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Indiana State’s Robbie Avila enters NCAA transfer portal

Indiana State star Robbie Avila, one of the breakout stars of the 2023-24 college basketball season, has entered the NCAA transfer portal. Avila, a 6-foot-10 sophomore center, averaged 17.4 points and 4.1 assists for Indiana State this season, earning first-team All-Missouri Valley honors. Along the way, he became one of the sport’s most endearing personalities, […]

Saint Louis hires Josh Schertz away from Indiana State

Schertz replaces Travis Ford, who was fired three weeks ago. The Billikens were 13-20 overall (5-13 Atlantic 10) and last played in the NCAA tournament in 2019. Indiana State, which lost 79-77 to Seton Hall in the NIT championship game Thursday, finished 32-7 and was among the first teams left out of the NCAA tournament. […]

Seton Hall rallies late, tops Indiana State to win NIT title

INDIANAPOLIS — Dre Davis scored on a layup with 16 seconds left Thursday night to cap Seton Hall’s decisive late run, giving the Pirates a 79-77 victory over Indiana State and their first NIT championship since 1953. Seton Hall (25-12) scored the final nine points in a battle between No. 1 seeds to erase a […]

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 […]

Tucker DeVries, Drake top Indiana State for MVC tournament title

ST. LOUIS — Tucker DeVries scored 27 points, Darnell Brodie had four of his 17 in the last 67 seconds and Drake defended its Missouri Valley Conference tournament title for an NCAA berth with an 84-80 win over Indiana State on Sunday despite blowing an 18-point lead in the last 10 minutes. The second-seeded Bulldogs […]

32 men’s basketball players who could become breakout stars of the postseason

And then the NCAA tournament began. By the time Kansas State got to its Elite Eight matchup against Florida Atlantic, Nowell — who would score 30 points in a Wildcats loss — had become a must-see player. That’s how quickly everything can change in the college basketball postseason. While this regular season failed to produce […]

Men’s Power Rankings: How far do Kansas, Alabama drop after losses?

Is there some separation — and semblance of calm — coming to 2023-24 college basketball just as we enter the madness of March? After four months of action that saw top-15 teams getting upset seemingly every single night, this past week saw just five losses from teams ranked in the top 16 of last week’s […]