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Matt Norlander

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Two-way contracts in college basketball? One mid-major coach's bold idea to adapt to transfer portal chaos

Albany's Dwayne Killings has a plan to bring a little more stability to programs decimated by players transferring out

2024-25 CBS Sports All-Transfer team: Texas Tech's JT Toppin earns Transfer of the Year honors

Toppin is this season's CBS Sports Transfer of the Year

Ian Jackson transfers to St. John's: Rick Pitino lands UNC guard who was 5-star prospect in high school

Rick Pitino's Red Storm is reloading and looks to have one of the strongest portal hauls of the 2025 cycle

College basketball 2025 coaching changes: Charlie Ward hired by FAMU; details on Creighton's succession plan

Matt Norlander has information on all 55 Division I men's basketball coaching changes for the 2025 cycle

The $10 million club: College basketball's portal recruiting hits unthinkable levels of financial chaos

The price of talent is spiking to record amounts -- again -- now with hundreds of millions at stake in college hoops' unregulated economy

Gators take the river: Behind the scenes of Florida's dramatic NCAA title run and raucous boat parade

Come along for the ride, as Todd Golden and his Gators bask in celebration after chomping back to knock off Houston Monday night

2025 NCAA championship game TV schedule, announcers: How to watch March Madness, tip times, TV channels

The complete television and streaming schedule for how to watch March Madness 2025 through the Final Four

NCAA championship game 2025: Printable March Madness bracket, NCAA Tournament predictions, picks, scores

The 2025 NCAA Tournament is winding down so get your printable updated March Madness bracket here

Houston's Kelvin Sampson vs. Florida's Todd Golden is riveting matchup, battle of ages for NCAA championship

Sampson, 69, will face Golden, 39, in a rare instance of coaches separated by two generations for a national championship

Duke's agony: The concerns many had at season's start were finally exposed in Final Four collapse to Houston

A special season earns a bittersweet description: 2024-25 Duke is now one of the best teams to not win a national title.

Walter Clayton Jr.'s star shines in Final Four performance for ages, sending Florida into national title game

Clayton rekindled all kinds of college basketball history leading the Gators to yet another comeback in the Alamodome

'An awesome Robin': Kon Knueppel helped Cooper Flagg — and made this Duke team one of the best we've ever seen

He's the best No. 2 in college hoops. This is how Knueppel went from Wisconsin to Duke — and quietly became a one-and-done lottery pick

2024-25 CBS Sports Player of the Year: Duke freshman Cooper Flagg selected as nation's best

Houston's Kelvin Sampson is named Coach of the Year and Flagg also earns Freshman of Year honors

San Antonio, site of 2025 Final Four, has special connection for Houston coach Kelvin Sampson: 'Like a reboot'

Hours after being fired from Indiana, Sampson found himself on the line with Spurs coach Gregg Popovich

Kevin Willard leaves Maryland for Villanova in messy departure following Terrapins' Sweet 16 run

A disorderly ending for Willard in College Park sends him back to the Big East, where he previously coached at Seton Hall

Matt Norlander is a national award-winning senior writer in his 15th season covering college basketball for CBS Sports. He also co-hosts the Eye on College Basketball podcast and is a college hoops analyst and insider for CBS Sports HQ and CBS Sports Network. In addition to college hoops, Norlander covers the NBA Draft, is CBS Sports' lead Olympics columnist and occasionally writes on golf. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and two sons, is an avid guitarist, amateur drummer and enthusiastic skier. You're happily invited to send him story tips and music recommendations.

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