Highly touted power forward Ira Lee committed to the Arizona Wildcats men's basketball team Thursday. "Coach [Sean] Miller offered me as a freshman, so I have a very good relationship with him, and I like the way he runs his program," Lee said of his decision, according to Scout's Josh Gershon. According to Scout, the 4-star prospect is the No. 10-ranked power forward and No. 80-ranked player overall in the 2017 recruiting class. Lee is set to ...

The NCAA released its notice of allegations to the University of Louisville on Thursday, and the result was the opposite of a "got ya" moment. Nothing new surfaced in the NCAA's investigation of the program. The man with the ability to make things much worse for Rick Pitino and his program, former basketball staffer Andre McGee, stayed silent. As a result, the NOA is 20 pages of nothing to see here. Time to move on. This was the ...

Regular season college basketball is just a little over three weeks away, and thanks to the USA Today Coaches Top 25 published Thursday morning, we finally have consensus rankings to consider for the remainder of the preseason. As expected, Duke is No. 1, followed by Kansas, Villanova, Kentucky, Oregon, North Carolina and Virginia. You may disagree with the order, but those are the seven teams most likely to win the national championship. While those 32 coaches got a ...

The first USA Today Coaches Poll for the upcoming 2016-17 men’s college basketball season was released Thursday. The Duke Blue Devils sit atop the rankings, followed by the Kansas Jayhawks and the defending champion Villanova Wildcats. Here is a look at the entire Top 25, per USA Today: Florida State, Iowa State, California, Miami (Fla.) and Dayton were the top five teams in the "others receiving votes" category. One of the initial things that jump out about preseason ...

The University of Louisville received a notice of allegations from the NCAA on Thursday in relation to the prostitution scandal that surfaced last season. Furthermore, head men's basketball coach Rick Pitino was charged with failing to monitor a staff member. Louisville announced its receipt of the NOA on its official website, and ESPN.com's Dana O'Neil speculated that Pitino could face a multigame suspension based on previous discipline for coaches over similar violations. The university has 90 days ...

With one of the best freshmen in the country and a schedule devoid of true road games until the start of conference play, Florida State tops our list of college basketball teams that could get out to surprisingly hot starts in 2016-17. But there's a flip side to that coin, as Michigan State might have the most surprisingly cold start of any team in the country, likely to suffer at least four losses before the end ...

The Georgetown Hoyas found the floor general to lead the offense a few years from now, securing the commitment of 4-star point guard Tremont Waters on Wednesday. Notre Dame High School shared a clip of Waters making his decision: "The feeling I had when I went to Georgetown, everyone pretty much welcomed me into the family," Waters said, according to College Basketball Talk's Travis Hines. "I feel like they’re saying I won’t be there for four years, but ...

The Michigan State Spartans men's basketball team has already been dealt a blow ahead of the 2016-17 season, with forward Gavin Schilling suffering a knee injury during practice Friday. Continue for updates.  Schilling Undergoes Surgery Wednesday, Oct. 19 The team's official Twitter account announced the news Wednesday, noting Schilling suffered a non-contact injury that will require surgery. The team has not provided a timetable for his return. Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo addressed Schilling's injury in the tweet: "This ...

Everything about Florida State freshman Jonathan Isaac screams "NBA potential." Prepare for flashes of exciting athleticism, step-back jumpers and swoops to the rack that mirror star wings and forwards. But also bank on bricks, sloppy turnovers and other signs of underdevelopment.  By June, Isaac should emerge as one of the draft's most polarizing prospects. It seems like a near certainty he'll declare, having previously explored draft eligibility as a fifth-year high school player. Isaac told Bleacher Report in April there ...

There have been some outstanding Wooden Award winners over the past decade, but Kentucky's Anthony Davis tops our ranking of those 10 stars. It's impossible to disregard the NBA careers (or lack thereof) these 10 players have had, but it simply wouldn't be fair to judge them based on what they did after leaving school. Kevin Durant has played nine NBA seasons. while Buddy Hield is still a week away from appearing in his first professional ...