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Kofi Cockburn entered both the NBA Draft and transfer portal earlier this offseason, which, at the time, strongly suggested the 7-foot center would be playing basketball somewhere other than Illinois next season. But word started to circulate in recent days that Cockburn would actually head back to the Big Ten school he helped secure a

6:21 PM ET Illinois basketball star Kofi Cockburn, the best player to enter the transfer portal since its introduction, announced Friday he was returning to Champaign to play another season for the Fighting Illini. Cockburn entered the transfer portal on July 1, the last day to enter and still be eligible to play elsewhere next

Draft prospect Asbjorn Midtgaard provides unique upside originally appeared on NBC Sports Washington Asbjorn Midtgaard’s career at Wichita State, and in the United States, had a rocky start.  Through his first three years as a Shocker, he started just four games and averaged a career-best 3.9 points per game in the 2018-19 season. So, with

3:00 PM ET ESPN announced its early-season tournament schedule for college basketball on Thursday, a slate that highlights some of the game’s top programs and elite players in a season that should restore a sense of normalcy to the sport. Here is our handy guide to the games that will all appear on the ESPN

7:30 AM ET With Chicago State standing as the lone remaining head coaching vacancy in college basketball, the coaching carousel finally appears on the verge of stopping — more than three months after the 2020-21 season ended and nine months after Penn State parted ways with Pat Chambers to start the merry-go-round. Toward the end

Gold and Black Overseas showing may be just part of Zach Edey’s ‘big jump’ Long before Zach Edey departed Purdue’s campus, crow-barring his 7-foot-4 body into an airplane seat to try out for Canada’s national teams, the Boilermaker sophomore had already begun showing signs of considerable progress following a stunningly successful freshman year. Because of

Getty Images With new rules in place allowing college athletes to profit off their name, image and likeness, a vast financial frontier is now available for players who were previously barred from benefitting monetarily on their talents without running afoul with the NCAA. Exactly what the impact will be for college basketball in particular remains

8:00 AM ET RIGA, Latvia — The FIBA Under-19 World Cup — occurring every other year since 2007 — has produced 55 first-round picks in seven tournaments, making it one of the most important dates on the NBA scouting calendar. Nikola Jokic, Stephen Curry, Jayson Tatum, Klay Thompson, Gordon Hayward, Bogdan Bogdanovic and RJ Barrett

The Telegraph Bumpy fairways and blind tee shots: why golf pros hate Royal St George’s Goldfinger famously played against James Bond at Royal St George’s. Wretched, without mercy and universally despised, Royal St George’s is just off the A256 …” A cheap joke, perhaps, but one earning nods in the locker room this week. Take

USATSI MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Norton Hurd IV co-founded Team Thad more than a decade ago and quickly built it into one of the best grassroots programs in the country even if it was largely overshadowed in its hometown. Team Thad was a nice program. But, with all due respect to the 14-year NBA veteran, Thaddeus

Getty Images North Carolina released its full nonconference schedule for the 2021-22 season Tuesday, and it features a few showcase opportunities for first-year coach Hubert Davis. The Tar Heels open with a trio of home contests against lower-tier foes as they ease into a slate that will feature four games against well-regarded power conference opposition.

ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports On the brink of a life-changing contract, Lamar Jackson takes an unnecessary risk A good agent not only negotiates a player’s contract. A good agent also helps a player negotiate his life. If Lamar Jackson currently had a good agent, Lamar would be receiving a phone call with a very

6:08 PM ET Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Penny Hardaway has wanted Larry Brown to coach with him ever since Hardaway took over at his alma mater. Three years later, they have that chance at Memphis. “I’ve always wanted to be around greatness,” Hardaway said Monday after Brown’s first practice as his assistant. “It doesn’t

Gone are the days when your college production is commensurate with your pro prospects. National player of the year Luka Garza, for instance, isn’t among our top-60 prospects entering this month’s draft. Or take the national scoring leader from last season, Oral Roberts’ Max Abmas — he announced last week that he’s withdrawing from the

2022 wide receiver prospect Cameron Miller is set to announce his college commitment. He will be committing on Monday at 1 p.m. EDT. The 6-foot-1, 195-pound Miller is from Memphis Academy of Health Sciences in Memphis, Tennessee. He officially visited Tennessee on June 25. Miller was initially offered by the Vols on Aug. 30, 2019

Social media and technology have only bolstered this phenomenon of the famous basketball recruit. (Amber Matsumoto/Yahoo Sports) LeBron James is only 36. Emphasis on the only because he’ll be entering his 19th NBA season this October. For as long as James has been the talk of the sports world, one might think the Los Angeles

4:59 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — St. John’s said Friday that Queens native Tareq Coburn will join the roster for the 2021-22 season. Coburn recently wrapped a three-year career at Hofstra in which he averaged nearly 11 points per game and helped the Pride to the 2020 Colonial Athletic Association championship. In 90

247Sports A day after landing Marquette transfer Dawson Garcia for the upcoming season, North Carolina kept the momentum up Friday by snagging a commitment from class of 2022 five-star center Jalen Washington, the No. 21 overall player in his class according to the 247Sports Composite. Washington is UNC’s third commitment of the 2022 class and