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Matt Norlander has spent the past few days on the Vegas Strip, going back and forth between the two arenas hosting this year’s Players Era Championship. He provided inside information every day of the event. You can read his Monday notebook and his here Tuesday recap here. LAS VEGAS — The team laying claim to […]
Matt Norlander is on the Vegas Strip, bouncing back and forth between the two arenas hosting this year’s Players Era Championship. He will provide regular updates and insider information throughout each day of the event, so check back often. You can read his Monday notebook here. LAS VEGAS – Among the many things the Players […]
CBS Sports graphic The format of the Players Era Festival is so wacky that trying to predict which two teams will participate in Wednesday’s championship is mostly an exercise in futility. It can literally be determined by the number of points a team allows in a game, never mind that all games are not even […]
Brad Underwood’s pivot to recruiting largely internationally at Illinois has received a lot of attention in recent months thanks to names on his roster like Andrej Stojakovic, Mhihalo Petrovic, Zvonimir Ivisic, Tomislav Ivisic and David Mirkovic. It’s sparked some funny memes and deep discussions about whether something is broken in the development system here in […]
CBS Sports graphic We’re not even two full weeks into this season and it’s already clear that the freshman class is historically great. Kansas’ Darryn Peterson, BYU’s AJ Dybantsa and Duke’s Cameron Boozer are the headliners – partly because they were the consensus top three prospects in the class of 2025, partly because most expect […]
In this era of college basketball roster turnover, it’s difficult to conduct a preseason poll because it’s difficult to know how new players will blend into systems. This season was perhaps the most difficult yet, as many freshmen and international newcomers were expected to play key roles. It’s usually smart to value experience and not […]
For the first time in program history, Purdue is the No. 1 team in the Associated Press men’s basketball preseason Top 25. And while the preseason rankings only matter so much, in this case they reflect the Boilermakers’ recent ascension to the elite level of college basketball. Prior to the 2021-2022 season, Purdue was never […]
The AP Top 25 men’s basketball poll was released Monday, indicating the start of the 2025-2026 college basketball season is approaching. Purdue earned the No. 1 spot in the poll after receiving 35 of 60 possible first-place votes. Houston, Florida and UConn – the teams trailing the Boilermakers – all received first-place votes. Rounding out […]
Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the former Loyola Ramblers team chaplain who became a famous figure during the men’s basketball team’s run to the Final Four in 2018, has died at the age of 106. He announced this in a statement on Thursday evening: “Loyola University Chicago is deeply saddened to confirm the death of Sister […]
