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Colorado State cruises past Virginia in First Four
DAYTON, Ohio — For almost 14 minutes of game time and nearly an hour of real time, the ball didn’t go through Virginia’s basket even once. The Cavaliers have been vulnerable to sluggish offensive outputs — both this season and in the past — but Tuesday’s lull was particularly painful. Virginia occupied a spot in […]
Continue readingUNC’s RJ Davis and Hubert Davis honored as ACC’s top player, coach
Tar Heels coach Hubert Davis, whose fourth-ranked team won its first outright regular-season title since 2016-17, was named coach of the year in his third season at his alma mater. Other honorees include Virginia guard Reece Beekman, who won his second consecutive defensive player of the year award, Notre Dame’s Markus Burton as rookie of […]
Continue readingPurdue’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 […]
Continue readingKey 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 […]
Continue readingCollege basketball Power Rankings: Virginia, Texas oust Gonzaga, Kentucky in top 4
All the complaints about a quiet first week of the 2022-23 men’s college basketball season quickly disappeared over the past seven days, with blockbuster games seemingly every night, including the Champions Classic, Gonzaga at Texas and the Continental Tire Classic. And can you remember a Sunday quadruple-header featuring games like Virginia vs. Illinois, Baylor vs. […]
Continue readingNCAA Division I men’s college basketball rosters, departures, newcomers for 2022-23
Between the one-time transfer waiver and the extra year of eligibility due to the pandemic-impacted 2020-21 season, keeping track of the comings and goings has become borderline impossible. As one coach said to me recently, it feels like every player in the country can find a year of eligibility if they really try. But keeping […]
Continue readingCollege basketball 2021-22: Men’s Final Four picks, player of the year predictions
Will preseason No. 1 Gonzaga stay at the top and finally win a national title? Will Emoni Bates and Jalen Duren move No. 12 Memphis into title contention? Who’s going to surprise us all? ESPN’s experts (Myron Medcalf, Jeff Borzello, John Gasaway and Joe Lunardi) discussed this, and more college basketball storylines, before the action […]
Continue readingACC 2021-22 basketball predictions: How big will Duke win in Coach K’s farewell tour?
The Duke Blue Devils are destined to endure as one of college basketball’s top stories in 2021-22 thanks to the imminent retirement of Mike Krzyzewski, but Coach K’s victory lap is far from the only story in the game — or in the ACC. Freshman phenom Paolo Banchero leads a star-studded class intent on delivering […]
Continue readingNCAA Division I men’s college basketball rosters, departures, newcomers for 2021-22
Because it has been nearly impossible to keep track of rosters this offseason, we’ve decided to share a cleaner version of my roster changes research. (The actual one has cross-outs and underlines and capitalized names; it’s unreasonable to think anyone besides me can read it.) First, some guidelines. “Departed or expected to depart” players include […]
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