The No. 2 Purdue Boilermakers lost the top spot in the Associated Press top 25 rankings to Houston on Monday, but they looked the part of a No. 1 team on Thursday night.
Carson Cooper and Jaxon Kohler each posted 17 points and Jeremy Fears Jr. added 15 points as No. 17 Michigan State held on for a 79-60 win against San Jose State.
The 2025-26 college basketball season is about to tip, with several teams worth keeping an eye on. Here are some, listed in alphabetical order. Statistics from 2024-25 in parentheses, unless noted otherwise.
The Louisville men’s basketball team beat in-state rival Kentucky on Tuesday night for the first time in more than four years, and Cardinals head coach Pat Kelsey celebrated so hard he was left with a nasty injury.
As expected, the No. 18 Notre Dame women cruised to an 85-58 win over Akron on Wednesday night, but it was the historic outing from star Hannah Hidalgo that stole the show.
Every so often, the NBA’s talent pipeline swells, and a single draft class reshapes the league’s balance of power. In the past 50 years, it has happened six times.
On a night when Army alum Mike Krzyzewski was honored by his alma mater, the first school to hire him, his other and more famous team, No. 4 Duke, never trailed and rolled to an easy 114-59 victory.
For the first time since 2020, No. 9 Kentucky lost to in-state rival and No. 12 Louisville, 96-88, in a game that was not as close for much of its duration as the final score would indicate.
If approved by a federal judge, it would be paid over three years to nearly 8,000 current and former Division I coaches who alleged that the NCAA illegally denied them wages and violated antitrust law.
There was a lot of movement in the first Associated Press Top 25 men's college basketball poll of the season, highlighted by a new No. 1 team at the top. Here are five takeaways from this week's poll, which was released on Monday.
Over two decades after Carmelo Anthony led the Syracuse Orange to the only men's college basketball national title in program history, his son, Kiyan Anthony, had a strong first start for Syracuse in a win over Delaware State.
The first week of the 2025-26 season was highlighted Saturday afternoon at Madison Square Garden as the No. 15 Alabama Crimson Tide won a thriller over the No. 5 St. John's Red Storm, 103-96.