Prized center prospect Nick Richards announced Thursday he's planning to continue his basketball career at Kentucky. Evan Daniels of Scout.com passed along word of the rising star's selection of the Wildcats. He chose Kentucky over Syracuse and Arizona, per Daniels. Richards is a 5-star prospect who rates as the No. 17 overall recruit in the 2017 class, according to the Scout player rankings. He's also listed as the seventh-best center among the incoming group and the top ...

The Big 12 Conference is known for a lot of things in college basketball and not just the Kansas dominance at the top or that it's name doesn't match its number of teams. Those facts still apply, but they only begin to tell the story of one of the country's most balanced leagues. Nine of the 10 schools have been in the NCAA tournament at least once in the last three seasons, with five of them ...

Are you ready? Because here it comes. That glorious march to March has begun. Sure, it's still early. But with that earliness come the introductions and the resetting of goals and expectations. This is the bench from which the benchmarking will occur. Don't you want to be in on that level? You know, the ground level? People seem to enjoy getting in early on something. So here's your chance. I'm just soft-tossing it at you. Take advantage ...

Last year was the year of the senior. The year before that was the year of the freshman.  How are we going to remember this college basketball season?  The preseason narratives have started to take shape, and based off our All-American picks, the freshmen will have a say in how this season plays out.  Scouts and talent evaluators consider this freshman class one of the best in recent years, and unlike last year, most of the top talent ...

It's been a few years since Kentucky produced its last big-name NBA point guard. Everything about De'Aaron Fox's flair and look suggests he's the next one up.  "Does a cow produce milk?" one scout replied when asked if he bought into Fox's NBA potential.  It was only a matter of time before the John Wall comparisons would start popping up for the exciting playmaker with next-level size, athleticism and speed. "They're reasonable," the scout said, citing "physical tools and skills" ...

It has been more than 5,200 hours since Kris Jenkins hit the unforgettable shot to give Villanova its first national championship since 1985, and we are beyond ready to find out what the 2016-17 college basketball season has in store. By now, you've probably read more than your fair share of season-preview content, but there's always room for some fun with numbers. No need to fear, math haters. There's no calculus or graduate-level regression analysis here. It's ...

The Duke Blue Devils are No. 1 in Bleacher Report's college basketball preseason Top 25—just like they are in every other poll you've seen in the past seven months. Unlike most of those other polls, though, we've got North Carolina State in the Top 25, Baylor in the Top 20 and both Indiana and Wisconsin in the Top 10. Voters in the poll were C.J. Moore, Brian Pedersen and Kerry Miller, and there surprisingly wasn't a ton ...

The Big Ten lost a lot of star power from last season, leaving people to wonder whether the conference will be as strong in 2016-17 as it usually is. Gone are Michigan State all-American and Big Ten player of the year Denzel Valentine, as well as three other members of last season’s five-man first-team all-conference squad: Yogi Ferrell of Indiana, Jarrod Uthoff of Iowa and A.J. Hammons of Purdue. However, the conference benefited from the new rule ...

With the early signing period coming this week, it's time to examine the major difference-makers in the class of 2017. This class doesn't quite have the depth of 5-star talent that the class of 2016 had before it, but there are still a lot of great players who could be major factors at the college level. In fact, some players at the top of this list could have a bigger college impact than the class ...

The Southeastern Conference has a longstanding reputation as one of the best leagues in the country...in football. Its basketball renown isn't nearly as strong, and in many years the SEC gets grief for its lack of quality and success. Other than Kentucky, that is. The Wildcats have been a perennial national championship contender under coach John Calipari, but after that things in the SEC get a lot murkier. With the 2016-17 season just a few days away, ...