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Nov 3, 20253 min
Rise and Shine: 5 Storylines for the 2025-26 Season
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,...

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Nov 2, 20257 min
One Sentence on Every Top 100 Team
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...

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Aug 13, 20257 min
Lidskin Top 100: 100-91
By Jonathan Lidskin Photo: Alex Carnochan/ISU Athletics #100 Vermont :  Vermont not winning the America East regular season title with...

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Jul 15, 20254 min
2025 Nike EYBL Peach Jam Preview: 17u
By Jonathan Lidskin Photo: nikeeyb.com Every summer, the Riverview Park Activities Center in North Augusta, South Carolina, plays host...

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Jun 19, 20254 min
Tip-Off Talk Players to Watch: Part 1
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...

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Apr 28, 20253 min
Lidskin Lecture: 2025-26 Breakout Coaches
By Jonathan Lidskin Photo: Illinois State Athletics Every year in college basketball, we get teams and programs that kick it into...

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Mar 18, 20253 min
Jonathan Lidskin’s March Madness Bracket Bible: 2025
By Jonathan Lidskin Three years ago, I created this set of guidelines for picking your bracket for the NCAA Tournament. While these are...

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Mar 11, 20251 min
Troy Punches Ticket to the NCAA Tournament
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...

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Mar 11, 20251 min
Wofford Punches Ticket to the NCAA Tournament
By Jonathan Lidskin Photo: ESPN A wild SoCon Tournament concluded on Monday night with an appropriate championship game. For the last...

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Mar 9, 20252 min
Drake Punches Ticket to the NCAA Tournament
By Jonathan Lidskin Photo: Drake Athletics After an NCAA Tournament loss to Washington State, Drake was gutted. They lost their coach...

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Mar 9, 20251 min
High Point punches ticket to the NCAA Tournament
By Jonathan Lidskin Photo: High Point Men's Basketball Twitter Our third ticket to the NCAA Tournament has been decided. For the first...

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Mar 4, 20254 min
Jerome Picks Wave 1
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...

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Feb 25, 20252 min
Rise & Shine: Carolina goes Modern
By Jonathan Lidskin Bob Donnan-Imagn Images Amid this season’s struggles and potentially missing the tournament for the third time in...

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Feb 18, 20253 min
Rise & Shine: Big Ten Title Race
By Jonathan Lidskin Marc Lebryk-Imagn Images One of the best college basketball traditions at this point is a super competitive and...

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Feb 4, 20251 min
Rise and Shine: Norfolk Magic
By Jonathan Lidskin Photo: NSU Athletics Since taking over at Norfolk State over a decade ago, Robert Jones has built quite the resumé....

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Jan 25, 20252 min
Rise and Shine: Things Heating Up
By Jonathan Lidskin Hannah Mattix/News Sentinel As the end of January approaches, more eyes get on college basketball each week. For the...

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Jan 14, 20253 min
Rise and Shine: Cronin Chronicles
By Jonathan Lidskin AP Photo/Terrance Williams If you’ve watched college basketball long enough, you know that the outlook of a...

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Jan 12, 20252 min
Rise and Shine: Saturday, January 11 Recap
By Jonathan Lidskin Wesley Hale-Imagn Images Another wild Saturday in college hoops has come and gone, and as always, we have tons of...

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Jan 9, 20252 min
Rise and Shine: Aggies Evolution
By Jonathan Lidskin Kyle Phillips/AP Photo There are 364 teams in college basketball this season. Let’s say that on November 3rd, 2024,...

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Dec 17, 20242 min
Rise and Shine: Louisiana Tech makes a statement
By Jonathan Lidskin Photo: Louisiana Tech Athletics Every night in college basketball, you can find a great game. Monday night was no...

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Dec 15, 20243 min
Rise and Shine: Signature Saturday Winners
By Jonathan Lidskin Ben Jackson - Getty Images December 14th was a day college basketball fans had circled on their calendars for a long...

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Dec 5, 20242 min
Rise and Shine: SEC Dominates
By Jonathan Lidskin For a long time, the SEC was the dominant football superpower. It still is, but that’s what the conference was known...

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Dec 2, 20242 min
Rise and Shine: ACC-SEC Challenge
By Jonathan Lidskin For the second time ever, Tuesday and Wednesday will mark the ACC-SEC challenge. Last year, there were 14 matchups,...

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Nov 26, 20242 min
Rise and Shine: Maui Madness
By Jonathan Lidskin Well, there are a lot of words to describe what happened in Maui on Monday. I’ve been watching college basketball...

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