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CBB Hot seat check: Will things improve at Butler under Thad Matta?

1 week ago | bustingbrackets.com | Joey Loose

A former player, team captain, and assistant coach at Butler, Thad Matta certainly means a lot to the Bulldogs. He began his head coaching career with Butler back in 2000, spending a single season before experiencing more success at Xavier and Ohio State in later years. Matta led Ohio State to a pair of Final Fours before retiring in 2017 and surprised many when he took the Butler job for a second time five years later.
1st-year HC grade: Was Luke Loucks the right guy to take over Florida State?

1 week ago | bustingbrackets.com | Joey Loose

Significant basketball progress came at Florida State under Leonard Hamilton’s long tenure with the school, including three Sweet Sixteen’s and an Elite Eight run in the last eight seasons. After some flat results in recent years, Hamilton announced his retirement and thrust the Seminoles into their first coaching search in nearly a quarter century. Fittingly enough, Florida State landed on a former player for their next leader, naming Luke Loucks to that position three months ago.
CBB Hot seat check: Does Adrian Autry fix things in Syracuse?

1 week ago | bustingbrackets.com | Joey Loose

Things haven’t been quite so brilliant at Syracuse in recent years. Adrian Autry inherited quite the position when he succeeded Jim Boeheim back in 2023 but his first two seasons running the show haven’t gone according to plan. Quite honestly, this has been a rough stretch for the Orange since their surprise run to the Final Four in 2016 but perhaps better days are ahead?
UNC basketball fans are livid with Will Wade after he threw shade at Hubert Davis

1 week ago | bustingbrackets.com | Braulio Perez

Wade is going to regret this. Now that he's over in Raleigh, new North Carolina State head coach Will Wade is wasting no time in spicing up the rivalry with UNC basketball. However, now he's taking aim at Hubert Davis over how he handled minutes for his players last season? Apparently that's the case. Over the weekend, a video of Wade went viral after he discussed how North Carolina mishandled Ven-Allen Lubin and his workload each game.
Seton Hall, West Virginia teams to watch for OK State transfer guard, Arturo Dean

1 week ago | bustingbrackets.com | Tristan Freeman

At this stage of the college basketball offseason, there aren’t many players who are sure bets to play at the high-major level. One of them who has shown it is Arturo Dean, a 5’11 ball-handler from Miami, who has played at Florida International and Oklahoma State. Last season, Dean played for the Cowboys. He started 21 out of 34 games, averaging 7.6 ppg and 3.4 apg in 24 mpg on 39% shooting from the field and 28% from three-point range.
CBB Hot seat check: Is Lamont Paris in trouble entering Year 4 at South Carolina?

1 week ago | bustingbrackets.com | Joey Loose

When the 2022 NCAA Tournament rolled around, Lamont Paris certainly asserted himself as a rising name in the coaching world, helming Chattanooga to the Big Dance with a SoCon championship. Just a few weeks later, Paris was off to South Carolina, taking over for Frank Martin. He certainly had hopes of turning the Gamecocks into a more regular contender in the SEC after just one Tourney appearance in the last decade.
1st-year HC grade: Can Ben McCullom lead Iowa to Big Ten contention?

1 week ago | bustingbrackets.com | Joey Loose

A new era of basketball begins in Iowa for the first time in 15 years as Ben McCollum begins his first season as the Hawkeyes’ head coach. He succeeds outgoing Fran McCaffery, who piled up wins and brought impressive talent to Iowa City for more than a decade, but can McCollum push this program even further in the years ahead? McCollum comes to town with high expectations after what he’s already accomplished in his career.
Way-too-early ranking of all 16 matchups of 2025-26 SEC/ACC Challenge

2 weeks ago | bustingbrackets.com | Tristan Freeman

The SEC/ACC Challenge is a relatively new series between the two power conferences, entering its 3rd season for the 2025-26 campaign. In the first year, the leagues tied 7-7. Last year, the SEC expansion created 16 matchups, dominated by the SEC, 14-2. Only Duke and Clemson won their respective matchups, with the rest mostly blowouts favoring the SEC. The ACC hopes that the next season will be better for it collectively. And now, we know the matchups.
Last signing of transfer portal madness could have Washington back in NCAA Tournament

2 weeks ago | bustingbrackets.com | Tristan Freeman

The college basketball transfer portal brought us a ton of surprises, with so many players coming and going. Among the most notable names were Desmond Claude, a 6’5 junior guard who led the USC Trojans with 15.8 ppg and 4.2 apg last season. Claude opted to enter the transfer portal towards the deadline and had plenty of interest at the start. However, there were a number of twists and turns in the past few weeks.
3 former West Virginia starters who transferred to Kentucky

2 weeks ago | bustingbrackets.com | Andrew Miller

Which former West Virginia players wound up transferring to a bordering state of Kentucky to play at least one season of college hoops in the past half decade? The NCAA Transfer Portal has played a big role in the assistance of constructing the West Virginia basketball program rosters in the past few years in the Big 12. In the past three offseasons, West Virginia has lost over two dozen players to the transfer portal amid roster and coaching staff turnover in Morgantown.