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College basketball rankings: The Top 100 and 1 Players entering the 2025-26 season

UConn, Florida and Purdue have four players each in our annual preseason ranking of college basketball's Top 100 And 1 Players

2025-26 CBS Sports Preseason Freshman of the Year: Kansas' Darryn Peterson leads All-Freshman Team

Peterson leads a talented crop of stars ready for their first season of college basketball

2025-26 CBS Sports Preseason All-America Teams: Purdue, Big Ten lead way with college basketball's top players

The Boilermakers have two players to earn First Team All-America honors

Big 12 expert picks: 2025-26 preview, projected order of finish, preseason predictions, top players to watch

Milos Uzan is a big reason Houston is the preseason pick by CBS Sports experts to win the Big 12 this season

Purdue shows quiet confidence it can break through in NCAA Tournament, end Big Ten's 25-year title drought

Braden Smith and Trey Kaufman-Renn aren't satisfied with the Boilermakers' recent showing in the Big Dance

Candid Coaches: If your son played college basketball, who would you want him to spend four years with?

Coaches pointed to Purdue's Matt Painter and Michigan State's Tom Izzo as who they would want their son to play for

Candid Coaches: Do you trust that your competitors will follow new recruiting rules?

Coaches told Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander that what amounts to a salary cap will lead to lots of cheating

Candid Coaches: Who is the best X's and O's coach in college basketball right now?

Coaches told Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander that Matt Painter and Dan Hurley should top this list

Candid Coaches: What percentage of your school's revenue sharing should go to men's basketball?

CBS Sports polled basketball coaches on how revenue sharing should be split among football and other sports

Dribble Handoff: Predicting which college basketball team will have the best 2026 recruiting class

Changing financial dynamics in college basketball are shaking up the recruiting scene

Arkansas AD Hunter Yurachek frustrated with state of recruiting, suggests breaking rules might be needed

Confusion over NIL rules and the House Settlement could force schools to travel in a lane they don't want to be in, Yurachek said

Dribble Handoff: Five mid-major teams that will pop in the 2025-26 college basketball season

These are the mid-major teams our experts believe are in line to make some noise during the season ahead

John Calipari bringing Arkansas to face Memphis will finally let Tiger fans celebrate his great nine-year run

After leaving abruptly to take the Kentucky job in 2009, Calipari will return to Memphis for an exhibition game in October

Dribble Handoff: Duke's Blue Devil, BYU's Cosmo the Cougar among college basketball's top mascots

These costumed icons are indisputably among the best in college basketball

Dribble Handoff: Kansas' Darryn Peterson, Florida's Boogie Fland among splashiest roster additions for 2025-26

These are the college basketball team newcomers we think will have the biggest impact in 2025-26

Gary Parrish is an award-winning college basketball columnist, television analyst and sideline reporter for CBS Sports where he's worked since 2006. He also hosts the Eye on College Basketball podcast for CBS Sports and the Gary Parrish Show for Grind City Media, which is based in Memphis where Parrish lives with his wife and three children. Parrish previously worked at The Commercial Appeal and has been either a full-time beat writer or national columnist covering college basketball since 2002. He's attended each of the past 20 Final Fours.

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