Give me Louisville over Kentucky as the top team the next 25 years in the Bluegrass State. Pat Kelsey has something cooking with the Cardinals and this is a team whose future is among the shiniest not just in the ACC, but in all of college hoops.

However, once the ball hits the rim, any player can legally play it, including tapping or swatting it away, making the NBA and college basketball’s “imaginary cylinder” rule not a rule. Touching the backboard while the ball is on the rim is considered basket interference.

The basketball community is heartbroken this week after losing a beloved personality in Tiana Mangakahia. Mangakahia competed in the South East Australian Basketball League and Women's National Basketball League before committing to Syracuse University in 2017.

In a memo sent to schools, obtained by The Athletic and first reported by Extra Points, EA Sports vice president of commercial partnerships and licensing Sean O’Brien said that EA would be pulling out because some schools had decided to work with rival publisher 2K Sports in an NBA game.

Perry, who had been part of the Terriers’ staff since 2019, was officially promoted to full-time head coach on March 21, 2023, after serving as interim coach for the latter half of the 2022-23 season. His hiring came with optimism, as he had helped steady the program during a transitional period.

Australia native and former Syracuse Orange women's basketball star Tiana Mangakahia has died after a battle with breast cancer, her family announced Thursday. She was 30.

That tease came on the same day EA Sports announced it was bringing back its college basketball video game series. The last EA Sports college basketball game was NCAA Basketball 10, although the company brought back its college football game last year in the name, image and likeness era of college sports.