Ben McCollum, the Drake Bulldogs new head coach was the GOAT of Division II men’s college basketball. During his 15 year tenure at Northwest Missouri State, McCollum won four national championships, five Coach of the Year awards, nine other coaching awards and was inducted into Missouri’s Sports Hall of Fame- all while maintaining an 81.2 winning percentage at the university. His most impressive achievement in Division II ball came in the 2018-19 season where the Bearcats went an astonishing 38-0 on the season, winning their first second championship under McCollum. Now McCollum is fighting a different beast in Division I…
Author: Alexander Martin
The Clemson Tigers have collected two quiet wins versus top four teams in the nation: No. 4 Kentucky in Week Six and then No. 2 Duke just a few games ago. The Tiger’s season has been a rollercoaster but they have managed to hang around the AP Top-25 poll throughout the highs and lows. As of Week 15 they sit at No. 23 in the poll because of their win against the Blue Devils. That win versus Duke was extremely crucial for several reasons. First, when it comes to ACC standings, Clemson put themselves in a very favorable position to…
After Week 15’s AP Top-25 poll, the Texas A&M Aggies are ranked number eight in the country, the highest rank the Aggies have achieved in Head Coach Buzz William’s six years at the university. In a jam packed Southeastern Conference, Texas A&M has held their own; they are third in the SEC at 7-3 and have an overall record of 18-5. Buzz Williams has this team humming better than he’s ever had and his down to earth but somewhat cringy motivational speeches may be just what this team needs to make a deep push in the March Madness tournament. …
The Dallas Mavericks are 9-15 since Luka Doncic last played a game for them. Now as shocking as the trade was, it happened and nothing will change it. But when the Mavs organization made the trade that they did, it was to make deep playoff push this season. Because they traded for an older star in Anthony Davis, their timeline for a championship has shrunk and Nico Harrison and company had their made set on this year, locking down a championship this year. But now, the Dallas Mavericks are one game in of the play-in tournament, have six centers/forwards on…
This week’s AP Top-25 poll is a doozy. For the first time in years, the poll includes a TIE. We hardly ever see this and normally it involves some of the top teams in all of college basketball. This time is no exception. Our tie here in 2025 is for the number three rank and it’s between the Duke Blue Devils and the Florida Gators. Both teams had an interesting week but in opposite ways. Duke, on one hand, had won 16 in a row; the longest streak a big name university has had in a long time. They’ve been…
The Maryland Terrapins have officially arrived. After knocking down the Rutgers Scarlett Knights last Sunday, Maryland enters Week 15 strong. Although they dropped their previous game to an unranked Ohio State, they have stayed in the AP Top-25 at spot 25. That’s because the Maryland Terrapins have proved themselves. They haven’t lost a game by more than six points which means even when they are off, they’re still good. Notable 2024-2025 Maryland Games Week 3, Nov 15th, 2024 vs Marquette: In the Terrapins third game of the season they picked up their first loss, losing to No. 15 Marquette 78-74.…
Just a week ago Dallas Maverick’s General Manager Nico Harrison acquired NBA All-Star Anthony Davis in exchange for Luka Doncic. The trade would stir up the most controversy the league has seen in awhile but after all the dust has settled, Mavs fans are still standing shell-shocked as their franchise player just got shipped out of town because he couldn’t get on a diet. That shock quickly turned into sadness, then anger, then rage. It got ugly in Dallas quick. Nico Harrison has received numerous death threats since the trade and has been forced to up his personal security and…
You’d be surprised that the Texas Tech Red Raiders didn’t sniff an AP-Top 25 poll ranking until week 12 while having only four losses on the season. In fact, looking at the Red Raider’s 2024-2025 portfolio, you could argue that they have performed better than several of the top ten teams in the country. Tech currently sits in the 13 spot of this week’s top 25 poll but they could make a case for a higher ranking. Their four losses are tied with or less than six of the twelve teams in front of them, and the Red Raider’s haven’t…
After tying the worst record in program history at 8-24 last season, the Missouri Tigers are on track to inverse that record here in 2025- something nobody expected. Zero of the 93 collective sports writers, broadcasters and coaches across the nation voted Missouri to be in March Madness Conversation per ESPN preseason rankings. Yet the Missouri Tigers are ranked as the 15th best team in men’s college basketball as of Week 14. So what did Head Coach Dennis Gates and company alter in the offseason to flip the Tiger’s script on its head? Consistency Is Key For The Missouri Tigers…
There was a point this season where the Arizona Wildcats were 4-5. After being ranked number ten in the preseason AP Top-25 poll, this was not the start that Wildcat fans were expecting to say the least. Caleb Love and company’s poor start to the season had college basketball fans doubting the Wildcats early on. After being a top three seed in the past several March Madness tournaments this 2024-2025 season looked like a shadow of their former years after dropping five of there first nine games, three to unranked opponents. Not only that but even their losing lacked consistency.…
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has taken his Instagram account and turned it into a creative sketchbook for his newfound talent of writing reflective rap lyrics online. And it’s not that bad either… “Back in the city where I started at. I was in the nose bleeds with the Vince jersey and the Starter cap. Now I look into the stands and see my name, who would’ve thought of that.” You can’t tell me that’s not a bar. It’s crazy how now a days players can walk off the court of a professional basketball game and share their personal thoughts directly with fans…
With only seven more weeks of AP Top-25 poll rankings, each announcement matters a little more. Whether it’s beneficial for player’s mental health or not, each team tunes in every Monday afternoon, hoping to hear their school’s name high atop the list. In Week 14, we have had a plethora of surprising moves in the AP Top-25 poll. New faces like Arizona and Maryland have joined the bunch, undervalued school’s like Texas Tech have leapfrogged their competition and big market universities like Kansas and Iowa State have started to slip. This week of college basketball was filled with exciting moments…
Here in the 2024-2025 Men’s College Basketball regular season we have seen some historic individual performances: back to back triple double games, players recording 20+ rebounds, 20+ assists, even eighteen year old’s putting up forty pieces. We really have seen it all. But today we’re going through the best of the best, eight prime examples of one player taking over a game in a special way. Whether it’s points, boards, steals or all of the above, here are the best men’s college basketball individual games of this season. Creighton’s Ryan Kalkbrenner Scores 49 in Season Opener It would be a…
It’s no secret that the NBA has become more and more affected by load management and the injury bug here in the 21st century. Every year the amount of injured basketball players per week, per season, per team- all increase in average. Mid November of 2024 we saw an increase by 35% of injured players compared to the same time last season. Although the injuries have mellowed out a bit by January, 2025, the numbers are still up and aren’t going anywhere. This predicament has affected every major sport across the globe. American Football, one of the most physical sports…
Cooper Flagg- the unanimous number one pick in the 2025 NBA Draft. He’s been locked into that spot ever since his viral moment versus the USA Olympic Basketball Team nearly a year ago. Flagg joined the USA Select Team, a team consisting of mostly NBA players, in their match versus the starting Olympic squad last summer. This included players like Lebron James, Stephen Curry Anthony Edwards, etc. The select team surprisingly almost won and Cooper Flagg balled out scoring 17 points against the NBA’s best. Keep in mind he was 17 at the time… Since that moment his name has…