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Ahead of his first Clásico as Real Madrid coach, Xabi Alonso responded to Kiyan Sobhani of Managing Madrid about the importance of finding a target in the box on Saturday in his pre-game press conference as he said, “it’s a matter of quality of the individual players. We have another kind of striker with much […]
The rise of televised exhibition games has made it easy to overreact to a contest that doesn’t actually count for anything. For example: based on UNC’s exhibition win over Memphis last season, Jalen Washington was going to be a dominant post player, Seth Trimble the team’s leading scorer, and Elliot Cadeau one of the top […]
The Virginia Cavaliers and new head coach Ryan Odom played in front of a home crowd and on a broadcast for the first time on Friday evening, topping the Villanova Wildcats 75-72. The ‘Hoos led for all but 1:02 of game time and held a 10-point lead with 1:31 left. Villanova’s pressure yielded two Wahoo […]
Returning Players: Jaxon Kohler, Carson Cooper, Jesse McCulloch, Brennan Walton, Colin Walton Departed Players: Xavier Booker (transfer), Szymon Zapala (graduation) Transfers In: None Recruits In: Cam Ward Welcome back to our 2025-26 Michigan State Basketball preview series. Your preseason 22nd ranked Spartans opened the season Thursday night with a 75-66 victory over Bowling Green in a […]
Good morning, BBN! Wow, what a night for the Kentucky men’s basketball team. It doesn’t matter that it was an exhibition; it sure didn’t feel like one. Rupp was rocking, and it felt like everyone, including the team, was in midseason form. The star of the night was Jasper Johnson, who brought in 15 points […]
The Kentucky Wildcats opened the exhibition season with a big-time Friday night matchup with the No. 1 Purdue Boilermakers. They did so without the services of point guard Jaland Lowe (shoulder) and Jayden Quaintance (ACL recovery). Boy, did Kentucky sure impress. In a game they led almost wire-to-wire, the Cats took down top-ranked Purdue 78-65. […]
CINCINNATI — That, my friends, was pretty darn fun. Kentucky took the court in front of a raucous Rupp Arena crowd —mind you, this was just an October Exhibition game —and took the No. 1 team, the Purdue Boilermakers, behind the woodshed. Expectations have been sky-high for this Kentucky team all Summer and entering the […]
Missouri and Kansas State took the court for an exhibition basketball game Friday night, late. The tip off wasn’t until 9:00pm so you’ll forgive me if this is brief. Mizzou won the game 100-91. Here is the game sheet from StatBroadcast: I said before the game for people to not read too much into any […]
LeBron James knows a thing or two about product placement and celebrity endorsements. On Friday night, he gave the Arizona Wildcats men’s basketball program a solid by wearing his son Bryce’s Arizona jersey to the Los Angeles Lakers’ game against the Minnesota Timberwolves. LeBron, who is sitting on the bench to begin the season due […]
Keba Keita blocked a shot in the final seconds and BYU beat North Carolina 78-76 Friday night in Salt Lake City. Both teams weren’t totally dialed in on offense — which isn’t unexpected for October — but both teams brought the intensity and treated this like a real game, which will pay dividends for when […]
I am so sure that consternation reigns/ rains. Though I like all Cardinal fans certainly was hoping for a better performance by the new look Louisville Cardinals, my u-trou are not in a wad after an exhibition against tough Kansas. More important than the anticipation by the pumped Friday night crowd was the anticipation and […]
The most anticipated Louisville men’s basketball season in some time got off on a sour note Friday night, with the Cardinals falling to visiting Kansas, 90-82, in exhibition play. The Jayhawks scored the game’s first nine points, and outside of a few minutes in the middle of the first half, the visitors pretty much controlled […]
Who says it’s just an exhibition game!? Friday night could not have been more perfect for Big Blue Nation, as the ninth-ranked Kentucky Wildcats manhandled top-ranked Purdue 78-65. You’d be hard-pressed to find a more satisfying exhibition win at any level of sports than this was, and for good reason. Exhibitions are typically for getting […]
The Wildcats finally put on a show last time they took the field, but then they got a week off. Will that week result in rust, or in more improvement? We’ll see, but it had better be the latter if The Streak is to continue. The Game The Kansas State Wildcats (3-4, 2-2 Big 12) visit […]
Matt Painter didn’t hold any punches after Purdue’s loss in exhibition to Kentucky at Rupp Arena on Friday night. “A lot of time in basketball you don’t know, early in the season, your real problems,” Matt Painter said. “We have real problems. On a night where Purdue shot just 3 of 17 from three while […]
Lexington native Reece Potter missed Friday night’s Exhibition game vs. Purdue with an illness, according to a Kentucky spokesperson. Thankfully, Kentucky was still able to make easy work of Purdue, winning 78-65. It’s an unfortunate setback, as this was a game Kentucky had 10 players log double-digit minutes, so it stands to reason he would […]
The Oregon men begin preparations for a highly anticipated season tonight, and as usual there are injury concerns. The Big Ten will have to wait, tonight the Ducks welcome their former Pac-12 partners the Utah Utes in an exhibition match. Where: Matthew Knight Arena Eugene, OR When: 7PM PDT Watch: B1G+ Listen: Oregon Sports Network […]
If you weren’t paying attention, you just might have missed that basketball starts tonight. Well…it doesn’t really start tonight, as this is just an exhibition game, but it’s our first chance to see the new-look merc Wildcats in action. And we’re going to need all the help we can get, because for the fourth time […]
Basketball season is finally here, folks, and tonight the Kentucky Wildcats tipped it off in a big way as they hosted the Purdue Boilermakers in their first exhibition game of the season. Now let the over-reactions begin as the Cats picked up the win tonight, 78-63. In a meaningless exhibition game on a Friday night, […]
With the first exhibition game of the season happening on Friday, nobody knew what to expect for No. 9 Kentucky basketball as they faced off against No. 1 Purdue inside of Rupp Arena. Some fans were expecting Kentucky to lose because they were not healthy and down their starting PG Jaland Lowe with a shoulder […]
Yay basketball! I beg you, it’s an exhibition game, do not read too much into any results. Kansas State brings their shade of lavender back to Mizzou Arena for the first time since a 10 point loss to the Wildcats in 2012. If you forgot, Mizzou was pretty awesome that season but Frank Martin’s K-State […]
Purdue came into Rupp Arena as the #1 team in the country set to play a hungry, big Kentucky team with something to prove. Kentucky proved worthy of its top-ten placing in the polls and brought it to the visiting title favorite Boilermakers, winning 78-65.. It’s a familar place for Matt Painter and his Purdue […]
Basketball season is officially here. Well, not officially. But, it’s here. The Wisconsin Badgers are taking on the Oklahoma Sooners on Friday in an exhibition game at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee. Tip-off is set for 7:00 p.m. on Big Ten Plus. Wisconsin enters the season with a brand new team, bringing in five transfers […]
Hey everyone, here are the results of the two survey questions we posted earlier this week. This will become a weekly feature, so if you have any questions you would like to have put out to TOC Nation, feel free to leave them in the comments here.
We asked, and you’ve answered. Arizona is riding a 2-game skid during its bye week, albeit both one-score losses with the first coming in double overtime to an unbeaten opponent and the second on a walkoff field goal. That has sapped the momentum of a 4-1 start, the program’s best since 2019, and put into […]