Last season, Big 12 Basketball was led by a pair of elite freshmen: 6-foot-9 forward AJ Dybansta (25.5 points per game at BYU) and 6-foot-5 guard Darryn Peterson (20.2 points per game at Kansas).

I’m often asked if I have a favorite player from all my years covering college basketball. The answer is yes, and it might surprise you. It’s Maryland guard Juan Dixon. Dixon was the Most Outstanding ...

A new freshman star at Kansas, the eventual return of an All-American at Texas Tech and more key Big 12 storylines to monitor ...

Foreign tours in The Bahamas and Italy provided an early look at some of this season's top revamped rosters, including Clemson and Cincinnati ...

The noise started slowly, then built in intensity until it sounded as though thousands of rabid basketball fans were stomping their feet on metal bleachers. My first thought, as I was watching the ...

A flurry of legislative and legal activity has turned a normally quiet time on the college sports calendar into an absolute frenzy. In the past week, there has been a frantic push to pass the Protect ...

Editor’s Note: This story is part of a recurring “That Time When … ” nostalgia series that Hoops HQ will be publishing throughout the summer. You can read the ...

CHICAGO — The fact that the NCAA’s decision to pass a new five-for-five eligibility rule launched a series of lawsuits challenging it was eminently predictable. What will happen next, however, is ...

I first published my Never-Too-Early Preseason Top-25 rankings for the 2026-27 season the morning of the NCAA championship game. That’s right, I did next season’s rankings before the current season ...

The wait is almost over. The NBA Draft is almost here. All the watching, talking, speculating, analyzing, bloviating and predicting is just about done. In other words, it’s time once again to hear ...

With the NBA Draft less than a week away, scouts, executives and agents are exchanging gossip while prospects finish their workout tours. As always, there is mostly guessing about what other teams ...