Category: NCAA Basketball

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

The NCAA hired Signify Group to monitor messages directed at athletes, coaches, game officials, selection committee members, and others with official roles in the tournament.

Dick Vitale has signed a multi-year extension with ESPN and the network has created the Dick Vitale Invitational, an annual event in his honor

Tyrese Proctor had a productive run in college, and the former Duke guard is working to showcase his ability to teams ahead of the draft.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (June 9, 2025) – West Virginia University men’s basketball coach Ross Hodge has announced the signing of Morris Ugusuk to a grant-in-aid for the 2025-26 season.Ugusuk, a 6-foot-4, 170-pound junior guard from Helsinki, Finland, comes to West Virginia from South Carolina, where he played the last two seasons.

Dick Vitale started working for ESPN in 1979.

Dick Vitale is inextricably intertwined with college basketball, with his iconic voice, exuberant style and enthusiastic catchphrases melding into a soundtrack for nearly five decades of the sport’s history. ESPN announced Monday that Vitale has signed a contract through the 2027-28 season, while ESPN Events is launching the Dick Vitale Invitational — the first matchup coming with a season-opening tilt between Duke and Texas on Nov. 4 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Basketball Hall of Famer, also a former college and NBA coach, has been with ESPN since it launched in 1979 and called the network’s first college basketball broadcast.