Welcome to the Hotline’s early forecast for the 2024-25 season — a season notable in two specific regards: — The new conference configurations, which will include: USC, UCLA, Oregon and…
College basketball outlook: Duke, UConn, Baylor top our early men’s top 25 for the 2024-25 season
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We could plunge into the weeds of Arizona’s latest NCAA Tournament exit, but all the ghastly losses strewn across the Sonoran landscape — the hides of March, so to speak…
It wasn’t just the teams from the West Coast. Or from the Pacific Time Zone. Or from west of the Rockies. Nope, the entire western half of the country was…
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Gonzaga reached the Sweet 16 for the ninth consecutive year, the longest active streak in the country, but little about this journey is familiar. Halfway through the season, the Zags…
*** The sixth-seeded Cougars committed one of March’s greatest sins, allowing a lower seed and major underdog to gain early confidence and establish the tone and tempo. The No. 11…
The short list of betting favorites for the NCAA Tournament is actually tiny. Only three of the 68 teams have single-digit odds, with the defending champion, Connecticut, as the betting…
The western third of the country has not produced a national champion since Arizona was the last team standing back in 1997 — so long ago that Rick Majerus was…
