College basketball entered 2018 as a sport on the brink, with the awaited fallout from the still-recent FBI fraud investigation seen by some as potentially landscape-altering. That has yet to pan out; the NCAA enacted mostly small-scale changes to its amateurism model, and though three of the defendants were found guilty of fraud in federal court so far, the case and its revelations have not had wider implications thus far. Elsewhere, the sport remained healthy. Trae Young was January’s breakout star, Sister Jean March’s. An NCAA tournament that began with a historic upset by upstart UMBC ended with a dominant Villanova cementing its place as a national power.
College Basketball's Top Trends, Players and Storylines to Watch in 2019
