When Coach Mark Pope built his 2025-26 Kentucky basketball roster, he made a 'team' and didn't just add as many star players as he could, like some programs do.

Mocked as ‘mop boy,’ Daniel Sung turned a year of college basketball grunt work into a dream NBA internship, LinkedIn fame, and multiple startup offers at just 19.

With college basketball's return a mere 101 days away, here are 101 nuggets, including the best offenses, defenses, cotenders (and pretenders), newcomers and way more.

Penn State men's basketball has announced three games on its 2025-26 schedule, none of which is at the Bryce Jordan Center. The Nittany Lions will return to Philadelphia in November to face La Salle as part of the Basketball on Broad Autumn Invitational.

The sports of stockcar racing and women’s basketball are crossing paths again this weekend in Daytona at the Coke Zero Sugar 400, where LSU superstar guard Flau’Jae Johnson will wave the green flag as the race’s honorary starter.

College basketball's 2025 signing class could pass for a United Nations summit. A year after 38 foreign players joined power-conference programs directly from overseas outfits, over 70 international prospects -- and perhaps even 80 or more -- are expected to be on their way to the high-major ranks once the final touches have been put on the game's 2025-26 rosters.

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University of Nebraska basketball star Deng Mayar tragically died Saturday in a shocking drowning incident. He was 22. The Omaha forward got into trouble while he was swimming with a friend at the

Deng Mayar, a 22-year-old rising college basketball star who recently transferred to Omaha from North Dakota, died last weekend in Utah in a tragic accident.

Officials at the University of Nebraska at Omaha said Sunday that the 22-year-old who died was a men’s basketball player. The university identified him as Deng Mayar, although Herriman police previously said his name was Deng Ador. Police said he drowned Saturday at the reservoir.

University of Nebraska-Omaha men's basketball forward Deng Mayar, also known as Deng Ador, has died after drowning in a Utah reservoir. He was 22.

A similar vision has started in college basketball, especially with the free agency boom. Understanding the type of each player is more important than ever in roster-building as teams try to construct the best teams and avoid pitfalls in the transfer portal.