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Men’s Power Rankings: The race for the fourth 1-seed is on

After a short stretch that featured fewer top-10 upsets than we’ve become used to seeing this season, this past week upended the 1-seed discussion and left plenty at stake entering the week before Selection Sunday. Tennessee had the inside track for the final 1-seed at the start of the week, but the Volunteers saw their […]

No. 2 Houston holds off upstart Baylor 82-76 in OT

More Teams. More Games. After a Baylor missed free throw, Jamal Shead races down the court and drains a 3, but his shot just fails to beat the second-half buzzer. (0:39) WACO, Texas — L.J. Cryer scored 15 points against his former team, including six free throws in overtime, as second-ranked and Big 12-leading Houston […]

32 men’s college basketball storylines midway through 2023-24

More Teams. More Games. Check out the highlights of a wild week in college basketball, as several teams in the top 10 fall to unranked opponents. (2:13) Each year, college basketball regains national prominence just as the college football season ends and the NFL playoffs wind down. While the die-hards have been following the sport […]

Purdue star Zach Edey tops Wooden Award Midseason Top 25

More Teams. More Games. Purdue puts the ball in play to Zach Edey for a dunk. (0:21) Purdue star Zach Edey, the reigning Wooden Award winner leading the No. 1-ranked Boilermakers, topped the award’s Midseason Top 25 list announced Wednesday. Edey, a 7-foot-4 center, is looking to become only the second two-time winner in Wooden […]

The post-Feast Week Power Rankings: Purdue is No. 1 again

Once again, Purdue is rising to No. 1 in the Power Rankings — and almost assuredly the AP poll — on the Monday after Feast Week. This time around, it had an even more difficult run to a title, needing to beat Gonzaga, Tennessee and Marquette to win the Maui Invitational. How long will Purdue […]

Men’s college basketball Power Rankings: Pre-Feast Week, Kansas is still No. 1

It begins Monday, with the Maui Invitational and a UConn vs. Texas showdown at Madison Square Garden for the Empire Classic, but it doesn’t slow down from there. Here are a couple of things we’re watching from three key events this week: Maui Invitational: Perhaps the most loaded field we’ve seen for a nonconference tournament. […]

Purdue’s Zach Edey highlights Wooden top 50 list

Edey, a 7-foot-4 center from Toronto, withdrew from the NBA draft on deadline day last May to return to the Boilermakers for his senior season. He was the perceived front-runner a year ago for essentially the entire season, establishing his candidacy at the Phil Knight Legacy in late November and finishing the season averaging 22.3 […]

Men’s college basketball Power Rankings: Arizona rises; MSU, Duke fall

A top-five team (Michigan State) loses at home to the Sun Belt favorite (James Madison) in overtime A matchup between two top-12 teams (Duke and Arizona), a game that went down to the final seconds A battle between a top-25 team (Baylor) and a borderline top-25 team (Auburn) that went down to the final minute […]

Key storylines for all 32 D-I conferences ahead of 2023-24

The past six months of men’s college basketball have been eventful. Some of the game’s prominent coaches have moved to other schools — Ed Cooley to Georgetown and Rick Pitino to St. John’s were two of the most intriguing moves of the offseason. Reigning Wooden Award winner Zach Edey is back at Purdue after the […]

Dick Vitale’s preseason ‘Diaper Dandies’ for 2023-24

This might be one of the deeper classes of impactful freshmen I’ve seen in a long time, and I’m so excited to watch them develop into PTPers. All 12 are projected starters, and eight are considered NBA lottery picks — which could make the 2024 draft one of the youngest on record. It was frightful […]