College Basketball

The sting of the transfer portal is nothing new on the Main Line, but seeing the names Acaden Lewis and Bryce Lindsay pop up in Gary Parrish’s Way-Too-Early Top 25 for 2026 — in uniforms other than Villanova’s — feels like a particularly sharp twist of the knife. Last season was supposed to be the foundational year of the Kevin …

Few, if any, people on the planet love college basketball more than Jon Rothstein. So, it’s not a great sign for the sport when even he hates the reports that the NCAA is in the “final steps” of expanding the NCAA Tournament to 76 teams. Rothstein voiced his concerns about expanding the NCAA Tournament during the latest edition of CBS …

Fresh off a visit to Charlottesville, former Arkansas State guard Christian Harmon has announced his commitment to Ryan Odom and the Virginia Cavaliers. The junior from Rochester, New York, has one year of eligibility remaining, but, as a true senior, could get a second year if the NCAA’s new five-in-five eligibility concept is approved. Harmon was a third-team All-Sun Belt …

After the news broke about the Duke-Amazon deal to stream three games, and then the Big Ten’s reaction, we started looking for interesting responses. The smartest, most informed post we saw about it was from North Carolina IP attorney David McKenzie, who is also a Duke grad. His post on Twitter was pretty remarkable, because it appeared to thoroughly deconstruct …

Make no mistake, the toughness, the drive, the refusal to give in to an injury that would keep most players out for weeks, that was more Jordan than any turnaround jumper or soaring dunk could ever be. “I mean, nobody expected him to play,” said guard Mike Conley, who scored 12 points on 4-of-7 shooting from 3-point range. “Just his …

Dana Altman faced a difficult challenge on the heels of his worst season in Eugene. After the Oregon Ducks finished just 12-20 last season, the Ducks saw significant departures in the transfer portal, including Jackson Shelstad and Kwame Evans Jr., while Nate Bittle exhausted his eligibility. Although the Ducks missed out on some key targets, Altman has been able to …

The transfer portal was once again busy this spring for the Ohio State Buckeyes. While its died down, one former OSU basketball player has found a new home. The college basketball transfer portal made for a wild couple of weeks in April and it’s still wrapping up with players finding new homes. For the Ohio State basketball program, they have …

From the moments after winning the national championship, the Michigan Wolverines put their name in the Juke Harris sweepstakes. A top performer at Wake Forest last season, Harris was one of the hottest names in the transfer portal this offseason. Even though he took a visit to Ann Arbor for the championship celebration, Harris chose to commit to Tennessee on …

The Big Ten, by all quantifiable accounts, should be college hoops’ premier conference once again in the 2026-27 season. And that’s a notion seconded by the metrics, as Bart Torvik – which is an analytical tool used by the NCAA Tournament selection committee – placed a whopping 11 Big Ten squads in the top 40 of its early 2026-27 projection. …

It’s still early, and Kentucky Basketball’s roster likely isn’t completely finished yet, but national projections headed into a critical Year 3 for Mark Pope are not the most optimistic. ESPN’s Jeff Borzello recently released his Way-Too-Early Top 25, and Kentucky didn’t make the cut. In fact, Kentucky didn’t make the cut of the next five out. Advertisement Borzello ranked Florida …

Rutgers men’s basketball has added its second center in the 2026 transfer portal, as former Kansas State center Dorin Buca has committed to play his final season in Piscataway, according to Jonathan Givony of Draft Express. Buca only has one season of college basketball experience at Kansas State. The 7-foot-2 big man will be 24 years old by the time …

This is no longer Miller’s first rodeo on the Forty Acres. On the day that Miller was named the 27th head basketball coach for the Texas Longhorns last year, the NCAA transfer portal window opened. It was another month until Miller officially announced his five assistant coaches, general manager, strength coach, and chief of staff. Advertisement “It was just really …

Jon Scheyer has done an outstanding job in his four years as Duke’s head coach. While a National Championship has not yet come, guiding the program to a Final Four appearance and producing back-to-back National Players of the Year as freshmen is a remarkable achievement by any measure. Now Scheyer has pulled off one of the biggest offseason moves in …

Arizona has yet to finalize its roster for the upcoming basketball season, as it is hosting one of the best big men left in the transfer portal today. Former FAU center Devin Williams is set to visit Arizona and head coach Tommy Lloyd. The sophomore played and started all 33 games for the Owls last season. Williams averaged 7.5 points, …

The Kansas basketball roster looks a lot better now than it did when the transfer portal exodus began at the beginning of the offseason. However, there are valid concerns from Jayhawk fans about whether Bill Self’s new-look roster will be cohesive. All five of KU’s projected starters are expected to be transfers or freshmen, creating some uncertainty about how next …

In the grand scheme of things, preseason awards only mean so much, but they at least display the expectations and talent levels of respective programs. However, they can be misleading at times. Cameron Boozer was snubbed as last year’s ACC Preseason Player of the Year in favor of NC State’s Darrion Williams. While the Wolfpack finished the season at 20-14 …

Just days after the Michigan Wolverines captured the national championship, head coach Dusty May wasted no time reloading the front court by landing former Tennessee center J.P. Estrella out of the transfer portal. The move brings one of the SEC’s most efficient big men into a system that just proved how valuable size and versatility can be at the highest …

The Badgers still have one more spot open on their 2026-27 roster, but for the most part, the next iteration of Wisconsin basketball is complete. It was another whirlwind of an offseason, with head coach Greg Gard and his staff needing to fill seven spots. Three transfer portal commits, a pair of international signees and one freshman from U.S Soil …

The Duke basketball program will enter the 2026-27 campaign with a bit of a different look than it is used to, meaning it will not be relying on elite rookies to lead the way. In 2025-26, it was Cameron Boozer. The year before that, it was Cooper Flagg. The Blue Devils have had the last two National Players of the …

Michigan basketball is retooling in a big way, which makes sense given the departures. The Wolverines have added three players via the transfer portal and six via the 2026 recruiting class, and yet, one more may be on the radar via the portal. The maize and blue were eliminated from the Juke Harris sweepstakes, but there is an intriguing option …

Wake Forest transfer guard Juke Harris committed to Tennessee, according to Joe Tipton of On3. 247Sports ranks the 6-foot-7, 200-pound guard as the No. 8 overall transfer in 2026. Harris was a four-star prospect in the Demon Deacons’ 2024 recruiting class. In his freshman season at Wake Forest, he averaged 6.1 points, 2.8 assists and 19 minutes per game. Advertisement …

When two players leave at the exact same time, it’s almost never random. That’s why the departures of Dwayne Aristode and Sidi Gueye from the Arizona Wildcats feel like more than just normal transfer portal movement. To me, this screams one thing: something is already lined up behind the scenes. And honestly, that’s not a bad thing. If one player …

Missouri basketball landed the commitment of former BYU guard and Missouri native Kennard Davis Jr. on Friday, bulking up its 2026 transfer portal class. The class is now ranked No. 11 by 247Sports, headlined by four-star big Bryson Tiller, four-star wing Jamier Jones, three-star big Jaylen Carey and now four-star guard Kennard Davis. Should Missouri’s ranking stay at No. 11, …

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Former Wake Forest guard Juke Harris has committed to Tennessee, the school announced on Monday, giving the Volunteers one of the top scorers in this year’s portal. The 6-foot-7, 200-pounder scored 21.4 points per game last season for the Demon Deacons to rank No. 14 in the country. He was named to the All-ACC second team …

NORMAN — Oklahoma men’s basketball started the week by landing another transfer portal big. Yaak Yaak, a 6-foot-11, 230-pound center, has signed with the Sooners, according to On3’s Pete Nakos. Advertisement Yaak started nine of the 25 games he appeared in this past season for Oregon State, averaging 6.6 points and 2.2 rebounds over 15.1 minutes per game. Yaak also …