Category: NCAA Basketball

The Boilermakers will open the season at No. 1 in the country.

Purdue is No. 1 in the preseason Associated Press Top 25 college basketball poll for the first time. The Boilermakers earned 35 of 61 first-place votes to top Monday’s poll to begin the 2025-26 season. “We are obviously excited to get the season going and being ranked No. 1 in the preseason is a great indicator of what we feel this team can accomplish," Painter said.

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the chaplain for the men’s basketball team at Loyola Chicago who became a beloved international celebrity during the school’s fairy-tale run to the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament in 2018, died at 106.

Luke Loucks remembers winning an Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament title at Florida State when Mike Krzyzewski, Roy Williams and his coach, Leonard Hamilton, were sideline fixtures. Thirteen years later, those guys have all headed into retirement, along with multiple other marquee names who weren't even in the league when Loucks played. Now Loucks is a 35-year-old first-time head coach for the Seminoles.

Louisville guard J’Vonne Hadley remembers walking into a grocery store near campus last fall and some Cardinals fans politely encouraging him to go win some games. This year they clearly want more.

The NCAA moved a step closer Wednesday to allowing athletes and athletic department staff members to bet on professional sports. “The Administrative Committee was clear in its discussion today that it remains concerned about the risks associated with all forms of sports gambling but ultimately voted to reduce restrictions on student-athletes in this area to better align with their campus peers,” said Josh Whitman, athletics director at Illinois and chair of the committee. “This change allows the NCAA, the conferences, and the member schools to focus on protecting the integrity of college games while, at the same time, encouraging healthy habits for student-athletes who choose to engage in betting activities on professional sports.”

College athletes would still be prevented from wagering on NCAA sports.

More than 75 Big Ten men’s and women’s basketball games will stream exclusively on Peacock for the 2025-26 season, including regular-season and early round Big Ten Tournament games.

Purdue is the overwhelming favorite for Big Ten title, and Braden Smith was a near unanimous pick for Player of the Year. Check out rest of the picks.

You just can't keep Tatum away from the game of basketball, it seems.

Boston Celtic star Jayson Tatum is returning to Duke with a new title. He was named Duke basketball's chief basketball officer.

Jayson Tatum will help his alma mater as he recovers from his Achilles injury.

Duke is getting help from former Blue Devils player and Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum. The school announced Tuesday that the six-time NBA all-star would serve in a volunteer advisory role for the program as “chief basketball officer.” Tatum is currently recovering from a ruptured right Achilles’ tendon suffered in May during the NBA playoffs.

Tarleton State reinstated men’s basketball coach Billy Gillispie on Monday, three days after the school announced that he had been placed on temporary administrative leave following an anonymous complaint. Steve Uryasz, the school's athletic director, in a statement thanked the Texas A&M system “for working expeditiously in addressing this anonymous complaint.” “The welfare of our student-athletes is of the utmost importance to Tarleton State University and the Texas A&M System," Uryasz said Monday.

Zoe Brooks has never known a time at N.C. State before now when she couldn't lean on star teammates Saniya Rivers or Aziaha James before now. Florida State coach Brooke Wyckoff understands that type of jarring change considering last year's national scoring leader Ta'Niya Latson ha s transferred to South Carolina after three seasons.