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We took a look at the participant list for the NBA draft combine and G League Elite Camp to tell us who might return to their college team. While there is nothing final about our projections, now that those lists are finalized we know the names of the most notable players who have declared for

USATSI When Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski retires after the upcoming season, ending a 42-year run at Duke with at least five national championships to his credit, he’ll hand his whistle off to a coach who is more than four decades his junior. Jon Scheyer is on track to be the youngest coach in the ACC

Getty Images Nearly 300 players from college and other educational institutions and a total of 57 international players filed as early entry candidates for the 2021 NBA Draft, the NBA announced this week. The grand total of 353 players filing as early entrants comes as the deadline for underclassmen to formally declare for this year’s

3:11 PM ET Associated Press AUBURN, Ala. — Georgia transfer guard K.D. Johnson has officially signed with Southeastern Conference rival Auburn. Tigers coach Bruce Pearl said Monday that Johnson has signed an Athletics Financial Aid Agreement to play for Auburn next season. Johnson declared his intentions to transfer to Auburn last month. Johnson, who averaged

John Marinatto loved Cher, got bottles of skim milk delivered to his home daily and bought multiple oversized, old-school Cadillac convertibles. He preferred his music on 8-track, ate many of his meals at a well-known Providence, Rhode Island, supper club and once studied to be a priest. He worked a gilded life in college athletics,

Michigan State added to their 2022 class on Saturday when 3-star linebacker/safety prospect Quavian Carter announced his commitment to the Spartans. Carter is ranked as the No. 644 overall recruit by 247Sports, and holds offers from numerous big-time programs, including Clemson, Ole Miss, Michigan, Tennessee, Penn State and Florida State. With the addition of Carter,

In quite the off-season of college basketball news, longtime North Carolina head coach Roy Williams announced his retirement while legendary Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski announced he will call it a career after the 2021-22 season. Those are two of the all-time greats in college basketball history and rank nearly at the top of the

8:21 AM ET Associated Press DETROIT — A former Michigan State University basketball star was ordered to remain in jail during his first court appearance on murder and other charges in Detroit. Defense attorney Andrew Abood asked for a bond, saying Keith Appling had always appeared in court in previous cases. But a magistrate denied

3:59 PM ET Associated Press STORRS, Conn. — UConn men’s basketball coach Dan Hurley is hopeful legislation passed this week in Connecticut that will allow college athletes to profit from the use of their names, images and likenesses will keep more players in school. Hurley on Friday thanked the Connecticut General Assembly for passing the

Former Michigan State basketball player Keith Appling pleaded not guilty to a murder charge and was denied bail at a hearing in Detroit on Thursday, according to The Associated Press. Appling’s attorney entered the not-guilty plea on his behalf, per the report, and Appling was mostly silent during his first court appearance since he was

12:51 PM ET Associated Press WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Wake Forest is adding graduate transfer Khadim Sy from Ole Miss. The school announced Sy’s signing Friday to bolster the Demon Deacons’ frontcourt. The 6-foot-10, 238-pound Sy started 31 of his 45 games over the past two seasons at Ole Miss, averaging 7.2 points and 4.4 rebounds.

USATSI It’s been exactly 10 weeks since Chris Beard agreed to leave Texas Tech for Texas — to move 380 miles southeast, from one Big 12 school to another, in a development that was probably the biggest coaching hire of the year even though it was completely overshadowed nationally on the day it was announced

7:00 AM ET ESPN staff ESPN continued its Sales Pitch (ESPN+) series this week, examining the men’s college basketball programs in the American Athletic Conference that have the most and fewest advantages in enticing recruits and transfers to campus. After seeing the results of our survey, ESPN.com’s writing team of Myron Medcalf, Jeff Borzello, John

The No. 1 player in high school basketball, Chet Holmgren, was named the Gatorade National Player of the Year and beat out players like Jaden Hardy, Jabari Smith Jr. and Patrick Baldwin Jr. for the top honor on Wednesday.  Holmgren is a 7-foot-1 center who averaged 20.6 points, 12.6 rebounds. 5.2 blocks and 4.5 assists

Getty Images Three weeks before name, image and likeness rights will begin one way or another for college athletes, desperation is setting in. That was the overarching message Wednesday from a U.S. Senate hearing on NIL. After years of arguments, hand-wringing and lawsuits, it has come down to this: Congress must act to control some

Getty Images The deadline for college underclassmen to declare for the NBA Draft passed on May 30 with dozens of college basketball players positioned to test the waters at the combine this month ahead of the draft on July 29. Before draft night, however, another deadline looms large for several players and their college programs.

7:00 AM ET Last month, we started our Sales Pitch series by ranking the schools in the ACC based on the quality of their enticements for men’s basketball recruits and then moved on to the Big East, where we examined whether anyone in the league can close the recruiting gap on Villanova. We followed that

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) Gonzaga promoted Chris Standiford to director of athletics on Tuesday following the announcement that Mike Roth is retiring at the end of August after 24 years of leading the Bulldogs’ sports programs. Standiford has been a member of the Gonzaga staff for 31 years and currently is the deputy director of athletics,