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Juke Harris commits to Tennessee: Volunteers are Final Four contenders thanks to Rick Barnes' priciest roster

Tennessee has gone to three straight Elite Eights but never made the Final Four. Barnes is striving to finally have the team to reach the promised land

Duke to play UConn, Michigan, Gonzaga next season on Amazon in groundbreaking TV deal

The Blue Devils are entering into a first-of-its-kind broadcast deal for three huge games that will bring millions in NIL opportunities

Dribble Handoff: The missing piece that Kentucky, BYU and others need in college basketball transfer portal

With fewer options by the day, our staff identifies some of the teams that are one piece away from making a much better roster

Why March Madness expansion is really happening: NCAA unnecessarily folded to a bluff from power conferences

March Madness is going to expand because of soft threats and endless greed from the power conferences, Matt Norlander argues

NCAA to expand March Madness men's and women's college basketball tournaments to 76 teams in 2027

The NCAA Tournament is set to soon get an official major makeover, despite being a widely unpopular idea, sources told CBS Sports

College basketball coaching carousel grades, four years later: The best and worst from the 2022 hiring cycle

The fairest way to grade is to let time do its thing. Matt Norlander looks back at the hirings from four years ago and hands out appraisals

Off and running: College basketball's best Year 1 coaches for the 2025-26 season

It sure seems like the NIL era is bringing about more immediate success stories in college basketball than ever before

If Billy Donovan waits, he could reshape next year's college basketball coaching carousel

Kentucky, Kansas and Florida could all potentially be impacted if Donovan sits out this summer's NBA hiring cycle

Val Ackerman retires: Big East commissioner caps one of most important executive careers in basketball history

Thirteen years ago the Big East needed saving. Then Ackerman took the job and made sure a proud basketball league wouldn't fade away

Braylon Mullins is back: UConn G whose epic 3-pointer beat Duke in Elite Eight returning for sophomore season

Dan Hurley keeps another key piece, which should again give UConn a chance to be among college basketball's best teams

Michigan just won the title ... so why doesn't it feel like it? Why portal pressures spoil the shining moments

So much for the afterglow: Dusty May opens up to CBS Sports on what it's like to win it all in the hyper-transfer era

List of college basketball national players of the year, All-Americans: CBS Sports' archive of award-winners

Our comprehensive archive of college hoops All-Americans, Players, Freshmen and Coaches of the Year dating back to the mid-2000s

Michigan won the NCAAs because Dusty May understood better than anyone else how to build a monster portal team

Michigan validated a new roster-building mode, produced one of the most dominant teams in modern history and may have set the blueprint for what comes next

2026 Final Four TV schedule, announcers: Where to watch NCAA Tournament, tipoff times for March Madness

The complete television and streaming schedule for how to watch March Madness 2026

North Carolina to hire Michael Malone as next basketball coach: Led Nuggets to NBA title in 2022-23

The Tar Heels have landed an unexpected hire as their next coach

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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