Duke enters the 2025-26 season ranked No. 5 in the the USA Today Sports Preseason Men's basketball coaches poll. The Blue Devils officially open their season on Tuesday, Nov. 4 vs. Charlotte at the Spectrum Center as part of the Dick Vitale Invitational (8:45 p.m., ESPN).

From the sport’s top returners to a handful of high-flying freshmen, here are SI’s selections of the top players in the country.

Damon Jones, who played for the Houston Cougars in the 90s, was among those named in an alleged illegal sports betting scheme using private insider NBA information.

As the start of the 2025-26 season looms, Rutgers basketball has put a person in place to prepare for its future. The Scarlet Knights are hiring Saint Joseph’s general manager Rob Sullivan to serve as the general manager for both its men’s and women’s programs, multiple people with knowledge of the situation told NJ Advance Media on Wednesday.

Michael Jordan made his debut as a special contributor to NBC Sports’ return to NBA broadcasting on Tuesday night, saying he’s doing so as a way to give back to basketball.

Kansas basketball won both of its preseason exhibition games. As the Jayhawks look ahead to the regular season, will any players end up redshirting?

Former Philadelphia 76ers star Allen Iverson discusses the one regret he has from his NBA career. It involves Hall of Fame coach Larry Brown.

Court documents in Florida show Heat G Terry Rozier, recently indicted in gambling probe, was also facing $8 million tax lien in 2023, ESPN reports.

In April last year, in a column about the gambling mess ensnaring Shohei Ohtani's then-interpreter, I warned that the pro sports leagues' enthusiastic embrace of betting would inevitably produce a major scandal.