Latest blog entries about College Basketball
BYU opened up its most anticipated season in program history with a 71-66 win over Villanova in Las Vegas. The Wildcats are breaking in nearly an entire new roster after hiring Kevin Willard from Maryland, but this was a solid way to open the season and should be a Quad one or Quad two win […]
First-year IU coach Darian DeVries addressed the media on Tuesday afternoon ahead of Wednesday’s season opener against Alabama A&M at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. Watch the full media availability below: The post Video: Darian DeVries media availability ahead of season opener appeared first on Inside the Hall | Indiana Hoosiers Basketball News, Recruiting and Analysis .
Mark Pope was so distraught after Kentucky lost 84-70 to Georgetown in their second exhibition game that he resembled Coach Herb Brooks in the movie “Miracle,” after Team USA lost 10-3 to the Soviet Union in a friendly prior to the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. That’s how much he cares about this team, […]
Welcome back everyone, to the Hike’s Peak podcast, thank you for coming back to the mountain! We had our most upset-filled week of the season, with New Mexico stunning UNLV, Fresno State stomping Boise State, and San Jose State outgunning Hawaii, all of those going down on the road! We’ll break down all three of […]
Felisha Legette-Jack’s team opens the 2025-26 season tonight against the Stony Brook Seawolves. The Orange roster didn’t turn over as much as the men’s did, but Syracuse is still looking to find the right combination of players to get back to the NCAA Tournament. Here’s what we’re predicting for this season: Kevin 15-14 (7-11 ACC) […]
Monkeys. No, I don’t mean the cute ones who invade the screens of Friends and Outbreak (though those were as dangerous as they were cute). Nor do I mean the winged ones who wreaked havoc on Dorothy and her friends in The Wizard of Oz. No, I am talking about the imaginary ones who climb […]
In a hostile environment that could have been mistaken for Provo instead of Las Vegas’ T-Mobile arena, Villanova battled but ultimately fell, 71-66, to #8 BYU in Monday night’s season opener. Villanova went into the half down by 10, but encouragingly were able to come back and take a 59-57 lead with 6:28 to play. […]
Arizona men’s basketball is already reaping the benefits of a loaded freshman class. Another one might on the way, beginning with the commitment announcement of four-star prospect Cameron Holmes. Holmes, a 6-foot-6 small forward in the class of 2026 out of Goodyear, Ariz., is set to announce his college decision Sunday Nov. 9th, he told […]
—Spread check (football): Louisville by 19.5 —It’s opening night for the Louisville women’s basketball team, which faces reigning national champion and preseason No. 1 UConn in Annapolis. Here’s a preview. —The Athletic’s Austin Mock projects that Louisville will be No. 12 in the first College Football Playoff rankings, which will be released tonight at 8. […]
Like every other November, the sound of basketballs bouncing against the hardwood, smoke shooting into the air and “Dream On” by Aerosmith filled Welsh-Ryan Arena for the first time in six months on Monday night. But the players that walked out of the home team tunnel were an entirely new bunch. Sure, senior forward Nick […]
And now, with the first Marquette men’s basketball game of the season in the books, let’s overreact to what we saw in the 40 minutes of action at Fiserv Forum against Albany. It’s Just One Game, BUT… Sean Jones can’t turn the ball over every five minutes for the rest of the season. We’re all […]
The Wisconsin Badgers began their season with a 96-64 win over Campbell. While the score looks like another opening-season blowout that other ranked teams accomplished on Monday night, Campbell put some scares into the Badgers. The Fighting Camels, in former Florida Gators assistant John Andrzejek’s debut as head coach, cut Wisconsin’s lead to five on […]
Each week, we’ll take a look at what other college football media sites are saying about the Syracuse Orange. Let’s see what they are saying after the Orange’s offensive disaster against North Carolina Syracuse.Com Football reporter Javon Edmonds moves Syracuse down 4 to 16th between North Carolina and Boston College. Miami is ranked 5th this week. […]
Husky hoops is back, and the football team hits the road coming off their bye. To the dots! Basketball Dots: Football Dots:
Another Chicago basketball team started its season on the right foot. Facing off against Cleveland State University on their home court, Loyola-Chicago walked away with a tight 91-88 victory on Monday night. The Ramblers found themselves inbounding the ball along the baseline with 2.6 seconds left on the clock. As the ref blew the whistle and handed Justin Moore the ball, guard Deywilk Tavarez hustled along the perimeter to the strong side corner. Moore quickly fed him the ball. Tava...
Aiden Fink will be out for the foreseeable future, per head coach Guy Gadowsky. How Penn State hockey will adjust to life without Aiden Fink. Penn State hockey’s series against Michigan State is officially a Top-3 showdown. Penn State women’s hockey remains undefeated after posting consecutive shutouts. The women’s volleyball team is barely in the […]
Even though it is football season, college basketball season is just around the corner with the Buckeyes tipping off on Nov. 3. There were a lot of roster changes for the Buckeyes heading into the 2025-26 season, and over the next couple of months we will be dropping one player preview a week to get […]
Caleb Wilson came out of fire, scoring the first ten points of his UNC career all on dunks as he led the Heels to a dominant 94-54 win in Chapel Hill on Monday night. He hit 8-10 shots from the field and would finish as UNC’s leading scorer with 22 points. It’s rare to see […]
Welcome to The Shotgun/Throwdown, your daily West Virginia sports roundup (that we didn’t already talk about in another article) with some sophomoric humor and daily distractions thrown in for good measure. And if there’s something we missed, be sure to talk about it in the comments. BACK TO BUSINESS The WVU women’s basketball team didn’t waste time easing […]
Apologies for the delayed recap! Both Jaden and I had work obligations yesterday. This was a game that the Husker women should have won easily and they did. Outside of a blip in the third quarter when scoring was relatively even, Nebraska held the Lady Demons to single digit scoring in each period. We got […]
Oregon women’s basketball highlighted their depth and defense, and ran away with their first game of the season in defeating the West Georgia Wolves 100-59 at Matthew Knight Arena. The Wolves presented better defense than Oregon’s exhibition opponent last week, but had no answers for a Ducks defense that created 11 turnovers in the first […]
The Texas A&M men’s basketball team rolled past Northwestern State, 98-68, in its season opener Monday night at Reed Arena. The victory marked the first for head coach Bucky McMillan with the Aggies and the 100th of his college coaching career. The Aggies (1-0) got out to a hot start and never trailed in the game. They knocked […]
This offseason, the roster, leadership and expectations for Ohio State women’s basketball’s 2025-26 season were all in question. That made it difficult to make heads or tails on how things will play out for the Buckeyes. With all that in mind, after years of providing in-depth coverage of the team, Land-Grant Holy Land wanted to […]
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Kiyan Anthony was in the JMA Wireless Dome four hours before the game against Binghamton. The freshman was nervous before his official Syracuse basketball debut. He wanted to get some extra work in to calm his nerves. Any pregame jitters he felt didn’t show up in his performance. Anthony scored 15 points […]
The 2025-26 season is here. Purdue will play host to Evansville as the nation’s #1 team, returning the country’s #1 point guard, and with a Final Four in its own back yard waiting at the end of the season, expectations have never been higher in West Lafayette. The season starts on Tuesday night with Purdue […]