Latest blog entries about College Basketball
BYU opened strong and closed strong in a 71-66 win over Villanova Monday night in Las Vegas. BYU went into halftime up 42-32 and looked like they were on their way to a comfortable win, but Villanova clawed back and took a 59-57 win with under 7 minutes to go. BYU responded with a 10-0 […]
The Alabama Crimson Tide basketball team opened their season with a 92-61 victory over North Dakota on Monday night. The Tide was playing short handed with four players that will be looked on to play big minutes out with injuries. Aden Holloway was held out with a wrist injury, Latrell Wrightsell had a bad finger, […]
CHAMPAIGN — As Illinois churned out a beatdown of Jackson State on Monday night’s season opener, freshman forward David Mirkovic launched a pass from inside Illinois’ paint to the other end of the court intended for forward Jake Davis. Instead, the intended dunk unraveled, and eventually, center Jason Jakstys somehow got his hands on the […]
The rival Idaho Vandals took down the Washington State Cougars for the first time in Pullman since 2014 by a score of 83-81 to open the 2025-26 men’s basketball season. It’s also Idaho’s first win in the series since 2017. WSU (0-1) could never overcome their sluggish shooting start, hitting just 34.5% of their first-half […]
If you weren’t 100% on board with what was going on with Marquette men’s basketball through the first 20 minutes of the season, that’s fine. The Golden Eagles led 30-21 at the break while shooting an awful 32% from the field and an even worse 18% from behind the three-point line. 17 of their 31 […]
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — JJ Starling is expected to be fine. Just minutes into the season-opening game against Binghamton, Starling went down with a leg injury and missed the remainder of the contest. The senior guard went into the locker room briefly before rejoining his team from the Syracuse bench. “JJ will be fine,” Adrian Autry […]
If every night this season for the Louisville men’s basketball team goes the way night one did … well, the Cards are going to win every game they play by 59 points. That was the final margin on Monday evening as U of L trounced visiting South Carolina State, 104-45, in what was the sixth-largest […]
Figuring out the pieces of the puzzle in this extensive Gonzaga rotation is going to take some patience. Some time will be needed before everything starts to click on all cylinders, but tonight’s opening statement win proved that it’s going to be a fun problem to solve. Coach Mark Few’s starting lineup in the season […]
Virginia Cavaliers forward Devin Tillis missed the team’s season opener against Rider on Monday while recovering from knee surgery, head coach Ryan Odom revealed postgame. According to Odom, after the exhibition versus Villanova, “his knee kind of blew up,” despite the fact that Tillis didn’t feel anything wrong during the scrimmage. Tillis has since had […]
The Virginia Tech Hokies opened the 2025-26 college basketball season on Monday night with a 98-67 win over the Charleston Southern Buccaneers at Cassell Coliseum. For about 20 minutes, it looked like the Bucs were ready to give the Hokies a fight. Virginia Tech went into halftime holding a 42-38 lead. Charleston Southern kept it […]
The first game of the 2025-26 season is officially in the books, and the Deacs are 1-0. It’s really hard to tell a whole lot from these early buy games, but the thing that gave me a lot of confidence in this team was the ball movement on offense. The Deacs were swinging the ball […]
The No. 24 Wisconsin Badgers pulled away for a blowout 96-64 victory over the Campbell Fighting Camels to start the season with a bang. While the game was relatively close for the first 30 minutes, Wisconsin capped things off on a 31-4 run to seal the deal. John Blackwell was the star of the show, […]
Rutgers controlled their opening matchup against Wagner from start to finish, leading by as many as 38 early in the fourth quarter before cruising to a 29-point victory over the Seahawks. It was a night to remember for many of the transfers, as Imani Lester had a career-high 17 points to go with eight rebounds, […]
The Virginia Cavaliers opened the Ryan Odom era with a win on Monday night, beating Rider 87-53 while dominating the offensive glass and barely turning the ball over. UVA recorded 22 offensive rebounds on Monday evening. The last time the ‘Hoos grabbed that many offensive boards? Nearly 10 years ago on Nov. 13, 2015 when […]
According to the box score, Maryland’s first trip to Baltimore since December 2018 was a great success, and with a completely remade roster. The Terps won, 83-61, over Coppin State, with their best basketball coming in the final minutes to send fans back across the state feeling happy. However, it was far from a comfortable […]
LAS VEGAS—Arizona hasn’t lost the first game of a season since 2006, but with the opener against the defending national champions it was quite possible that streak could have ended on Monday night. Tommy Lloyd was okay with that. “I wasn’t really worried about winning or losing today,” Lloyd said shortly after his 13th-ranked Wildcats […]
Game Summary: Lenovo was rocking! You could see the players smiling a little when the crowd got really loud during the intros. The starting lineup was Holloman, McNeil, Copeland, Williams and Lubin. It seemed like the team was a little nervous and needed Darrion Williams to get things going. And he understood the assignment. It […]
Mizzou women’s basketball started the Kellie Harper era with a nail-biting victory over Central Arkansas 78-71. Much like the exhibition game, Mizzou women’s basketball was in a dogfight to a much smaller team. With less than 90 seconds left, the two teams were tied at 71 points apiece. The Tigers had the ball, drawing up […]
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Illinois basketball picked up right where it left off. After shooting 45.9% from behind the arc and showcasing their physicality on defense and on the glass, Illinois opened its 2025-26 campaign with an 113-55 thrashing over Jackson State on Monday night at State Farm Center. It marks Illinois’ 10th straight season-opening victory. […]
FIRST HALF ANALYSIS: The first half was definitely one that was shaking off the rust and jitters of the first game. Nebraska got the first bucket of the game from Sam Hoiberg, but then promptly trailed. Cold shooting, multiple turnovers and a handful of offensive rebounds were the name of the opening 8 minutes. West […]
The Clemson Tigers (1-0) opened the season with a resounding victory over the visiting New Hampshire Wildcats (0-1) by a score of 88 to 38 on Monday night in Littlejohn Coliseum. The season opener seemed like an introductory press conference to the fans as returning senior guard Dillon Hunter was the only returning Tiger on […]
A sloppy start and a battle composed of numerous free throws was how Northwestern men’s basketball won its first season tipoff. Northwestern (1-0, 0-0 B1G) opened up the season strong and overwhelmed Mercyhurst (0-1, 0-0 NEC) 70-47. Though the ‘Cats struggled to set up the tone early and looked poor on the offensive end, the […]
On a night when the Red Storm returning players received their Big East championship rings, the Johnnies’ star-studded six-man transfer class showed they wanted to claim their own bling this season. St. John’s looked every part like a fifth-ranked team in their curtain raiser for the 2025-26 season, leaving nothing to chance and decimating Quinnipiac […]
Iowa State got the 2025-2026 season off to a good start Monday night against Fairleigh Dickinson in Hilton Coliseum, earning an 88-50 win over the Knights. The Cyclones started the game with Tamin Lipsey, Josh Jefferson, and Milan Momcilovic on the floor, along with Virginia transfer Blake Buchanan and true freshman Frenchman Killyan Toure, who […]
The Wisconsin Badgers started off their season with a big win, running away with a 96-64 victory over the Campbell Fighting Camels in the opener at the Kohl Center. Wisconsin had a slow start on both sides, but surged to end the first half, scoring 47 points in the first 20 minutes. Then, after Campbell […]