Latest blog entries about College Basketball
It’s a busy Saturday of Orange sports. The Orange football squad (3-4, 1-3) is back in Atlanta today to face the #7 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (7-0, 4-0) Kickoff is Noon on ESPN and Dave Pasch, Dusty Dvoracek, and Taylor McGregor are on the call. At 3:00 we’ve got Orange futbol hosting North Carolina on […]
From Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician | about 2 months ago | 1 read
Next up in our women’s basketball player previews series is forward Grace Sullivan, who was a key player for Northwestern last season after transferring from Bucknell. Who is she? Senior forward, 6-foot-4, from Antioch, Illinois. 2024-25 Stats 27 games played, 15 games started, 23.1 minutes per game, 10.1 points per game, 3.8 rebounds per game, […]
From Inside NU | about 2 months ago | 0 reads
The Oregon Ducks took on the Utah Utes on Friday night in an exhibition match. The Ducks came out hot from the tip, jumping out to a 17-0 lead, and coasting to a 36-22 halftime lead. Oregon would not trail in the ballgame, winning the scrimmage 73-53. Some thoughts I had while watching the game: […]
From Addicted To Quack | about 2 months ago | 0 reads
Kansas Jayhawks News KU soccer scored a road victory over BYU Kansas volleyball was knocked off by K-State in Allen Fieldhouse Kansas hoops scored a victory in a road exhibition game at Louisville Here are three observations about that Louisville scrimmage Here’s BOTC’s preview of today’s game Links! Adam Silver says the NBA investigated Terry […]
From Rock Chalk Talk | about 2 months ago | 0 reads
Barcelona assistant coach Marcus Sorg will be on the sidelines for the Blaugrana’s trip to the capital to face Real Madrid in El Clasico, and he admitted that he’d much rather have his boss in his place on Sunday. Speaking at a press conference on Saturday, Sorg was asked about the impact of Flick’s absence […]
From Barca Blaugranes | about 2 months ago | 0 reads
The final score says about as much as you need to know about the K-State men’s basketball opener against the Missouri Tigers in Columbia Friday night. The Wildcats appear to be a team that can score. But they will have to improve in other areas to be successful. Defense is an obvious concern. Mizzou’s 100 […]
From Bring On The Cats | about 2 months ago | 0 reads
It’s been a bit of an odd stretch for Carolina fans with the Tar Heels having byes in two of the past four weeks (not to mention a Friday night game that kicked off at 10:30 PM ET), but today marks a return to a more normal schedule as UNC hosts the South’s Oldest Rivalry. […]
From Tar Heel Blog | about 2 months ago | 0 reads
We’ve only seen a brief glance of what Cameron Boozer brings to the court for Duke in the exhibition game against UCF earlier in the week, but it was pretty good: Boozer finished with 33 points, four assists and 12 rebounds. He’s clearly going to be a major factor for Duke this year and the […]
From Duke Basketball Report | about 2 months ago | 1 read
Ahead of his first Clásico as Real Madrid coach, Xabi Alonso responded to Kiyan Sobhani of Managing Madrid about the importance of finding a target in the box on Saturday in his pre-game press conference as he said, “it’s a matter of quality of the individual players. We have another kind of striker with much […]
From Managing Madrid | about 2 months ago | 0 reads
The rise of televised exhibition games has made it easy to overreact to a contest that doesn’t actually count for anything. For example: based on UNC’s exhibition win over Memphis last season, Jalen Washington was going to be a dominant post player, Seth Trimble the team’s leading scorer, and Elliot Cadeau one of the top […]
From Tar Heel Blog | about 2 months ago | 1 read
The Virginia Cavaliers and new head coach Ryan Odom played in front of a home crowd and on a broadcast for the first time on Friday evening, topping the Villanova Wildcats 75-72. The ‘Hoos led for all but 1:02 of game time and held a 10-point lead with 1:31 left. Villanova’s pressure yielded two Wahoo […]
From Streaking The Lawn | about 2 months ago | 1 read
Returning Players: Jaxon Kohler, Carson Cooper, Jesse McCulloch, Brennan Walton, Colin Walton Departed Players: Xavier Booker (transfer), Szymon Zapala (graduation) Transfers In: None Recruits In: Cam Ward Welcome back to our 2025-26 Michigan State Basketball preview series. Your preseason 22nd ranked Spartans opened the season Thursday night with a 75-66 victory over Bowling Green in a […]
From The Only Colors | about 2 months ago | 1 read
Good morning, BBN! Wow, what a night for the Kentucky men’s basketball team. It doesn’t matter that it was an exhibition; it sure didn’t feel like one. Rupp was rocking, and it felt like everyone, including the team, was in midseason form. The star of the night was Jasper Johnson, who brought in 15 points […]
From A Sea Of Blue | about 2 months ago | 1 read
The Kentucky Wildcats opened the exhibition season with a big-time Friday night matchup with the No. 1 Purdue Boilermakers. They did so without the services of point guard Jaland Lowe (shoulder) and Jayden Quaintance (ACL recovery). Boy, did Kentucky sure impress. In a game they led almost wire-to-wire, the Cats took down top-ranked Purdue 78-65. […]
From A Sea Of Blue | about 2 months ago | 1 read
CINCINNATI — That, my friends, was pretty darn fun. Kentucky took the court in front of a raucous Rupp Arena crowd —mind you, this was just an October Exhibition game —and took the No. 1 team, the Purdue Boilermakers, behind the woodshed. Expectations have been sky-high for this Kentucky team all Summer and entering the […]
From A Sea Of Blue | about 2 months ago | 0 reads
Missouri and Kansas State took the court for an exhibition basketball game Friday night, late. The tip off wasn’t until 9:00pm so you’ll forgive me if this is brief. Mizzou won the game 100-91. Here is the game sheet from StatBroadcast: I said before the game for people to not read too much into any […]
From Rock M Nation | about 2 months ago | 0 reads
LeBron James knows a thing or two about product placement and celebrity endorsements. On Friday night, he gave the Arizona Wildcats men’s basketball program a solid by wearing his son Bryce’s Arizona jersey to the Los Angeles Lakers’ game against the Minnesota Timberwolves. LeBron, who is sitting on the bench to begin the season due […]
From Arizona Desert Swarm | about 2 months ago | 2 reads
Keba Keita blocked a shot in the final seconds and BYU beat North Carolina 78-76 Friday night in Salt Lake City. Both teams weren’t totally dialed in on offense — which isn’t unexpected for October — but both teams brought the intensity and treated this like a real game, which will pay dividends for when […]
From Vanquish The Foe | about 2 months ago | 3 reads
I am so sure that consternation reigns/ rains. Though I like all Cardinal fans certainly was hoping for a better performance by the new look Louisville Cardinals, my u-trou are not in a wad after an exhibition against tough Kansas. More important than the anticipation by the pumped Friday night crowd was the anticipation and […]
From Card Chronicle | about 2 months ago | 4 reads
The most anticipated Louisville men’s basketball season in some time got off on a sour note Friday night, with the Cardinals falling to visiting Kansas, 90-82, in exhibition play. The Jayhawks scored the game’s first nine points, and outside of a few minutes in the middle of the first half, the visitors pretty much controlled […]
From Card Chronicle | about 2 months ago | 1 read
Who says it’s just an exhibition game!? Friday night could not have been more perfect for Big Blue Nation, as the ninth-ranked Kentucky Wildcats manhandled top-ranked Purdue 78-65. You’d be hard-pressed to find a more satisfying exhibition win at any level of sports than this was, and for good reason. Exhibitions are typically for getting […]
From A Sea Of Blue | about 2 months ago | 1 read
The Wildcats finally put on a show last time they took the field, but then they got a week off. Will that week result in rust, or in more improvement? We’ll see, but it had better be the latter if The Streak is to continue. The Game The Kansas State Wildcats (3-4, 2-2 Big 12) visit […]
From Bring On The Cats | about 2 months ago | 1 read
Matt Painter didn’t hold any punches after Purdue’s loss in exhibition to Kentucky at Rupp Arena on Friday night. “A lot of time in basketball you don’t know, early in the season, your real problems,” Matt Painter said. “We have real problems. On a night where Purdue shot just 3 of 17 from three while […]
From Hammer and Rails | about 2 months ago | 0 reads
Lexington native Reece Potter missed Friday night’s Exhibition game vs. Purdue with an illness, according to a Kentucky spokesperson. Thankfully, Kentucky was still able to make easy work of Purdue, winning 78-65. It’s an unfortunate setback, as this was a game Kentucky had 10 players log double-digit minutes, so it stands to reason he would […]
From A Sea Of Blue | about 2 months ago | 2 reads
The Oregon men begin preparations for a highly anticipated season tonight, and as usual there are injury concerns. The Big Ten will have to wait, tonight the Ducks welcome their former Pac-12 partners the Utah Utes in an exhibition match. Where: Matthew Knight Arena Eugene, OR When: 7PM PDT Watch: B1G+ Listen: Oregon Sports Network […]
From Addicted To Quack | about 2 months ago | 0 reads