College Basketball

As teams begin their preparations for the upcoming 2026-2027 season, ACC and SEC teams are also preparing to face off against one another, and that includes North Carolina. This will be Mike Malone’s first true test as a head coach for the Tar Heels, as their opponent for that game will be none other than the Arkansas Razorbacks and their …

Former Gonzaga Bulldogs forward Pavle Stosic is on the move once again. The 6’9 Serbian forward has landed at Fairleigh Dickinson for his redshirt junior year, as announced by the program on social media last Thursday. Stosic is now on his fourth college program after beginning his career at Gonzaga in the 2023-24 season. Advertisement Stosic was a very, very …

Over the last four seasons, there haven’t been more coaches who have been as steady as Clemson basketball’s head coach, Brad Brownell. However, the national media still hasn’t picked up on it. Advertisement ESPN’s Jeff Borzello released his top 25 rankings ahead of the summer, and names like Florida, Duke and Michigan, of course, topped the rankings. Going down the …

Mark Pope and the Kentucky Wildcats were able to land five-star Ryan Hampton on Sunday morning, and this was massive for the outlook of this staff. There are a ton of narratives about Pope not being a good recruiter, but he just landed one of the top players in the 2027 class. Funny enough, Hampton might not be the biggest …

The University of Washington basketball team reportedly will add a new assistant coach to Danny Sprinkle’s third-year staff in DeAndre Haynes, who most recently was at Marquette, though the UW hasn’t made any formal hiring announcement yet. Basketball insider Jon Rothstein for CBS Sports first reported this development online, citing a source. The school didn’t immediately respond to a request …

Coming off a strong campaign in the 2025-26 season, the Iowa State Cyclones will be hoping to be even better next year. However, a lot of that success will rely on some players developing. While it might have been a frustrating exit for the Cyclones in the Sweet 16, the program has to be pleased with how they performed overall. …

The Big Ten conference announced home and away games for each team for the 2026-27 season. Each team will play an 18-game schedule, playing 16 opponents once and one opponent twice. USC and UCLA women’s basketball will see each other twice during the regular season for the crosstown rivalry game. Due to UCLA and USC’s location, the Bruins and Trojans …

The gang is (almost) all here. With summer workouts getting underway in less than a month, the Gonzaga Bulldogs are beginning to file into Spokane to get settled before the first team event in early July. Isiah Harwell, a former McDonald’s All-American and transfer from Houston, made his arrival in Spokane public last Friday after posting a picture on Gonzaga’s …

The college sports world was rocked to its very core on Monday morning as embattled Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby won a temporary restraining order against the NCAA that will enable the transfer from Cincinnati to play for the Red Raiders this season despite having admitted to an addiction to gambling, including bets placed on his own team. Local Texas …

After former assistant coach Luke Murray announced that he was leaving for the head coach job at Boston College in late March, Dan Hurley and the rest of the staff did their due diligence and finally found a replacement in Mike Pegues, according to multiple reports. Pegues has been a high major assistant every season since 2012-13, accumulating stops at …

When John Mauer took over the Kentucky Wildcats for the 2027-28 season, he had to rebuild after the team went through a disastrous 3-13 season the year before. Luckily, the former Illinois star turned things around quickly, and led them to a 12-6 record. That winning record would start a run of winning seasons that would go on for 60 …

Illinois basketball has added a three-star guard from Kankakee to its 2026 recruiting class. Lincoln Williams has signed with the Fighting Illini, becoming the sixth incoming freshman for head coach Brad Underwood. Williams, a 6-foot-5 guard/forward, had scholarship offers from Arizona State, Virginia Tech, TCU and DePaul. Advertisement “Lincoln is an outstanding in-state player who we have recruited for many years,” …

Want to get more Covers content? Add us as a preferred source on your Google account here. The NCAA announced on Friday that four Alabama State men’s basketball players engaged in match-fixing for the purposes of winning sports bets. Advertisement The Division I Committee on Infractions panel confirmed that one former student-athlete agreed to the violations, while three either chose …

For the first time since 2008, Team USA did not capture the FIBA U18 Americup gold medal. BYU freshman Bruce Branch III and his USA teammates dropped a heartbreaker to Canada in Sunday’s tournament final, missing out on the gold to receive a silver medal. Advertisement Branch scored six points in 22 minutes of play, shooting 3 of 5 from …

It has been a big week for Kentucky Wildcats basketball coach Mark Pope. After getting Malachi Moreno back, he added top transfer Milan Momcilovic to the 2026 squad. Then, he gained a commitment from top ten 2027 player Ryan Hampton. Pope is looking to add more in the 2027 class, and on Sunday, point guard Jaxson Davis announced he had …

The Kentucky Wildcats are quietly building a solid recruiting class, catching the fans’ attention. In their latest recruitment win, they secured the commitment of Class of 2027 linebacker Drew Williams. Williams picked coach Will Stein’s program over notable programs such as Oregon, Florida, and Miami. He announced his decision with the following words: Advertisement “AG2G, BBN Let’s work🔵⚪️!!” According to …

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The Louisville men’s basketball program still needs to add a couple walk-ons, but otherwise, their roster for the 2026-27 season – year three under head coach Pat Kelsey – is complete. It’s a roster that only sports two returners after 11 players departed the the program in some form or fashion following the end of the 2025-26 …

The roster additions keep on coming for the Syracuse Orange, who are officially filling in the last spot on their 2026-27 roster with a 2026 prospect coming off a stretch with Overtime Elite. Ethan Butler —a six-foot-six, 202 lbs. guard from Manhattan — announced Saturday that he is committing to the program. He is the fifth freshman joining coach Gerry …

With the big news in Purdue world being about the announcement of Mike Bobisnki retiring Ryan and I had to talk about it on the podcast. We talked about the interesting process that will take place considering that Purdue will not have a permanent president in the immediate future. What should Purdue do? Hire a president and then let that …

In the 1988-89 season, Duke and Kentucky were headed in very different directions. Kentucky was embroiled in scandal after an envelope with $1,000 to Chris Mills’ father came open en route. The carrier, Emery Worldwide, investigated, and when it went public, Kentucky was in big trouble. This was compounded when it was discovered that Eric Manuel cheated on a college …

Kentucky Basketball had quite the finish to the weekend as head coach Mark Pope and his staff landed one of the best players in the 2027 recruiting class. Ryan Hampton, a 6-foot-6 forward from Daytona Beach, is ranked No. 6 in the ‘27 class and at the top for his position. Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Landing Hampton came just a handful …

MADISON – The Wisconsin Badgers are “prepared for the new world” of college athletics, as interim athletic director Marcus Sedberry described it. That new world has a lot of uncertainty. Possible NCAA rule changes and Congressional action are among the variables that the Badgers – and their peers across the country – have needed to reckon with roughly a year …

The Auburn Tigers’ basketball program has had a rollercoaster of the last two seasons, with the 2024 squad making it all the way to the Final Four, while the following season’s roster missed out on March Madness altogether, instead settling for an NIT Championship win. In the wake of such a disappointing 2025 season, many Tiger fans believed that key …

In the 1980s, the University of North Carolina was the center of the state’s sports culture. Dean Smith’s iconic Tar Heels were producing NBA talent left and right while also competing for national championships every year. While college athletes today enjoy some sense of popularity, it still doesn’t come close to the fame that surrounded UNC players during that period. …

The Gonzaga Bulldogs saw six players enter the transfer portal at the conclusion of last season, and now all six have officially found a new home at the Division 1 level. Joaquim ArauzMoore, who spent the past three seasons at Gonzaga, will join the High Point Panthers for the 2026-27 campaign, as announced by the men’s basketball program on social …