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“Matt is a tremendous person with an unbelievable work ethic,” said Kevin Willard via press release. “We know he will be back better than ever.” Hodge started all 29 games for the Wildcats this year, averaging 9.2 points and 3.6 rebounds per game on 45.2% from the field and 36.8% from three-point range. The 6’8” […]
Villanova will be left with a big hole in the lineup with the loss of forward Matt Hodge. The redshirt freshman suffered a torn ACL in the second half of Villanova’s 89-57 loss to St. John’s at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night. Hodge had started all 29 games for Villanova this season prior to […]
In college basketball, three days are long enough to fall hard and then rise just as high. On February 25th, St. John’s was handily defeated by Connecticut in a 32-point laugher. Three days later, Villanova scored the first basket of the game, but then the Johnnies completely took over, and the Wildcats also fell to […]
The Virginia Cavaliers women’s basketball team lost its second-straight game Sunday afternoon, falling to Virginia Tech, 83-82, in the final contest of the regular season. UVA, which dropped to 19-10 overall and 11-7 in ACC play, rallied from a massive first-half deficit but came up just short on senior day inside John Paul Jones Arena. […]
Rutgers Athletics has parted ways with women’s basketball coach Coquese Washington, per an announcement that Athletic Director Keli Zinn made to the university. This decision came after the women’s basketball program came in last place in the Big Ten for the second time in three years. Washington spent four seasons at the helm of the […]
It’s March! Let the chaos begin! Well, we haven’t actually gotten to the tournament yet, and there’s already been plenty of chaos throughout the regular season. Regardless, let’s dive into this week’s Mountain West men’s basketball power rankings! 1. Utah State Similar to how it’s fared the whole season, Utah State is the clear-cut favorite […]
The Sun Belt Women’s Basketball Tournament will get underway on March 3, 2026, at the Pensacola Bay Center when No. 12 seed South Alabama (12-17, 5-13 SBC) takes on No. 13 seed Appalachian State (11-18, 4-14 SBC) at 12:30 p.m. EST. The second game of the opening day doubleheader will see No. 11 Georgia State […]
Saturday night’s blowout of Villanova wasn’t enough to cancel out St. John’s’ putrid defeat to UConn during the week in the eyes of the AP poll voters. The Red Storm fell three spots to No. 18 in the final regular season AP Top 25 men’s basketball poll. They also fell two spots to No. 17 […]
On Sunday, the No. 13 Ohio State women’s basketball team traveled to East Lansing, Michigan, and nearly ran the No. 15 Michigan State Spartans out of their own gym. The victory gave the Scarlet and Gray much-needed momentum and an edge over a team ranked two spots ahead of them in the NCAA Tournament committee’s […]
Arizona men’s basketball’s dominant win over Kansas Saturday was enough to keep the Wildcats at No. 2 in this week’s Associated Press Top 25. Duke leads the rankings, followed by Arizona, Michigan, UConn and Florida. Arizona received four first-place votes, with the other 55 going to the Blue Devils. Only seven points separate Arizona and […]
With one regular season week left to go, there’s an awful lot left to be decided in terms of seeding for the 2026 Big East men’s basketball conference tournament. UConn has a half game lead on St. John’s with the two teams tied in the loss column in terms of the regular season title race. […]
The primary takeaways: —Film showed the team made a lot of undisciplined mistakes at the start of the second half of the Clemson game. —Mikel’s status for Tuesday’s game is unknown. He needs to fall less, but he also deserves to get more calls than he does. —It’s too late in the season to make […]
It is safe to call last week a bad one for Purdue. The Boilermakers lost to Michigan State at home for the first time in 12 years. They then went on the road and lost at Ohio State in another frustrating game. The Big Ten is now lost, and the NCAA Tournament looms without hte […]
On February 15th, then-#21 UNC went to Durham and outplayed then-#11 Duke, to that point undefeated in ACC play, for about 37 out of 40 game minutes, but those 3 minutes, a 13-0 Duke run to end the first half, proved to be too much to overcome in a game where the Heels didn’t shoot […]
The WBC kicks off this week, and players have already left their respective Spring Training camps to join their countrymen (or ancestral countrymen, at least). After they play some exhibition warm-up games against professional teams, both MLB and otherwise, on Tuesday, they’ll kick off official tournament play with Chinese Taipei at Australia in the Tokyo […]
Welcome to March! I hope you left milk and cookies out for Santa Rothstein on Saturday, because it is officially the best month this sport has to offer. This is the final week of regular season basketball in the power conferences, with many of the smaller conferences beginning their conference tournaments this week. There is […]
Villanova Wildcats 22-7 (13-5) at DePaul Blue Demons 16-13 (8-10) Where: Wintrust Arena (Chicago, IL) When: Wednesday, March 4 at 8:00 PM Betting Line: Villanova -2.5 (subject to change) How to Watch: Peacock (last one, guys) How to Listen: Villanova Sports Radio Network Net Rankings: Villanova 33, DePaul 96 (Quad 2) KenPom: Villanova 35, DePaul 93 Torvik: Villanova […]
It is now official. Rutgers will be in the market for a new Women’s Basketball head coach. Rutgers has fired Coquese Washington after four years, athletic director Keli Zinn announced on Monday. This is the first coaching change made under Zinn, who will now begin a “national search” to find a new leader for the […]
As the band Queen once famously sang, “Another one bites the dust.” The dust in which Freddie Mercury sang about was probably not in regard to college basketball, but either way, it is now the end of another season of Big Ten women’s basketball. For No. 13 Ohio State women’s basketball, it was as good […]
The Summit League men’s tournament is starting on Wednesday, and it should be a fun one! This year, two teams stood out, and surprisingly(!), neither one was perennial powerhouse South Dakota State. Instead, it was rival North Dakota State that exceeded expectations to win the league outright by two games. Their primary adversaries appear to […]
After the disastrous trip out west for this UNC Basketball team, if you had said with one week to go the Tar Heels had a realistic shot at getting a top four seed in the ACC Tournament, it’s very likely no one would have believed you. Yet, thanks to how the Tar Heels have rallied […]
My dad turned 64 this weekend, and so far things are looking good. I still need him, and he’s been well-plied with an assortment of Thai food, homemade brioche and apple cobbler. He taught me about rhythm and keeping time one afternoon while we sat on the floor in his office, my clumsy five-year-old hands […]
High Point had struggled for more than two decades to get to the Big Dance before finally breaking through last year. As the Big South Men’s Tournament descends on Johnson City, Tennessee, High P looks like the favorites again, having dropped just four games all year and one game in conference. That loss was to […]
Fresh off a big win against Virginia, Duke has to turn it around very quickly to play NC State in Raleigh. We preview that game along with some other nuggets on DBR Bites #148. Duke has had some stinkers in Raleigh against the Wolfpack, but they’re hoping to buck that trend. NC State has a […]
Your Oregon Ducks wrapped up the regular season on Sunday afternoon against the Washington Huskies, battling for seeding in the upcoming Big Ten Tournament. The first quarter of the ballgame was very similar to the last time the two teams met, with both sides struggling offensively to start the game. UW would get going first, […]
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