Latest blog entries about College Basketball
Super Bowl Sunday is right around the corner and there’s no better time to find some winning prop bets. As the Patriots offense looks to try and move the football against a top ranked Seahawks defense, here’s two props that we’ll be keeping an eye on on the FanDuel Sportsbook. Patriots Super Bowl prop bets: […]
Alabama’s 100-97 win over the SEC-leading Aggies of Texas A&M this past Wednesday may not have been the biggest or most impressive of the 2025-26 campaign – that road win over Illinois is looking really nice right now – but it was arguably the most important victory thus far. Not only did it put the […]
This week’s results of our survey questions may be a little skewed as I imagine most of the voting occurred prior to Wednesday evening’s defeat at Minnesota. Certainly, we would have received some different, less positive, results had we dropped these questions on Thursday. That said, here is how TOC Nation voted. Just under half […]
Those of us who follow UW Men’s Basketball have spent weeks talking about how the schedule will eventually get softer and the Dawgs could make a run. Seven of their last 10 opponents have been ranked in the top 26 in Bart Torvik’s T-Rank (similar to KenPom, but free!). The Dawgs beat the three non-elite […]
In Saturday’s ACC Action, Syracuse visits Virginia, Louisville is off to Wake Forest, Virginia Tech is in Raleigh to play the Pack, SMU checks in at Pitt, Miami jets up to Beantown to play Boston College, Florida State visits the Fighting Irish, Clemson is at Cal and Georgia Tech takes on Stanford. Some of these […]
Redshirt sophomore point guard Kennedy Blair’s path to becoming the best player on the No. 12 team in the nation—and the team she grew up rooting for—involved a financial sacrifice and playing-time gamble before her college career began. Blair gave up a scholarship to Bowling Green because she wanted to follow head coach Robyn Fralick […]
Maryland men’s basketball is quickly starting to become a get-right opponent in the Big Ten. No. 12 Purdue had lost three straight games before playing Maryland. It won by 30 points, more than double the next-largest margin of victory in series history. Ohio State had lost three straight games on the road. It won by […]
During the second quarter of No. 22 Maryland women’s basketball’s clash with No. 12 Michigan State, backup point guard Kyndal Walker crossed the halfcourt line. She picked her head up, scanned the Spartans’ defense and identified Kennedy Blair tentatively stepping toward her, her body perpendicular to the rim. Walker attacked, blowing past Blair before she […]
It’s the Cats vs the Vols, as Kentucky is set to host Tennessee in Rupp Arena for a big-time SEC showdown tonight. Tonight we will see Kentucky take the court in the denim uniforms, a nod to one of the most beloved teams in UK history – the 1996 national championship team. 30 years later, […]
For Game Day, we thought we’d feature arguably the greatest buzzer beater for Duke in the history of the Duke-UNC thang. Candidates include Gene Banks’ 1981 thriller and the double buzzer beaters by Tre Jones and Wendell Moore, but Austin Rivers’ buzzer beater just had…so much…swagger. When UNC misses, Miles Plumlee gets the rebound and […]
THE VITALS: Marquette Golden Eagles (8-14, 3-8 Big East) vs Butler Bulldogs (13-10, 4-8 Big East) THE DATE: Saturday, February 7, 2026 THE TIME: 1pm Central THE LOCATION: Fiserv Forum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin THE TELEVISION: FS1, with Noah Reed and Phil Martelli on the call THE STREAMING: FoxSports.com/live or the Fox Sports app THE RADIO: 94.5 FM/ESPN […]
Coming into the season, the script was supposed to be simple. Kentucky Basketball knew Jayden Quaintance was likely a one-and-done talent. Even with his injury struggles, the NBA scouts have been tracking him for years. But while everyone was watching Quaintance, another Wildcat has quietly, or maybe not so quietly anymore, snuck his way up […]
Like many Liverpool fans, I was sad to see Harvey Elliott leave this summer on a season-long loan to Aston Villa, with an obligation to buy if he makes a paltry 10 appearances. On one hand, it made sense: the current manager Arne Slot clearly didn’t rate the young attacking midfielder, and he is too […]
Rose started the year hot, but now Laces are the club to beat in Unrivaled. With their 74-70 win over Lunar Owls, Laces became the first team this season to guarantee themselves a playoff spot. In the other Friday matchup, Hive rallied from a third-quarter deficit to beat Breeze 70-68. With the victory, Hive keep […]
1. Incredible Second Half Comeback The Celtics scored 38 points in the first half and were down by as many as 22 points. It looked like it was going to be a blowout, but something lit a fire under this team at halftime because Boston came out and scored 36 points in the third quarter […]
It’s Game Day! The top-ranked Arizona Wildcats are back home to take on the Oklahoma State Cowboys. During halftime the school will honor the UA’s 2001 Final Four team. Here’s all the info you need to watch, listen to or follow the game online: Arizona-Oklahoma State game time, details: How can I watch Arizona-Oklahoma State? […]
I think it is very cool and fun that the powers that be at the national television networks have agreed to celebrate National Marquette Day by putting FORTY-SEVEN college basketball games on nationwide broadcast today. What’s that? It’s probably more because they’re shortening up Sunday’s broadcast schedule because of the Super Bowl? Okay, you probably […]
Wednesday night in Portland, Oregon, was a nightmare. The 87-80 loss to the Portland Pilots was arguably the worst in the coach Mark Few era and will hurt his No. 6 Gonzaga Bulldogs (22-2, 10-1 WCC) come Selection Sunday as a Quad 3 loss. But it’s time to move past. The road trip through the […]
After a much-needed week off, the Virginia Tech Hokies (16-7, 5-5) are back on the hardwood for a noon tipoff Saturday in Raleigh against the North Carolina State Wolfpack (17-6, 8-2). This game kicks off a critical stretch for the Hokies, who will face the Wolfpack on Saturday, followed by games against No. 20 Clemson, […]
Saturday, Feb. 7, at 3:00 p.m. PT on ESPN+/KHQ Arden Cravalho is a Gonzaga University graduate from the Bay Area… Follow him on X @a_cravalho
Manchester United will be looking to make it four wins out of four under interim boss Michael Carrick when they welcome Tottenham Hotspur to Old Trafford for an intriguing Premier League clash on Saturday lunchtime. The two teams butt heads for the first time since August when Matthijs de Ligt scored a 96th-minute equaliser for […]
It was a heavyweight matchup of embittered rivals that lived up to its main event billing. The best two teams in the Big East traded blows for forty minutes inside of a supercharged Madison Square Garden on Friday night. Once the final buzzer sounded, St. John’s delivered the knockout punch against third-ranked UConn for their […]
It was a surprising beatdown by the Gonzaga Bulldogs (17-7, 9-2 WCC) in the second round of the rivalry matchup with the Oregon State Beavers (17-7, 9-2 WCC) in Spokane, Washington, 67-37, this past Thursday evening. A much different story from the 92-87 overtime loss in Corvallis, Oregon, just two weeks ago. Senior guard Ines […]
No. 3 UConn men’s basketball saw its 18-game winning streak come to an end Friday night, as the Huskies fell to Rick Pitino and the St. John’s Red Storm in front of a raucous Madison Square Garden crowd. Turnovers plagued UConn (22-2, 12-1 Big East) all night, as a tenacious St. John’s defense propelled the […]
Round two. If round one between Kentucky and Tennessee, three weeks ago, was any indication, the second meeting between these two teams Saturday night in Rupp Arena is going to be another barn-burner. On a night where the 1996 National Championship team will be honored, and Kentucky rocks the denim uniforms, there is going to […]