The Syracuse Orange men’s basketball team is tracking kills this season. Kills, basketball parlance for three consecutive defensive stops, represent a new initiative of the Orange defensive approach.

Yes, Syracuse basketball has only played two games to date in its 2025-26 season. But over those two contests, both wins over non-conference foes, the Orange's defense has been smothering. That's an ...

Anyone who only checked the box score of the UConn women’s basketball team’s 85-31 rout of Loyola Chicago on Wednesday night might believe the Huskies played their best game of the 2025-26 season so ...

For a half, Minnesota took advantage of Purdue basketball's blown defensive assignments. The second half told a different ...

The Texas Tech Lady Raiders continued their impressive start to the 2025-26 season, improving to a perfect 8-0 after a commanding defensive performance at the Hoopfest Women’s Basketball Challenge in ...

CSU (4-1) entered the game unbeaten and high-flying as one of the top offensive teams in the country. Players said this week the focus was to turn around on the defensive end of the court. It didn’t ...

PALM DESERT, Calif. — Tad Boyle wasn’t yet ready to declare it the best defensive effort of the still-young season. But it certainly was another step in the right direction, and with the first month ...

PROVIDENCE – It’s been nearly two decades since a Providence team scored like this in consecutive games. Kim English has cranked up the tempo in his third year leading the Friars, and the scoreboard ...

NASHVILLE—If you squint hard enough, you can see it. The bread and butter that former Florida State coach Leonard Hamilton built his 23-year career at Florida State around was the way his teams so ...

The key defensive stops simply never came. The Colorado State men’s basketball team was unable to ever stop the flow of buckets from the University of Denver. It proved costly Nov. 21 as the Rams were ...