Jonathan Lidskin

By Jonathan Lidskin Photo: Andrew Ferguson/Tennessee Athletics The transfer portal is off and running with entries galore. Zoom calls are happening, visits are being planned and NIL figures are being thrown out. Here are some of the early portal commits and my thoughts on the players and fits. J.P. Estrella - Michigan We are just three days into the portal, but I imagine there’s not going to be many portal fits I like better than Estrella to Michigan. At just 17 minutes a game, Estrella had...

By Jonathan Lidskin Chris Gardner/Getty Images I tend to take my March Madness bracket a little too seriously. When you watch and talk about the sport as much as I do, it is hard not to take it seriously. Sam Federman and I have done 98 podcasts this year and counting. We’ve talked about nearly every team in this field at length. Just for a second, I want to take a step back. This is the best time of the college basketball season, but it is also the most chaotic time of the season. The...

By Jonathan Lidskin Four years ago, I created this set of guidelines for picking your bracket for the NCAA Tournament. While these are far from guarantees, they serve as good reminders to use sound reasoning when picking the most chaotic postseason in sports. With Selection Sunday come and gone, here are 19 rules to note when making your picks for the 2026 NCAA Tournament. Rule 1 : Take conference tournament week with a grain of salt 2021 Texas 2022 Iowa 2021 Ohio State 2024 Wisconsin Where I...

By Jonathan Lidskin Photo: Getty Images Warmer weather and birds chirping. Those are two signs that spring is fast approaching. It’s also a sign that soon enough, pens will be clicking all across America as people fill out their NCAA Tournament bracket. Another sign that the tournament is coming? The Top 16 seed early reveal is set to take place this weekend. The Top 16 reveal is a short-standing tradition that has only existed since 2017. Over those years, one of the talking points that...

By Jonathan Lidskin and Sam Federman Photo: Alex Slitz, Getty Images Florida is chasing back-to-back national championships For nearly 20 years, Florida was the last team to win back-to-back national championships, doing it under Billy Donovan in the mid-2000s. Then, Dan Hurley and UConn went in and strutted through two NCAA Tournaments like it was absolutely nothing. In order to be the champ, you have to beat the champs, and the Gators squeaked past UConn in the round of 32 last year,...

By Jonathan Lidskin Photo: Dylan Buell/Getty Images I was not able to keep up with my Top 100 this season. It was unfortunate, but I still wanted to find a way to put out some content about my Top 100 teams. Including the teams I posted, I’m going to write a simplified version of the blurbs. One sentence on 100 teams for the 2025-26 college basketball season. 100. George Washington The return of Rafael Castro could mean a breakthrough year for Chris Caputo’s group. 99. Colorado State They...

By Jonathan Lidskin Photo: Alex Carnochan/ISU Athletics #100 Vermont : Vermont not winning the America East regular season title with...

By Jonathan Lidskin Photo: nikeeyb.com Every summer, the Riverview Park Activities Center in North Augusta, South Carolina, plays host...

By Jonathan Lidskin In the last couple of weeks, Sam and I have begun our Tip-Off Talk series where we preview a handful of teams around...

By Jonathan Lidskin Photo: Illinois State Athletics Every year in college basketball, we get teams and programs that kick it into...

By Jonathan Lidskin Three years ago, I created this set of guidelines for picking your bracket for the NCAA Tournament. While these are...

By Jonathan Lidskin Photo: Troy MBB (X) After 12 seasons at his alma mater, Scott Cross was fired by UT Arlington. Cross won a lot of...

By Jonathan Lidskin Photo: ESPN A wild SoCon Tournament concluded on Monday night with an appropriate championship game. For the last...

By Jonathan Lidskin Photo: Drake Athletics After an NCAA Tournament loss to Washington State, Drake was gutted. They lost their coach...

By Jonathan Lidskin Photo: High Point Men's Basketball Twitter Our third ticket to the NCAA Tournament has been decided. For the first...

By Jonathan Lidskin Photo: Troy Athletics One of the best times of the college basketball season is upon us. Champ Week(s) gives us some...

By Jonathan Lidskin Bob Donnan-Imagn Images Amid this season’s struggles and potentially missing the tournament for the third time in...

By Jonathan Lidskin Marc Lebryk-Imagn Images One of the best college basketball traditions at this point is a super competitive and...

By Jonathan Lidskin Photo: NSU Athletics Since taking over at Norfolk State over a decade ago, Robert Jones has built quite the resumé....

By Jonathan Lidskin Hannah Mattix/News Sentinel As the end of January approaches, more eyes get on college basketball each week. For the...

By Jonathan Lidskin AP Photo/Terrance Williams If you’ve watched college basketball long enough, you know that the outlook of a...

By Jonathan Lidskin Wesley Hale-Imagn Images Another wild Saturday in college hoops has come and gone, and as always, we have tons of...

By Jonathan Lidskin Kyle Phillips/AP Photo There are 364 teams in college basketball this season. Let’s say that on November 3rd, 2024,...

By Jonathan Lidskin Photo: Louisiana Tech Athletics Every night in college basketball, you can find a great game. Monday night was no...