Category: Basketball

Johnny Kinziger had 13 points in Illinois State's 70-54 victory against Missouri State on Thursday in the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament. Dalton Banks added 12 points while going 5 of 9 from the floor, including 1 for 4 from 3-point range, and 1 for 3 from the line while he also had eight assists. Chase Walker shot 4 of 10 from the field and 3 for 5 from the line to finish with 11 points.

This first season was always going to be graded on a curve for USC basketball coach Eric Musselman, who inherited one returning player (who barely plays) and basically started from scratch last spring in resetting the program. Well, USC had lost seven of eight games (including five straight) before a much-needed 92-61 victory at home Wednesday night over Washington.

Realignment has shaken things up for college programs everywhere, yet it has been particularly grueling in the ACC and Big Ten as power-conference leagues spanning the four contiguous U.S. time zones with footprints touching both the Atlantic and Pacific coastlines.

Ali Dibba led Southern Illinois with 30 points and Davion Sykes made a game-winning layup with 4.1 seconds remaining as the Salukis took down Indiana State 86-85 on Thursday in the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament. Southern Illinois (14-18) advances to play top-seeded Drake in the quarterfinals on Friday. Dibba also contributed nine rebounds for the Salukis.

Danny Wolf is averaging 12.7 points and 9.6 rebounds per game and has been the focal point of Michigan basketball's offense this season.

The Arkansas basketball team will take on the Duke Blue Devils at the United Center in Chicago on Thanksgiving Day 2025, the school announced Thursday. The game will be broadcast on CBS and will tip off at 7 p.m. CT as a part of the CBS Sports Thanksgiving Classic. This is the second year in a row that Arkansas will play on Thanksgiving, as the Razorbacks played Illinois at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City last year.

Serena Sundell scored 19 of her 21 points in the second half to help No. Kansas State beat UCF 80-65 on Thursday in the Big 12 Tournament. Kansas State (26-6) equaled its win total from last season, with the 52 wins tied for the third-most over a two-season span in program history.

Miami officially announced on Thursday that it has hired Duke basketball associate coach Jai Lucas as the Hurricanes' next head coach. Here's more:

Expanding the NCAA Tournament would be expensive. Unless you can guarantee that schools and conferences wouldn't lose money, what's the point?