Category: NCAA Basketball

The men's college basketball coaching carousel has been spinning this offseason. We rank the best hires among schools in power conferences.

Someone will have to step up and help the stars win in the Final Four. Here are the players that could be key to winning the national championship.

Rashaun Agee scored 27 points and USC rolled to an 89-60 victory over Tulane in the first round of the College Basketball Crown in Las Vegas Tuesday.

Boise State makes 46.1% of its shots from the field this season, which is 2.3 percentage points higher than Butler has allowed to its opponents (43.8%). Butler scores 8.3 more points per game (74.2) than Boise State allows to opponents (65.9). TOP PERFORMERS: Tyson Degenhart is averaging 18 points and six rebounds for the Broncos.

Cincinnati scores 70.9 points and has outscored opponents by 5.3 points per game. UCF averages 8.7 made 3-pointers per game, 2.3 more made shots than the 6.4 per game Cincinnati gives up. Cincinnati has shot at a 44.9% rate from the field this season, 0.2 percentage points less than the 45.1% shooting opponents of UCF have averaged.

USC averages 77.2 points and has outscored opponents by 2.2 points per game. Villanova ranks eighth in the Big East with 22.7 defensive rebounds per game led by Wooga Poplar averaging 6.0. USC averages 77.2 points, 9.8 more per game than the 67.4 Villanova allows.

Rashaun Agee scored 27 points and Southern California rolled to an 89-60 victory over Tulane in the first round of the College Basketball Crown at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Tuesday night. The Trojans (17-17) move on to play Villanova in a Thursday quarterfinal. The Wildcats (20-14) beat Colorado 85-64 to advance.

Trey Bonham scored 23 points and Honor Huff hit a big 3-pointer late to lead Chattanooga to an 80-73 victory over Loyola Chicago in an NIT semifinal at Hinkle Fieldhouse on Tuesday night. The Mocs (28-9) will play UC Irvine in the championship game on Thursday. The Anteaters (32-6) set a school record for wins in a season after beating North Texas 69-67 in an earlier semifinal.

Johni Broome of Auburn is one of five finalists for the John R. Wooden Award as the outstanding men's college basketball player. The other finalists are Walter Clayton Jr. of Florida, Duke's Cooper Flagg, Mark Sears of Alabama and Braden Smith of Purdue. Broome, Clayton and Flagg will lead their teams at the Final Four in San Antonio this weekend.

Richard Pitino said he needed the right situation to come along for him to leave New Mexico. Pitino was introduced as Xavier's new coach on Tuesday. With Xavier's past track record of hiring coaches who were former assistants or who had ties to the program, Pitino thought his chances of getting a call from athletic director Greg Christopher would be slim until it happened last week.

Johnson, a 6-foot-9, 225-pound forward, averaged 7.0 points and 6.7 rebounds last season while shooting 64.2% in 17 minutes per night as a freshman.

Betting on Duke in the Final Four and the Most Outstanding Player Award

The Final Four is days away as all four No. 1 seeds head to San Antonio for the chance to win a national championship.

Gehrig Normand also entered the portal.

Beware...these Gators bite, especially when they feel threatened.