What would you say if someone told you that there are only 15 college basketball teams that currently fit the statistical profile of recent national champions? Because as of Monday morning, that’s the number of schools that have comparable adjusted offensive and defensive efficiency marks to the last 17 national champions whose data is available […]
Chances are if you’re a college basketball fan residing in Bloomington, Indiana, Columbus, Ohio, or Lubbock, Texas, it’s likely been a frustrating last few weeks. Indiana lost its fifth straight game on Tuesday at Northwestern, Ohio State is 0-5 since the start of the New Year and Texas Tech has lost three in a row […]
The closest that college basketball gets to free agency is the transfer market as hundreds of Division I players transfer every year, and this season is no exception. Just look at players like Kentucky guard Quade Green, TCU guard Jaylen Fisher and Arizona forward Emmanuel Akot, who are all transferring. Here’s a list of more […]
Week 12 of the college basketball season starts with a trio of games on Monday between power conference regular season title contenders in the ACC, Big 12 and Big Ten. Here’s a preview of some of the biggest games of the week and what’s at stake. Maryland at Michigan State, Monday, January 21, 6:30 […]
We’re roughly halfway through the 2018-19 college basketball season, which is the first season with the NET rankings that replaced the RPI in the offseason. As a reminder, the following section lists the quadrant breakdown that is used on the NCAA’s team sheets that organize every program’s wins and losses: Quadrant 1: Home 1-30; Neutral […]
There were no changes in the top 10 of the AP Top 25 poll for Week 11, which means we’ll get two top-10 matchups this week in the ACC. Four teams dropped out of the AP poll and they were replaced by three familiar faces plus a school that hasn’t been ranked in six seasons. […]
Ranked teams lost 17 times since the release of last week’s AP poll, including 12 times to unranked opponents. However, the top 10 teams in the AP Top 25 went undefeated in Week 10 so there may not be many changes atop Monday’s poll. Here are our predictions for the college basketball AP Top 25 […]
Villanova’s 8-4 start this year after winning the national championship last season puts the Wildcats in potentially dangerous territory when it comes to their NCAA tournament seeding and potential path for a deep run in the tournament. Since the NCAA tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985, only three reigning national champions have started the […]
It’s December 15 and there’s a chance that No. 1 Kansas has already beaten this year’s Big East, Big Ten and SEC champions. The Jayhawks held off No. 17 Villanova 74-71 in Phog Allen Fieldhouse on Saturday, giving them six wins over opponents ranked in the top 100 on kenpom.com and all nine of their […]
Another No. 1 team fell on Sunday as Tennessee upset top-ranked Gonzaga in Phoenix in a game that will likely go down as one of the best matchups of the regular season. It could also have significant seeding implications for the NCAA tournament given that both teams could contend for a No. 1 seed in […]
Only six teams maintained their AP Top 25 ranking from last week after the dust settled following a wild Feast Week. There’s a new No. 1 team in the country, but the top spot in the poll was as contested as you’ll ever see – the No. 2-ranked team only received one fewer first-place vote […]
Defending national champion Villanova is on a two-game skid after suffering its second loss of the season at home to Furman on Nov. 17. In the previous five seasons, the Wildcats hadn’t lost their second game until Dec. 19, Jan. 19, Jan. 20, Jan. 24 and most recently, Feb. 7, as they consistently took an […]
The college basketball AP Top 25 poll for Week 3 was released Monday, and while there were no changes in the order of the top seven teams, the schools that played for last season’s national championship were responsible for the biggest changes in the poll. The bottom fell out for one, while the other made […]
Ranked teams lost seven times since the release of last week’s AP Top 25 poll. Three came in the 2K Classic at Madison Square Garden, defending national champion Villanova was responsible for two losses and two were in the Gavitt Tipoff Games, where the Big Ten won the series for the first time against the […]
This year marks the fourth iteration of the Gavitt Tipoff Games between the Big East and Big Ten, which will be headlined by a national championship game rematch between No. 8 Villanova and No. 18 Michigan. The two conferences have split the eight matchups in every year of the Gavitt Tipoff Games with the Big […]