🏆 The TOUGHEST non-conference schedules 🏆 Ranking the 15 hardest schedules this season 👀 NOTE: These rankings are metrics-based, NOT subjective, using a formula factoring in opponent quality, elite matchups, game locations, preseason data and more 📊

Sources: The Ivy League has signed a three-year deal to hold its conference tournament at the PPL Center in Allentown, starting in 2028. The agreement will conclude following the 2029-30 season.

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Non-Conference Schedule is set. #PoundTheeRock| #TheeFamily | #TigerBornTigerBredChampionshipFed

Cal has released its non-conference schedule for the 2026-27 season.

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One member of NCAA tournament selection committee to @TheFieldOf68: “The NCAA may not be able to threaten teams that use players deemed ineligible by the NCAA, but I can penalize them and so can other committee members if they want, whether it’s by seeding or even not including them in the field.”

NEWS: Kentucky and Wichita State are finalizing an agreement to play this season at Rupp Arena, per multiple sources. The game will be the first regular-season meeting between the Wildcats and Shockers. The two squads had epic NCAAT 2nd Round battles in 2014 & 2017. #SEC #AAC

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Additional players that have also been granted a temporary injunction, allowing them an additional year of eligibility: Chendall Weaver (Texas) Jason Edwards (Providence) AJ Storr (Ole Miss) BJ Edwards (SMU) Dug McDaniels (Memphis), and more Players have the option to enter the transfer portal, if they haven't done so already.

College sports are not in chaos. What Ted Cruz is calling chaos is the predictable and overdue market correction after the NCAA spent decades suppressing athlete compensation, restricting mobility, and operating as a cartel. The real instability came from the amateurism rules that courts continue to dismantle. Athletes finally have leverage. That's not chaos. Also, programs are not going broke. They choose to pay coaches 8-figure salaries, construct lavish facilities, and run an arms race while using accounting that treats scholarships and facilities as “expenses” and then cries poverty. The same departments that claim insolvency somehow find tens of millions for the next head coach and the next weight room. Fuzzy math does not make voluntary spending a crisis that requires federal intervention. Professional leagues have long treated college sports as a free minor-league system. The NFL and NBA in particular have avoided the full cost of player development. That does not create an obligation for Congress to now reimpose restraints on the athletes who generate the value. Finally, Congress did not create this mess. The NCAA did. Decades of anti-competitive rules, aggressive enforcement against athletes, and refusal to adapt produced the legal losses and the patchwork of state NIL laws. The current environment is the consequence of that failure, not of congressional inaction. The Protect College Sports Act is not a solution. It grants limited antitrust immunity to the same entities that caused the problems, imposes artificial limits on transfers that restrict athlete mobility, creates mechanisms that tilt leverage back toward schools, and preempts stronger state protections. Very little in the bill prioritizes the athletes who built the product. Passing it would not “fix” college sports. It would simply re-entrench the power structure that athletes have finally begun to challenge. Thanks for reading my op-ed.

Source: Providence will play VCU in the first round of the 2026 Maui Invitational.

Reminder: Matchups that WILL NOT happen in 2026-27 under the ACC scheduling policy: - Duke vs. V-Tech - UNC vs. Clemson - Louisville vs. Notre Dame - Virginia vs. Wake Forest - Florida St. vs. SMU - Syracuse vs. NC State - Miami vs. BC - G-Tech vs. Cal - Stanford vs. Pitt #ACC