Category: NCAA Basketball

HawgBeat basketball analyst Jackson Collier looks at rotations, roles, minute allocation, and more for next season.

Steve Roberts-Imagn Images The Southeastern Conference released the men's basketball home and away conference opponents for the 2025-26 season on Wednesday. Arkansas will take on Auburn, LSU and Missouri twice, once at home and once on the road.

In more news this week regarding Arkansas basketball's 2025-26 schedule, head coach John Calipari reportedly announced on Saturday that his Razorbacks will play Big Ten powerhouse Michigan State as "part of the SEC-Big 10 deal" and it will be a home-and-home series. The Razorbacks will travel to East Lansing for a showdown at the Breslin Center this coming season before head coach Tom Izzo and the Spartans come down to Fayetteville in 2026-27. Calipari added that the Razorbacks are "also trying to finalize a game in Dallas this season."

Although the NBA Finals are in full swing, the 2025 NBA draft is in less than two weeks. The first round is set for June 25.

Malick Kordel, a German 7-footer who averaged 11.3 points and 7.8 rebounds for the Frankfurt Skyliners (junior) in 2024-25, is set to join U-M.

A federal judge on Thursday denied former University of Tennessee basketball star Zakai Zeigler a preliminary injunction that would have allowed the two-time SEC Defensive Player of the Year to play a fifth season as a graduate student in 2025-26. U.S. District Judge Katherine A. Crytzer reasoned that while the NCAA’s eligibility rule allowing four …

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (June 12, 2025) – The Big 12 Conference has announced the scheduling matrix for the 2025-26 men’s basketball season.Each school has a home-and-home with three other Big 12 opponents, and faces the other 12 opponents once, with six at home and six on the road for an 18-game conference schedule.

Zakai Zeigler sued the NCAA on May 20 over its rules limiting him to four seasons in a five-year window.

The Bears rebuilt their roster with eight transfers and a four-player signing class with a five-star prospect and the son of a NBA champion.

College basketball coaches will be able to challenge officials’ calls next season for the first time, and the NCAA also said there is “positive momentum” toward switching the men’s game from halves to quarters.

Chris Pollard has been hired as Virginia's baseball coach after spending the past 13 seasons at Atlantic Coast Conference rival Duke. Virginia athletic director Carla Williams on Tuesday announced the successor to Brian O'Connor, who left June 1 to take the job at Mississippi State. Pollard was 420-296 and led the Blue Devils to seven NCAA regionals, four super regionals and two ACC Tournament championships.

Basketball-centric athletic programs would seemingly have an advantage under the settlement, but the answer largely depends on how strict pay-for-play rules are enforced.

Teams in CWS underscore a simple point that the SEC, Big Ten would be wise to remember as they go about the business of remaking college sports.

Teams will receive one challenge to use and will have an additional challenge if the initial one is successful.

The NCAA approved several new measures aimed at improving the flow of the game, including implementing a coach's challenge system