NCAA Basketball NewsWednesday, Feb 18, 2026

The Rookie of the Year race has narrowed, and it has taken a familiar turn. Former Duke teammates Cooper Flagg and Kon Knueppel are separating from the rest of the rookie class, and the debate is no longer about who belongs in the conversation. It is about who gets the edge. Flagg has been exactly […] The post Kon Knueppel vs. Cooper Flagg is the Rookie of the Year debate we didn’t expect appeared first on Hoops Wire .

Keyshawn Hall, Auburn's leading scorer who is averaging 20.7 points a game, is out indefinitely after failing to "live up to the standards and expectations of our program," Tigers coach Steven Pearl told reporters on Tuesday.

On Tuesday night, in the debut of Kansas State interim coach Matthew Driscoll, the Wildcats improved to 11-15, 2-11 in the Big 12, never trailing in a dominant 90-74 win over Baylor at Bramlage Coliseum, days after previous coach Jerome Tang was fired.

Memphis has dismissed Hasan Abdul Hakim for what coach Penny Hardaway described as "repeated violations of team rules." Zach Davis has been reinstated after both players were suspended indefinitely last week.

The Iowa athletic department apologized for a security breach that allowed an individual to approach Nebraska coach Fred Hoiberg in the handshake line.

With a little less than a month away from Selection Sunday, Andy Katz has revealed his newest bracket predictions. Michigan, UConn, Arizona and Duke still get the No. 1 seeds as Purdue climbs back up as a No. 2 seed. Take a look at his newest predicted 68-team field

History tells us you should pick at least two No. 1 seeds to reach the Final Four in the NCAA men's basketball tournament.

The odds of filling out a perfect NCAA bracket are about 1 in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808. That’s 9.2 quintillion and 23 percent less than the chance of picking one of the 7.5 quintillion grains of sand on the planet we picked at random.

SportsLine's model simulated Georgia Bulldogs vs. Kentucky Wildcats 10,000 times and revealed picks for Tuesday's SEC matchup

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Robert McCray V scored 18 of his 27 points in the second half, Alex Steen had 13 points and eight rebounds, and Florida State rallied in the second half to beat Boston College 80-72 on Tuesday night. Florida State trailed by 14 points, 59-45, with 11 minutes remaining before making 11 of its final 14 shots. Lajae Jones grabbed an offensive rebound and put it in with 2:33 remaining in the second half to give Florida State its first lead, 70-68, since it was 8-5. Then C...

Alex Condon had 20 points and 10 rebounds, Rueben Chinyelu also notched a double-double and No. 12 Florida handled South Carolina for the second time in three weeks, 76-62 on Tuesday night. Chinyelu finished with 15 points and 17 boards for his 16th double-double of the season. The Gators won their sixth consecutive game and improved to 11-1 since losing at Missouri to open Southeastern Conference play.

DALLAS (AP) — Jaron Pierre Jr. scored 25 points and Boopie Miller had 23 points with nine assists as SMU beat No. 21 Louisville 95-85 on Tuesday night, ending the Cardinals' five-game winning streak. SMU (18-8, 7-6 Atlantic Coast Conference) went ahead to stay on Miller's short floater in the lane with 6:19 left that broke a 76-all tie. That was the second of six consecutive made field goals by the Mustangs, including a pair of 3-pointers by Corey Washington, who finished with 18 points. Mill...