of the 2027 and 2028 tournaments, according to an NCAA spokesperson. Advertisement This comes after the NCAA decided …

There was growing buzz as of late that one of Kentucky’s top targets in the 2027 class, Marcus Spears Jr., was getting set to reclassify to play in college next season. On Thursday, the announcement came, as the nation’s top prospect has decided to reclassify and commit elsewhere to the Texas Longhorns. Spears heading elsewhere means one of Kentucky’s top …