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• Arkansas Shocks St. John’s to Advance to the Sweet 16

John Calipari and Rick Pitino have crossed paths many times in their careers. The two legendary coaches both were compared to each other all throughout their career paths, ranging from rebuilding programs into championship contenders in the Northeast, to playing under the bright lights of Rupp Arena with the Kentucky Wildcats. They’ve met each other […] The post Arkansas Shocks St. Joh...2025
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• March Madness 2025: The Best and Worst From Day 4

Stephen Brashear-Imagn Images At long last, a thrilling March finish. That’s more like it. Let’s get into it. The 3 best games of Day 4 1. (4) Maryland 72, (12) Colorado State 71 (West) We finally got an absolute banger. Trailing by one point with 3.6 seconds to go, Maryland star Derik Queen made the decision easy for his head coach. “I want the fucking ball,” Queen told Kevin Willard....2025
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• March Madness 2025: The Best and Worst from Day 3

Brian Fluharty-Imagn Images march-madness-2025-highlights-scores-recap-pitino-calipari-gonzaga-houston We’re getting there. We’re not quite there yet, but we’re getting closer. It’s going to happen. This tournament is going to find its stride. March Madness’ 3 best games of Day 3 1. (6) BYU 91, (3) Wisconsin 89 (East) BYU led from start to finish in this one, but that doesn’t mean the vi...2025
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• The Best and Worst from Day 1 of March Madness

Photo by Ben Solomon/NCAA Photos via Getty Images The madness returned in full-force on Thursday. Let’s break down everything that happened. Let’s just get this out of the way straight from the jump: If you were ranking the best opening Thursdays in NCAA Tournament history, this one wouldn’t be near the top. It wouldn’t be somewhere in the middle either. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t great...2025
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• March Madness 2025: Kansas vs. Arkansas Odds, Prediction, & Best Bets
A Heavyweight Coaching Duel in the West: Bill Self vs. John Calipari, But Not Where You’d Expect March Madness always delivers surprises. This time, it gives us a matchup worthy of a Final Four—but instead, it’s happening on the first Thursday of the tournament. Kansas vs. Arkansas. Bill Self vs. John Calipari. Two of college […] The post March Madness 2025: Kansas vs. Arkansas Odds, Predict...2025
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• Jack Gohlke March Madness 2025 Bracket, Predictions, And Expert Picks
Every year, the NCAA Tournament has stars that appear out of nowhere. In 2024, Oakland’s Jack Gohlke became a household name. Gohlke and the Golden Grizzlies were the #14 seed and beat #3 Kentucky. Ending John Calipari’s tenure with the Wildcats. Ahead of March Madness starting on Thursday, Jack Gohlke has made his predictions. Just […] The post Jack Gohlke March Madness 2025 B...2025
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• March Madness’ 50 best players, ranked for 2025 men’s NCAA tournament

Rob Kinnan-Imagn Images Let’s rank the best players in the 2025 men’s NCAA tournament College basketball is in a state of transition, and so too is the idea of the modern college basketball star. The defining players in the 2025 men’s NCAA tournament do not fit in any particular box. They come from every corner of the world, in all shapes and sizes, each with their own idiosyncratic stren...2025
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• 10 takeaways from the 2025 men’s NCAA tournament bracket reveal

Photo by John Byrum/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Let the bracket reactions begin. We have a bracket, and now we have three days to talk about it. Let’s start immediately. Here are 10 immediate thoughts on this year’s field of 68: 1. The SEC was valued even more highly than we thought There was little doubt that Sunday was going to be the day the SEC was going to set a new record for t...2025
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• College basketball’s 8 most disappointing men’s teams this season, ranked

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Here are the most disappointing teams in men’s college basketball so far. Expectations are a slippery slope in this new era of college basketball. With every player in the country essentially on a one-year deal, coaches face the monumental task of keeping their top players on campus, surrounding them with the right fits in the transfer portal, and addin...2025
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• College basketball’s top-25 men’s teams, ranked, to start 2024-2025 season

David Butler II-Imagn Images The top-25 teams in men’s college basketball for 2024-2025 season, previewed by our experts Another chapter in college basketball begins on Monday as the 2024-25 season kicks off. Last April, UConn, led by head coach Dan Hurley, cut down the nets in at the national championship in Arizona, beating Purdue 75-60. With the transfer portal, new incoming freshmen...2024
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• Baylor stole top transfer portal star without big NIL payment in men’s basketball

Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Baylor is looking like one of the top teams in men’s college basketball next season after another huge transfer portal addition. The Baylor Bears made one of the biggest moves of offseason in men’s college basketball just by keeping their head coach. The Kentucky Wildcats made Scott Drew their apparent top option after John Calipari left the program for A...2024
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• 7 men’s college basketball transfer portal winners so far

Clare Grant/Courier Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK These 7 teams aced the transfer portal in men’s college basketball. The college basketball landscape is currently unrecognizable from even a few years ago. The days of building a program through targeting recruits out of high school and developing them over the course of four years are all but over. In the transfer portal era, teams need to b...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 9, 2024

Photo by Mike Lawrie/Getty Images Did the sun come back? Craig Brown recaps the weekend’s games, including Friday’s thriller. I don’t think it’s overstating things to say that this felt like a season-defining moment. Maybe that sounds ridiculous—this was just the eighth game of the season—but this is where we found the Royals. Another brutal loss—it would’ve been the third game out of fou...2024
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"Amari Williams, C, Kentucky Mark Pope had to replace Kentucky’s entire roster after inheriting the program from John Calipari, and luring Amari Williams from Drexel might have been his best move."

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"John Calipari hadn’t brought recent success to Kentucky, but that didn’t mean losing him to a conference rival was on the cards."

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"Anthony Davis, Devin Booker among top 10 NBA players to come from Kentucky under John Calipari"

2022
"Kentucky Wildcats head coach John Calipari confirmed the accident on Twitter, showing his support for his ex-player and asking everyone for prayers as Ulis works his way back to full health."

2021
"While John Calipari continues to publicly state his commitment to the Kentucky Wildcats men’s basketball program, rumors of his eventual return to the NBA have been going on for years."

2020
"Karl-Anthony Towns' mother remains hospitalized with coronavirus symptoms, per Kentucky coach John Calipari"

2019
"Philadelphia 76ers star Jimmy Butler does not appreciate John Calipari suggesting that he bullied Karl-Anthony Towns during his season-plus stint with the Minnesota Timberwolves."

2018
"WATCH: Kentucky coach John Calipari knocks down a half-court shot in warm-ups"

2017
"John Calipari says team of ex-UK players would win NBA title over Warriors, Cavs"

2016
"Malik Monk sets UK record, wins thriller for Kentucky by disobeying John Calipari"

2015
"Allen recently took a picture with Kentucky Wildcats coach John Calipari."

2014
"The NCAA's Kentucky Wildcats are loaded with talent and looking good early on this season, but Kentucky coach John Calipari was quick to dismiss the notion that his team could beat an NBA team: However, Bledsoe—a former Wildcat—disagrees with his college coach."

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• Weekend Rumblings - News for February 1, 2025

Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Royals finally land their free agent. Craig Brown evaluates the Carlos Estévez signing. The question that must be asked is, was the 2024 season an outlier for Estévez? Can he, at 32 years old, replicate the successes of last year? Some of it looks sustainable to me. In the last two seasons, Estévez has been generally working ahea...2025
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• NBA mock draft 2025: Updated projection with Cooper Flagg saving one lucky team

Aryanna Frank-Imagn Images Here’s our latest 2025 NBA mock draft. The 2025 NBA Draft lottery is going to be one of the marquee events of the season. For all the talent in this draft class, there will be no drama over who gets selected with the No. 1 overall pick. Cooper Flagg is living up to every ounce of hype at the start of his freshman season at Duke. He feels like one of the strongest...2024
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• College basketball’s top-25 men’s teams, ranked, to start 2024-2025 season
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• College basketball’s 10 best freshman for 2024-25 season, ranked

Peter Ackerman / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images There are some new faces this season who could help their team make a tournament run come March. The 2024-25 college basketball season is approaching quickly and there will be a decent handful of new-look teams, as this offseason was one of the most hectic ones in recent memory with the transfer portal. While there was a lot of movement ...2024
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• 4 reasons Dan Hurley should reject Lakers, and 2 reasons he might take the job

Photo by Mitchell Layton/Getty Images Dan Hurley needs to realize the Lakers job is impossible in so many ways. The Los Angeles Lakers’ coaching search has prominently mentioned two candidates since the team’s elimination in the first round of the 2024 NBA Playoffs: the supposed front-runner J.J. Redick, and former Charlotte Hornets coach James Borrego. The Lakers reportedly have another b...2024
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• Baylor stole top transfer portal star without big NIL payment in men’s basketball
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• March Madness 2025: The Best and Worst from Day 3
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• 8 bubble teams with work to do in men’s basketball before 2025 March Madness

Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images Meet the bubble boys playing for their NCAA tournament dreams at the end of the season. Selection Sunday is around the corner for men’s college basketball. Before the 2025 NCAA tournament bracket is announced on March 16, some of the sport’s biggest names are still fighting to get off the bubble and into the field. Conference tournament season is here, and...2025
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• NBA mock draft 2025: Updated projection with Cooper Flagg saving one lucky team
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• College basketball’s 10 best freshman for 2024-25 season, ranked
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• NBA mock draft 2025: Updated projection with Cooper Flagg saving one lucky team
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• 4 reasons Dan Hurley should reject Lakers, and 2 reasons he might take the job
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• Tyrese Maxey was obvious NBA Draft steal the entire time

Photo by Elsa/Getty Images Tyrese Maxey was the NBA Draft steal that wasn’t so surprising. Deuce McBride flashed to the middle of the lane and caught a pass from Jalen Brunson as the New York Knicks’ star was getting trapped on the perimeter. McBride calmly stepped into a free throw line jumper and swished it, giving the Knicks a six-point lead on the Philadelphia 76ers with 29 seconds lef...2024
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• John Calipari lands biggest transfer portal star yet at Arkansas for huge NIL payment

Photo by Wesley Hitt/Getty Images Arkansas may have outbid the NBA’s interest in Johnell Davis with a big NIL deal for the transfer portal’s No. 1 ranked guard Johnell Davis has been one of the best guards in men’s college basketball the last two years. In 2023, Davis was the leading scorer on a dominant Florida Atlantic team that made an inspiring run to the Final Four as a No. 9 seed. D...2024
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• Ray Allen Sports 'Basketball Jesus' Shirt in Photo with John Calipari
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• Suns' Eric Bledsoe Believes Kentucky Would Beat 76ers in 7-Game Series
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• John Calipari Thinks Kentucky Could Lose 5-7 Players to the NBA Draft
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• Meet the Real DeMarcus Cousins: Strong-Willed, Maturing, Misunderstood
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• From the Bottom to the Top: The Russell Westbrook Story
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• John Calipari Denies Having Discussed Coaching Job WIth Kings
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• John Calipari Says He Doesn’t Regret Turning Down Cleveland Cavaliers Job
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• WATCH: DeMarcus Cousins Leads Kentucky Over UNC Alums
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• March Madness’ 50 best players, ranked for 2025 men’s NCAA tournament
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• 8 bubble teams with work to do in men’s basketball before 2025 March Madness
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• 9 Kentucky basketball coaching candidates, ranked by likelihood after John Calipari’s exit

Photo by Justin Ford/Getty Images Ranking potential Kentucky head coach candidates by likelihood of actually ending up in Lexington after John Calipari’s shocking exit for Arkansas. There might not be a bigger and more important job in the men’s college basketball world than the head coach of the Kentucky Wildcats. On Sunday night, the gig suddenly became wide open when John Calipari deci...2024
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• 2024 men’s Final Four features a quartet of sensational storylines

Photo by Nicholas Muller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images While the spreads are high, the storylines for this year’s men’s Final Four are as stellar as ever. With UConn favored to beat Alabama by 11.5 and Purdue a 9-point favorite over NC State, the 2024 men’s Final Four is dangerously close to being the first in the history of the tournament to feature double-digit spreads in bot...2024
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• 5 college basketball fanbases with most at stake in 2024 men’s NCAA tournament

Photo by Michael Allio/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images March Madness puts everyone edge, but there are five fan bases that are especially tense heading into this year’s NCAA tournament. The line between glory and indignity is brutally thin in March. One bounce of a ball can be the difference between a contract extension and a trip to the unemployment line. The difference between never h...2024
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