Category: Basketball

Sprinkle, who was hired in 2024 after guiding Utah State to a Mountain West regular-season title, has a completely overhauled roster and is optimistic the Huskies will get back on track in 2025-26.

Here's a closer look at the early college basketball games you need to pay attention to this fall.

The tip off of the college basketball season is less than a week away. The top players in the country comprise our USA TODAY Sports All-America team.

Jamar Brown proves he's worthy of a potential starting role on the UCLA men's basketball team this season in the Bruins' exhibition victory over UC Irvine.

Big Ten basketball teams were certainly busy in the transfer portal. We asked beat reporters which transfers will have biggest impact in 2025-26.

The NCAA had denied an appeal from Grant-Foster, 25, earlier in the month on the grounds that his two years in junior college and two at Grand Canyon University accounted for four years of eligibility.

The SEC wrote a letter to the NCAA voicing its opposition to the new rule that was set to go into effect Saturday.

Gonzaga guard Tyon Grant-Foster's eligibility for this season has been reinstated by a Spokane County judge. The NCAA had denied an appeal from Grant-Foster, 25, earlier in the month on the grounds that his two years in junior college and two at Grand Canyon University accounted for four years of eligibility. Grant-Foster’s lawyers argued it would be illegal to deny him the blanket waiver given to former junior college transfers in December 2024.

Byington has gone back to the portal for more help after point guard and leading scorer Jason Edwards left for Providence. Guard Duke Miles started 34 games last season for Oklahoma where he scored 9.4 points a game and shot 43% from 3-point range. Tyler Harris led Washington shooting 49.5% from 3-point range, and Jalen Washington spent the last three seasons at North Carolina.

UCF is one of five teams in the Big 12, ACC, SEC and Big Ten to return none of their scoring from last season. The Knights had to dig into the transfer portal to remake their roster, finding veteran players looking for bigger opportunities on the Big 12 stage. There is a lot of uncertainty with the Knights this season.

Cameron Boozer’s extraordinary potential is evident from the way Tennessee coach Rick Barnes described him before the Duke freshman forward even played a college game that counts. “One of the best players in the country,” Barnes said after Boozer collected 24 points and 23 rebounds in No. 6 Duke’s 83-76 exhibition victory over No. 18 Tennessee on Sunday. Boozer ranks alongside Kansas’ Darryn Peterson and BYU’s AJ Dybantsa as the best players in a freshman class that’s loaded with star power at the top.

The Wildcats have reached the NCAA Tournament's Sweet 16 three of coach Tommy Lloyd's first four seasons and are hoping to make an even deeper March run with one of the nation's top recruiting classes. Arizona still has a solid core of players despite some key losses and several freshmen from a recruiting class ranked No. 2 in the 247 Sports composite who should have an immediate impact. Arizona's point guard has been solid since transferring from Alabama, going from spark off the bench his first season to a team leader last year.

Coach Bobby Hurley enters his 11th season in Tempe and the final year of his contract potentially needing a strong March run to keep his job. The Sun Devils haven't been to the NCAA Tournament since 2023 and are coming off a difficult injury-filled season. Hurley will have to do it with a roster that's almost entirely new, with one returning scholarship player.

Wes Miller goes into his fifth season leading a Bearcats program that has not made the NCAA Tournament since Mick Cronin's final season in 2019. Jizzle James, UC's leading scorer last season at 12.7 points per game, was dismissed from the program in August, but Miller rebuilt the roster by leading heavily on the transfer portal.

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey urged the NCAA to rescind its decision to permit college athletes to wager on professional sports, describing the move as a “major step in the wrong direction.”