2023 Big 12 Basketball Tournament Predictions
The Big 12 tournament is going to be the best conference tournament in the country hands down. Looking ahead there are so many good matchups from the quarterfinals all the way to the finals. There is ...
TCU vs. Baylor | CBB Prediction 1/4/23
We have a fantastic college basketball game in the Big 12 taking place tonight. The TCU Horned Frogs are going up against the Baylor Bears. TCU is one point away from being undefeated. However, they h...
Kansas vs. Texas Tech | CBB Prediction 1/3/23
The Big 12 has an intriguing college basketball matchup for this Tuesday’s slate of games. The reigning National Champion Kansas Jayhawks will be on the road at Texas Tech. Kansas has won six st...
12/17 Lukey Locks #FadeThePublic Bet(s) of the Day
I come to you today having been handed a slice of humble pie. I now sit at 1-4 on the year since I started posting picks. It has become clear to me that when I actually post my picks, they don’t...
NCAAB Preseason Top 25 Breakdown
Ladies and gentleman, we have finally arrived to the best time of the year: college basketball season! After the release of the Associated Press’ Preseason Top 25, we are inching ever so close t...
University of Kansas Men’s Basketball Depth Chart Projection
Following Their 2022 NCAA Championship, KUs Lineup Will Look Very Different The instant that the Kansas Jayhawks finished their historic 72-69 comeback win to beat North Carolina in the NCAA Champions...
Remy Martin Could Replicate Donte Divincenzo’s 2018 Final Four Performance
Coming off of the Bench was not a Barrier for Divincenzo Typically, college basketball games are decided by the starters on each team and the bench has a minimal impact on games, especially in the Fin...
March Madness: Big 12 Defenses Dominated the First Round
The Big 12 has Been the Best Defensive Conference All Year On Selection Sunday, six teams from the Big 12 had their names called. Ranging from #1 seeded Kansas and Baylor, all the way down to #11 seed...
March Madness: The 5 Top-Seeds Who Could Win Their 1st NCAA Title
March Madness 2021 Had a New Champion Last year, the 2021 National Championship game consisted of two basketball programs who had never won a National Title before. The Baylor Bears faced off with the...
2022 Big 12 Conference Tournament Preview
The Big 12 is arguably the deepest league in college basketball this year. KU and Baylor shared the regular season title, but there are plenty of others capable of making a run this week in Kansas Cit...
Pre-March Madness: 4 Projected Double-Digit Seeds Who Could Bust Brackets
Everyone Loves an Underdog in March With just under a month until 2022 NCAA Selection Sunday, the madness is almost here. Bracketology has begun, Joe Lunardi is beginning to stress out college program...
The All-Kansas Jayhawks NBA Dream Team
The History of KU Players and the NBA There have been 81 players to see the floor in the NBA/ABA coming from the University of Kansas. Of those players, 17 of them are still active players in the NBA....
The 15 Names That Will Shape the 2021-22 College Basketball Season
College. Basketball. Is. Back. Tonight, a new season tips off in college hoops, and quests for the Final Four officially begin. The Champions Classic is obviously the headliner, as Kansas, Michigan St...
NBA Mock Draft 2.0: Draft Day Edition
The big day has finally arrived! Tonight, the NBA welcomes a new crop of young players into the league. Dreams will be realized and franchises will be given hope for seasons to come. I’ve always...
UMASS Transfer Tre Mitchell commits to Texas
The last significant domino fell in the transfer portal Tuesday night. UMASS transfer Tre Mitchell tweeted his decision to join Texas in a move that could shake up the Big 12 standings. The move adds ...
2021 NBA Mock Draft 1.0
The NBA Playoffs are in full swing, and as we get deeper into the tournament, the draft picture will start to look more and more clear. For fans of teams that didn’t make the playoffs, the draft...
2021 NCAA Tournament: Midwest Region Preview
The 2021 Midwest Region may just be the most interesting region in March Madness this year. Headlined by Illinois, the region also contains several teams that could be on fraud watch (i.e. Houston, We...
2021 NCAA Tournament: South Region Preview
The South Region in the 2021 NCAA Tournament has no shortage of story lines. t sees Scott Drew trying to take Baylor to the Final Four for the first time in 70 years. Also we get to watch Chris Beard&...
BigHoppa’s Bracket Madness
I love March. I love college basketball. I love brackets. You could give me a bracket of the worst smells ever and I’d gladly participate. If you know me, you know I love sports. However, I do n...
March Madness Bracketology: Two Underdogs, A Major Upset, and A Cinderella
The time has come yet again to fill out brackets and personalize them like a beautiful painting with your own upsets, underdogs, and Cinderellas… Only to then regret them in hindsight after watching...
2021 Big 12 Tournament Preview
Arguably the most competitive league in college hoops will begin tournament play this Wednesday. The Big 12 is stacked this season, with multiple teams capable of making deep runs in March. The confer...
Way-Too-Early 2020-2021 NCAAB Top 10
I’m incredibly excited to be writing here at Student Union! I thought there would be no better way to make my debut on the site than talking college hoops. Usually around this time of year we wo...
NCAA Tournament To Be Played Without Fans Due to COVID-19
The Impact of COVID-19 (Corona Virus,) has hit this year’s March Madness tournament as the NCAA will be limiting attendance to tournament games. This announcement covers both the Men’s and...
Week 19 AP Poll: Kansas Jumps to #1
In the Week 19 AP Poll, the Kansas Jayhawks have jumped to the number one spot. After defeating Baylor in a top five matchup Saturday, Bill Self and Co. are hitting their stride. Whether Kansas would ...
No. 1 Baylor, No. 3 Kansas set to do battle
The game of the year in college basketball is upon us. Two teams that I truly believe are number one seeds in the NCAA Tournament will do battle for the second time this season. The first meeting was ...
Bet Against Us: February 19th, 2020
Success! 2-1 last night gets us back on track. But February 19th is a new day, so go ahead and bet against us. Dayton saved our asses and covered -3.5 against VCU last night with the help of some clut...
Bet Against Us: February 18th, 2020
Things don’t always flow in our favor. A Notre Dame buzzer-beater victory over the Tar Heels devastated yesterday’s parlay. But it really hit the fan when Xavier and St. John’s decid...
Bet Against Us: February 17th, 2020
I own a career 5-14 record in online sports betting. I’m not good. I don’t claim otherwise. Don’t follow my betting advice. I did not know how to place a parlay bet until today. Knew...
New AP Poll drops, mid-majors continue to dominate
This morning, a new AP Top 25 poll dropped for men’s hoops. With that being said, I broke down some of the biggest risers and fallers in terms of conferences and tournament implications. Mid-maj...
Five must-watch Top 25 games on Feb. 15
College hoops are rapidly winding down as we are just a few weeks away from conference tournaments beginning and tickets to March Madness being punched. Just typing out that sentence gave me goosebump...
Kansas-Kansas State Brawl: A Microcosm of College Basketball’s Biggest Problem
It was a Tuesday night and Kansas looked to be closing in on a 20-point home victory over its in-state rival, Kansas State. Viewers at home were dozing off and the crowd was heading for the exits. But...
Fight at the Phog: Kansas-Kansas State Brawl
On Tuesday night and throughout Wednesday, the talk of college basketball was the Kansas-Kansas State brawl. In the waning seconds of Kansas’ 81-60 victory in Allen Fieldhouse,all hell broke loo...
Luke’s Best Bets: Tuesday, Jan. 21
What a weekend it was in college basketball. Baylor hung on in Stillwater, Florida smoked Auburn, Louisville beat Duke in Cameron, Depaul beat Butler, Houston shocked the Shockers, Seton Hall solidifi...
The Value of Having Parity in College Hoops
Gonzaga has been the AP No. 1 team in men’s college basketball for each of the past four weeks, marking the longest tenure anyone has maintained in the top position this season. Whether the stre...
Luke’s Best Bets: Saturday, Jan. 18
With college basketball in full conference swing and college football officially coming to an end, it’s time to turn our eyes to the hardwood. With games tipping at 11:30 AM today and running al...
Syracuse basketball presented with a huge opportunity in NYC
After an ugly 48-34 opening night loss to then No. 11 Virginia, Syracuse basketball was swept under the rug a little bit. But after four straight wins, the Orange enter Wednesday night with a chance t...
Virginia-Texas Tech: By the Numbers
The 2019 NCAA Tournament has been one of the more interesting in recent memory. It didn’t feature many upsets, but it did feature Texas Tech and Auburn both reaching their first Final Four appea...
Get Rich or Die Trying: Staying on Top
After a 3-1 day yesterday I feel really good going into this weekend. Duke is living on a prayer right now and that was the only loss of the day. We’re gonna keep marching into this weekend for anot...
Get Rich or Die Trying: Sweet Surrender edition
We are finally back and I cannot wait to make more money tonight. I am going to give you all 4 plays for tonight and for the rest of the tournament I’ll give you all of my college basketball bet...
Get Rich or Die Trying: Closing Sunday
After a really bad Night Shift I hope you guys were able to bounce back. Today is the most important day of the week, if you’re up then payday from the bookie is today if you’re down then this is ...
Jayhawks of the Midwestern: The Curse of the Bruce Pearl
Turns out that the Kansas Jayhawks losing the Big XII regular-season title for the first time in fourteen years wasn’t an elaborate rouse by Bill Self to catch the rest of the March Madness fiel...
Get Rich or Die Trying: The Night Shift
Well besides Cincy forgetting how to play basketball, I’m now sitting at a nice 5-1 for the picks I’ve given to the people. The Anteaters were a no-doubter and Texas Tech took a little bit...
March Madness: What We Learned on Day 1
Day 1 of the 2019 NCAA Tournament is over and done, and plenty of compelling story-lines are already beginning to unfold. Here are three of the major takeaways from Day 1 that fans should keep in mind...
Get Rich or Die Trying: March Madness Day 2
We are red hot going into day two. You asked for them, and I gave them to you. 3 picks 3 winners and we are not going to stop. Keep riding with me and by the national championship we’ll all be r...
Bad News: Your Team Is On Upset Alert
Before you call me an idiot, remember I said your team is on “upset alert” not “your team will be upset”. If you want to call me an idiot for that, then that’s your choic...
Conference Tournament Central: March 13th
Ahhh, a new day with a CRAP LOAD of new tournaments starting today and tomorrow. We had 4 conference championships that were controllable, we went 2-2 in those games. Gonzaga getting held to 47 points...
What Happened to The Jayhawks?
It’s finally over. Fourteen years stopped at a screeching halt. Oh well. For the 2018-19 Kansas Jayhawks, it’s time to learn and move on. No longer at the top of the Big XII mountain, doub...
Is Bill Self On The Hot Seat?
Nope. Carry on. While you’re here, check out why I think Illinois has a shot at an auto-bid this March....
Wooden Award Top 20: Part 2
Part 1 – posted yesterday – included some big names and studs who are putting up crazy numbers. Those ballers have earned their stripes. They are insanely athletic and are having fantastic...
#SU25 Basketball: Week 16
The Student Union Difference: #1 team in the country from last week’s poll defeats #3 team, #1 drops in this week’s #SU25 Basketball poll! This week lacked major upsets, but since the last...
#SU25 Basketball: Week (1)5!
Football season is over, but there is some good news: The Patriots can’t win March Madness. But the Patriots of college basketball find themselves atop our first #SU25 rankings of the regular se...
Bad Beat in Norman
Last night some of you bettors may have fallen victim to maybe the worst bad beat of the season so far. To set the stage, Iowa State was favored on the road at Norman, from anywhere between 2.5 and 3....
Silvio De Sousa, Kansas Hosed by NCAA
Well, that’s that. Silvio De Sousa banned from the NCAA until 2020-2021. Held out for all of the 2018-19 season this point, hope remained with the Jayhawks that they might get their big back bef...
Exhibition Breakdown: Kansas Jayhawks
The Kansas Jayhawks have just completed their preseason action with large margin victories over Emporia State and Washburn. Throughout the two games, I saw some really good and some not so good. What ...
#SU25 Basketball: Preseason
It’s that time of the year again! The college basketball season tips off tonight with the Champions Classic taking place in Indianapolis. The Kansas Jayhawks take on the Michigan State Spartans,...
Kansas Basketball Schedule Released- Key Games to Watch
Kansas fans, it’s almost that time. Yes, our football team somehow turned it around to be an absolute juggernaut and probably the best team in a country according to some… (okay, according to ...
Kansas subpoenaed — What does it mean?
Yahoo Sports — The University of Kansas tacitly acknowledged that it has been subpoenaed by the federal government in the ongoing federal basketball investigation, according to a recent response to ...
Jayhawks Have Plenty of Depth in 2018-19, but How Will It Play Out? A Look at KU’s Potential Lineup Combos
The Jayhawks have a DEEP team this year. They have so many different ways they can throw out a lineup. What we’re going to look at is what lineups the Jayhawks can and should use this coming season....
Kansas Jayhawks 2018-2019 potential lineups
The Jayhawks have a DEEP team this year. They have so many different ways they can throw out a lineup. What we’re going to look at is what lineups the Jayhawks can and should use this coming season ...
Will Uber’s Announcement Lead to More Coaches Being Fired?
Everyone knows that to be an elite coach for pretty much any college program you need to be good at two things: recruiting and dealing with/covering up crimes. I’m not saying all athletes are crimin...
A case for Bamba at number one
People have been asking me a lot recently about what I like to do for fun. “What are your hobbies?” they ask me, expecting a normal response of something like “Oh I love riding my bi...
Breaking down Kansas Basketball roster for 2018-2019
Oh, how I miss the Kansas Jayahwks already. After an up and down season, which resulted in so many ups, including a Final Four, it is time to look towards next season. Kansas continues to load up on i...
Kansas State’s Amaad Wainright arrested
Kansas State university has indefinitely suspended Junior guard Amaad Wainright for a violation of the athletic department’s policy, presumably the part where it says “don’t get arre...
Oklahoma Sucks, Nothing Is Real, This is Bullsh*t.
I quit. I just left the Student Union Sports Slack channel. I am a rogue writer right now. This is RIDICULOUS. Besides “5+ turnovers per game” Trae Young, how in the WORLD did Oklahoma mak...
Udoka Azubuike to miss Big 12 Tournament
This is exactly how I am feeling at this exact moment in my life. The evil sharks are swimming, and I’m about to lose my mind. Here is the official statement by Kansas coach Bill Self: â€...
The Future of the Point Forward Position
So there I was, Thursday, March 1st at Quicken Loans Arena having the pleasure of watching LeBron James face off against my very own Philadelphia 76ers. While enjoying my time at the game, the similar...
Beat The Spread: The Triumphant Return
After a solid 4-2 last Wednesday, Austin and I decided to take a bit of a hiatus to celebrate our winnings Wolf of Wall Street style (Coke, strippers, the whole nine yards). Â Actually, not quite, but...
Kansas Clinches 14th Straight Big 12 Title
Excuse me if I get a little emotional here, but, I could cry tears of happiness. For 70% of my life I have rooted for the Kansas Jayhawks. As a fan base, we have seen some incredible wins, amazing pla...
Kansas Jayhawks Craziest Year Yet
YEARSSSSSSSS off my life. Mini heart attacks, a quarter-million ulcers growing in my stomach, stress level to the max, sleepless nights, migraines that are lasting a lifetime. All because of this Kans...
Beat the Spread with Austin and Alex: Saturday, 2/17/18
Well, it’s another big Saturday in February for college basketball, meaning it’s sadly one of the last chances us handicappers have to do some significant damage on the books over the course o...
Saturday’s College Basketball Picks ATS
Photo via Getty Images Okay, bear with me here. I may have started slow, as I enter Saturday 3-6 since I started last week, but Tuesday for me was like an ongoing SportsCenter sequence of “Bad Beats...
Tuesday’s College Basketball Picks ATS
Well, how about that for a rough start? Okay, well it wasn’t that rough. In my first picks addition on Monday night, I went 0-2 in the first two games, although I may add that Notre Dame was c...
Monday’s College Basketball Picks ATS
Picking college basketball games. Is there anything less stable? You might as well flip a coin because college basketball is literally where, as the great Jon Rothstein says, the unexpected becomes th...
Bill Self to shift things up in starting lineup
Big news coming from Lawrence, Kansas. Bill Self has just about had it with this team and a specific individual. This team can do absolutely nothing to surprise me anymore. They can lose in the Round ...
Who’s going to win the Big 12?
We’re approximately halfway through the NCAA regular season and most Power 5 conferences look like they have a solid projected regular season champion. For instance, Virginia is looking like the fav...
Branch Sports Podcast Episode 9: SEC/Big 12 Challenge, Tiger Is BACK
Welcome back to the Branch Sports Podcast! If you don’t know or you’ve never listened before, we are three college students, former college athletes, childhood best friends, and teammates. Two of ...
Oklahoma (-1) vs. Alabama. Trae Young vs. Collin Sexton
The Alabama Crimson Tide (13-7) are set to take on the #12 ranked Oklahoma Sooners (15-4) on Saturday at 1:15 CST. In what could be the highest anticipated matchup of the year for Alabama, two of the ...
Five Takeaways from Oklahoma’s Win Over Kansas
#12 Oklahoma played host to #5 Kansas in a Tuesday night Big 12 match with potentially serious implications on the conference’s standings. After KU held a lead for much of the second half, an in...
EMAW…?
The Kansas State Wildcats have blown past their expectations for the season in a hell-raising Big 12. The past is the past, but don’t look now, the Wildcats are tied for second in the conference...
Devonte Graham; From Underdog to Kansas Legend
Andrew Wiggins, Joel Embiid, Kelly Oubre, Perry Ellis, Wayne Selden, Josh Jackson, Frank Mason all have one thing in common — never winning at West Virginia. Devonte Graham was about eight minutes a...
#4 Oklahoma, Trae Young, Consumed By Octagon Of Doom
Trae Young and #4 Oklahoma went into the Little Apple expecting a fight, but to ultimately come out on top. The Octagon of Doom and the K-State Wildcats had other plans. The Wildcats ABSOLUTELY PUMMEL...
Botched Layup Costs TCU Big in Rivalry Matchup Against Texas
What a horrendous ending to what was shaping up to be one of the best games of the season. I mean what more can you ask for? Two Texas schools going at it, three pointers falling like sorority girls o...
End of an Era? Why This Could Be The Year Kansas’ Streak Ends
In one of the most impressive runs in the history of college sports, the Kansas Jayhawks have won at least a share of 13 straight Big 12 regular season basketball championships. The last time the Jayh...
Washington Huskies Take Down #2 Kansas 74-65
This looked to be a Wednesday night where the sports world was kind of bland, not going to sugarcoat it. I said today to my roommate, “This is the first night in a long time where I don’t ...
Trae Young: Hometown Hero
There hasn’t been much for basketball fans to cheer about in Norman, Oklahoma since Buddy Hield left for the NBA draft a year ago. The Sooners finished last season with only eleven wins and fail...
My First Experience at “Phog” Allen Fieldhouse
Growing up a Kansas State fan, you find out very quickly that you DO NOT like Lawrence, Kansas. I had only driven through that horrific town one time before this Thanksgiving weekend. A lot of people ...
Recent HS Basketball recruits who never panned out.
With College basketball quickly approaching, I take a look at my favorite highly touted prospects from high school basketball who just never panned out. Ballislife and HoopMixtape were the greatest tw...