NBA Draft 2025: Ace Bailey’s Mindset Will Help Him Become an NBA Star

We often hear scouts harping on the value of ‘intangibles’ in draft scouting. It can be challenging to measure what that actually means and its value. But NBA players must harbor a certain mentality and attitude to play in the pros. I often conceptualize it through the lens of a player’s ‘wiring.’  Is a prospect […]

Ben Pfeifer  •  23 Dec 2024
NBA Draft 2025: Introducing a Better Way to Order Prospects

The traditional “big board” has been a staple of draft coverage across sports. NBA fans love rankings and debating between prospects, but this often isn’t a prudent manner to analyze the draft. Ordinal rankings are often exciting and flashy but present quite a few problems when it comes to accurate analysis. Every draft features steep […]

Ben Pfeifer  •  20 Dec 2024
NBA Draft 2025: Analyzing an Elite Crop of Future Star Guard Prospects

Even as the NBA continues to supersize and run through taller players, elite guards will always carry value. The proliferation of taller initiators has opened pathways for guards who aren’t on-ball specialists to thrive in the pros. The 2025 Draft class features one of the deeper crops of guard prospects in quite some time. The […]

Ben Pfeifer  •  20 Dec 2024
Rick Pitino says St. John’s Will Boycott Post-Game Handshake

What’s in a handshake? Not a whole lot, at least not anymore, according to Rick Pitino. The St. John’s men’s basketball head coach took to X/Twitter Thursday morning to share that his team will refrain from engaging in the post-game handshake line that has been tradition in college basketball. “I certainly have great respect for […]

Vivek Jacob  •  19 Dec 2024
Iowa To Retire Caitlin Clark’s No. 22 Jersey At Feb. 2 Ceremony

The Iowa Hawkeyes will retire the iconic number 22 jersey of Caitlin Clark inside Carver-Hawkeye Arena on Feb. 2, 2025, before their matchup with USC, the women’s basketball program announced Wednesday. Tipoff is set for 12:30 p.m. CT, and the contest will air on FOX and the Hawkeye Radio Network. Feb. 2nd (2/2) was chosen […]

James Foglio  •  18 Dec 2024
College Basketball Best Bets: Tuesday, November 19 – Purdue, Marquette Highlight Big Tuesday

College basketball is back in full swing, and we’re back with our college basketball best bets.  It’s officially college basketball season, as week three kicks off. We’ve gotten our first looks at the top teams in the country, and teams from across the nation have finally seen some game action in the 2024-2025 season. We’re […]

Colin Lynch  •  19 Nov 2024
Grand Canyon Declines West Coast Conference Invite to Join Mountain West Conference

Grand Canyon University (GCU) will join the Mountain West Conference (MW) by at least 2026, the school and conference announced Friday. The decision comes six months after GCU said it would join the West Coast Conference (WCC) in 2025. Grand Canyon will compete in 17 conference-sponsored sports in the Mountain West Conference “We want to […]

James Foglio  •  02 Nov 2024
NCAA Study Unveils Widespread Online Abuse of Athletes, Coaches

The NCAA has partnered with Signify Group to investigate online harassment of college student-athletes, and the organization released its first online harassment study on Thursday. NCAA partnered with Signify Group using its Threat Matrix service powered by artificial intelligence The NCAA released the complete summary analysis from the Division I championships pilot study, which monitored […]

James Foglio  •  11 Oct 2024
5-Star Recruit Tounde Yessoufou Commits to Baylor

Five-star small forward Tounde Yessoufou committed to Baylor on Wednesday, giving head coach Scott Drew his fifth consecutive recruiting class with a five-star prospect. Yessoufou, 18, chose the Bears over Arizona State and USC after visiting the Baylor campus in August. Five-star recruit Tounde Yessoufou moved to the United States from Benin, Africa, at the […]

James Foglio  •  03 Oct 2024