College Basketball

The 2026 NCAA tournament continues on Thursday and Friday with eight more exciting matchups, including potential Houston taking on an offensive powerhouse in Illinois and Rick Pitino’s St. John’s team facing No. 1 seed Duke. The first rounds of March Madness saw plenty of favorites win — all 16 teams won on Friday for the first time since 1992 — …

The Duke Blue Devils are now on to the Sweet 16 after defeating TCU Saturday. Amidst their NCAA Tournament run, the Blue Devils have made history, cementing themselves as one of the strongest basketball programs in collegiate history. With their two wins, they’ve passed the Kansas Jayhawks for the third-most NCAA Tournament wins. Advertisement They now trail only Kentucky and …

Indiana men’s basketball’s first season under Darian DeVries came to an end when the Hoosiers didn’t receive a bid for the 2026 NCAA Tournament. The Hoosiers finished 18-14 overall and 9-11 in Big Ten play, with a late collapse ending their March Madness hopes. We’ll be recapping and analyzing DeVries’ first season in a few different ways from individual players …

Duke has a bit of a history with Rick Pitino. Most obviously, Duke beat his very gutty 1992 Kentucky team that forced overtime in the Elite Eight, which led to Christian Laettner’s iconic shot and a legendary 104-103 win. That’s not the only time that Pitino encountered Duke. Advertisement In 2012, Duke and Louisville played in the Bahamas, with Duke …

The second round was full of surprises in the NCAA Tournament, and for some Big Ten basketball teams. The conference as a whole was dominant, and there were many thrilling wins for Big Ten teams, including the tournament’s biggest upset. Here is how my predictions for Big Ten teams in the second round of the NCAA Tournament played out: Advertisement …

Another trip to the Sweet Sixteen for Brad Underwood and the Illini, and another tough, physical Big 12 2-seed awaiting them. Houston arrives to the Sweet Sixteen in similar dominating fashion as the Illini have, with 31-point victories over two double-digit seeds. A lot of the talk so far has been about how can Illinois handle a couple things that …

The Michigan Wolverines are four wins away from winning the National Championship, and the road runs straight through a gauntlet — Alabama, and then either Tennessee or Iowa State. There are no easy matchups left, but as the Wolverines have shown all season long, they have an answer for just about everything. That answer moving forward is Yaxel Lendeborg. The …

UNC fired Hubert Davis after four years as head coach of the men’s basketball program. The decision came on the heels of another disappointing NCAA Tournament showing. The Tar Heels entered as a No. 6 seed but fell 82-78 to No. 11 VCU in the opening round. That loss reportedly sealed Davis’s fate. He exits Chapel Hill with a 125-54 …

The 2026 Men’s NCAA Tournament is down to 16 teams and the injury report remains an important part of sifting through the remaining games in the bracket. Nearly one-third of the teams to qualify for the Sweet 16 are dealing with a significant player hobbled by injury, including No. 1 overall seed Duke. Several played through the pain to advance …

Iowa State basketball travels to Chicago this week to play Tennessee in the Sweet 16 of March Madness. The Cyclones and Volunteers will meet at 9:10 p.m. CT on Friday at United Center. TBS has the telecast. Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Iowa State was a 4.5-point favorite as of Tuesday evening. Here are game predictions from USA TODAY Sports Network staffers: …

Louisville basketball — and the city’s obsession with it — is different. “It’s a glorious place,” coach Pat Kelsey told reporters last week in Buffalo, New York, before his team’s first-round NCAA Tournament win over South Florida. “I’ve lived elsewhere for many, many years throughout my life — grew up not too far from it, coached in a bunch of …

CHICAGO — The first weekend of March Madness had a little bit of everything, including a Big Ten rager for the ages. There were buzzer beaters, bracket busters and more annoying commercials than ever, most of which featured Charles Barkley. Advertisement All in all, it was four days that lived up to the hype with made-for-March moments that transcend sports. …

In the history of the NCAA tournament, there have only been two 16 seeds to win. First, there was UMBC’s stunning victory over Virginia in 2018. The coach of that team, Ryan Odom, now coaches the Cavaliers. The other was in 2023, when Fairleigh Dickinson knocked off Purdue. Advertisement FDU’s coach, Tobin Anderson, amused the basketball world when he said …

If the performance matches the coaching talent, then this Sweet 16 will be elite. This NCAA Tournament didn’t give us much in the way of Cinderella. Instead, we’ll see a who’s who list of coaches from Power conferences this week. As good as players like Darius Acuff Jr. and Cameron Boozer are, the coaches supply the top star power in …

INDIANAPOLIS — Bo Boroski could see the tiny beads of sweat bubbling up on the arms of the basketball players. It was such a minuscule, random thing to notice, but that’s how zoned in he was. He could see the furrowing eyebrows of the legendary coach standing on the sidelines. He could see the plays that were about to happen …

Six teams still alive in the Men’s NCAA Tournament know what it’s like to hang a banner. Connecticut has won six national championships during the tournament era, most recently with a back-to-back run in 2024, to tie North Carolina for the third-most in Division I history. Advertisement Duke has won five, most recently in 2015. Michigan State has won a …

While college basketball’s coaching old heads are having a generational reckoning in the Sweet 16, the sport’s stars on the court for the next round of the Men’s NCAA Tournament are a peppered mix of veterans and projected one-and-done phenoms. Arkansas coach John Calipari, 67, is youngest among the quintet of Calipari, Tennessee’s Rick Barnes (71), Michigan State’s Tom Izzo …

Heading into the Illinois-Houston Sweet 16 matchup on Thursday (9:05 p.m. CT, TBS), Illinois appears to be the underdog – albeit only slightly. But throughout the 2025-26 campaign, the Illini have made it abundantly clear that any team that lines up opposite them is vulnerable. Brad Underwood’s group has the firepower to compete – and beat – any team in …

Sean Miller Arizona scandal, explained: Revisiting FBI investigation that led to NCAA sanctions, coach’s 2021 firing originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. For over two decades, Sean Miller has been a head coach at a prominent men’s college basketball program. Advertisement Miller had two separate stints at Xavier, plus …

Hubert Davis is out as the head men’s basketball coach at North Carolina, the school announced late Tuesday. Davis’ exit ends a five-year run for the former North Carolina shooting guard. Davis was a longtime assistant under Hall of Fame coach Roy Williams and took over the program upon the coaching legend’s retirement following the 2020-21 season. Advertisement “We appreciate …

North Carolina makes final decision on Hubert Davis’ future originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. Hubert Davis will not return as North Carolina’s head coach, according to ESPN Pete Thamel. This ends his five-year tenure that included both historic highs and late-season frustrations in Chapel Hill. Advertisement Davis compiled …

Ranking March Madness Sweet 16 coaches, from Rick Pitino to Sean Miller originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. The rest of the NCAA Tournament could be a chess match. Advertisement While plenty of stars remain alive in March Madness, from Darius Acuff and Cameron Boozer to Braden Smith and …

Top 5 Hubert Davis replacements as next North Carolina basketball coach appeared first on ClutchPoints. Add ClutchPoints as a Preferred Source by clicking here. On Tuesday evening, North Carolina basketball made the expected decision to fire head coach Hubert Davis. The move came on the heels of a 19-point blown lead against No. 11 seed VCU in the first round …

New Providence men’s basketball coach Bryan Hodgson walked to the podium Tuesday to talk about rebuilding a program in Rhode Island. He was supposed to talk about restoring pride and drawing the map of the future of Providence hoops. Instead, he turned his introductory news conference into something far more human … and far more viral. “If you ever wanna …

Scott Van Pelt lays out hard truth about Hubert Davis’ North Carolina tenure appeared first on ClutchPoints. Add ClutchPoints as a Preferred Source by clicking here. North Carolina basketball is one of the most prominent brands in college hoops history. It is not supposed to be a punchline. Despite coming just short of a national championship in his first year …