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• 2024 Fall Report: Fresno State

Fresno State certainly has some holes to fill from last year’s NCAA Tournament team, but Ryan Overland and Co. have plenty of reasons to feel confident about 2025. Access this story and more premium content, Ad-Free. Required plans: Monthly, D1 Extra Monthly, Annual or D1 Extra Annual SUBSCRIBE NOW Already a subscriber? Log In...2024
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• Notre Dame women’s basketball is as good as ever under Niele Ivey, and they’re just getting started

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images The Fighting Irish look a lot like the most talented team in women’s college basketball. SOUTH BEND, IND. — Hannah Hidalgo counted the points on her fingers. Notre Dame’s pint-sized sophomore supernova had just drilled a corner three off a feed from Olivia Miles to give the Irish a 10-point lead on the UConn Huskies mid-way through the second quarter of...2024
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• NCAA volleyball: How each No. 1 seed can get to the semifinals of the 2024 tournament

Jeff Faughender/Courier Journal & USA Today Network / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images The 2024 NCAA volleyball tournament field is down to 16 teams, and we break down who will challenge the top seeds. An action packed weekend of volleyball whittled down the 2024 NCAA tournament field from 64 teams to a sweet group of 16 teams vying for spots in the semifinals. The volleyball world will ...2024
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• Airing opposite a WWE PLE took its usual toll on Collision’s ratings

Ricky Havlik for All Elite Wrestling NXT Deadline was a factor on Dec. 7, but so was the 26 million people watching college football. The ratings and viewership data are in for Sat., Dec. 7’s episode of AEW Collision. After taking a week off due to AEW’s Full Gear pay-per-view, and then moving to an early afternoon timeslot to avoid airing opposite WWE’s Survivor Series premium live event ...2024
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• UNC women win College Cup, school's 23rd title
Olivia Thomas scored on a free kick in the 62nd minute for her fourth goal of the NCAA tournament as North Carolina beat Wake Forest 1-0 on Monday night for the program's first national championship since 2012....2024
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• 2024 NCAA bracket: Scores, stats, for March Madness men’s tournament
Here's a look back at the 2024 NCAA tournament for March Madness. The UConn men won it all for the second season in a row....2024

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• Women’s college basketball rankings: South Carolina drops to No. 4 as 43-game win streak ends

Robert Hanashiro-Imagn Images Four top-6 teams descend on the City of Angels in a star-studded weekend. Week three of NCAA women’s basketball featured the strongest slate of games so far in the non-conference season. The weekend included two games, played only miles apart, between four of the top six teams in the country, Geno Auriemma grabbed hold of history and a Big Ten squad suffered a...2024
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• Two more WNBA teams just hired head coaches, and they have a lot in common

Photo by Geoff Stellfox/Getty Images The Los Angeles Sparks hired Lynne Roberts, a former college coach of 27 years. The Dream snagged FGCU’s Karl Smesko. The Los Angeles Sparks have found their new head coach: Lynne Roberts, a seasoned Division I coach with 27 seasons of collegiate women’s basketball experience. That hiring was announced just a week after a different WNBA head coaching v...2024
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• Women’s college basketball rankings: Updated top-25 with Maryland on the rise, Duke and Baylor fall

Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images The women’s college basketball season is off and running with some big upsets and standout performances from freshmen. After the first week of NCAA women’s basketball, the AP top 25 finally has game footage to support rankings. Below you can see the full rankings, and we break down the biggest headlines from the first week of play: AP top 25 women’s colle...2024
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• 8 storylines to follow for the 2024-25 women’s college basketball season

Vasha Hunt-Imagn Images Young stars, conference realignment, SEC dominance and more dominate the storylines heading into another NCAA season College basketball is finally back. Following a season that broke all sorts of records both on and off the court, women’s collegiate basketball returns to gyms and arenas across the country. As the college sports world continues changing in terms of N...2024
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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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• Women’s college basketball’s 10 best players for the 2024-25 season, ranked

Troy Wayrynen-Imagn Images Super stars like JuJu Watkins and Paige Bueckers led the talented list of must-watch players this season. For the last two seasons, headlines focused on Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese as women’s college basketball continued to surge in interest and viewership. With both stars now doing the same in the WNBA, there’s no shortage of talent in college hoops. If anyth...2024
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• Women’s college basketball top-25 preseason teams for 2024-25, ranked and explained

Troy Wayrynen-Imagn Images The women’s college basketball season begins on Monday and we break down every team in the AP Top 25 preseason poll. Last season, South Carolina was perfect. The Gamecocks finished the season 38-0, defeating Iowa and Caitlin Clark’s crew in the national championship game to take home the trophy. With South Carolina returning 10 players from its championship te...2024
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• BU sweeps R-O-W awards; Poll Story; SNL; The best 2025 recruit class?; Yegorov claims USHL goalie of the week

Heralded freshman Cole Eiserman, who scored twice, including the game-winner, against Connecticut, is Hockey East's Rookie of the Week. A first-round draft pick by the Islanders in the 2024 NHL Entry Draft, the Newburyport, Mass., native also had single goals against Holy Cross and Union. No other NCAA rookie has more goals this season than Eiserman, who is the NTDP's career goal-scorin...2024
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• Cooper Flagg is ready to define the next generation of basketball superstardom

Photo by Jim Poorten/NBAE via Getty Images How Cooper Flagg is growing into the next generation’s version of an NBA superstar. Cooper Flagg walked into USA Basketball practice with nothing to lose and everything to prove. He was just about the youngest person in the building, competing against more mature and more accomplished players with far greater pedigrees. He entered the scrimmages ...2024
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• NBA mock draft 2024: Perfect picks for every team

Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images Here’s our latest 2024 NBA mock draft. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder in the 2024 NBA Draft. An entire draft cycle has come and gone without the emergence of a clear No. 1 overall prospect. This is the type of draft bound to cause massive disagree on individual boards for executives even within the same team. A few storylines have emerged. Three young...2024
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• NBA mock draft 2024: Instant projection after Hawks’ stunning lottery win

Here’s our instant projection of the 2024 NBA Draft with the order now finalized after the lottery drawing. The order for the 2024 NBA Draft is finally set, and the Atlanta Hawks are the lucky winners of the lottery with the No. 1 overall pick. The Hawks entered the drawing with the 10th-best odds overall with a three percent chance at the first pick, and somehow cashed it in. The Washington Wizar...2024
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• Purdue’s basketball exorcism took them all over the world. There’s only one stop left

Photo by Brett Wilhelm/NCAA Photos via Getty Images Purdue had to travel the globe to bury their past forever GLENDALE, AZ. — The Purdue Boilermakers needed a vacation after suffering one of the most devastating losses in college basketball history. Fortunately, they already had a couple big ones planned. The Boilermakers boarded a plane to Munich, Germany in early Aug. to shed their skin ...2024
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• Why Zach Edey is first round pick on our 2024 NBA Draft board

Let’s dive into Zach Edey’s NBA Draft projection, scouting report, and best team fits for the Purdue center Zach Edey was never supposed to be a generational college basketball star. For most of his life, he didn’t even want to play the sport. Edey played hockey and baseball growing up in Toronto. By the time he graduated eighth grade, he was already 6’10. To that point in his life, he had never p...2024
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• The Best and Worst From March Madness Day 4

Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images march-madness-2024-highlights-mens-ncaa-tournament-scores-uconn-duke-houston As always, it’s been one hell of a week, and thanks for following along with all of these recaps. I hope you’ve enjoyed reading them as much as I’ve enjoyed putting them together. Let’s finish strong. March Madness’ 3 best games of Day 4 1. (1) Houston 100, (9) Texas A&M 95 (So...2024
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• NBA mock draft 2024: These March Madness prospects can rise up boards in NCAA tournament

Here’s our latest 2024 NBA mock as March Madness kicks off. There’s no greater platform for a college basketball player to start building their reputation and their bank account than March Madness. With the 2024 men’s NCAA tournament now here, another field of players gets the opportunity to put themselves on the radar for future professional opportunities. Certain players have more at stake than ...2024
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"Indiana State’s ridiculously fun NIT run is a reminder of how dumb the selection committee was"

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"Caitlin Clark is the biggest superstar of March, and it’s not even close"

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"All of the emotion and excitement of the 2022 NCAA Tournament set to the tune of "One Shining Moment."

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"Every year, there always seems to be a player who bolsters his NBA draft stock over the course of the NCAA Tournament."

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"Jack Allard: COVID-19 'Took Me to My Knees,' Grateful for Lacrosse Family"

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"How the Big East has put college basketball on alert"

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"Here's why Purdue is a legit contender to win the NCAA Tournament title"

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"NCAA Tournament 2017: Darius Rucker cries after South Carolina advances to Final Four"

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"Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame 2016: List of Inductees for This Year's Class"

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"Larry Brown Says He Could Fix 76ers in 5 Minutes, Campaigns for Allen Iverson"

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"We can vividly remember the now 38-year-old Andre Miller stuffing the stat lines at Utah and a junior season that almost saw the do-everything point guard and his Ute teammates upset Kentucky in the title game after knocking off UNC in the semifinals of the 1998 NCAA Tournament."

• Notre Dame women’s basketball is as good as ever under Niele Ivey, and they’re just getting started
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• Airing opposite a WWE PLE took its usual toll on Collision’s ratings
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• NCAA women’s basketball: 5 things we learned from the SEC-ACC Challenge

Photo by Tyler Kaufman/Getty Images The yearly in-season competition exceeded expectations and highlighted some of the best in basketball. The SEC-ACC Challenge is the perfect event to follow the many Thanksgiving tournaments we saw last week. This year it exceeded even the highest expectations for on-court competition, intrigue and building the foundation for the rest of the season. These...2024
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• College basketball’s top-25 men’s teams, ranked, to start 2024-2025 season
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• Women’s college basketball top-25 preseason teams for 2024-25, ranked and explained
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• These are the most impressive players in the 2024 NCAA women’s volleyball season, so far

Photo by Jamie Schwaberow/NCAA Photos via Getty Images We are about halfway through the college volleyball season and these names have stood out. We’re starting to get about halfway through the college volleyball season, with conference races heating up, larger and larger crowds being filled and stars shining on the court. With some newer faces and known stars, here are some of the most i...2024
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• BU sweeps R-O-W awards; Poll Story; SNL; The best 2025 recruit class?; Yegorov claims USHL goalie of the week
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• Celtics To Sign Hason Ward To Exhibit 10 Deal, Waive Dmytro Skapintsev
The Celtics will sign Hason Ward to an Exhibit 10 contract, sources tell Jay King of The Athletic (Twitter link). The 6’9″ forward advanced to the NCAA Tournament’s Sweet 16 last spring with Iowa State. A super senior, Ward averaged 6.0 points and 3.8 rebounds for the Cyclones while shooting 62.8% from the field. He […]...2024
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• 2024-2025 Quinnipiac Bobcats Season Preview

Quinnipiac opens the 2024-2025 season against Penn StateThe 2024-2025 Quinnipiac Bobcats Men's Ice Hockey Season is upon us and the program looks to reach the NCAA Tournament for a program record 5th straight season. If the team can reach the tournament, it would be the 11th time in program history they have done so. Just two seasons after winning the National Championship, only 4 players remain f...2024
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• How Rutgers basketball landed two potential NBA lottery picks in Ace Bailey and Dylan Harper

Melissa Tamez-Imagn Images From the jump, Rutgers men’s basketball head coach Steve Pikiell showed his loyalty to the two five-star recruits. Whenever and wherever Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey were playing basketball, be it during the high school season or on the AAU circuit, they could just about always count on one person being in the stands for them. Rutgers men’s basketball head coach S...2024
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• Notre Dame women’s basketball is as good as ever under Niele Ivey, and they’re just getting started
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• NCAA volleyball: How each No. 1 seed can get to the semifinals of the 2024 tournament
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• 2024 NCAA bracket: Scores, stats, for March Madness men’s tournament
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• Women’s college basketball rankings: Duke and TCU rise big in latest poll, Notre Dame falls

Photo by Ian Maule/Getty Images Thanksgiving week tournaments end in feast of top-25 matchups, impacting national rankings The most exciting week of the non-conference season — and most frustrating for finding games across multiple obscure streaming platforms — provided plenty of interesting games and outcomes during the holiday week. It included one ACC side taking care of all comers and ...2024
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• Women’s college basketball rankings: South Carolina drops to No. 4 as 43-game win streak ends
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• Meet Asa Newell: Georgia basketball’s best freshman star since Anthony Edwards

Dale Zanine-Imagn Images Newell is Georgia’s third-highest recruit of all time behind now NBA players Anthony Edwards and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope. When it comes to the Georgia Bulldogs, almost everyone’s minds instantly travel to the 8-2 football team vying for a spot in the College Football Playoff with quite a number of NFL hopefuls on the roster. That has been the case in each of the l...2024
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• On a team filled with experience, Kansas freshman Flory Bidunga has emerged as the missing piece

Denny Medley-Imagn Images The Jayhawks have seen early contributions from their raw freshman. After a disappointing exit in the second round of the NCAA tournament last year, head coach Bill Self and the Kansas Jayhawks sought to improve the team’s roster, with an added emphasis on depth, which had been an issue at times in 2023. As a result, the Jayhawks hit the transfer portal and hit it...2024
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• Women’s college basketball rankings: Updated top-25, Kentucky rises, Geno Auriemma ties Tara VanDerVeer

Photo by Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images UConn wins their first ranked game of the season, a battle in Kentucky and teams make a case for top-25 rankings NCAA women’s basketball continued to surprise in week two. Top-25 teams fell to both ranked and unranked opponents, a new team emerges out of Texas and the Buckeyes almost fall to a mid-major. Here are the current rankings and what stood out...2024
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• Women’s college basketball rankings: Updated top-25 with Maryland on the rise, Duke and Baylor fall
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• Notre Dame women’s basketball is as good as ever under Niele Ivey, and they’re just getting started
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• NCAA volleyball: How each No. 1 seed can get to the semifinals of the 2024 tournament
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• NCAA women’s basketball: 5 things we learned from the SEC-ACC Challenge
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• Two more WNBA teams just hired head coaches, and they have a lot in common
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• Omos Was 'Petrified' At WrestleMania 37, Says Kevin Nash Gave Him A Hug And Helped Him Relax
Omos recalls winning championship gold on the big stage. At WrestleMania 37, Omos made his main roster in-ring debut by teaming with AJ Styles to win the Raw Tag Team Championships from the New Day (Kofi Kingston & Xavier Woods). This was also Omos' first time competing in a match since February 2020, when he teamed with Bronson Reed to face Aleksandar Jaksic and Tehuti Miles at a NXT live event. ...2024
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• College basketball’s top-25 men’s teams, ranked, to start 2024-2025 season
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• Women’s college basketball’s 10 best players for the 2024-25 season, ranked
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• Women’s college basketball top-25 preseason teams for 2024-25, ranked and explained
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• BU sweeps R-O-W awards; Poll Story; SNL; The best 2025 recruit class?; Yegorov claims USHL goalie of the week
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• Tony Bennett announces shocking retirement from Virginia men’s basketball

Photo by G Fiume/Getty Images Virginia men’s basketball coach Tony Bennett is calling it a career. Tony Bennett is one of the most successful men’s college basketball coaches of his generation. Now he’s calling it a career and retiring from the Virginia Cavaliers just weeks before the 2024-25 season begins. Bennett is announcing his retirement on Friday, according to the program. BREAKI...2024
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• Larry Brown Says He Could Fix 76ers in 5 Minutes, Campaigns for Allen Iverson
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• LeBron, Kobe and Melo Congratulate Mike Krzyzewski on 5th Duke Championship
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• Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame 2016: List of Inductees for This Year's Class
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• Stephen Curry's Jersey Won't be Retired by Davidson Until He Graduates
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• The Basketball Tournament Offers $1 Million with Former NBA Players on 97 Teams
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• 49-Year-Old Reggie Miller Knocks Down Jumpers at Site of 2015 NCAA Tournament
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• Aaron Rodgers Gets Called Out During NCAA Tournament by Writer, Rodgers Responds
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• 5-Star Recruit Jon Isaac to Try Declaring for 2016 NBA Draft Out of High School
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• Notre Dame women’s basketball is as good as ever under Niele Ivey, and they’re just getting started
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• NCAA volleyball: How each No. 1 seed can get to the semifinals of the 2024 tournament
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• Airing opposite a WWE PLE took its usual toll on Collision’s ratings
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• NCAA women’s basketball: 5 things we learned from the SEC-ACC Challenge
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• 4 potential dark horse teams to watch for in the NCAA women’s volleyball championship

Matt Pendleton/Gainesville Sun / USA TODAY NETWORK Don’t be surprised if these teams make a run in the 2024 NCAA women’s volleyball championship With the bracket set for the 2024 NCAA women’s volleyball championship, the field looks set to produce a thrilling tournament this December. Although the majority of the focus will be on the top seeded teams like Pitt, Nebraska, Penn State and Lo...2024
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• Women’s college basketball rankings: Duke and TCU rise big in latest poll, Notre Dame falls
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• Women’s college basketball rankings: South Carolina drops to No. 4 as 43-game win streak ends
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• On a team filled with experience, Kansas freshman Flory Bidunga has emerged as the missing piece
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• Women’s college basketball rankings: Updated top-25, Kentucky rises, Geno Auriemma ties Tara VanDerVeer
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• Women’s college basketball rankings: Updated top-25 with Maryland on the rise, Duke and Baylor fall
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• Women’s college basketball rankings: Duke and TCU rise big in latest poll, Notre Dame falls
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• Women’s college basketball rankings: Updated top-25, Kentucky rises, Geno Auriemma ties Tara VanDerVeer
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• College basketball’s top-25 men’s teams, ranked, to start 2024-2025 season
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• Tony Bennett announces shocking retirement from Virginia men’s basketball
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• Cooper Flagg is ready to define the next generation of basketball superstardom
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• Adrian Wojnarowski retires from ESPN to join St. Bonaventure basketball as GM

Photo by Evan Yu/NBAE via Getty Images Woj announced his journalism retirement in the most shocking Woj Bomb yet Adrian Wojnarowski has been one of the main characters of the NBA over the last decade as the league’s premier newsbreaker. On Wednesday, Wojnarowski unleashed one of his biggest ‘Woj Bombs’ ever: he’s retiring from journalism. The 55-year-old ESPN reporter issued this stat...2024
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• Better know a draft prospect: Chase Burns

Scott Kinser-USA TODAY Sports Burns is a fiery competitor with a devastating slider. With the MLB draft just a month away, let’s continue evaluating some prospects that the Royals may consider drafting with the sixth overall pick. Following the write up of JJ Wetherholt, there are just two of the top college prospects that we have yet to evaluate here. Today, we will cover perhaps the top ...2024
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• NBA mock draft 2024: Perfect picks for every team
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• Caitlin Clark is trying to give herself grace during a rocky first week in the WNBA

Grace Hollars/IndyStar / USA TODAY NETWORK Caitlin Clark struggled as the Fever were blown out in her home opener, the story of her young pro career so far. INDIANAPOLIS — The moment was set for Caitlin Clark on Thursday. 17,274 fans packed a sold-out Gainbridge Fieldhouse — the Fever’s third-largest crowd for a regular season game — and were ready for the debut of their newest No. 1 overa...2024
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• Washington Huskies paid record NIL deal for top transfer portal forward

Photo by Zach Bolinger/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The Washington Huskies’ shocking $2 million NIL player payment shows they’re ready for Big Ten Washington Huskies men’s basketball wasted little time hiring a new head coach after firing Mike Hopkins late in the season. The program identified Danny Sprinkle as their top candidate after his tremendous debut season leading Utah State, a...2024
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