NCAA Basketball

The Pac-12 isn’t looking to expand. But it’s also not saying no to the idea of expansion either. Consider new commissioner George Kliavkoff open to sales pitches. The commissioner is in his first weeks on the job after replacing Larry Scott and told the San Jose Mercury News in the wake of the reports that

The 12-player roster for the 2020 U.S. men’s Olympic basketball team in Tokyo features three former Kentucky Wildcats and a pair of UCLA Bruins in addition to one representative from each of Duke, Michigan State, Nevada, Texas, Texas A&M, Syracuse and Weber State. You can see the complete Team USA men’s basketball roster below. The Olympic basketball competition begins

After initially planning on a game, then having those plans fall through, preseason national title contenders Gonzaga and UCLA have finally figured things out once more and agreed to play each other next season, sources told CBS Sports.  The two teams — which rank first and second in CBS Sports’ Early Top 25 And 1 –

2:45 PM ET Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Commonwealth University men’s basketball coach Mike Rhoades has signed a two-year contract extension that will keep him on the Rams’ sideline through the 2026-27 season. Athletic director and vice president Ed McLaughlin made the announcement Thursday. Rhoades has compiled an 80-43 record in four years at

USATSI Alabama dropped in the CBS Sports Preseason Top 25 And 1 earlier this month after Jaden Shackelford entered the transfer portal and Joshua Primo confirmed he was remaining in the 2021 NBA Draft. It was a less-than-ideal week for the program. But some good news came this week when Shackelford announced on Instagram that,

On Wednesday a report surfaced that pointed to the Oklahoma Sooners looking to jump ship to the SEC. That shook the college football landscape and for good reason. Not only is Oklahoma looking at a change but it appears their biggest rivals, the Texas Longhorns, are right there alongside them. The Big 12 Conference’s top

7:00 AM ET During his freshman year at Duke, Grant Hill caught a pass from a teammate in practice and held the basketball high above his head. It was an instinctive move by Hill, who’d arrived — like many of Duke’s recruits under Mike Krzyzewski — as a raw high school All-American with a lot

The NBA Draft is coming up next week, and as always, the event will result in the extraction of some elite young talent from college basketball as a fresh crop of one-and-done stars like Cade Cunningham and Jalen Suggs hear their names called by NBA commissioner Adam Silver. However, there might be a few college

OMAHA, Neb. – Bruce Rasmussen, the Creighton athletic director who oversaw the rise of the men’s basketball team and the school’s transition to the Big East Conference during his tenure over the past 27 years, will retire next month. Rasmussen, 70, announced his retirement Monday, roughly a month after he and the school were sanctioned

5:00 PM ET The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference on Tuesday became the first conference on record to mandate vaccinations. In a statement, the SIAC, which competes in Division II, said that all players and coaches must be fully vaccinated in order to compete. The policy also applies to staff and other auxiliary groups, including officials,

Jon Lopez / Nike NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. — The July live period returned this month after a two-year break. With that, the biggest to-do on the grassroots circuit — Nike’s Peach Jam championship event — is scheduled for this week and weekend. But before we can get to bracket play, the EYBL’s regular season is

CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—Bret Oliverio says he wants college athletes to endorse his Sup Dogs restaurant along the main Franklin Street drag steps from the University of North Carolina. He is just being patient before jumping into a brave new world. Like other small business owners in college towns, Oliverio is sorting out just what it

5:22 PM ET NCAA president Mark Emmert made $2.9 million during the 2019-2020 fiscal year, a time period when pandemic-related closures caused the organization’s revenue to drop by more than 50 percent. The organization brought in $521 million between Sept. 1, 2019 and Aug. 31, 2020, down from more than $1 billion in revenue the

The Texas basketball program went from being down in the dumps with expectations of a rebuild, to now being projected by college basketball experts to contend for a championship in just the first year of the Chris Bead tenure. After losing a total of seven players, four to the NBA draft and three to the

It’s taken way too long but, finally, Mark Emmert is speaking the truth. He’s seen the future, and it doesn’t include him or his colleagues at the NCAA. Actually, Emmert isn’t quite going that far. He still wants the NCAA to exist, if only to regulate small sports and continue to ride the gravy train

1:37 PM ET Minnesota transfer Marcus Carr, the No. 1 transfer this offseason, announced his commitment to Texas on Saturday, giving Chris Beard’s Longhorns a legitimate case to be preseason No. 1 entering next season. Carr opted for Texas instead of pursuing a professional option in Australia. Louisville, Kentucky and Kansas were also on his

Chris Beard is widely regarded as the best hire any school made this offseason based on a Division I head-coaching career that’s been exceptional by any standard through six years — the first coming at Little Rock, the previous five at Texas Tech. It’s not unreasonable to assume he’ll someday guide Texas to its first

USATSI The elite incoming class of transfers at Texas under new coach Chris Beard received a significant exclamation point on Saturday when Minnesota transfer guard Marcus Carr chose the Longhorns over Kansas, Kentucky, Louisville and professional options. Carr is the No. 1 player in the CBS Sports transfer rankings this offseason. Carr averaged 19.4 points