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Top 25 college basketball stories of 2025, ranked: Florida wins title; Duke, Cooper Flagg fall in Final Four

Matt Norlander's annual year in review highlights the SEC's epic year, Sister Jean, Kentucky, Kansas, portal mania, gambling and SO much more

Dan Hurley perplexed by Baylor adding former NBA pick in-season: 'College basketball needs a commissioner'

The two-time national champion explains to CBS Sports why he's alarmed and concerned about the continual lack of leadership in college hoops

Scott Drew explains why James Nnaji will play for Baylor after being selected in NBA Draft

Baylor and Drew are catching heat, but they are far from the only ones utilizing an NCAA rule that's enabling in-season free agency

How Baylor landed ex-NBA pick James Nnaji and what coaches are saying about the controversial acquisition

Here's how Baylor snagged a former NBA Draft pick midway through the 2025-26 season -- and what the fallout means for college hoops moving forward.

Norlander's Court Report: Depth at top of the sport is the best in decade-plus; Dybantsa's dynamite December

We've also got a look at just how down the SEC is a year after posting the best season in college basketball history

Wake up, everybody: Houston is once again a national title contender, and potentially more dangerous this year

The Cougars pushed past Arkansas without too much issue, and vaulted themselves into a deepening class of title contenders

Dribble Handoff: Predicting SEC basketball champion as league play nears: Florida, Alabama among expert picks

The SEC title race is shaping up to be more wide open than originally expected

Mick Cronin quietly signed UCLA extension in May; buyout structure should lock him in through 2030

Unusual at a public university, Cronin's extension this summer was kept under wraps until now. CBS Sports has the details

Norlander's Court Report: Fred Hoiberg's Huskers the feel-good story of season; Boozer-Yax NPOY race heats up

Matt Norlander's college hoops insider notebook also has scoop on Mick Cronin's new contract and good news for the lone remaining undefeated mid-major.

Dan Hurley wants UConn to play one of one of most ambitious nonconference schedules ever seen next season

Hurley told CBS Sports he also hopes the Big East goes from a 20- to an 18-game schedule to free up more scheduling flexibility

Dribble Handoff: Duke, Michigan, Houston among top title picks from fabled top 12 of Week 6 AP basketball poll

For over two decades now, the national champion has come from the top 12 of the Week 6 AP poll

Disappointing Florida can't beat good teams yet, but Todd Golden hopes a change is coming in SEC play

'It's very simple: our margin for error isn't what it was last year,' Golden told CBS Sports after another close loss to a top-five team

AJ Dybantsa arrives as an elite player by leading late BYU rally in win vs. Clemson at Madison Square Garden

Dybantsa's 22 second-half points and Rob Wright's buzzer-beating 3 at the Jimmy V Classic legitimized BYU's hype for this season

Who's college basketball's best team? It's debatable, but 10-0 Duke has top résumé after win at Michigan State

The Blue Devils got their fifth win of the season against a high-major team after surging and surviving in East Lansing

College basketball just had its best November ever. This needs to be the scheduling standard moving forward

The season debut of Matt Norlander's Court Report also power-ranks the Power Five (hello, ACC!) and has more info on the future of Players Era

Matt Norlander is a national award-winning senior writer in his 16th season covering college basketball for CBS Sports. He also co-hosts the Eye on College Basketball podcast and is a college hoops analyst and insider for CBS Sports HQ and CBS Sports Network. In addition to college hoops, Norlander covers the NBA Draft, is CBS Sports' lead Olympics columnist and occasionally writes on golf. He is currently president of the United States Basketball Writers Association as well. Norlander lives in Connecticut with his wife and two sons, is an avid guitarist, amateur drummer and enthusiastic skier. You're happily invited to send him story tips and music recommendations.

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