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College basketball news, analysis, betting tips, rankings. Men's and women's NCAA hoops. - Hoops HQ. Bulldog Mentality: Ronald Nored Is Giving Butler the NBA Treatment In his first year at the helm, the former Celtics assistant is using NBA and G-League tactics to restore a once-great program.
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Bulldog Mentality: Ronald Nored Is Giving Butler the NBA Treatment
Here's what I love about Ronald Nored's coaching journey: He doesn't feel like he was owed anything. He made sure to work for, and learn from, multiple coaches. And he is incredibly humble and respectful of his first Division I head coaching gig at his al
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Recapping a Chaotic Week in the College Sports World
A flurry of legislative and legal activity has turned a normally quiet time on the college sports calendar into an absolute frenzy. In the past week, there has been a frantic push to pass the Protect College Sports Act - the expansive federal bill co-auth
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It's Time For The NCAA To Get Back To Basics
Who has the right to be a college athlete, and for how long? Those are the big questions at the core of the fights being waged inside courthouses across the country, as well as in the halls of Congress. Lost in this conversation is the sad fact that the "
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Ranking the Top 20 Pac-12 Women's Transfers for 2026-27
The new-look Pac-12 Conference on the women's side has a chance to be highly competitive from top to bottom. Of the nine teams, five of them (Gonzaga, Oregon State, Boise State, Colorado State and San Diego State) won at least 20 games last season. Two (G
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That Time When John Thompson Called Me a "Foo"
In the summer of 1981, a few months after I joined Sports Illustrated, I was assigned to the National Sports Festival in Syracuse, N.Y. Well, the story started in Syracuse but didn't really end for me until seven months later when Georgetown coach John Th
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The NCAA Is Making (Yet Another) Big Mistake
Bad facts make bad law. Every lawyer knows the cliché. It means that if you try to enforce an otherwise defensible rule in a uniquely indefensible situation, a court may create precedent that makes the rule harder to enforce everywhere else. The NCAA has
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High School Recruiting Buzz: SEC Wins and a Bombshell Reclassification
High school recruiting season is entering a pivotal stretch. Class of 2027 prospects are packing their schedules with visits, hoping to trim their lists - or make their final decisions - before senior year begins. College coaches are simultaneously preppi
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The Protect College Sports Act Is Back On Track - For Now
Heading into the weekend, the Protect College Sports Act was teetering on the brink of collapse. The expansive federal bill - co-authored by Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Maria Cantwell (D-Washington) and Eric Schmitt (R-Missouri) and aimed at bringing sta
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Top 10 Players Under Pressure in 2026-27
To some degree, all college basketball players face some level of "pressure" during the season. Whether it's an incoming five-star prospect with a ton of hype coming out of high school, one of the top players who switched teams via the transfer portal, or
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That Time When My Plane Caught On Fire
Editor's Note: This story is part of a recurring "That Time When … " nostalgia series that Hoops HQ will be publishing throughout the summer. You can read the previous installment about Bob Knight here. Is that smoke? Because it sure as hell looks like sm
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