While Kentucky faces questions surrounding the health of its best player entering a Sweet 16 matchup with Houston, the Cougars look primed to keep the momentum from their 31-win season going. Kentucky will be looking for its 38th Elite 8 appearance while Houston is seeking its sixth trip there. [RELATED: Up-to-Date List of College Basketball Coaching […]
Four coaches remain in the 2019 NCAA Tournament’s Midwest region, picked by three of our four-man panel as the toughest region in the competition. All four coaches have plenty of experience, but only two have won national titles. Here’s how the supremely accomplished group stacks up entering the Sweet 16. [RELATED: Up-to-Date List of College Basketball […]
No. 4 Virginia Tech def. No. 11 Saint Louis 66-52 12 – That’s how many more free throws Virginia Tech made than Saint Louis in its 14-point win. The Billikens out-rebounded the Hokies 35-37 but Virginia Tech got to the free throw line 27 times to Saint Louis’ 16. The Hokies were 22-of-27, while the […]
This first-round matchup will feature a 31-win Houston squad looking to bounce back from last season’s heartbreaking loss to Michigan and a Georgia State team looking to build on its tournament appearance from last season. The two coaches, Houston’s Kelvin Sampson and Georgia State’s Ron Hunter, have transformed their respective programs and will look to […]
The next month or so will bring NCAA Tournament games, a national champion and no shortage of hirings and firings. We wondered, what have been the home-run hires and the major flops over the past decade – and who made them? First, here are the 10 best coaching hires over the past 10 years. […]
Conference tournament action officially starts on Monday as the college basketball season moves closer to Selection Sunday. After a week in which Gonzaga and Wofford completed undefeated runs through conference play and Duke suffered another loss, the latest AP Top 25 Poll dropped on Monday. Here are our reactions to the latest AP poll. It’s […]
Fourteen ranked teams lost since the release of the last AP Top 25 poll, including No. 3 Duke at Virginia Tech. No. 1 Gonzaga finished conference play with an undefeated conference record, as did Wofford. Here’s how we predict the college basketball AP Top 25 poll to look like in Week 18. 1. Gonzaga […]
It’s March 3 and…80 percent of the Big East is on the NCAA Tournament bubble? Welcome to NCAA Tournament Bracket Scouting, where we analyze the NCAA Tournament resumes and upcoming opportunities among tournament hopefuls from the top six conferences in college basketball. As a reminder, here’s how we define each category. Lock = These teams could […]
There are nine new locks across college basketball’s top seven conference in this week’s NCAA Tournament Bracket Scouting, where we evaluate teams’ resumes and what opportunities they have left in the regular season to climb onto the right side of the bubble. As a reminder, here’s how we’re defining each category. Lock = These teams could […]
Tuesday, I listed my top non-conference games between Power 5 teams. Today, I have my top five non-conference games involving a non-Power 5 team. The projected point spreads provided by The Action Network’s Collin Wilson. No. 1 – Army at Michigan, Sept. 7 Projected point spread: Michigan -28 The last time Army was at […]
The most notable result from Week 15 in college basketball was Kentucky’s dominant performance in an 86-69 win over No. 1 Tennessee, which gave the Volunteers their first loss since late November. Tennessee earned the No. 1 ranking in the AP Top 25 poll in each of the last four weeks so we’ll almost certainly […]
Selection Sunday is exactly a month away, which means there’s up to three weeks left of regular season action before the start of conference tournaments. Since last week’s edition of NCAA Tournament Bracket Scouting, we added six new teams that are “locks” to make the tournament. As a reminder, here’s how we’re defining each category. […]
There are only two ranked teams in action Thursday night but both schools were featured in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Committee’s top-16 seed reveal. Gonzaga and Houston headline the night’s slate of games but there are also several notable games involving mid-major teams like Wofford and Murray State. Here’s a preview of Thursday’s games through […]
In just over a month, the 2019 NCAA Tournament bracket will be revealed on Selection Sunday, and we already have a sense of what the top four seeds in each region might look like thanks to the third annual Bracket Preview Show, where the NCAA Men’s Basketball Committee announced the top 16 seeds. As we […]
After a weekend in which there were five matchups between ranked teams, highlighted by Duke’s win at Virginia and capped off by Houston’s win over Cincinnati, the latest AP Top 25 poll was released Monday. Two teams split the first-place votes and seven different conferences are represented in the top 10 of the AP poll. […]