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College basketball grades: Assessing early returns on offseason promises from UNC, UConn, more top contenders

Through two weeks, how have some of the lofty proclamations aged for UConn, North Carolina, NC State, Kentucky and Iowa State?

Nights like these are why Alabama's Labaron Philon made last-minute decision to return to school

Minutes after KO'ing Illinois, Philon and Nate Oats detailed the May phone call that flipped the script and changed the trajectory for Alabama's 2025-26 hopes.

Trotter's Trends: Jaden Bradley is Arizona's Mr. Clutch, Alex Karaban's silent masterpiece, top stat nuggets

Superstars who have added different layers to their games and the Saint Louis Billikens are included in this week's edition of top trends

First assessments of college basketball's top portal hauls: Grades for Kentucky, St. John's and more

Handing out grades for how some of the top-rated transfer portal classes have fared early in the 2025-26 college basketball season

With Kylan Boswell and Andrej Stojakovic blossoming, Illinois is primed to contend after win over Texas Tech

The short-handed Illini showed its blueprint to build a contender with Tuesday's 81-77 win over No. 11 Texas Tech, despite JT Toppin's 35-point eruption.

Trotter's Trends: An early look at the contenders and darkhorses in fierce Freshman of the Year races

Here's a handicap of the Freshman of the Year races in the five high-major leagues.

Put Caleb Wilson among nation's top freshmen as well after UNC's win vs. Kansas in early blue-blood battle

Wilson led No. 25 Tar Heels over the No. 19 Jayhawks in a marquee matchup between two of college basketball's biggest brands

First impressions from college basketball's openers: What's up with Kentucky? The good and not-so-good

Here's what we learned from an opening barrage of games and a look ahead at a weekend loaded with tasty matchups.

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

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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