Brendan Marks

5 days ago | nytimes.com | Brendan Marks

Coach's challenges may be coming to college basketball as soon as next season. The NCAA Men's Basketball Rules Committee on Friday proposed granting coaches one challenge per game to review "out-of-bounds calls, basket interference/goaltending and whether a secondary defender was in the restricted-area arc." Coaches would need to have a timeout to request a challenge, and if a challenge is successful, coaches would be granted another for the rest of the game, including overtime.

6 days ago | nytimes.com | Brendan Marks |CJ Moore

Of the thousands of college basketball players who entered the transfer portal this spring, at least 137 of them stand out because of one thing they're all lacking: remaining college eligibility. Take star College of Charleston center Ante Brzovic, for example. The Croatian-born big man moved to America in 2020 and enrolled at Division II Southeastern Oklahoma State University. He redshirted his first season when he wasn't academically eligible because he barely spoke English.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Brendan Marks

UConn forward Alex Karaban - the lone remaining starter from the Huskies' back-to-back national championship teams in 2023 and 2024 - is returning to school for his senior season, he announced Tuesday. "I pride myself on accepting challenges and holding myself to the highest standard," Karaban said in a statement.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Brendan Marks

Duke freshman Khaman Maluach - one of two every-game starters for the Blue Devils, and a key piece of the team's Final Four run - has officially declared for the NBA Draft, the school announced Sunday. The 7-foot-2 Maluach - who was born in South Sudan but grew up in Uganda before joining the NBA Academy Africa - is a projected lottery pick and one of the best bigs available in this class.

3 weeks ago | spokesman.com | Brendan Marks

College basketball players have until Tuesday to enter the transfer portal, and there undoubtedly will be more entrants leading up to that deadline. But by and large? The hay’s already in the barn. With the portal having been open a month, it shouldn’t be surprising that most of the best available players are already accounted for. Fifteen of The Athletic’s top 20 transfers have found new homes.