We hit the halfway point of my pre-spring Top 25 rankings. My rankings probably will change after spring practices are completed, and they’ll most assuredly be tweaked when I submit my Associated Press Preseason Top 25 ballot in August. [READ: McMurphy’s Top 25 – Nos. 25-21] Today: Teams ranked 11-15. Thursday: Teams ranked 6-10. Friday: […]
We put together an elite group of voters: 10 media members who follow the game from 10 different outlets. They will vote each month to compile Stadium’s Ultimate Player of the Year Race, a weekly look at the top players in the country. Here’s an update from our esteemed panel on the National Player of […]
After predicting the 2019 over/under win totals for the ACC and SEC, let’s turn to the Big Ten — a conference with its own unique scheduling format. While the ACC and SEC both utilize an eight-game conference schedule, the Big Ten deploys a nine-game format. In theory, this makes the regular season for all their teams […]
Tuesday night’s slate of college basketball games features 12 teams ranked in the latest AP Top 25 Poll, four games between ranked teams and eight teams that were included in last Saturday’s top-16 seed reveal. It’s a night that could decide how the top four seeds in each region ultimately shake out. For teams that […]
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 […]
The last regular season college basketball games will tip off one month from Sunday, including a rematch of Houston-Cincinnati, which was the biggest game of the day. The Cougars protected their home court Sunday to become the third team this season to reach the 23-win mark, joining Gonzaga and Nevada. Saturday was a significant day […]
It has been three years since a Big Ten team has been in the College Football Playoff. It’s been even longer since a Big Ten team has scored in a College Football Playoff game, way back in 2014. Ohio State won the inaugural College Football Playoff in 2014 as a No. 4 seed, upsetting No. […]
Five ranked teams play Wednesday night, including four that play true road games against unranked opponents. Tuesday night’s slate of games saw top-15 teams Michigan State and Kansas both lose in similar scenarios so there could be more upsets tonight. Wednesday’s games include bubble teams Alabama, Nebraska, Creighton and Temple, as well as strong mid-major […]
The NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee will reveal its top 16 teams Saturday on the third annual Bracket Preview Show on CBS. The show will give college basketball fans their first glimpse at how the committee uses the NET in the first season of the metric’s implementation after it replaced the RPI last offseason. […]
The Big Ten has long been a rankings darling this season with nine teams that have been ranked in the AP Top 25 poll, six teams ranked in the top 30 of the NET as of Sunday, and the conference holding the top spot on kenpom.com as the strongest of college basketball’s 32 conferences. On […]
Duke and Virginia are unanimously top-four teams in the country, according to college basketball’s primary advanced analytics. The Blue Devils and Cavaliers are ranked No. 2 and No. 3, respectively, in the latest AP Top 25 Poll and they’re No. 1 and No. 2, in reverse order, according to the predictive metrics of the popular […]
If you lined up the 50 college basketball players with the best assist rates in the country from shortest to tallest, Wisconsin forward Ethan Happ would stick out of the lineup like a sore thumb. That’s because a player’s assist rate, which is calculated by dividing a player’s assists by the field goals made by […]
The early 2019 Heisman Trophy odds have been released by Bovada and we’ve already analyzed the odds of the frontrunners for next season’s award. Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence and Alabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa are the two favorites entering next season, which shouldn’t be a surprise given that Lawrence led the Tigers to a national championship […]
Week 11 of the college basketball season saw the final two undefeated teams in college basketball suffer their first losses of the season as Wisconsin gave Michigan its first defeat since last season’s national championship game and Duke became just the second ACC team in the last two seasons to beat Virginia. After Saturday, there […]
There are no more undefeated teams in Division I men’s college basketball. They’re all gone. Top-ranked Duke and unranked Wisconsin handed No. 4 Virginia and No. 2 Michigan their first losses of the season, respectively, in a pair of challenging road tests for the country’s last unbeaten teams. Two other top-10 teams fell in the […]
