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When most people come across San Jose State basketball, it’s been a Spartan two-step forward, one-step back dosey-doe. But as seasoned investors often say, “When in doubt, zoom out,” especially of late for San Jose State. Also, as the often overused adage goes, “He’s changed the culture around here,” fifth-year head coach Tim Miles certainly […]
From Mountain West Connection | 3 months ago | 1 read
For the first time in the 2025-26 season, the Tar Heels will play a game against another team, and they’ll do so in a way that’ll be available for us to see. Ever since the NCAA got rid of the so-called “secret scrimmages,” schools have taken advantage of having exhibition games against other big schools […]
From Tar Heel Blog | 3 months ago | 1 read
Who will be the best player in women’s college basketball in the 2025-26 NCAA season? The season-long absence of last year’s Naismith Trophy winner and AP Player of the Year JuJu Watkins, in combination with the departure of Wade Trophy winner Paige Bueckers, leaves the field wide open. However, fans from Storrs to Westwood to […]
From Swish Appeal | 3 months ago | 1 read
Needless to say, but I suppose I’ll say it anyway, this season hasn’t gone as hoped for either of the Big 12 Kansas football teams. Kansas State can’t get out of its own way and has a couple of mind-boggling losses on its resume. If Kansas State and Army play 100 times, Kansas State wins […]
From Bring On The Cats | 3 months ago | 0 reads
Check out the second episode of the 2025-26 season from Free Ira Brown! Support the show at patreon.com/freeirabrown. Arden Cravalho is a Gonzaga University graduate from the Bay Area… Follow him on Twitter @a_cravalho
From The Slipper Still Fits | 3 months ago | 2 reads
The 2025-26 Mountain West basketball season is so close that you can even taste it! OK, maybe not that close, but we’re less than two weeks away from the action tipping off. So to cap off our four-part preseason awards series, we will be doing our preseason power rankings with seven voters! 1. San Diego […]
From Mountain West Connection | 3 months ago | 0 reads
It was another busy week for the Scarlet Knights off the field, as Keli Zinn made a slew of hires to support the NIL initiatives, with Maggie Long, Chris Chung, and PJ Mullen all being hired into senior roles to lead their respective departments. This weekend sees all the fall sports in action, with winter […]
From On the Banks | 3 months ago | 0 reads
Happy football bye week, Jeff Boals exhibition week, and National Bologna Day, to those of you who celebrate any of those three things. The Ohio State men’s basketball team will face off with the Ohio University Bobcats in two days in an unofficial scrimmage, which you can buy tickets for here and attend, if you […]
From Land-Grant Holy Land | 3 months ago | 2 reads
Tayton Conerway addressed the media on Friday afternoon ahead of IU’s exhibition game against Baylor on Sunday at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Watch the full Q & A with Conerway below: The post Video: Tayton Conerway media availability in advance of Baylor exhibition appeared first on Inside the Hall | Indiana Hoosiers Basketball News, Recruiting and Analysis .
From Inside the Hall | Indiana Hoosiers Basketball News, Recruiting and Analysis | 3 months ago | 4 reads
As we continue with our preview of the 2025-26 North Carolina Tar Heels’ basketball roster, we’ve come to the final group of players: the seniors/graduate students. While there are plenty of experienced players on this year’s team, there aren’t a ton that are seniors. There are just two official seniors on this year’s roster, and […]
From Tar Heel Blog | 3 months ago | 0 reads
The Syracuse Orange head to Western New York for an exhibition game against the Buffalo Bulls at KeyBank Center. The game will tip at 7:00 pm and will be streaming on cuse.com. Here’s what we’re watching for: Kevin: Defensive effort It’s the first game, so the offense might be a bit sluggish, but will this […]
From Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician | 3 months ago | 2 reads
The final non-conference series before Big Ten play for the No. 17 Wisconsin Badgers gets underway Friday night in Madison when Alaska Fairbanks comes to town. The Badgers can head into league play on a high note with a couple of wins after splitting a hard-fought series with No. 20 Minnesota State last weekend. But […]
From Bucky's 5th Quarter | 3 months ago | 1 read
Louisville Cardinals (0-0) vs. Kansas Jayhawks (0-0) Exhibition Game One Game Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: KFC Yum Center: Louisville, Ky. Television: ACC Network Announcers: Dave O’Brien (play-by-play) and Seth Greenberg (analyst) Favorite: No line Series: Kansas leads, 6-5 Last Meeting: Kansas won, 98-77, on Jan. 16, 1993 at Freedom Hall in Louisville Series History: Statistics (from 2024-25): Relevant Videos: About Kansas: […]
From Card Chronicle | 3 months ago | 0 reads
There are a lot of storylines in the Ivy League this season. From Princeton star Caden Pierce deciding to redshirt this season, to two new coaches shaking up the DNA of the conference, to the graduation of an extremely decorated senior class, the intrigue is off the charts. With only four teams qualifying for Ivy […]
From Mid-Major Madness | 3 months ago | 0 reads
Hey TOC Nation! We are at that time of year when we have multiple sports seasons going on at once. So rather than have separate individual “How To Watch” articles for each game, we will combine it into one massive “Week Ahead” column. I started this last season and people seemed to like it. So […]
From The Only Colors | 3 months ago | 1 read
We are mere days away from the start of the 2025-26 college basketball season. Well, to be exact, we’re exactly nine days away, but who’s counting?! The Mountain West remains one of the best non-power conferences in Division-I, but there will be plenty of question heading into the new season with as much turnover as […]
From Mountain West Connection | 3 months ago | 2 reads
Four Big 12 teams begin the 2025-26 women’s college basketball season ranked in the top 25: No. 14 Iowa State, No. 16 Baylor, No. 17 TCU and No. 22 Oklahoma State. It is a bit curious that the conference’s defending regular-season and tournament champs, TCU, is not the highest-ranked Big 12 team, even though they […]
From Swish Appeal | 3 months ago | 3 reads
Who is he? Senior; forward; 6-foot-7; from Glenview, Illinois. 2024-25 Stats 33 games, 33 starts, 37.6 minutes per game, 20.5 points, 6.2 rebounds, 1.7 assists, 0.7 steals, 47.1% FG, 33.3% 3PT, 72.8% FT 2024-25 Review Martinelli started the season as one of the strongest players on Northwestern’s squad. He ended up finishing as arguably the […]
From Inside NU | 3 months ago | 0 reads
As Purdue heads to Lexington today to play Kentucky in an exhibition, we are just one Daniel Jacobsen away from its season opener against Evansville on November 4th. Twelve days and Purdue will try to live up to its #1 billing, and that starts with the most reworked part of its rotation from last year’s […]
From Hammer and Rails | 3 months ago | 2 reads
Schedule: The NC State basketball media team has another quality series, Light It Red, taking the fans inside Dail to see how a championship team is built. This week they are taking it on the road. Light It Red – Episode 2
From Backing The Pack | 3 months ago | 2 reads
Naithan George and Ibrahim Souare played together for Canyon International Academy, then spent two seasons at Georgia Tech, and are now teammates once again for the Syracuse Orange. Neither of them can even really remember what it felt like to be on a basketball team without the other. “That’s my brother, man,” George said on […]
From Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician | 3 months ago | 1 read
UNC faces Virginia at home in an ACC tilt Saturday, with kick-off set for noon. Let’s look inside the numbers for these two programs this year and see if we find a plausible path to victory for our Tar Heels. 2025 Season So Far: Edge Virginia The Cal loss moved UNC up from 101st to […]
From Tar Heel Blog | 3 months ago | 0 reads
This week’s highlights include a pair of big rivalry games as Minnesota goes to Iowa for the Floyd of Rosedale and Michigan State hosts Michigan. I supposed Purdue-Rutgers could also be considered a rivalry game, as both teams are definitely rivals this year with “winning Big Ten games”. I am also curious to see if […]
From Hammer and Rails | 3 months ago | 2 reads
As we’ve already talked about in the 2025-26 Marquette men’s basketball season preview series, there’s a lot of questions facing the Golden Eagles heading into the year. It’s reasonable to say that there’s more questions facing Marquette than any other season that head coach Shaka Smart has been in charge of so far, and yeah, I’m […]
From Anonymous Eagle | 3 months ago | 0 reads
Julian Alvarez’s agent has played down talk about a potential move from Atletico Madrid to Barcelona amid speculation his client wants out of the Spanish capital. There have been more rumors flying around this week about Alvarez’s future, with claims he’s keen to leave and more talk about a move to Catalunya. Fernando Hidalgo has been […]
From Barca Blaugranes | 3 months ago | 0 reads