Category: NCAA Basketball

As the college sports industry sits on the brink of historic change, an unexpected spending disparity looms — and some mid-majors will be able to take advantage of it in basketball.

There will be more than one Pitino in the Big East next season. Xavier hired Richard Pitino, the son of St. John's coach Rick Pitino, as its basketball coach on Tuesday night. The school had an opening after Sean Miller left to accept the Texas job on Monday.

Richard Pitino will now coach against Rick Pitino twice a season in the Big East.

Xavier s hiring New Mexico's Richard Pitino to replace Sean Miller. He joins his father, Rick Pitino, in the Big East.

Samaje Morgan scored a season-high 28 points, Dougie Peoples had 21 points and five 3-pointers, and No. seed College of Idaho beat seventh-seeded Oklahoma Wesleyan 93-65 on Tuesday night to claim its second NAIA championship in three years. College of Idaho (35-2) won the program's third national title, also securing the NAIA Division II championship in 1996 and a D-I title in 2023.

Yahoo Sports' Caroline Fenton, Jason Fitz and basketball analyst Isis 'Ice' Young react to the devastating ACL to the USC star and what it means for the sport as a whole. Hear the full conversation on the “College Basketball Power Hour” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

Yahoo Sports' Caroline Fenton, Jason Fitz and basketball analyst Isis 'Ice' Young discuss the Connecticut head coach's antics in the tunnel following the Huskies' second-round loss to Florida in the NCAA tournament. Hear the full conversation on the “College Basketball Power Hour” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

With 16 teams still alive in the NCAA men's tournament, Final Four combinations are plentiful. Here's a look at the most compelling ones.

Basketball fans around the country are learning what those in Michigan and Florida already know. Dusty May is a good basketball coach. A year ago, the Wolverines fired Juwan Howard after going 8-24 — the most losses in school history — and finishing last in the Big Ten at 3-17.

The gravitation toward the Gophers for Niko Medved began even before he was born, when his father bought the season tickets that would soon spark his young son's passion for college basketball. With that kind of initiation, becoming the coach at Minnesota might well have been inevitable — even if part of him was still having a hard time believing the job he left Colorado State to accept was his. “If you really believe in something and you stick with it and you get the right people who support you, anything can happen,” Medved said Tuesday at his introductory news conference packed with family members, current players, program boosters, other Gophers coaches and cheerleaders in maroon and gold.

Yahoo Sports' Caroline Fenton, Jason Fitz and basketball analyst Isis 'Ice' Young discuss the lack of lower seed non-power conference teams in this year's Sweet Sixteen and whether that is good or bad for the tournament as a whole. Hear the full conversation on the “College Basketball Power Hour” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

John Calipari embraced the one-and-done era like few college basketball coaches, becoming one of the best annually at bringing in talented freshmen and routinely getting them to Final Fours before shipping them off to the NBA. The formula served him well during his 15-year run at Kentucky that ended after last season, as NIL money and the transfer portal skewed rosters older and created more parity. “I’m kind of back to the roots of being the underdog,” Calipari said before the Razorbacks’ NCAA Tournament first-round win over Kansas last week.

The first run to the NCAA Division I basketball tournament in more than 30 years by Saint Francis (Pa.) could also be its last.

Robbie Hummel breaks down each Big Ten team still alive in March Madness and looks ahead to determine which of the conference's teams can keep the good times going.

Purdue Boilermakers vs. Houston Cougars Game Preview