NCAA Basketball

2:26 PM ET Just when it seemed as if the University of Michigan and Chris Webber had taken a step toward reconciliation, Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel denied the former Fab Five member’s claim that Manuel had apologized to Webber. Webber, who will be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday,

12:15 PM ET ESPN staff The Big 12 Conference presidents and chancellors voted on Friday to accept BYU, Cincinnati, Houston and UCF into the conference, with the individual boards of those universities set to formally accept before end of day. Though the moves were inspired largely by football concerns, other sports in the Big 12

8:00 AM ET College basketball recruiting is finally back in its usual rhythm. Coaches were on the road for most of July, hitting big shoe company-sponsored tournaments and watching recruits in the next few classes. Prospects took multiple visits in June, which has lessened the need for busy official visit weekends in the fall, but

It’s that time again. The 2021-22 women’s college basketball season is around the corner, which means it’s never too early to give my preseason Power 10 rankings. I will continue to update my rankings each week during the season.  Considering many programs — like Arizona, UCLA and Texas A&M — lost key seniors after the 2021 NCAA tournament to either

Alex Woodhouse/Jon Lopez Creative/Nike EYBL Kentucky landed another big fish in the 2022 cycle on Tuesday night as five-star prospect Shaedon Sharpe, the No. 4 overall player in the 247Sports Composite rankings, committed to the Wildcats. Sharpe, a 6-foot-5 shooting guard from Glendale (Arizona)-Dream City Christian, picked UK over Kansas, Arizona, Oklahoma State and the

Mark Few reportedly faces a DUI charge. (Photo by Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) Gonzaga University men’s basketball coach Mark Few is facing a DUI charge after being pulled over Monday night, according to The Spokesman-Review.  Few was pulled over in Dalton Gardens, Idaho, after police received a report a vehicle was speeding

The state with the most total NCAA Division I men’s basketball victories all-time is tied for 10th in total national championships among the 50 states. That rules out California, North Carolina and Indiana. Any guesses? It’s the Empire State — New York. And that shouldn’t necessarily be a huge surprise. New York has 22 active DI

7:00 AM ET Adam Finkelstein For as much as men’s college basketball recruiting changes, it appears to still stay the same. With the impact of the transfer portal, the emergence of various professional options and now name, image and likeness, recruiting in 2021 is vastly different than it was even a few years ago. Nevertheless,

Getty Images The 2021 college basketball offseason kept the sport in the news cycle long after Baylor cut down the nets at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana as champions of the NCAA Tournament. With players allowed to wait up until July 1 to enter the transfer portal and still be immediately eligible for the

The 2021-22 men’s college basketball season is only a few months away, which means it’s time for fans to start reviewing their favorite team’s roster and schedule, and those of its rivals and conference opponents. After an offseason full of roster reshuffling, we did the same and we picked out some of the best names

Coach Pearl is in the Bounce House for UCF’s opener. Former Auburn head coach Gus Malzahn and current Auburn basketball coach Bruce Pearl created a friendship during Malzahn’s time at Auburn. And tonight, Pearl decided to show up to Orlando to watch Malzahn’s Knights take on the Boise State Broncos, per Brandon Marcello of 247

What you speak up about — or don’t — says volumes. This week, a barbaric, inhumane law went into effect in Texas that effectively bans all abortion and even worse, deputizes others with nothing better to do to turn people in they even suspect may take agency over their own health and well-being and receive

UConn Dan Hurley looks on, red sweater The UConn men’s basketball team announced its full non-conference schedule for the 2021-22 season on Wednesday, including matchups against top teams like Auburn and West Virginia. The Huskies finished the 2020-21 regular season with a 15-8 record, going 11-6 in Big East play, and earning a No. 7

Getty Images Entering the 2020-21 season, Iowa star Luka Garza stood out so glaringly among his peers as college basketball’s best player that we excluded him as an option for the dribble handoff’s predictions piece on who would win the Naismith College Player of the Year. Essentially, we ended up making our predictions for who

7:00 AM ET Fresh off of June team camps and the July evaluation period, we are updating the men’s college basketball recruiting player rankings in each class. Amid the reclassifications of Emoni Bates and Jalen Duren, we have a pair of new No. 1-ranked prospects, as well as some notable risers and new faces on

If you want an edge when you fill out your NCAA tournament bracket (and who doesn’t?) here is a quick tip — pick a national champion that has at least three players who average one or more made 3-pointers a game. Nineteen of the last 21 national champions had at least three of those guys. That’s

7:25 AM ET Rosters are finally set for the 2021-22 college basketball season — at least we think that’s the case. With Western Kentucky announcing it was signing Cincinnati transfer Keith Williams, every transfer in ESPN’s top 100 rankings has picked his destination. And with Emoni Bates announcing his commitment to Memphis last week, every

Basketball fans today know Steph Curry as a three-time NBA champion and two-time NBA MVP but his rise to becoming one of the most famous basketball players of our generation and one of the best shooters ever started at Davidson, where he was a baby-faced guard known as Stephen Curry. Here’s everything you need to