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How UNC nabbed final spot in NCAA Tournament

Each year, the NCAA selection committee has tough decisions to make when putting together the 68-team field for the NCAA Tournament. If UAB had won, then Memphis was going to be in the tournament, UAB would have been in the tournament and North Carolina would have been the first team out.” Selection Committee Chair Bubba Cunningham and Vice Chair Keith …

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2 weeks, 3 days ago

2025 NCAA Tournament bracket picks: Why CJ Moore has Florida topping Duke for national title

New York Times

The men’s basketball selection committee had an easy job at the top of the bracket this year. We will look back at last year’s tournament as an inflection point in college basketball history: No true mid-major advanced past the second round. We are only two years removed from both Florida Atlantic and San Diego State reaching the Final Four, but …

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4 weeks ago

Texas Tech’s secret to a top-10 offense? Its head coach brought in another head coach to run it

New York Times

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Once he began running a basketball program with regularly televised games, Grant McCasland would check his phone at halftime for text messages from Jeff Linder with offensive adjustments. Last offseason, after McCasland and Texas Tech locked in the best roster they’d ever assembled for 2024-25, McCasland approached Linder about returning to his staff. “He’s the only guy …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Auburn, Alabama, Florida headline SEC’s haul in the NCAA selection committee’s early top-16 seeds

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Auburn was the top overall seed in the committee’s preliminary rankings unveiled Saturday, while Alabama and Florida joined as No. Rankings variations Of the top-16 seeds, the AP Top 25, KenPom, Torvik, Miyakawa and NCAA’s NET rankings agreed on 11. “I can’t do it,” Cunningham …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Court Vision: Appreciating No. 1 Auburn vs. No. 2 Alabama and the impactful weekend ahead

New York Times

To all of you football fans making the post-Super Bowl pivot to college hoops, welcome. But here’s the thing: None of those four — aka, no modern-era team that has played in a 1 vs. 2 regular-season matchup — actually won the Big Dance. Per Bart Torvik, since Jan. 1, it’s actually Nate Oats’ team that has the most efficient …

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Maryland’s slow Big Ten start is in the past. Now the 18th-ranked Terps are rolling

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Now Maryland has its first AP Top 25 ranking in nearly two years entering Thursday’s trip to Ohio State and Sunday’s home game against Rutgers. I think the biggest thing is we’re getting a nice week here, a bye week, and just getting these guys …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Back-to-back wins vs. AP Top 25 opponents put Georgia in the poll. Things don’t get any easier

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! And Monday marked the Bulldogs’ first AP Top 25 appearance since spending a week at No. Rankings variations The AP Top 25, KenPom, Bart Torvik, Evan Miyakawa and NET rankings agree on Auburn, Iowa State, Duke, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, Kansas and Houston as top-10 teams. …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Court Vision: SEC is its own worst enemy. Plus, the underrated elite

New York Times

Sweet, sweet conference play. It’s the first time in Calipari’s career that he has ever started 0-2 in SEC play — and that includes Kentucky’s disastrous 2020-21 season when the Cats went 9-16 and missed the NCAA Tournament. Otzelberger’s Iowa State teams have always been good defensively — his first three have finished top-10 in adjusted defensive efficiency, including last …

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3 months ago

What to watch in college basketball this weekend: Conference play delivers top matchups

New York Times

The 2025 calendar year jump starts with a set of captivating conference matchups. And Saturday’s schedule is loaded — we get a top-10 matchup between Florida and Kentucky and a top-12 game with Oklahoma and Alabama, while top-ranked Tennessee goes against John Calipari’s Arkansas and No. Saturday’s tilt could well be the highlight of the college basketball weekend, with Florida …

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3 months, 1 week ago

No. 14 Gonzaga’s matchup with No. 22 UCLA is the headliner on the week’s light AP Top 25 schedule

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! 22 Bruins face Gonzaga on Saturday in a home-state venue in the only ranked-vs-ranked game of the week on the AP Top 25 schedule. Other AP unranked teams appearing in the top 15 of other rankings include St. John’s, Texas Tech and Pittsburgh. Watch list …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

What to watch in college basketball this weekend: Dayton-Cincinnati, Purdue-Auburn and more

New York Times

There’s no shortage of content this time of the year — NCAA bowl games, NFL playoff pushes, the NBA and NHL, and any of the many Frasier Christmas episodes. The Flyers are certainly fun on offense — 14th in adjusted rating, and they’ve scored at least 70 points in every game except their last one, a rock fight against UNLV. …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

North Carolina’s brutal schedule continues with games against No. 7 Florida, No. 18 UCLA up next

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! There is no more, ‘My bad, I’ll get it the next possession.’ Every possession counts,” said Davis, whose team has won back-to-back games against Georgia Tech and La Salle. And they entered this week as one of five unbeatens left in men’s Division I basketball …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Court Vision: What’s going on at Villanova, top performances from opening week and more

New York Times

If you can name UT-Rio Grande Valley’s mascot without looking it up, well, I don’t believe you. Former Duke guard Jeremy Roach mustered just nine points on 2-of-9 shooting, and star freshman wing VJ Edgecombe struggled even worse, going 2-for-11 overall — although one of those baskets came in garbage time, when he absolutely destroyed Mark Few’s poor son, Joe: …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Louisville men’s basketball coach Pat Kelsey has a vision to turn the Cards (back) into contenders

New York Times

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — It looked perfect, like a stolen dream … except for that damn wall of windows. “I’d always wanted to do it, but I’m like, hey, I’m a Division-I coach,” Kelsey said, rolling up his left sleeve to reveal the final product. “I’m going into my fourth year with him,” said Reyne Smith, another Charleston import, “and I’ve …

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1 year ago

If it seems like everyone can score in March Madness, there is a reason. Offense has evolved

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! “There are all these different angles, just different places on the court,” said Connecticut coach Dan Hurley, whose Huskies won last year’s national championship and are this year’s No. Hurley knew he had to re-evaluate his program’s approach to running offense after three straight March …

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1 year ago

Donovan Dent, Tucker DeVries and 4 more mid-major standouts to watch this week

New York Times

Every March, the mid-major ranks of men’s college basketball birth new stars. No matter the level, it’s hard to find players like Achor who are this big, this long, can finish inside and also move well enough to work within an active defensive scheme. He’s averaged nearly seven long-range shots per game over the last two years, with two-thirds of …

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1 year ago

NCAA Tournament Midwest Region analysis: Can Purdue bounce back from last year’s embarrassing upset?

New York Times

The Midwest Regional of the 2024 NCAA Tournament features the Big 10 regular season champion Purdue, the SEC regular season champion Tennessee, as well as Kansas and several teams looking to pull an upset in March Madness. 1 Purdue MIDWEST 29-4 Profile Strengths: Matt Painter’s crew is in the top five in adjusted offensive efficiency and top 25 in adjusted …

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1 year ago

NCAA Tournament South Region analysis: Is Houston primed to return to the Final Four?

New York Times

Follow live coverage of South Carolina, NC State and Iowa, UConn in women’s Final Four today The South Regional of the 2024 NCAA Tournament features a number of top seeds that have been among the most successful programs in the sport the last several years. —Rob Dauster Team in 16 words: Shaka Smart hasn’t made the second weekend of the …

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1 year ago

NCAA Tournament East Region analysis: Can UConn emerge and repeat as champions?

New York Times

Follow live coverage of South Carolina, NC State and Iowa, UConn in women’s Final Four today The East Region of the Men’s Tournament can best be described as quirky — it features overall No. —Jeff Goodman Team in 16 words: Bruce Pearl’s teams defend, play hard and if they make enough shots from deep, are dangerous. Record: 27-7 Coach: Bruce …

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1 year ago

NCAA Tournament West Region analysis: Can North Carolina find redemption or will a dark horse prevail?

New York Times

Follow live coverage of South Carolina, NC State and Iowa, UConn in women’s Final Four today The West Regional of the NCAA Tournament has a resurrected No. Record: 26-7 Coach: Randy Bennett Player to watch: Augustas Marčiulionis WEST WCC 5 6 Clemson WEST 21-11 Profile Strengths: Like Brad Brownell’s best team at Clemson — the 2017-18 squad that reached the …

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1 year ago

2024 NCAA Tournament bracket picks: Why CJ Moore has UConn winning the title

New York Times

Since Florida repeated as national champs in 2007, no defending champion has advanced past the Sweet 16. Illinois has one of the best offenses and was a team pre-bracket that I was pretty sure I would push through to the Final Four, and Auburn is the candidate to be this season’s UConn. The Boilermakers have been one of the best …

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1 year ago

Drake ousts Indiana State for NCAA Tournament spot; Longwood, Stetson also nab bids

New York Times

Drake is back in the NCAA Tournament for the third time in the last four seasons after holding off Missouri Valley regular season champ Indiana State 84-80 on Sunday to win the MVC conference tournament, and that’s a treat because we get to watch Tucker DeVries on the biggest stage. A year ago, DeVries was just 1-of-13 in a loss …

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1 year ago

Men’s college basketball rankings: UConn the team to beat, no matter the number

New York Times

Read The Athletic’s latest men’s college basketball Top 25 rankings. Shead’s initial try missed, but this time he got the game-winner off in time: Tennessee Tennessee is up to 18th in offense at KenPom and has the third-best defense in college basketball. And if you take out the seven games when he was dealing with his ankle and slumping, he’s …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Virginia basketball has taken Tony Bennett on a roller coaster ride this season

New York Times

It’s a simple question. “It’s the most new team we’ve ever had, probably since … God, I don’t even know,” Bennett says with a chuckle. “Closed mouths,” Minor says, “don’t get fed.” The result was immediate: that eight-game winning streak — albeit with only one of those victories against a projected NCAA Tournament team, Clemson. “But I’m glad we have …

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How UNC nabbed final spot in NCAA Tournament

2025 NCAA Tournament bracket picks: Why CJ Moore has Florida topping Duke for national title

Texas Tech’s secret to a top-10 offense? Its head coach brought in another head coach to run it

Auburn, Alabama, Florida headline SEC’s haul in the NCAA selection committee’s early top-16 seeds

Court Vision: Appreciating No. 1 Auburn vs. No. 2 Alabama and the impactful weekend ahead

Maryland’s slow Big Ten start is in the past. Now the 18th-ranked Terps are rolling

Back-to-back wins vs. AP Top 25 opponents put Georgia in the poll. Things don’t get any easier

Court Vision: SEC is its own worst enemy. Plus, the underrated elite

What to watch in college basketball this weekend: Conference play delivers top matchups

No. 14 Gonzaga’s matchup with No. 22 UCLA is the headliner on the week’s light AP Top 25 schedule

What to watch in college basketball this weekend: Dayton-Cincinnati, Purdue-Auburn and more

North Carolina’s brutal schedule continues with games against No. 7 Florida, No. 18 UCLA up next

Court Vision: What’s going on at Villanova, top performances from opening week and more

Louisville men’s basketball coach Pat Kelsey has a vision to turn the Cards (back) into contenders

If it seems like everyone can score in March Madness, there is a reason. Offense has evolved

Donovan Dent, Tucker DeVries and 4 more mid-major standouts to watch this week

NCAA Tournament Midwest Region analysis: Can Purdue bounce back from last year’s embarrassing upset?

NCAA Tournament South Region analysis: Is Houston primed to return to the Final Four?

NCAA Tournament East Region analysis: Can UConn emerge and repeat as champions?

NCAA Tournament West Region analysis: Can North Carolina find redemption or will a dark horse prevail?

2024 NCAA Tournament bracket picks: Why CJ Moore has UConn winning the title

Drake ousts Indiana State for NCAA Tournament spot; Longwood, Stetson also nab bids

Men’s college basketball rankings: UConn the team to beat, no matter the number

Virginia basketball has taken Tony Bennett on a roller coaster ride this season