College Basketball

The NIL (name, image and likeness) era in college sports collided with the transfer portal and conference realignments to create a whirlwind of change in recruiting. Arizona State’s first-year men’s basketball coach Randy Bennett and Grand Canyon men’s basketball coach Bryce Drew are heading into the 2026-27 season with their rosters heavily constructed through the transfer portal by getting the …

It’s Game Day! The Arizona Wildcats are back home and back in nonconference play as they host the Northern Illinois Huskies. It’s the first meeting between the schools in football. Here’s everything you need to know to watch or listen to the game, as well as our pregame coverage. Come chat with us! Advertisement Arizona-Northern Illinois game time, details: Date: …

Troy and No. 20 Missouri meet Saturday night with both teams entering the final week of nonconference play unbeaten. The Trojans are 2-0 after opening the season with wins over Sam Houston and Alabama State, while the Tigers are also 2-0 after victories over Arkansas-Pine Bluff and rival Kansas. Troy followed a 24-21 win over Sam Houston with a 34-17 …

Mark Few and the Gonzaga Bulldogs have zeroed in on a handful of targets in the 2028 recruiting class, even as they continue to work toward finalizing a very solid 2027 class. The latest target for the Zags is Kinston Knueppel, a 4-star guard from Milwaukee, WI who Gonzaga visited this weekend, per Dushawn London of 247Sports. Advertisement Kinston is …

Despite UCF’s success last season, the team is not projected to make much noise in a once-again deep and talented Big 12 Conference. However, head coach Johnny Dawkins has shown the ability to connect a team in short time before, with last season’s brand new squad earning a March Madness berth. Advertisement On Friday, College Basketball Analyst Ryan Hammer and …

The 11th-ranked BYU Cougars hit the road for the first time in the 2026 football season. Kalani Sitake’s team will rekindle with an old conference flame on Saturday night in Fort Collins against the Colorado State Rams. While some have speculated if this was a trap game for BYU, ESPN host Rece Davis went all in, predicting the Rams would …

College football took its game over to historic Wembley Stadium in London as the Arizona State Sun Devils and Kansas Jayhawks took the field (or pitch, if you will) on Saturday. Fans in the United States watching the Fox Sports 1 telecast saw the Sun Devils beat the Jayhawks 24-17. But the game didn’t seem to impress fans much, and …

The Kentucky Wildcats hit the road for the first time this season as they are in College Station for a date with Mike Elko and the Texas A&M Aggies. After a disappointing second half against the Alabama Crimson Tide last Saturday, Will Stein and his staff are hoping to have the Cats clicking on all cylinders at Kyle Field and …

The Duke basketball program will enter the 2026-27 college basketball season with arguably the deepest and most talented roster in college basketball. Through the transfer portal, high school recruiting trail, and retention, head coach Jon Scheyer and his staff have built a roster poised to succeed in today’s era of college basketball. Duke will enter the year as one of …

Ahead of the 2026-27 NCAA season, college basketball expert Andy Katz revealed his list ranking the 10 most difficult non-conference schedules in the country. Unsurprisingly, Duke basketball ranked quite high, coming in at No. 2 on the list. Throughout the years, head coach Jon Scheyer and the Blue Devils haven’t shied away from playing some of the best programs in …

Kevin Willard has strong ties to the Baltimore, MD area, and with the commitment of 2026 prospect Carter Fisk he dipped into that pool again. The 6’2″ guard from St. Frances Academy is an unranked recruit, but one that Willard was near the front of the line to offer back in December. Fisk has been a late riser, who initially …

On Friday, Duke men’s basketball coach Jon Scheyer appeared on the Inside College Basketball Now podcast with Jon Rothstein. As part of that podcast, he talked a lot about his incoming group, his relationship with Coach K, and the state of his program. Advertisement But Rothstein also asked him if he’d watched the tape yet of Duke’s Elite Eight loss …

Right now, all the talk is about how Florida’s football program will play in SEC competition, with the Gators taking on Auburn on Saturday in what’s expected to be one of the better games of the week in college football. But in just a couple of weeks, we’ll all be focused on this basketball program. Florida has shown over the …

The Northern Illinois Huskies take on the Arizona Wildcats in Tucson, AZ. Kickoff is set for 10:30 p.m. ET on TNT and HBO Max. Arizona is favored by -33.5 points on the spread. Northern Illinois, meanwhile, enters as a +33.5 underdog and is +5500 on the moneyline to pull off the upset. The over/under sits at 49.5 total points. Advertisement …

A new era is underway for University of Kentucky Athletics, and athletics director J. Batt continues to explore ways to increase revenue while investing in the department’s future. One of the latest areas of focus is Kentucky’s Basketball jersey patch. Unlike Kentucky Football, which currently has UK Invests as its jersey-patch sponsor, the men’s basketball team does not yet have …

It’s Game Day! The Arizona Wildcats are back home and back in nonconference play as they host the Northern Illinois Huskies. It’s the first meeting between the schools in football. Here’s everything you need to know to watch or listen to the game, as well as our pregame coverage. Advertisement Arizona-Northern Illinois game time, details: Date: Saturday, Sept. 19, 2026 …

Brad Underwood has quickly turned Illinois into a perennial national title contender – or something very close to it. But for the past few seasons, the Illini were viewed more as a dark horse candidate capable of going on a run, rather than one of college basketball’s legitimate favorites. In 2026-27, though, on the heels of a Final Four appearance …

It’s hard to win on the road in college basketball. However, to make it to the NCAA Tournament, a program is going to have to do it at least a few times. For the UCF Knights, they went 5-5 in true away games last season, with one such win against a Top 25-ranked BYU squad serving as an important March …

BYU basketball’s Big 12 schedule was released on Friday. The Cougars’ 2026-27 conference slate is interesting to say the least. An immediate takeaway is January will be a huge month with five of the nine games on the road, including facing Arizona and Houston away from Provo. Kevin Young and his staff prepare for his third season with the program …

The Iowa State Cyclones men’s basketball team has known for months who they’ll play against during the Big 12 portion of their 2026-27 schedule thanks to the opponent matrix. Now, they know the dates of those matchups. Iowa State has revealed its conference schedule for the upcoming season, which includes home-and-home series with the Oklahoma State Cowboys, West Virginia Mountaineers …

The Kansas women’s basketball team now knows what its path through the 2026-27 season will look like after the Big 12 released its conference schedule Thursday. The Jayhawks will begin Big 12 play at home against Oklahoma State on Dec. 20 at Allen Fieldhouse before navigating an 18-game conference schedule that includes several familiar opponents and challenging road trips. Kansas …

Saturday is a big day for Kentucky football as they go on the road for the first time this year to face the Texas A&M Aggies. The Wildcats played a very good Alabama team well, and will need to be even better this week if they want to get the upset victory. This year’s Kentucky squad is one of the …

Five-star point guard Antonio Pemberton committed to Michigan State on Friday, announcing his decision live on the CBS Sports College Basketball channel. Grind Week Sealed Antonio Pemberton’s Decision Pemberton, a senior at Masters Academy International in Massachusetts, decided after visiting East Lansing on Sept. 11 for the Spartans’ annual grind week. He is ranked 20th overall in the 247Sports rankings …

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Tom Izzo has once again put together a fiery non-conference schedule filled with blue bloods, national contenders and top-tier mid-major programs. The goal is simple — prepare Michigan State for another gauntlet of a Big Ten schedule and, ultimately, an NCAA Tournament run that could end in Detroit. Advertisement This year, Izzo …

On Saturday evening, no. 11 BYU will play on the road at Colorado State. BYU is 1 of just 10 10 Power Four schools that will travel to play a true road game against a Group of Six school in 2026. Here is the comprehensive list of P4 teams playing on the road against G6 foes in 2026. Arizona @ …