College Basketball

Auburn lost to Texas A&M in dramatic fashion on Tuesday after a game-winning shot was waived off ... and Tiger fans resorted to throwing their trash at the referees to express their frustrations with the controversial call.

It all started after senior forward KeShawn Murphy put up the heave against the Aggies. While it seemed he got it off within the 0.6 seconds he had to work with, the official ruling was that the shot would not count ... and the game ended in a 90-88 victory for the Aggies.

Tiger fans did not take well to that news ... so as the refs walked off the floor -- they started lobbing objects in their direction.

Stephen Curry has racked up plenty of achievements over the course of his basketball career ... but this is a unique one -- the NBA superstar now has his own highway exit named after him!!

The Davidson alum -- who was named the assistant General Manager for the program in March -- returned to his old stomping grounds to watch the Wildcats take on the Duquesne Dukes on Tuesday.

The 37-year-old helped unveil the new sign during the A-10 conference showdown. While it's hard to say where the honor ranks among his countless accomplishments, he made it clear he found it pretty cool.

Master P's next game hits close to home -- literally -- 'cause his New Orleans Privateers take on his son Mercy Miller's Houston Cougars ... and the No Limit icon already warned his squad how "dangerous" his kid is on the court!!

TMZ Sports caught up with UNO's president of basketball operations at LAX this week ... right before his college basketball squad takes on Houston, the 7th-ranked team in the nation, on Saturday.

It's a father vs. son game of sorts -- Mercy is a sophomore guard on the Cougars ... and P told his team they gotta play hard against him.

Doug Gottlieb went full Bobby Knight Thursday night after his University of Wisconsin-Green Bay squad blew an 11-point lead in the fourth quarter ... tossing a chair as he made his way to the locker room.

Cameras in the arena caught the second-year head coach losing his cool in reaction to Robert Morris erasing a double-digit Phoenix lead in the final three minutes of play with a game-winning layup with 2.4 left on the clock.

Gottlieb disappeared behind the bleachers as he left ... only for a chair to come flying into view and smack against the wall.

A college basketball player got brutally posterized in the middle of a game on Wednesday ... and apparently decided to get even by punching his opponent in a crazy scene.

It went down at the Leavey Center with just over a minute left in the Utah Tech Trailblazers vs. Santa Clara Broncos contest ... when SC's Allen Graves threw down a one-handed dunk.

What made the dunk even crazier is that Graves did it right over UT's Chase Trujillo, who tried -- and epically failed -- to block it. Let's just say Trujillo didn't seem thrilled that Graves made a highlight at his expense.

Dan Hurley was PISSED after the UConn Huskies suffered their first loss of the season on Wednesday ... cursing and ripping up stat sheets in a fiery post-game press conference.

The highly anticipated showdown between two top-five teams took place at a sold-out Gampel Pavilion in Storrs, Connecticut ... where No. 3 UConn fell 67-71 to the No. 4 Arizona Wildcats.

It was UConn's first blemish of the 2025 season ... and Hurley -- who led the Huskies to two NCAA titles -- wasted no time making his frustrations known during his Q&A with reporters.

Top-10 BYU might be without one of its starters against No. 3 UConn on Saturday -- Kennard Davis Jr. was arrested on suspicion of DUI on Thursday.

Davis was involved in a crash in Provo, Utah minutes before noon. During an investigation into the wreck, responding officers had cause to arrest him for suspected DUI.

20-year-old Davis was taken to the police station for further investigation ... and after he was cited with DUI charges and released, he was treated for minor injuries.

Master P wasted no time switching job hats after his viral Verzuz appearance -- and nabbed his first win as the University of New Orleans basketball prez of operations!!!

The New Orleans Privateers men's basketball team are now 1-0 after beating the TCU Horned Frogs 78 - 74, but you'd think Luther Vandross was singing "One Shining Moment" the way they were giving Coach Stacy Holloway a Gatorade bath in the locker room!!!

Coach P was right in the middle of the rowdy celebration, screaming "Ugh" with the players.

Flau'Jae Johnson's made a name for herself by showing off her chops on the basketball court -- and in the recording studio!

The athlete's been able to carve out spaces in both the sports world and music industry, and she's built up a pretty sizable public profile as a result.

We're going to take a look into the basketball player's background ... and see how her comments about a certain political activist landed her in hot water.

LSU women's basketball star Flau'jae Johnson made it clear this week ... she does not want a statue honoring Charlie Kirk on her school's campus.

Johnson gave a loud opinion on the matter on X -- shortly after Louisiana governor Jeff Landry issued a challenge "to the LSU Board of Supervisors to find a place to put a statue of Charlie Kirk to defend the freedom of speech on college campuses."

Johnson responded to Landry's video note with four question marks ... and then wrote in a follow-up post that anyone who supports Kirk should stop reading her page ASAP.

Loyola-Chicago legend Sister Jean -- who became a national sensation as the chaplain and superfan of the university's men's basketball team -- has died.

Loyola University Chicago announced in a statement Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt passed away on Thursday.

Mark C. Reed -- the university's president -- says, "In many roles at Loyola over the course of more than 60 years, Sister Jean was an invaluable source of wisdom and grace for generations of students, faculty, and staff."

Loyola University's got plenty of fans out there, and we're thinking Sister Jean's got to be one of the Ramblers' most loyal supporters.

The chaplain of the school's basketball team announced her retirement in September 2025 -- not long after she turned 106 years old.

We're going to take a look back at what the Sister Jean accomplished during her time with the Ramblers and see what led up to her eventual retirement from the school's official activities.

The great thing about sports is the constant flow of new faces to big teams ... and it looks like Auburn University's got some fresh blood coming to its coaching staff!

Steven Pearl was recently named as the Tigers' new coach, and it shouldn't come as a surprise, because he's been involved with Auburn's athletic program for several years.

We're going to take a look into how the sports figure worked his way to the head coaching position at Auburn ... and how he's not the first one from his family to have worked with the university's basketball team.

Even though JuJu Watkins is in the middle of a huge shoe deal ... don't expect to see her driving an extravagant fleet of cars or flying around on PJs any time soon.

The USC women's basketball star told TMZ Sports out at LAX this month that despite re-upping with Nike for some big cash late in 2024, she's yet to make any frivolous purchases.

"I try to be very smart," the 20-year-old said.

If and when Shaquille O'Neal's Sacramento State men's basketball team faces off with Master P's University of New Orleans squad ... the NBA legend says he wants a whole lot more on the line than bragging rights.

During a chat with TMZ Sports this week, the Big Diesel -- who's the Hornets' general manager -- made it clear he's ready to "put whatever" on the line when it comes to CSUS vs. UNO.

"You tell Master P," O'Neal said, "when we do this game, if we're allowed to put a little wager on it, I'll put whatever."

A day after the NCAA announced it permanently revoked the eligibility of three players due to their involvement in a gambling scheme ... the organization announced it is now looking into 13 players from six different schools for alleged sports betting violations.

The NCAA shared the news in a press release on Thursday, saying that while each situation between the players varies -- the allegations range from betting on and against their respective teams, point shaving and game manipulation.

No identities were given by the NCAA ... but they said it involves players formerly associated with Temple, Arizona State, Eastern Michigan, North Carolina A&T and Mississippi Valley.