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Game Thread: Michigan State @ Minnesota

It’s November, and if you live in the northern portion of the U.S., it’s probably cold enough outside that you may as well stay home and watch this game. Kickoff is at 3:30 PM ET and will be on BTN. Y’all know what to do!

Nebraska Women’s Basketball Season Preview

The Husker women are coming off two straight NCAA tournament appearances. The expectations are that the team should be able to again make the Big Dance and hopefully grab at least one, if not two, wins. The team has a lot of transition, but that churn doesn’t feel like a problem. Amy Williams seems to […]

Big East What To Watch: Week 1

WE’RE BACK! WE’RE BACK! College basketball is BACK, baby! Well, okay, you’re seeing this for the first time on Saturday, November 1st, and we won’t actually get basketball until Monday. BUT CLOSE ENOUGH! There’s nothing but previews and positive thoughts for the season right now, so let’s jump right into the first Big East What […]

Three takeaways from Syracuse’s loss to North Carolina

The Syracuse Orange swoon continues as the Orange put on a terrifying offensive performance on Friday night. Many of you think it’s rock bottom which is wild when watched the Robinson/Shafer years…but hopefully after sleeping you realize just how wrong that it is. Anyway, here’s three takeaways from that frightening show. Sickos Behavior It truly […]

Texas Injury Concerns As Date With Duke Approaches

Duke and Texas open the season on Tuesday, meeting in Charlotte. As noted in our preview, the Longhorns are dealing with some injuries: big men Lassina Traore and Matas Vokietaitis both have foot injuries. For Vokietaitis, it’s an ankle sprain and for Traore, it’s a mid-foot sprain. Texas has to be particularly careful with Traore […]

Where Duke Players Come From And Darren Harris’s Improvement

The Duke Chronicle has two interesting articles up now, with one looking at where Duke recruits have come from in recent years and the other about Darren Harris, his connection to Duke and his transformation from last season. The recruiting article is called Mapping The Brotherhood: The geographies of Duke’s freshman classes and it’s more […]

SBN Reacts: Mark Mitchell is Poised for a Big Senior Season

Missouri Basketball season is here as the Tigers open up their 2025-2026 campaign on Monday at Howard. Despite some question marks entering year four under Dennis Gates — expectations are still high for Mizzou as they return Mark Mitchell and Anthony Robinson II from an NCAA Tournament appearance last season. In our latest SB Nation […]

Arafan Diane cuts list to 5; to decide on Nov. 19th

Mark Pope and the Kentucky Wildcats are still looking for their first commitment of the 2026 class as we enter the regular season next week. With plenty of big names still left on the table for the staff, we now know that the Cats have made the final cut for one of their top frontcourt […]

It’s TYON for REAL BASKETBALL!

Check out the third 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 X @a_cravalho

Rutgers Women’s Basketball: Early-Season Games To Watch

Rutgers women’s basketball returns to Jersey Mike’s Arena on Monday with a pair of home games in the first week of the new season. Although every opponent should certainly be respected and every game is important, the saying is true that some games on the schedule are bigger than others. Here are the top early-season […]

Collins’ Classroom: New look Northwestern

Welcome back to year two of Collins’ Classroom! If you’re new here, this column will be a weekly staple throughout the college basketball season where I break down film from the previous week’s games. Typically, there will be between four and seven plays broken down, split up into offense and defense. There will usually be […]

WBB Player Previews: Casey Harter

Who is she Junior, Guard, 5-foot-11 from Harleysville, Pa. 2024-25 Stats 27 games, 25 starts, 34.3 minutes per game, 6.8 points, 2.5 rebounds, 2.0 assists, 39.7% FG, 35.9% 3PT, 77.5% FT 2024-25 Review As Northwestern’s minutes leader, Harter was an integral part of the Wildcat rotation last season. She settled in comfortably to her role […]

Announcement primer: Class of 2026 wing Vaughn Karvala

Class of 2026 Bella Vista Prep (Ariz.) wing Vaughn Karvala will announce his college decision on Saturday, November 1. The announcement is expected at 3:30 p.m. ET on the Bella Vista Prep YouTube channel. The essentials Wing, 6-foot-6, 180 pounds, ... The post Announcement primer: Class of 2026 wing Vaughn Karvala appeared first on Inside the Hall | Indiana Hoosiers Basketball News, Recruiting and Analysis .

What does Virginia point guard Dallin Hall bring to the table?

As is typical in the transfer portal era of college basketball, Ryan Odom looked all over the country (and beyond) to construct his first roster at Virginia. For the starting point guard spot, he grabbed Dallin Hall from BYU. Hall is coming off three similarly looking, productive seasons for the Cougars. He has 100 games […]

BYU vs Villanova Preview: Big 12-Big East Battle Highlights Opening Night

After getting an appetizer in BYU’s two exhibitions versus Nebraska and North Carolina, we’ll get our first chance to see Kevin Young’s new squad in action when BYU opens the season Monday night in Las Vegas versus Villanova. This is the second game of a double header with Florida-Arizona that is part of the highlight […]

DBR Podcast #763 – Season Preview With The Stats Game!

With the pre-season games done and the first match that counts just a few days away, it is time for the Duke Basketball Roundup’s annual season preview via the Stats Game. As we do every year, we bring back former co-host Sam Klein to steer us through this discussion of how various players will do […]

Nebraska Men’s Basketball: Season Preview

Oh yeah ladies and gentlemen, it is indeed that time of year. The calendar turns to November and Fred Hoiberg will hopefully lead Nebrasketball to an NCAA Tournament win. The team has had really good momentum by its standards the last two seasons. The NCAA Tournament berth followed by the College Basketball Crown Tournament win […]

Light It Red: Final Chapter

Schedule: Light It Red The NC State basketball media team has another quality series, this time taking the fans inside the Dail Center to see how a championship team is built. This appears to be the final chapter leading up to the beginning of the Will Wade era at NC State. Episode 3 *** Bonus […]