College Basketball

STILLWATER — Big 12 coaches have picked Oklahoma State women’s basketball to win the league this season. Thursday, OSU was voted first in the Big 12 women’s basketball preseason poll. It’s the first time OSU has ever been picked to win the league. Advertisement OSU narrowly edged TCU in first place votes and total points. Last season, OSU finished 12-6 …

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The Duke Blue Devils kicked off their 2026-27 campaign with a dominant 102-62 scrimmage victory over Belmont at Cameron Indoor Stadium. There was a lot to like about this season’s Duke squad, though they obviously have plenty of room to grow. Here are a few quick observations from the Blue Devils’ first in-game action of the year. Oct 3, 2026; …

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Alabama basketball has started its 2026-27 preseason strong with a 111-93 home victory over Furman. Crimson Tide head coach Nate Oats’ biggest emphasis this offseason was to get his team bigger, and some of the taller additions showed out on Thursday night in Coleman Coliseum. Advertisement Former Kentucky big Brandon Garrison was the first player to transfer …

It may take some time for the ultra-talented Blue Devils on Jon Scheyer’s fifth Duke basketball team to carve out their go-to individual roles. But as a unit, the early identity appears to center on extreme-energy size and versatility, as evidenced in Cameron Indoor Stadium on Thursday night en route to a 102-62 preseason scrimmage victory over former Blue Devil …

Ahead of the 2o26-2027 season, Oregon Ducks men’s basketball coach Dana Altman announced his retirement effective immediately. Altman has served as Oregon’s head coach since 2010, becoming the program’s all-time winningest coach. Altman has been a conference rival for the UCLA Bruins for more than a decade and a half, posting a career record of 15-17 versus UCLA since taking …

Duke showed a lot in its 40-point win over Belmont, but we’re going to start with one thing we’re not sure we’ve ever seen before: In the +/- column, every Duke player was + and every Belmont player was -. It was bumpy, like exhibitions tend to be, but there was a lot to be excited about. Let’s start with …

Illinois basketball took a hard hit when the news of David Mirkovic’s foot injury broke in early August. Mirkovic ended up needing surgery and was out for quite some time, but at Big Ten Media Days, fans got the best update yet on his return to the court. Updates on Mirkovic’s injury have been hard to come by. When practices …

The Crimson Tide basketball team played the first of three exhibition games on Thursday night. The Tide entertained Furman at Coleman Coliseum and took the visitors to the woodshed with a 111-93 victory in a defense optional contest. Nate Oats squad was playing with out three potential big pieces of the team in Aden Holloway, Anderson Diaz, and Jaxon Richardson. …

Dana Altman’s surprise retirement was the talk of the college basketball world on Wednesday, as the long-time Oregon Ducks head coach made the decision to walk away from the game after 16 seasons in Eugene and 37 years as a head coach. Altman finished just eight wins short of 800 career victories, landing at 15th on the all-time head coaching …

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Alabama guard Aden Holloway will miss three exhibition games and two regular-season games during a five-game suspension following his arrest on a drug charge, coach Nate Oats said Thursday. Holloway was arrested March 16, days before the NCAA Tournament, after authorities said they found 2.1 pounds of marijuana in his Tuscaloosa apartment. He was charged with …

The Auburn Tigers are just days away from their first exhibition matchup of Steven Pearl’s second year leading the Tigers, and their roster just got quite a bit stronger. On Thursday, Pearl announced that the NCAA had cleared overseas transfer Narcisse Ngoy to play, though he will only be allowed two years of eligibility. Ngoy, a French 7-footer, is one …

The Illinois basketball program is entering the 2026-27 campaign with something that has been extremely rare. We have national title expectations. While I have been hyperbolic in the past, this might be the first time since the early 2000s that the Illini have been one of the favorites to bring home the championship, sitting at +1400 and the fourth-best odds. …

Once Ryan Odom knew that he’d have one of the nation’s most experienced men’s basketball teams, he prioritized challenging it as much as possible. Odom’s Virginia Cavaliers will face a daunting nonconference schedule before jumping into Atlantic Coast Conference play. Included are neutral-site games against Arkansas (in Washington) and UConn (in New York), as well as a home game against …

The Duke Blue Devils host the Belmont Bruins in preseason college basketball action Thursday night. Here’s how to watch the matchup from Cameron Indoor Stadium. The Duke Blue Devils begin their 2026-27 preseason schedule Thursday night when they welcome the Belmont Bruins to Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, North Carolina. Advertisement The matchup provides an early look at Jon Scheyer’s …

Nearly seven months later, the North Carolina Tar Heels will be playing another basketball game. On Friday, October 9 at 7 p.m., UNC will be facing the USC Trojans in a preseason exhibition from the old Greensboro Coliseum. Friday will be fans’ first chance to watch the Michael Malone era in live action. North Carolina hired Malone, a 12-year NBA …

Rutgers men’s basketball interim head coach Brandin Knight met with Big Ten Network hosts Dave Revsine and Bruce Weber during the Big Ten basketball media days to discuss the future of the team this season and the new role he finds himself in following head coach Steve Pikiell’s cancer diagnosis. The first question that Knight was asked was what is …

The Syracuse Orange men’s basketball program had a chance to speak in front of local, regional, and national media outlets on Wednesday during the ACC’s Basketball Tip-Off event in Charlotte, N.C. All 18 of the conference’s men’s basketball programs were represented during the event, which was held over a three-day span. Advertisement Along with head coach Gerry McNamara, two members …

Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo spent part of Thursday’s Big Ten men’s basketball media day talking up the one coach whose team is picked to finish ahead of the Spartans: Illinois’ Brad Underwood. By Izzo’s own measure, the two of them are not in the same weight class. Tom Izzo Sizes Up The Measuring Stick “He’s (Underwood) a tough …

ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) — Michigan coach Dusty May joined several of his players moving on to the NBA not long after Michigan beat Connecticut in the NCAA Finals, ending one of the strangest streaks in college sports. The good vibes have carried over after the Wolverines’ long-awaited national title in men’s basketball, and not just in Ann Arbor. Advertisement It …

The Red Storm revealed the tip-off times and broadcast information for nearly all of its 2026-27 men’s basketball games earlier this week. The athletics department has not yet announced broadcast information or tip-off times for its matchup against Alabama on Saturday, December 12, or any of its Players Era Festival games, though ESPN will broadcast this year’s Las Vegas-based tournament. …

The NCAA has been going through major changes since the start of the 2020s, and Duke head coach Jon Scheyer believes some haven’t been for the best. College athletics is vastly different now than it was in the 2010s, with eligibility rules becoming a major topic and subject of several legal disputes. Through the COVID-19 pandemic and the players’ legal …

ROSEMONT, Ill. — Toughness, hard to guard and crashing the glass. Of all the words floating around Big Ten Media Days, anytime the Illinois Fighting Illini came up, those were the commonalities. Head coach Brad Underwood’s squad has been getting more than their fair share of national attention, with many outlets labeling them as one of the top teams in …

For the fourth straight season, Iowa women’s basketball has sold out its season tickets. Per Iowa’s release, student season tickets remain on sale and a limited number of mini-plan and single-game tickets will be released for select games. Advertisement Iowa is coming off a 27-7 (15-3 Big Ten) campaign in 2025-26. The Hawkeyes advanced to the Big Ten Tournament championship …

If anyone should know the insignificance of beating a Big Ten team in a basketball exhibition, it’s the University of Cincinnati Bearcats. Two years ago, the Bearcats were a preseason No. 20 team that had not beaten the Buckeyes since winning the 1962 NCAA title over them. Forget that it was an exhibition; fans were pumped over thumping Ohio State. …