Purdue basketball's Braden Smith concluded his junior season averaging 15.8 points, 8.7 assists, 4.5 rebounds and 2.2 steals. For that, Smith was a consensus All-American and the Big Ten Player of ...

Each year, the Naismith Men's College Player of the Year award is given to the nation's best men's college basketball player ... Purdue 1995: Joe Smith, Maryland 1996: Marcus Camby, Massachusetts ...

The Newport, Maine, native became the eighth Duke player to win the award, joining legends including Christian Laettner (1992), Shane Battier (2001) and J.J. Redick (2006). He is just the fourth ...

Flagg, a freshman forward, was named the John R. Wooden Award winner as the nation's top men's player, beating ... Mark Sears of Alabama and Braden Smith of Purdue. Watkins, a sophomore guard ...

Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images A new group of basketball ... Bird retired after the 2022 season as one of the best women's basketball players to ever lace up the sneakers. She is also one of ...

A three-time state championship-winning point guard and two state championship coaches headline the 2024-25 All-Observer boys’ high school basketball team. The 30-member team includes the top 20 ...

On Friday, Duke superstar Cooper Flagg met NBA legend Julius Erving, popularly known as "Dr. J," in San Antonio ... his favorite player. He started following college basketball after Angel ...

Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File) Duke forward Cooper Flagg (2) reacts after Duke beat Alabama in an Elite Eight round NCAA college basketball tournament game, Saturday, March ...

Smith reacted to the Cougars' win shortly after ... having been unsuccessful in their two previous attempts. Three players scored in double-digits in the win over Duke. LJ Cryer led the way ...

Purdue basketball's Braden Smith concluded his junior season averaging 15.8 points, 8.7 assists, 4.5 rebounds and 2.2 steals. For that, Smith was a consensus All-American and the Big Ten Player of ...

the Titans’ Cam Appenzeller and the Bullets’ Carson Doran are The State Journal-Register's Boys Basketball Players of the Year for 2025. Doran is the SJ-R's small school player while Appenzell ...

Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz sat down with the ESPN commentator and former National Player of the Year to discuss the evolving landscape of college basketball ... as a whole. Jay joined Yahoo ...