Dan Johnson has been an editor, writer, and analyst for DraftKings and DraftKings Network since 2024. He’s previously held editorial posts at The Paris Review, Macmillan Publishers, Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, ASSIGNMENT Magazine, and FantasySixPack. You can find his various editorial work & writing (sports-related and non-) at all of the above.
Hawaii is walking into another island-night where the gym tightens and the standings start talking back. A win tonight would be an 11th straight home win and keep Hawaii sitting at 15-1 at home, which is the whole point of building a Big West chase around this floor. Cal Poly is 11-15, and the profile […]
February 19, 2026
Viking Pavilion in late February is where Big Sky games stop being random and start being a receipt. Portland State are 17–7 overall and 11–2 in league, and they’ve built a real separation profile on defense and home-court habits. Idaho are 14–12 and 6–7, swinging between ceiling offense and leaky stops. The board is Portland […]
February 19, 2026
Drexel walks into Boston with legit CAA posture, sitting 13–14 overall and 7–7 in league play, the exact record line where every road game either sharpens the campaign or cracks it. Northeastern is 6–18 and 2–11 in the CAA, dragging a seven-game losing streak into a home floor that’s been unforgiving lately. Drexel just lost […]
February 19, 2026
Drexel walks into Boston with legit CAA posture, sitting 13–14 overall and 7–7 in league play, the exact record line where every road game either sharpens the campaign or cracks it. Northeastern is 6–18 and 2–11 in the CAA, dragging a seven-game losing streak into a home floor that’s been unforgiving lately. Drexel just lost […]
February 19, 2026
Colorado State arrive in Las Vegas sitting 15-10 overall and 6-8 in the Mountain West, with every road win shaping the bracket lane. UNLV sit 13-12 and 8-6 in league, and Thomas & Mack still treats these coin-flip nights like a referendum. The board is UNLV -2.5 with a 146.5 total, which is the market […]
February 18, 2026
Gonzaga are chasing the top line in the WCC and still treating February like a seeding laboratory, at 25-2 overall and 13-1 in league play. San Francisco are 15-13 and 7-8, playing for posture and pride, and the swing game tonight is the building. This is Chase Center again, not the Hilltop, with a late […]
February 18, 2026
West Virginia has turned the back half of the season into a posture test, and nights like this are where that posture becomes real. Utah has been living through the opposite rhythm, a team searching for clean possessions and clean confidence while the Big 12 keeps tightening the screws. The WVU Coliseum is a low-margin […]
February 18, 2026
Virginia arrives in Atlanta at 22-3 and 10-2, playing like a team that treats February as a seeding audit. Georgia Tech is 11-15 and 2-11, sliding through a seven-game losing streak and searching for a clean sixty minutes. This is the kind of night-game spot where the favorite has to bring its own edge, because […]
February 18, 2026
The Murray State Racers opened 8-0 in Missouri Valley Conference play, then went 3-6 in the last nine and just ate an 87-70 home loss to Belmont. Illinois State is wobbling too after an 83-56 loss to UIC where it shot 35.6% and got buried 60-22 in the paint. Illinois State’s home posture matters in […]
February 18, 2026
Saint Mary’s walks into Seattle at 23-4 and 12-2 in the WCC, still chasing the league’s top tier and treating every road night like a résumé rep. Seattle sits 16-11 and 5-9, but it has protected its home floor at 12-3, and this one lands in that strange pro-court pocket at Climate Pledge where early […]
February 18, 2026
Seton Hall’s season has a defined shape now, and the calendar is tightening around it. The Pirates are 18-8 overall and 8-7 in Big East play, sitting in the part of the table where every home game is résumé oxygen. DePaul arrive 13-12 and 5-9, still dangerous enough to make this feel personal because the […]
February 18, 2026