Five-star guard Jasper Johnson — the No. 12 player in the 2025 class — has committed to Kentucky, giving Mark Pope his first five-star commit as the Wildcats’ coach. Johnson picked UK over North Carolina and Alabama. In some ways, Johnson committing to the Cats seemed like a foregone conclusion: His father, Dennis, was a...
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Coaches Reveal Top NIL Programs in College Basketball
CBS Sports’ Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander recently conducted their annual Candid Coaches series, spending a month surveying over 100 Division I men’s basketball coaches. The goal? To gauge which programs are making the biggest waves with their Name Image Likeness (NIL) situations based on what coaches hear and encounter on the recruiting trail. The...
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Coaches believe Kentucky has a top-five NIL situation in college basketball
We know the Mark Pope hire reenergized Kentucky boosters, NIL support coming in quickly to help the first-year coach build his first roster in Lexington ahead of the 2024-25 season. How does the program’s NIL situation stack up with the rest of college basketball moving forward, though? Opposing college coaches believe UK will continue to...
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Basketball: Plymouth City Patriots withdraw from new season
“Keeping a professional team in Plymouth, for everyone in Devon and Cornwall, has been the main focus of everyone involved with the club and it is with great sadness that we are not able to operate in the new season.” The Patriots were building towards their fourth season, having replaced the Plymouth Raiders in 2021...
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Second top-flight British basketball team bought by new investors
Manchester Giants are set to be replaced in British basketball by the new US-owned franchise The Manchester franchise set to play in Britain’s new Super League Basketball has been bought by the US-based Sherwood Family Investment Office. The group is run by private equity veteran Ned Sherwood and Ben Pierson and will own both the...
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Top 25 HS basketball prospect commits to UK
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WYMT) – Scott County native Malachi Moreno is staying in the bluegrass state. The 6′11 center, who is listed as the 25th-ranked prospect in the class of 2025 according to 247sports, picked Kentucky over Indiana, Louisville, Arkansas and Ohio State among others in an announcement on Friday. Moreno, who is a four-star prospect,...
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7-footer Malachi Moreno, top-25 overall recruit, stays home and chooses Kentucky
Malachi Moreno, the No. 1 ranked center in the On3 Industry Rankings, will stay home for college and has committed to the Kentucky Wildcats, he told On3. The 7-foot rising senior out of Georgetown (Ky.) Great Crossing is the top-ranked player in the state of Kentucky for the 2025 class. He chose to play for...
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Karl-Anthony Towns experienced ‘best basketball of my career’ at Kentucky: “It’s a brotherhood.”
At 28 years old, Karl-Anthony Towns has already become a four-time NBA All-Star, two-time All-NBA member, NBA Rookie of the Year, NBA All-Rookie First Team honoree and NBA Three-Point Contest champion, racking up 13,121 career points, 6,216 rebounds and 1,815 assists across nine seasons in the league. Averaging at least 20.6 points and 8.9 rebounds...
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Updated FIBA basketball rankings: USA stays at No. 1 while Canada rises, Australia falls after 2024 Olympics | Sporting News United Kingdom
After winning a fifth consecutive Olympic gold medal, the United States men’s national team remains atop the FIBA World Rankings. While things remain the same at the top spot, there is plenty of movement throughout the latest rankings. Most notably, Serbia and France moved up after podium finishes at the Paris Games. Canada also jumped...
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Coaches don’t view Kentucky among top college basketball teams entering 2024-25
College coaches do not view Kentucky as a top contender entering Mark Pope’s debut season in Lexington, adding fuel to the fire for the Wildcats going into 2024-25. Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander of CBS Sports polled over 100 Division I men’s coaches in the last month, exchanging their unfiltered opinions for anonymity. Among the questions...
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USA top Paris 2024 medal table after dramatic late victory in women’s basketball
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Olympic basketball: USA top Paris medal table after dramatic women’s win against France
The United States snatched top spot in the 2024 Olympic medal table as their women’s basketball team earned a thrilling victory over hosts France to win the final gold on offer in Paris. The fearsome US team were in danger of one of the all-time Olympic upsets but won 67-66 to take gold for a...