Life comes at you fast in the world of college basketball. One minute you’re alone at the top of the SEC standings and the next minute you’re suddenly in the NCAA Tournament bubble. This is the situation Texas A&M (17-7, 7-4 SEC) finds itself in when it plays at No. 19 Vanderbilt on Saturday. The […]
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 […]
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 […]
Teams looking to earn third place in the 2025 Battle 4 Atlantis Tournament when the VCU Rams take on the Virginia Tech Hokies on Friday morning. VCU dropped an 89-74 decision to Vanderbilt in the semifinals on Thursday, while Virginia Tech dropped a 77-66 decision to St. Mary’s. The Rams (4-3), who tied with George […]
Nineteen years ago, Chris Caputo was a 26-year-old assistant coach on the George Mason basketball team that became the second No. 11 seed in NCAA history to reach the Final Four. Now, as head coach at George Washington, Caputo says this type of upset is becoming increasingly difficult. Caputo called for the tournament to be […]
The ACC has released its notice predicted order of finish in preseason on Tuesday ahead of the 2025-26 college basketball season. Duke was picked to win the conference in the annual preseason poll, while NC State forward Darrion Williams earned preseason Player of the Year honors. Williams transferred from Texas Tech to NC State to […]
Purdue is ranked No. 1 in the AP Top 25 men’s basketball poll released Monday after receiving 35 of a possible 61 first-place votes. It marks the first time in program history that Purdue has been No. 1 in the preseason AP Top 25 poll. It marks the fifth time in as many calendar years […]
What even is a mid-major in Division I College Basketball in 2025? It’s not an easy answer. With conference realignments absorbing so much of what we know about the College Hoops landscape, which has featured numerous long-term mid-majors in recent years, it’s hard to keep up. For example, it’s strange to consider Gonzaga a mid-major, […]