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  • News
  • May 6,2019
  • Jeff Goodman, Stadium Basketball Insider

Comprehensive List of Every 2019 College Basketball Foreign Tour

Every four years, college basketball programs are allowed to take a foreign tour, which allows them to hold 10 additional practices and play exhibition games abroad against international competition. Dozens of Division I men’s basketball teams will travel abroad this summer, including several teams that are in Stadium College Basketball Insider Jeff Goodman’s preseason top […]

  • News
  • April 25,2019
  • Andy Wittry

Did These College Coaches Deliver On Their Early Promises? | Part 2

Here’s Part 2 of our examination into the introductory press conferences of some of the notable college basketball coaches who were hired last offseason. You can read Part 1 here. These introductory press conferences can be full of cliches, like talk of establishing a culture or playing fast, but they can also lend themselves to […]

  • News
  • April 19,2019
  • Andy Wittry

Postseason Grades for Every Big East College Basketball Team

The Big East only sent four teams to the 2019 NCAA Tournament — only three remained after the First Four, just one survived the first round and no one made it past the first weekend. Overall, it wasn’t a banner year for the Big East as a whole. Here are Stadium’s postseason grades for every […]

  • News
  • April 18,2019
  • Andy Wittry

Analyzing College Basketball’s Relationship Between Recruiting Rankings and Wins

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 […]

  • March 10,2019
  • Andy Wittry

NCAA Tournament Bracket Scouting: Breaking Down The Bubble As Selection Sunday Nears

College basketball’s regular season is officially over, which means time is running out for teams to improve their resumes and climb onto the right side of the NCAA Tournament bubble. Four automatic bids have already been clinched and if there’s a high number of bid stealers, then the number of at-large hopefuls will shrink. Here’s […]

  • March 9,2019
  • Andy Wittry

Seton Hall, TCU and Clemson Among NCAA Tournament Bubble Winners From Saturday

This is the final weekend of college basketball’s regular season and for many teams, their next loss will officially end their pursuit of an NCAA Tournament bid. Sure, the games on Saturday and Sunday count the same on a team’s resume as a game from November or January but there’s a much greater sense of […]

  • March 9,2019
  • Andy Wittry

Picking a Potential NCAA Tournament Bid Stealer for College Basketball’s Top Conferences

Eight of college basketball’s 32 conferences are projected to send multiple teams to the NCAA Tournament, according to Stadium’s latest tournament projections. For any conference with at least one at-large team, but especially those eight conferences, if a school that isn’t projected to earn an at-large bid wins the conference tournament, that will qualify as […]

  • March 6,2019
  • Jeff Goodman, Stadium Basketball Insider

The 10 Best College Basketball Coaching Hires This Decade

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.   […]

  • March 3,2019
  • Andy Wittry

NCAA Tournament Bracket Scouting (March 3)

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 […]


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