Michigan overtook Arizona as the No. 1 overall seed in CBS Sports Bracketology after the Wildcats’ first loss Monday night at Kansas. The Wolverines, who also have one loss, claim the top spot with a profile that includes the No. 1 ranking in most team sheet metrics used by the selection committee. The Wildcats are […]
Jeremy Fears Jr. made history, but didn’t make any new friends in Big Ten country on Saturday. The Michigan State point guard etched himself into Spartan history with a 26-point, 15-assist performance to help No. 10 MSU outlast No. 5 Illinois 85-82 in an overtime thriller. For a program that features legendary point guards like […]
Seton Hall’s 72-60 loss to Villanova Wednesday night returned the team to the wrong side of the NCAA Tournament bubble and underscored an increasingly bleak reality facing the Big East. If the Pirates don’t get their ship right in the next five weeks, the league will likely send just three teams to the NCAA Tournament […]
You know what’s great about college basketball? That even on a random Wednesday in early February – with no rankings versus rankings, while the nation’s sporting attention is otherwise focused on the Olympics trade deadline, the Super Bowl and the NBA – you’re still responsible for a highly entertaining evening. Between multiple upset top 20 […]
Thoughts about A 73-64 loss to the Golden Gophers: A sparse Barn crowd. A Minnesota team dealing with injuries, losers of three straight games. It didn’t matter. Welcome to the Big Ten, new Hoosiers. Niko Medved and the Golden Gophers had a plan to slow down Indiana’s offense. At the rim, you deny the rhythmic […]
CHICAGO — UCLA coach Mick Cronin is in the middle of a monologue Thursday at Big Ten Media Days describing his new big man, Michigan State transfer Xavier Booker, when he does something he’s really adept at: steering the conversation. “If you’re 6-foot-4 and (Booker) has a good year, he’s going to get drafted,” Cronin […]
Again CBS Sports presents our Candid Coaches series, which bring relevant topics and problems in the men’s basketball to the attention. Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander have interviewed almost 100 coaches on various topics in recent weeks. Coaches spoke in the background and were given anonymity to offer unfiltered opinions. Today we look at the […]
With the start of the basketball season of the college at the beginning of November, Inside the Hall takes a team-for-team to the Big Ten and a player-per player looks at the schedule of IU basketball in the next two months. Today our team examples will continue with Minnesota. Earlier: Penn State, Rutgers It is […]