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nola.com - Toyloy Brown III - LSU basketball reportedly adds a transfer guard with experience in the SEC and Big 12
LSU basketball reportedly adds a transfer guard with experience in the SEC and Big 12
NOLA.com

LSU gained its fifth player for the 2026-27 season The Tigers have signed Austin Nunez, a transfer from the University of Texas at San Antonio, according to On3. Nunez is a 6-foot-2, 185-pound guard from San Antonio, Texas. As a redshirt junior…

si.com - Justin Kontul - Wake Forest Basketball Brings a Fresh Look to the Frontcourt
Wake Forest Basketball Brings a Fresh Look to the Frontcourt
Sports Illustrated

The Wake Forest Demon Deacons have reloaded their entire roster and are ready to start building as a team for the next season. The lone returner, Isaac Carr, should provide some continuity to the guard room, but the frontcourt will be entirely new…

si.com - Ross Abboud - Meet Will Wade's New LSU Basketball Staff
Meet Will Wade's New LSU Basketball Staff
Sports Illustrated

When Will Wade walked back into the Pete Maravich Assembly Center after being hired as LSU's head coach - again - in late March, he wasn't interested in reflecting on history. He wanted to discuss the future. “I got the same urgency,”…

si.com - Tripp Buhler - LSU Signs UTSA Transfer Guard to Men's Basketball Roster
LSU Signs UTSA Transfer Guard to Men's Basketball Roster
Sports Illustrated

Will Wade has added another guard to his team ahead of the 2026-27 season. Austin Nunez is another athlete with plenty of experience who will bolster the LSU men's basketball in the upcoming year. He will be a redshirt senior, having spent four…

si.com - Jackson Langendorf - Illinois Basketball Offers Smooth-Shooting 2028 Wing Enmanuel Valera Melo
Illinois Basketball Offers Smooth-Shooting 2028 Wing Enmanuel Valera Melo
Sports Illustrated

The whirlwind transfer portal season has come to a screeching halt and the final roster pieces have (mostly) fallen into place for the upcoming 2026-27 season, which means one thing: high school recruiting is in full swing. Always working towards…

stltoday.com - Eli Hoff | Post-Dispatch - Mizzou men's basketball's 2026-27 roster is complete. How will the rotation shake out?
Mizzou men's basketball's 2026-27 roster is complete. How will the rotation shake out?
STLtoday.com

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si.com - Connor Mardian - Cincinnati Bearcats Basketball 2026 Transfer Profile: Akai Fleming
Cincinnati Bearcats Basketball 2026 Transfer Profile: Akai Fleming
Sports Illustrated

Under first-year head coach Jerrod Calhoun, the Cincinnati Bearcats lost its whole team to graduation or the transfer portal. Since then, Calhoun's Crew has been nailing down a roster to hit the ground running and make it to the NCAA Tournament for…

sportingnews.com - Rodney Knuppel - Sophie Cunningham's latest recognition shows Indiana Fever are becoming bigger than basketball | Sporting News
Sophie Cunningham's latest recognition shows Indiana Fever are becoming bigger than basketball | Sporting News
The Sporting News

The Indiana Fever have spent the opening weeks of the 2026 season living in the spotlight. That comes with the territory when a franchise built around Caitlin Clark continues to dominate headlines, sell tickets and draw national attention every…

cbssports.com - Gary Parrish - College basketball rankings: St. John's moves up after Rick Pitino lands 7-footer Theo Edema
College basketball rankings: St. John's moves up after Rick Pitino lands 7-footer Theo Edema
CBS Sports

Rick Pitino, like many high-major coaches, has mostly focused on the transfer portal in recent years, choosing to prioritize older and established players over recent high school graduates. The result is back-to-back Big East titles for St. John's.

sportingnews.com - Daniel Chavkin - Victor Wembanyama's 'ethical basketball' comments, explained: Why Spurs star took shot at SGA, Thunder | Sporting News
Victor Wembanyama's 'ethical basketball' comments, explained: Why Spurs star took shot at SGA, Thunder | Sporting News
The Sporting News

The Oklahoma City Thunder and San Antonio Spurs are a budding rivalry in the NBA, highlighted by them being the two best teams in the NBA this season. At the center of the rivalry is Victor Wembanyama, who is not only one of the best players in the…

pressherald.com - Travis Lazarczyk - The NCAA expanded the basketball tournaments. Here's what this means for the UMaine men and women
The NCAA expanded the basketball tournaments. Here's what this means for the UMaine men and women
Press Herald

For the University of Maine men's and women's basketball teams, the goal is always to just get to the NCAA Tournament, not win the whole thing. Maine's women's team has done that 10 times, most recently two years ago. The men haven't reached the…

lakeshowlife.com - Colin Keane - Lakers have crucial non-basketball reasons to re-sign LeBron James
Lakers have crucial non-basketball reasons to re-sign LeBron James
FanSided

LeBron James' upcoming free agency has the Lakers evaluating his worth through multiple lenses (not all of them respectable). There's probably some significant overthinking going on there -- LeBron is still massively valuable, both from a…

wsvn.com - Kevin Boulandier - Students at Belen Jesuit host basketball tournament to raise money for the American Heart Association - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports | Fort Lauderdale
Students at Belen Jesuit host basketball tournament to raise money for the American Heart Association - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports | Fort Lauderdale
WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports | Fort Lauderdale

WEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - Students at a South Florida school played some basketball to promote healthy hearts. High schoolers at Belen Jesuit Prep in West Miami-Dade held a basketball tournament this past weekend as part of the American Heart…

si.com - Bryan Fischer - Big Ten's New Swagger Is Reshaping the Future of College Sports
Big Ten's New Swagger Is Reshaping the Future of College Sports
Sports Illustrated

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. — The Big Ten is flexing, subtly but perceptively. The College Football Playoff trophy sits front and center on a pedestal bearing the Indiana logo at the league's annual spring meetings. It is flanked by two…

rumbleinthegarden.com - Thomas Cavanagh - St. John's men's basketball lands much-needed center in top-50 recruit Theo Edema
St. John's men's basketball lands much-needed center in top-50 recruit Theo Edema
Rumble In The Garden

The Red Storm add the talented man in the middle they desperately had to get, who will re-classify for 2026 Following a series of strikeouts for premier centers in the transfer portal, the urgency to plug the Red Storm's five-spot became palpable…

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