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Brayden Burries' eruption in romp over No. 12 Alabama gives No. 1 Arizona a splash of championship hot sauce

Crimson Tide coach Nate Oats warned his team about Burries before his 28-point outing led the Wildcats to a convincing win

College basketball grades: Duke, North Carolina, Michigan headline top frontcourts in America, re-ranked

A baker's dozen worth of dominant frontcourts have emerged, plus why the double-big lineups have become a trend.

Dribble Handoff: Duke, Michigan, Houston among top title picks from fabled top 12 of Week 6 AP basketball poll

For over two decades now, the national champion has come from the top 12 of the Week 6 AP poll

Trotter's Trends: Top transfer splashes; jackpot or buyer's remorse, fallout for UConn, Florida, Michigan

The vibes behind the portal marriages between high-powered programs and the top-30 transfers from the 2025 portal cycle.

College basketball grades: Top takeaways, red flags or nerd stats for each SEC team post ACC/SEC Challenge

Each SEC team earned a grade after an illuminating first month of the college basketball season

How Iowa State, sparked by an underrated freshman, pulled off an historic upset of No. 1 Purdue

Purdue's 23-point loss to Iowa State tied the largest home loss by a No. 1 team

Purdue vs. Iowa State prediction, pick, odds, spread: Boilermakers meet Cyclones in top-10 clash

Here's what you need to know ahead of a top-10 showdown between Purdue and Iowa State

Duke finds its closer after holding off Florida in final seconds of win in ACC/SEC Challenge

Duke scored a whopping 18 points after timeouts in Tuesday's monster victory, the most of the Jon Scheyer era.

College basketball's national championship tiers: Sorting the best from the rest after November's mad dash

The strengths and weaknesses from the top rosters in the sport are getting clearer by the day.

Grading college basketball's notable lineup decisions: Duke, Arkansas have made right early moves

Lineups are getting solidified for contenders throughout the first month

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.

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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