The NBA’s All-Star Weekend – and all the celebrity-packed events that come with it – is scheduled for this weekend. But before players, coaches and executives travel to Los Angeles for the festivities, there are still basketball games to be played. And on Wednesday, two Eastern Conference teams will look to enter the All-Star break […]
Editor’s note: This article is part of the Bracket Central series, a look at the lead-up to the men’s and women’s NCAA tournaments, along with analysis and picks during the tournaments. In his top 25 this week, CJ Moore talked about Arizona and Michigan, a top tier all their own, and the prospect of “one […]
In April 2025, after that crashing his Tesla Cybertruck into a fire hydrant, five-star recruit Alijah Arenas was placed in a medically induced coma due to smoke inhalation from the crash. On Wednesday evening, less than an hour from where that accident took place in California, Arenas was the son of the former N.B.A All-Star […]
For college sports fans who turn their full attention to basketball after the thrill of Indiana College football Playoff National Championship Game win over Miami, welcome to what has been an exciting season so far. Freshman stars are once again a hallmark of the sport, the top conference hierarchy is well balanced and the race […]
It’s a tough era for the mid-major in men’s basketball. But it’s a good week. If you took it all in with the rest of the hoops junkies on Saturday, you saw as many replays of Miami — Ohio, not Florida — hitting wild shots to outlast Buffalo and stay undefeated as anything else. That’s […]
Twenty-four of college basketball’s 25 ranked teams will be in action Saturday. And sixteen of those teams play on the road. So as someone who has followed this sport closely for decades, let me translate: The forecast for the next 24 hours in sports has a high chance of chaos. In the past week alone, […]
For the first time in a few weeks, there was movement among the top-ranked teams in the AP Top 25 college basketball poll. Arizona and Michigan remained No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, but Duke then fell away suffered its first loss of the season against Texas Tech. The Blue Devils fell three spots to […]
CBS Sports graphic Michigan kept its unbeaten streak to six on Sunday as it cruised to a 102-50 victory over La Salle. The Wolverines led by 21 points at halftime and won by 52. Competitive, this was not. But honestly, almost no game the Wolverines have played this season, and exactly zero in the last […]
Getty Images Purdue, which opened the year at the top of the rankings, is back in the top five of this week’s Coaches Poll after a win against Auburn. The Boilermakers landed at No. 5, behind No. 3 Iowa State and No. 4 UConn, to round out the three programs that moved up in the […]
The last big Saturday of non-conference action is just around the corner, and it offers one last chance for several major teams to make a statement before the league kicks off again after Christmas. Among them are four branded programs that will be featured in the CBS Sports Classic. First up is tip-off at 12:30 […]