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John Fanta

New Jersey

Freelance Broadcaster and Reporter at Freelance

@CBBONFOX Broadcaster and Reporter. Host of @BIGEAST Shootaround. Commentary on @TheFieldof68. Cleveland diehard!

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  • 1 week ago | foxsports.com | John Fanta

    Life continues to be swell inside Mackey Arena in West Lafayette. Purdue will once again have a national player of the year front-runner and the best returning guard in the sport as Braden Smith announced that he will be back for his senior season. The winner of the Bob Cousy Award and the Big Ten Player of the Year, the 6-foot Smith has gone from a three-star recruit out of high school to a consensus first-team All-American.

  • 2 weeks ago | foxsports.com | John Fanta

    A transition plan is in place at Creighton when the Bluejays' all-time winningest head coach, Greg McDermott, decides to retire. High Point head coach Alan Huss, who led the Panthers to the program's first-ever NCAA Tournament at the Division I level this season and went 56-15 over the last two campaigns, is heading back to his alma mater and will be named head coach in waiting, sources told FOX Sports on Thursday.

  • 2 weeks ago | foxnews.com | John Fanta

    SAN ANTONIO — College basketball has entered an era where shiny new toys get the headlines. The programs that are able to land the top players from the transfer portal are typically viewed as big offseason winners and, as a result, generate more buzz than others entering a new season.

  • 2 weeks ago | foxsports.com | John Fanta

    It's the golden moment of the Todd Golden era, and it comes in the 39-year-old's third season at the helm. The Florida Gators fittingly continued the theme of their tournament run, coming back for a third straight game -- this time from 12 down -- to stun Houston, 65-63, and win the program's first national championship since 2007.

  • 2 weeks ago | foxsports.com | John Fanta

    College basketball has become a year-round sport, which means it's never too early to start talking about next season. The transfer portal is loaded with over 1,700 names, while the coaching carousel brought several fascinating moves between Sean Miller heading to Texas, Darian DeVries taking over at Indiana, Buzz Williams heading to Maryland, former Terps coach Kevin Willard went to Villanova, and so much more.

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John Fanta
John Fanta @John_Fanta
12 Apr 25

The New York Knicks have gone 50-31 in the regular season and will be the 3-seed in the East. They went 50-23 against teams not named the Cavs and Celtics. They could not defeat either of the top two teams in the regular season and lost a 23-point lead to Cleveland tonight.

John Fanta
John Fanta @John_Fanta
12 Apr 25

RT @B1GMBBall: "His teams are going to fight you tooth and nail, and they are going to find ways to win." @John_Fanta on what to expect fr…

John Fanta
John Fanta @John_Fanta
12 Apr 25

This was fun!

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