Here’s a list of college basketball players who have declared for the 2019 NBA Draft. The NBA Draft is on June 20 and the early entry eligibility deadline is April 21 at 11:59 p.m. ET. The NBA Draft Lottery is on May 14 in Chicago, where the NBA Draft Combine is being held from May […]
College basketball coaches will hit the recruiting trail on Friday for the start of a six-day recruiting period in which they’re allowed to evaluate prospects and make in-person, off-campus contact with recruits. The final day of the official NCAA “recruiting period” for the 2018-19 recruiting calendar is Thursday, May 2, which means the next two-plus […]
Is there such a thing as “too early” when it comes to compiling your preseason top 25 college basketball rankings for the 2019-20 season? Not at Stadium, which is why we’ve already asked our College Basketball Insider Jeff Goodman to assemble his first list for next season. Check back as this will constantly be updated […]
The Big Ten sent eight teams to the 2019 NCAA Tournament, one year after only four teams from the conference made the Big Dance, and seven of them won at least one game in the tournament. Here are Stadium’s postseason grades for every team in the Big Ten, which take into account the unofficial preseason […]
Virginia won the first men’s basketball national championship in school history Monday night, which means three different ACC teams have won a national title in the last five years. The Cavaliers’ title goes a long way as we examine how college basketball’s best conferences stacked up against each other last season. NCAA Tournament participation and […]
Texas Tech Coach Chris Beard has led the Red Raiders to eight wins in the NCAA Tournament, which is just as many as the rest of the coaches in Texas Tech history combined. Don’t forget, he’s been with the Red Raiders for just three seasons and his predecessors include national championship-winning coaches Bob Knight and […]
The 2019 NCAA Tournament was unveiled on Selection Sunday and Duke, Virginia, North Carolina and Gonzaga are the four No. 1 seeds. You can read our bracket reactions and region-by-region breakdown here. [RELATED: Here’s What You Hear When You Sit Courtside] Here’s the schedule for the Final Four. Matchup Date Time Location Channel No. 1 […]
MINNEAPOLIS – Chris Beard was taken aback, almost offended by the premise of a reporter’s question after his Texas Tech team had punched its ticket to the national title game and a matchup with Virginia. He questioned the unlikeliness of this team – and this program – to reach this point. “I respect the question, […]
Former Chicago Bulls Coach Fred Hoiberg will return to the sidelines at the college level next season after signing a seven-year contract with Nebraska that runs through the 2026 season. Stadium obtained the memorandum of understanding via public records request. His base salary will start at $2.5 million in the first year before climbing to […]
MINNEAPOLIS — His black Lexus SUV zoomed south on Interstate 69 toward Indianapolis — a three-and-a-half-hour recruiting trip Michigan State’s Tom Izzo and his assistant, Dane Fife, had made countless times before. But something felt different that sunny afternoon last April. Just a few miles outside of East Lansing, Fife glanced at his boss — […]
There won’t be a single former top-30 recruit playing in the Final Four in Minneapolis on Saturday. Michigan State junior guard Joshua Langford was ranked No. 19 in the 2016 recruiting class, according to the 247Sports Composite rankings, making him the highest-rated prospect on the roster of one of this year’s Final Four participants, but […]
If you’re a believer in destiny, maybe Fred Hoiberg was always supposed to be the head basketball coach at Nebraska. Hoiberg, who received a scholarship offer in high school to play football for legendary Nebraska football coach Tom Osborne, whose grandfather Jerry Bush was responsible for the best win in the history of Nebraska men’s […]
The Final Four is set: No. 1 seed Virginia, No. 2 seed Michigan State, No. 3 seed Texas Tech and No. 5 seed Auburn. It’ll be the Cavaliers matched up against the Tigers and the Spartans vs. the Red Raiders in Minneapolis. How does each school stack up to the Final Four teams from years […]
Duke freshmen Zion Williamson and R.J. Barrett were named to the five-player First Team Associated Press All-America team Tuesday, making them the first freshman teammates since Kentucky’s John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins in 2010 to earn the honor. Murray State’s Ja Morant, Michigan State’s Cassius Winston and Tennessee’s Grant Williams round out the First Team. […]
Just four teams remain in the 2019 NCAA Tournament, including three teams led by coaches who will make their Final Four debuts Saturday on the sideline for a school that’s never won a national title. Here’s what a national championship would mean for each school, its coach and its players. [RELATED: College Hoops 2018-19 Transfer […]