When the University of Oregon announced last summer that it was joining the Big Ten conference, men’s basketball coach Dana Altman knew he was going to be spending a bit more time on a plane. What he didn’t realize was that his team would spend more time this season up in the air than actually playing basketball.

You kind of pinch yourself,” Tauer says, “because these are the nights that are about as good as it gets in college basketball, short of March Madness.” That last part lands hard. The best college basketball story of March is,

The 2024-25 regular season is over, and the AP top 25 poll looks very different from the preseason edition. Then, Kansas was the preseason No. 1, and back-to-back reigning champion UConn was No. 3. Duke and Auburn were Nos.

Pole position is now set heading into the major conference tournaments of the men's college basketball season. The final Associated Press Top 25 poll ahead of the NCAA tournament was released Monday,

Tuesday’s conference tournament action features the most heavily bet college basketball games and teams. Get the latest odds, insights, and betting trends.

Well, this is a little unexpected. It’s my first column of the 2024-25 NCAA Men’s College Basketball season, and just in time for the conference tournaments and NCAA Tournament. I feel like a guy who was on LTIR in hockey yet gets to play in the Stanley Cup playoffs.