Latest Men's college basketball News

Grand Canyon accepts invitation to join the Mountain West Conference by 2026

Nov. 01, 2024 15:35 PM EDT

PHOENIX (AP) — Grand Canyon has accepted an invitation to join the Mountain West Conference no later than 2026, according to an announcement sent by the school Friday. The Antelopes will join a conference that has six existing members, including Air Force, New Mexico, Nevada, San...

Tipoff: Where the top transfers in college basketball have landed

Nov. 01, 2024 09:09 AM EDT

After Dusty May left Florida Atlantic to take over Michigan’s program, plenty of the top remaining players from the Owls’ 2023 Final Four team departed as well. But they didn’t all follow their former coach to Ann Arbor. They scattered to various programs. ...

Former Virginia lacrosse star now living his dream of playing college basketball after transfer

Oct. 31, 2024 17:12 PM EDT

STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Count on Lars Tiffany canceling men's lacrosse practice at the University of Virginia for one specific day in January. He already knows his players have no plans to be there. The Cavaliers athletes long ago alerted their coach that a group will be taking a...

Cooper Flagg has long faced the spotlight as a top NBA prospect. It's time to do it at No. 7 Duke

Oct. 31, 2024 13:06 PM EDT

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Cooper Flagg wants to keep things simple. Basketball first. Treat the extra attention and hype as an afterthought, as best he can anyway. The versatile 6-foot-9, 205-pound forward for No. 7 Duke arrived as the nation’s top recruit and heads into...

Roster chaos born of NIL money and the transfer portal have turned college hoops upside-down

Oct. 30, 2024 14:13 PM EDT

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — KJ Adams Jr. is sitting in a corner of Hadl Auditorium, just down the hallway from Allen Fieldhouse, the historic home of the top-ranked Kansas basketball team, and the place that the senior forward has called home for the past four years. He is a rarity these...

College basketball's freshman class features Rutgers' dynamic duo of Ace Bailey and Dylan Harper

Oct. 30, 2024 05:13 AM EDT

It's not that uncommon for blueblood programs to have two five-star prospects arrive on campus the same year. It rarely happens at schools that don't have that kind of tradition. And that's what makes No. 25 Rutgers one of the most intriguing stories of the season as the Scarlet...

At 7 feet, 9 inches, Olivier Rioux is the world's tallest teen and an intriguing basketball project

Oct. 29, 2024 16:11 PM EDT

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Walking from his apartment to classes and then to the University of Florida’s basketball facility, Olivier Rioux poses for dozens — sometimes hundreds — of pictures a day. Vertical shots, of course. Rioux won’t fit in the frame any other way. ...

COVID-19 led to extra college eligibility. Those 5th-year players are set for their last runs

Oct. 29, 2024 16:02 PM EDT

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — RJ Davis accomplished enough in four years at North Carolina for his jersey to eventually earn a place among the honored numbers in the Smith Center’s rafters for the blueblood program. Yet he’s still here. “With five years, I know some...

USF names interim coach, saying Fletcher is the right man to lead Bulls after Abdur-Rahim's death

Oct. 29, 2024 14:57 PM EDT

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — South Florida introduced Ben Fletcher as interim basketball coach on Tuesday, saying he’s the right man to lead the Bulls following the death of Amir Abdur-Rahim. Fletcher, a close friend of Abdur-Rahim who helped the late coach turn around struggling programs...

Oregon State and Washington State hoops cozy up to WCC for now ahead of Pac-12 rebuild

Oct. 29, 2024 08:18 AM EDT

The Pac-12 Conference will never be what it once was even after the efforts to rebuild it. “I never thought I'd see the Pac-12 fall apart,” Oregon State coach Wayne Tinkle said. “I mean, what a freakin' shame that is, but we are where we are.” That could be...