Last year, I introduced a new weekly column for the college basketball season called “CBB With Danny Z.” Good news for all my fans (mostly my friends and family), we’re bringing it back this year! While the column won’t be weekly until a little later in the season (when people start paying close attention to college basketball), it seemed fitting …
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The final piece to the scheduling puzzle was put into place Tuesday, as the Big 12 released its television schedule and tip times for the 2025-26 basketball season. While the league announced its conference schedule last month, tip times and TV details were still needed. Now, with the season just weeks away, those details are set. Special Collector’s Issue: “1984: …
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Story Links 2025-26 MBB Television Schedule Big 12 men’s basketball tip times and television designations were revealed Tuesday, as 2025-26 marks the first season of broadcast agreements with five national partners. Games are slated to be broadcast on the ESPN family of networks (ABC/ESPN/ESPN2), FOX Sports (FOX, FS1), CBS …
Read More »Alex Karaban leads UConn men’s basketball over Boston College. What we learned from preseason win CT Insider How to watch UConn vs. BC women’s and men’s basketball at Mohegan Sun Arena NBC Sports Boston Azzi Fudd, UConn get back to business in exhibition victory over Boston College USA Today Live Blog: Boston College Men’s Basketball vs No 4 UConn (Exhibition) Sports Illustrated UConn women’s …
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Kevin Young’s program will start the 2025-26 season as a top-10 team. BYU came in at No. 8 in the preseason Associated Press men’s basketball top 25 rankings, which were released Monday. That is the highest the Cougars have ever been ranked in the preseason poll. It’s just the seventh time BYU has found itself ranked in the preseason top …
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For the first time in program history, Purdue is the No. 1 team in the Associated Press men’s basketball preseason Top 25. And while preseason rankings only matter so much, in this instance, they reflect the Boilermakers’ recent climb into college basketball’s elite tier. Prior to the 2021-22 season, Purdue had never been ranked No. 1 in the country — …
Read More »Purdue is No. 1 in the preseason Associated Press Top 25 college basketball poll for the first time. The Boilermakers earned 35 of 61 first-place votes to top Monday’s poll to begin the 2025-26 season. That put Matt Painter’s squad ahead of the two teams that played in last year’s NCAA title game, with runner-up Houston at No. 2 and …
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Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce (87) catches a ball against the Detroit on “SNF” on Oct. 12, 2025, in Kansas City. Taylor Swift was seen watching the game in a suite with Caitlin Clark.AP Photo/Charlie Riedel KANSAS CITY, MO – There has been a Taylor Swift sighting at the nationally televised “Sunday Night Football” game in Kansas City …
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CHICAGO — Loyola University’s iconic Sister Jean has died. She was 106. Sister Jean, who died Thursday, retired last month after decades championing the school. She became a nationally known figure as she worked the sidelines at Loyola basketball games as the men’s basketball team chaplain. Sister Jean was born Dolores Bertha Schmidt on Aug. 21, 1919, in San Francisco, …
Read More »CHICAGO (AP) — Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the chaplain for the men’s basketball team at Loyola Chicago who became a beloved international celebrity during the school’s fairy-tale run to the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament in 2018, has died, the university announced Thursday night. She was 106. Health issues caused Sister Jean to step down from her role with …
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