NCAA Basketball

Keytron Jordan / CBS Sports graphic We’ve now hit the phase where we must start handing out the big (virtual) hardware. It’s that most cherished of moments: the preseason awards! Here at CBS Sports, we focus on the big three: Player, freshman and coach of the year. If you’re interested in a wider look at

7:30 AM ET Thanks so much to everyone for the overwhelming amount of prayers, support and well-wishes I’ve received since announcing my melanoma diagnosis. Your love means the world to me as a I prepare for this fight! In the meantime, I am so excited for the 2021-22 college basketball season to get underway. Has

The preseason AP Top 25 is here ahead of the men’s college basketball season beginning Nov. 9. Here’s what NCAA.com basketball expert Andy Katz wants you to know from the initial rankings. No. 1 No. 1 Gonzaga certainly deserves the spot with the return of Drew Timme and the arrival of Chet Holmgren. But I lean

USATSI With only a few weeks until the start of the college basketball season, the preseason AP Top 25 was released on Monday with a familiar face sitting atop the rankings. The Gonzaga Bulldogs earned 55 first-place votes to wear the badge as the preseason No. 1 team for a second consecutive season, edging a

Gonzaga carried a No. 1 ranking all last season before falling a win short of becoming college basketball’s first unbeaten national champion in 45 years. Mark Few’s Bulldogs start this season in the same position, hoping to complete that final step this time around. The Zags were the runaway top choice in The Associated Press

7:30 AM ET The 2021-22 men’s college basketball season will begin Nov. 9 with the Champions Classic matchups between Kentucky and Duke, as well as Kansas and Michigan State, tipping off the schedule in style from storied Madison Square Garden. In preparation for a season that figures to look more “normal” than the pandemic-altered 2020-21

As he settled in behind a microphone for what would be a 30-minute news conference as Michigan basketball hosted its annual media day event, coach Juwan Howard identified his team’s most important storyline of the 2021-22 season within his first 10 words. “What I see from the team is they’re very young,” Howard said, responding

USATSI College basketball season is just around the corner, and with it comes a plethora of multi-team events and early-season tournaments that will provide some of the season’s more unique nonconference matchups. A year after the COVID-19 pandemic altered the sport’s schedule and forced tweaks or outright cancelations to these events, it’s great to see

7:30 AM ET TUCSON, Arizona — Riccardo Fois laughs ironically when asked how Tommy Lloyd might adapt the Gonzaga blueprint to Arizona. “Arizona was the blueprint for the original Gonzaga,” the Wildcats assistant said. “Arizona and Duke. Lute Olson and Coach K and the brotherhood and the way everybody was together, was one of the

Axios Gruden’s vulgar emails cc’d Tampa leaders Former Tampa Bay Bucs head coach Jon Gruden quit Monday as head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders after the New York Times reported on racist, sexist and homophobic language he used in emails shortly after leaving the Bucs in 2009 with a Super Bowl ring.By Tuesday, he

Share The Division I Women’s Basketball Committee and the Division I Women’s Basketball Oversight Committee on Thursday voted unanimously on a proposal that would expand the Division I Women’s Basketball Championship field from 64 to 68 teams, effective immediately. The proposal will now advance for consideration by governance committees. A final determination is expected by

In the spring of 2019, NBA veteran and longtime NBA assistant coach Juwan Howard was hired to be the head coach at his alma mater, Michigan, which he has cemented as one of the strongest men’s basketball programs in the country after the Wolverines earned a No. 1 seed in his second season as head

It isn’t a surprise when skepticism arises after a change is announced. Three years ago, the NCAA revised its rules and began implementing a certification process for agents to represent Division I men’s basketball players while they weigh their prospects of trying to compete in the NBA. Under the change, if student-athletes use an NCAA-certified

Keytron Jordan / CBS Sports graphic College basketball starts in less than a month. (Opening day is Nov. 9.) So we’ve still got some time, but you know games will be here before too long. That in mind, I couldn’t go another day without handing over our biggest piece of preseason content at CBS Sports:

7:30 AM ET As the countdown continues toward the start of the 2020-21 college basketball season on Nov. 9, ESPN’s panel of experts is making its predictions. We begin by breaking down the best of the mid-major conferences, including a league (the West Coast Conference) which houses a team that rests comfortably outside the mid-major

Share The 2021 Maui Invitational tournament is set to begin Monday, Nov. 22 and continue through Wednesday, Nov. 24. Due to COVID-19, travel restrictions and protocols in Hawaii, the event will be played in Las Vegas. All games will be on ESPN, ESPN2 or ESPNU. This year’s teams are Butler, Houston, Notre Dame, Oregon, Saint

The Gonzaga Bulldogs will not have Mark Few for the team’s first regular season game. Few was suspended Saturday after he was pulled over by police and received a DUI charge in September. Few is suspended until Nov. 13. He will not attend the annual Numerica Kraziness in the Kennel event Saturday. He’ll also miss

Gonzaga coach Mark Few has been suspended by the university for two preseason exhibition games, the team’s season-opener vs. Dixie State and Saturday’s Kraziness at the Kennel preseason, Midnight Madness-style event following his DUI arrest last month. Few announced his punishment in a statement released by Gonzaga on Saturday morning. The discipline stems from Few’s