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Isaac Trotter

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How Iowa State, sparked by an underrated freshman, pulled off an historic upset of No. 1 Purdue

Purdue's 23-point loss to Iowa State tied the largest home loss by a No. 1 team

Purdue vs. Iowa State prediction, pick, odds, spread: Boilermakers meet Cyclones in top-10 clash

Here's what you need to know ahead of a top-10 showdown between Purdue and Iowa State

College basketball grades: Top takeaways, red flags or nerd stats for each SEC team post ACC/SEC Challenge

Each SEC team earned a grade after an illuminating first month of the college basketball season

Duke finds its closer after holding off Florida in final seconds of win in ACC/SEC Challenge

Duke scored a whopping 18 points after timeouts in Tuesday's monster victory, the most of the Jon Scheyer era.

College basketball's national championship tiers: Sorting the best from the rest after November's mad dash

The strengths and weaknesses from the top rosters in the sport are getting clearer by the day.

Grading college basketball's notable lineup decisions: Duke, Arkansas have made right early moves

Lineups are getting solidified for contenders throughout the first month

College basketball grades: Assessing early returns on offseason promises from UNC, UConn, more top contenders

Through two weeks, how have some of the lofty proclamations aged for UConn, North Carolina, NC State, Kentucky and Iowa State?

Nights like these are why Alabama's Labaron Philon made last-minute decision to return to school

Minutes after KO'ing Illinois, Philon and Nate Oats detailed the May phone call that flipped the script and changed the trajectory for Alabama's 2025-26 hopes.

Trotter's Trends: Jaden Bradley is Arizona's Mr. Clutch, Alex Karaban's silent masterpiece, top stat nuggets

Superstars who have added different layers to their games and the Saint Louis Billikens are included in this week's edition of top trends

First assessments of college basketball's top portal hauls: Grades for Kentucky, St. John's and more

Handing out grades for how some of the top-rated transfer portal classes have fared early in the 2025-26 college basketball season

With Kylan Boswell and Andrej Stojakovic blossoming, Illinois is primed to contend after win over Texas Tech

The short-handed Illini showed its blueprint to build a contender with Tuesday's 81-77 win over No. 11 Texas Tech, despite JT Toppin's 35-point eruption.

Trotter's Trends: An early look at the contenders and darkhorses in fierce Freshman of the Year races

Here's a handicap of the Freshman of the Year races in the five high-major leagues.

Put Caleb Wilson among nation's top freshmen as well after UNC's win vs. Kansas in early blue-blood battle

Wilson led No. 25 Tar Heels over the No. 19 Jayhawks in a marquee matchup between two of college basketball's biggest brands

First impressions from college basketball's openers: What's up with Kentucky? The good and not-so-good

Here's what we learned from an opening barrage of games and a look ahead at a weekend loaded with tasty matchups.

College basketball 2025-26 season preview: Sorting out national championship contenders by tiers

Here are the teams that can actually conquer March Madness and cut the nets down on the first Monday in April

Isaac is a national college basketball writer for 247Sports. He previously covered Illinois for 247Sports and also spent time covering preps in Rochester, Minnesota.

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