Alabama basketball coach Nate Oats benched his star player Saturday night, Mark Sears. And you can bet he's got every player's attention over it.

The first-year hits came from unexpected places on the 2024 coaching carousel after college football grappled with a series of seismic openings late in the calendar. Nick Saban's January retirement set off dominoes that led to coaching changes at Washington,

The Ducks visit the Bruins as we continue our college basketball odds series with an Oregon-UCLA prediction and pick.

The UCLA football team can get better ahead of the 2025 season by attacking the transfer portal. They have already secured commitments from 20 transfers, but the Bruins have lost 21 players to the transfer portal as well. There is still some good talent out there still looking for a new home, and here are a few players that the Bruins could target:

Alabama men's basketball entered this past week at No. 4 in the AP Top 25 Poll and No. 3 in the Coaches Poll while eyeing home games against V

UCLA men's basketball won 88 games in a row from Jan. 1971 into Jan. 1974 before Notre Dame upset John Wooden, Bill Walton and the Bruins. Here's a look at that day.

So far, they've beaten Texas by 17, Alabama by 18 and Oklahoma by 41 on Sunday. They face No. 5 LSU on Thursday and No. 17 Tennessee on Jan. 27. UCLA received 27 first-place ballots this week ...

Aday Mara scored a career-high 22 points and UCLA held off No. 18 Wisconsin 85-83 to snap the Badgers’ seven-game winning streak.

All Times EST No. 1 Auburn (18-1) at LSU (12-7), 7 p.m. No. 4 Alabama (17-3) at No. 14 Mississippi St. (16-4), 9 p.m. No. 6 Houston (16-3) at West Virginia (13-6), 7 p.m. No. 17 Wisconsin (16-4)

No. 1 UCLA (20-0) did not play. Next: vs. Minnesota, Sunday. No. 2 South Carolina (20-1) did not play. Next: vs. Auburn, Sunday. No. 3 Notre Dame (17-2) did not play. Next: at Virginia Tech, Thursday.

UCLA, the only unbeaten Division I team remaining, is on track to continue its best season in program history.

Lauren Betts scored 33 points and No. 1 UCLA stayed undefeated by handling No. 8 Maryland 82-67 on Sunday afternoon in College Park, Md. Betts shot 14-for-15 from the field and made five of six free-throw attempts to go with a team-high seven rebounds.