Editor’s note: All week, The Athletic is looking back at the best of the first 25 years of the 2000s in men’s college ...

Seven teams that won it all since 2000 do not appear — meaning seven others that fell short of winning a national title made ...

To be clear, the Champions Classic has been great before and, honestly, every year without exception since it started in 2011. It gave us No. 1 vs. No. 2, and No. 4 vs. No. 5, in 2013.

The Champions Classic pits No. 1 Michigan State vs. No. 2 Kentucky and No. 3 Kansas vs. No. 4 Duke. Thanks, college basketball for a Final Four preview.

When ESPN announced the location and schedule for the 2023 edition in late 2022, it said the Champions Classic is among the top-watched basketball matchups of the year, averaging 1.7 million ...

The Champions Classic and a pair of tough non-conference tests for no. 1 Gonzaga highlight the must-watch NCAA basketball games of the week. The opening week of the college basketball season is in ...

What better way to start the 2019-20 men's college basketball season than with the Top Four teams in the AP poll — No. 1 Michigan State, No. 2 Kentucky, No. 3 Kansas and No ...

The two historic college basketball programs will meet at the United Center in the Champions Classic on Nov. 14 and following that matchup, No. 1 Kansas will take the floor in the same arena to ...

The last college basketball game to top it was a North Carolina-Duke game on ESPN in 2008 which had 5.61 million viewers. No other college basketball game had eclipsed 5 million viewers since then ...

The Maui Invitational and Coaches Vs. Cancer Classic are both household names, but neither sits atop this list of the 10 best preseason tournaments.