College Basketball Is Getting Older—Except for Duke

Auburn small forward Chad Baker-Mazara, who scored 17 points in the Tigers’ second-round win over Creighton on Sunday, has not had a traditional college basketball career. After playing a postgraduate season at Spire Academy in 2020, he spent his freshman year at Duquesne, then transferred to San Diego State, transferred again to Northwest Florida State …

College Basketball’s Most Loyal Coach Faces Limits of His Success

This time last year, Oakland men’s basketball coach Greg Kampe had just experienced what he called “the greatest win I’ve ever been a part of” in his four-decade tenure leading the program. His No. 14-seeded Golden Grizzlies shocked the basketball world, pulling off an upset over John Calipari’s No. 3-seeded Kentucky in the first round …

Tennessee Volunteers play the Kentucky Wildcats in Sweet 16

The Wildcats' record in SEC games is 11-9. Kentucky is sixth in college basketball scoring 85.0 points per game while shooting 48.2%. Tennessee makes 45.5% of its shots from the field this season, which is 2.0 percentage points higher than Kentucky has allowed to its opponents (43.5%).