Acuff has been the best freshman in the SEC. He was named SEC Freshman of the Week for the sixth time this season after recording 31 points and six assists against LSU. Earlier in the week, Acuff ...

Some of the top first-year players are helping CFP teams. Others have set up bright futures.

The whirlwind transfer portal season is absolute shenanigans this year, and with the one-time window, it's going to be this way every season. But getting lost in the shuffle a bit are the freshmen who ...

BYU’s AJ Dybantsa, Houston’s Kingston Flemings and Illinois’s Keaton Wagner—each scored 40-plus points in memorable ...

Since then, 18 and 19-year-old freshmen have turned NCAA Division 1 Men’s Basketball into their own extended auditions for ...

The greatest freshman class ever, when factoring in eventual NBA performance, is probably the 1981 class that included ...

Just weeks before the 2025-26 college basketball season began, UConn was dealt a significant blow. Braylon Mullins, the preseason Big East Freshman of the Year, suffered an ankle injury during ...

Arkansas freshman Carson Brumbaugh was named D1Baseball preseason SEC Freshman of the Year ahead of his first collegiate season.

The learning curve for true freshmen in college football seems to have vanished. In 2025, we witnessed an incredible crop of first-year players who not only contributed but also carried their programs ...

The transfer portal captures a lot of attention, but developing freshmen into impactful players remains the foundation for many of the nation's best programs. This year, highly touted prospects have ...

Shortly after he took over as Stanford’s new men’s basketball coach in March 2024, Kyle Smith started down the recruiting equivalent of a dead end. He tried in vain to rekindle the interest of a ...