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The No. 22 Spartans open their 2025-26 basketball campaign at home with significant roster changes after last season's Big Ten regular season title. Here's how to watch.

Led by international talent and veteran returnees, Illinois basketball plays tough noncon and a backloaded Big Ten slate. Here's our record prediction.

Sienna Betts, the younger sister of Lauren, will be sidelined with a left leg injury as UCLA starts its season.

After a tumultuous offseason paved by big portal acquisitions, the Big Ten finds itself with rosters poised to claim spots atop the NCAA mountain.

Iowa's 2025-26 women's college basketball season officially tips off tonight with a date against the Southern Jaguars. After securing a seventh consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance last season,

Now the challenge for Purdue basketball's senior point guard is to do it again. It's no surprise preseason prognostications think Smith can. Big Ten media members from the USA TODAY Network selected Smith as the conference's preseason Player of the Year.

Big Ten basketball teams were certainly busy in the transfer portal. We asked beat reporters which transfers will have biggest impact in 2025-26.

Second-year head coach Dusty May debuts rebuilt roster featuring transfer Yaxel Lendeborg and five-star freshman Trey McKenney as the Wolverines start their season against Oakland tonight. Here's how to watch for free.

Believe it or not, the start of college basketball season is practically here. On Monday night, USC will open Year 2 of the Eric Musselman era at the Galen Center against Cal Poly.