College Basketball

CHICAGO — Ohio State basketball is littered with new faces who left good places. There’s Joel Justus, Ohio State’s new associate head coach, fresh off helping NC State go on a magical run to the Final Four. There’s Jamall Walker, Ohio State’s presumed defensive coordinator, who left Grand Canyon after the ‘Lopes won 30 games. There’s […]

However highly you think of Duke freshman Cooper Flagg as a prospect and player – I advise you to just recalibrate in your head that you’re probably two or three notches too low. Flagg, the No. 1 player in the 247Sports Class of 2024 recruiting rankings and the No. 1-ranked prospect in our initial 2025 […]

In the wake of the Matthew Sluka brouhaha, one question started to ruminate: when will this come to college basketball? There’s always a trickle-down, and this snafu is no different. If the starting quarterback for an undefeated UNLV club can leave the team to preserve his redshirt amid an unprecedented NIL whodunit, then everything is […]

Some people forget Derrick Rose wasn’t Memphis‘ best player through the Tigers’ 2007-08 regular season. The future NBA superstar played second fiddle to Chris Douglas-Roberts, the team’s leading scorer and a first-team All-American. Rose “settled” for third-team honors. Quiet and introverted, an 18-year-old Rose joined a program returning four starters and coming off back-to-back Elite […]

The Pac-12 is rebuilding its conference from the ground up, and the first wave of the multistep plan was to poach Boise State, San Diego State, Colorado State and Fresno State away from the Mountain West. The Pac-12 officially added Utah State as the conference’s seventh member on Tuesday, and those five MWC programs will join the […]

The Mountain West Conference has successfully convinced UNLV and Air Force to remain in the league despite both teams being deep in conversations to jump ship to other leagues, sources told CBS Sports late Wednesday night. UNLV was considering an exit for the Pac-12, while Air Force was fielding interest from the American. After negotiations, the MWC is expected […]

Getty Images Notre Dame made program history on the recruiting trail with the commitment of five-star forward Jalen Haralson, who made his pledge live on CBS Sports HQ and the 247Sports YouTube channel. The No. 14 player in the Class of 2025, according to 247Sports, is Notre Dame’s highest-ranked pledge in the internet rankings era.  Haralson is […]

Getty Images One of the biggest dominoes in the 2025 recruiting cycle will fall on Wednesday when five-star forward Jalen Haralson announces his commitment live  at 7 p.m. ET Wednesday on CBS Sports HQ and the 247Sports YouTube channel. Haralson will choose between finalists Indiana, Notre Dame and Michigan State. You can watch the announcement live in the […]

The Spartans’ 2024-25 nonconference schedule is full of intriguing matchups Sep 24, 2024 at 3:57 pm ET • 4 min read Getty Images Michigan State opens the 2024-25 season on Nov. 4 at home against Monmouth and faces Niagara later in the week before the Spartans biggest nonconference test. The Spartans will play in one […]

USATSI CBS Sports and the Big 12 Conference have expanded their partnership by adding 20 basketball games per year to CBS Sports Network, burnishing CBS Sports’ standing as the home of the sport. The new agreement is a multi-year deal running through the 2026-27 season and is a sublicense agreement with ESPN. CBS Sports already […]