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Isaac Trotter

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College basketball 2025-26 season preview: Sorting out national championship contenders by tiers

Here are the teams that can actually conquer March Madness and cut the nets down on the first Monday in April

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

USC basketball recruiting: Trojans kickstart 2026 haul with prized four-star twins, Darius and Adonis Ratliff

USC is off to a hot start on the recruiting trail after landing a pair of prized prospects

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

The Big Ten is poised to be the best conference in all of college basketball this year, and here's the data to prove it.

Steven Pearl wants to silence pushback to his promotion to Auburn head coach after Bruce Pearl's retirement

Pearl said he understood why Auburn's decision to elevate him to head coach could 'rub people the wrong way.'

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

College basketball rankings: Each AP Top 25 team's strengths, weaknesses and depth chart entering 2025-26

Though hope springs eternal ahead of the season, no college basketball team is perfect

Big Ten Media Days news, nuggets and takeaways: Surprise newcomers, rotation developments ahead of tipoff

The Big Ten, armed with multiple national title contenders and a dozen excellent lead guards, looks primed to be the best league in the country in 2025-26.

NCAA rule giving players a fifth year of eligibility may not be approved in time to help current seniors

Some of the Big Ten's best coaches believe the '5-for-5' eligibility model would uproot roster-building.

Five-star Tajh Ariza commits to Oregon on CBS Sports HQ

Ranked No. 14 in the 2026, the versatile, five-star wing picked Oregon over USC.

College basketball transfer portal reclamation projects: Can AJ Storr and Elliot Cadeau be saved?

Diving into whether these disappointing transfers can rediscover themselves at new schools

Inside college basketball's top preseason battles: Starting positions up for grabs at powerhouse programs

Heated battles at key positions will determine whether these teams are good or great in 2025-26

BYU freshman AJ Dybantsa compared to Paul George by Cougars coach Kevin Young

The former NBA assistant coached PG with the Clippers and had a savvy comparison for his five-star freshman

Bruce Pearl retires: Auburn coach abruptly steps down after 11-year tenure, greatest run in program history

Pearl, 65, has a D-II national title on his résumé, won more than 700 games in his career and is the best coach in Auburn history

Burning scheme questions for Darryn Peterson, AJ Dybantsa and every five-star freshman in college basketball

The star-studded 2025 recruiting class will have its fingerprints all over the upcoming college basketball season

Isaac is a national college basketball writer for 247Sports. He previously covered Illinois for 247Sports and also spent time covering preps in Rochester, Minnesota.

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