NCAA Basketball

With the 2021 college basketball cycle all but complete, we are beginning to get a clearer sense of how rosters will look in the season ahead. More than any season in the past, recruiting classes from this cycle are littered with transfers, meaning many schools took a mix of freshmen and players from other schools

7:02 PM ET Marquette forward Dawson Garcia announced Friday he planned to enter the transfer portal, potentially becoming the best available transfer while also delivering a blow to new head coach Shaka Smart’s roster. Garcia did leave open the option to return to the Golden Eagles, and he also plans to continue pursuing the NBA

USATSI College basketball’s transfer market received a high-profile late addition Friday when Marquette forward Dawson Garcia announced he will enter the transfer portal while keeping his options open. The 6-foot-11 Garcia averaged 13 points and 6.6 rebounds per game for the Golden Eagles while earning Big East All-Freshman honors last season. “I have appreciated the

11:21 AM ET Bill Moos will retire as Nebraska’s athletic director at the end of the month, the school announced Friday. “I step away completely content, knowing that our athletic program is reborn and rebuilt and that it has a solid, stable foundation,” Moos said in a statement. Moos, 70, had led Nebraska’s athletic department

5:34 PM ET Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear signed an executive order Thursday allowing the state’s college athletes — including players on the nationally renowned Kentucky and Louisville men’s basketball teams — to make money through the use of their name, image or likeness. The Democratic governor said he took the

ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports Steelers release David DeCastro with NFI designation The Steelers have moved on from guard David DeCastro. They’ve done so in a way that prevents him from realizing any additional benefits from the team, if his ankle problem prevents him from playing this year. According to the league’s official transaction report,

USATSI Years from now, the 2020-21 men’s college basketball season will be remembered for three things. No. 1: Baylor winning the national championship. No. 2: Gonzaga going 31-0, then getting rolled by Baylor in the NCAA title game, thus failing to become the first men’s team since Indiana in 1976 to finish with an unbeaten

Selection Sunday 2022 for the NCAA DI men’s basketball tournament is Sunday, March 13. The show time and television network will be announced at a later date. ROUND DATE CITY Selection Sunday March 13 N/A First Four March 15-16 Dayton, Ohio First/Second March 17 and 19 Buffalo, New York First/Second March 17 and 19 Cincinnati, Ohio

7:00 AM ET ESPN staff ESPN completed its Sales Pitch (ESPN+) series this week, examining the men’s college basketball programs beyond the top seven conferences 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

PHILADELPHIA (AP) Herb Magee turned 80 this week – a bit of a modest number compared to his 1,123 victories – and celebrated with good cheer from his coaching friends. Jay Wright. John Calipari. Phil Martelli. Paul Westhead. Nearly 25 former and current coaches made up a Hall of Fame highlight reel that lasted more

USATSI Matchups for the annual Big 12/SEC Challenge were announced Wednesday morning with one of the more loaded 10-game slates in the history of the event on deck to ring in the ninth annual showdown of the two power conferences on Jan. 29, 2022. Kentucky at Kansas is the headline-grabber as both programs rank within

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

Had the 2020-21 NBA season not been pushed back due to COVID-19, the NBA draft would’ve been showcased this week. Instead, the Eastern Conference and Western Conference Finals are underway and we’re still a month out until this summer’s draft – held on July 29. The draft lottery on Tuesday determined the order of lottery

Looking at the Big 12 Conference’s schedule this season, there leaves a lot to be desired outside of conference play. It still looks better than the 2020 version due to the schedule of nonconference due to the COVID-19 pandemic. All nonconference games had to be played at home meaning teams had to swap out opponents.

USATSI NCAA amateurism is dead. Whatever you thought the moving target that was the “collegiate model” is gone. The date for the dearly departed will go down as June 21, 2021, but really, the exit from this world was years in the making. It’s not just that amateurism is dead. The NCAA that strangled it

1:08 PM ET Carmine CarcieriESPN After a smaller 2020 event that featured a 24-team bracket and a bubble because of the coronavirus pandemic, The Basketball Tournament is officially back in 2021 with a full 64-team field competing for the $1 million winner-take-all prize. While four-time title winner Overseas Elite won’t be participating, Marquette’s alumni team,

The Florida Gators, like many teams in college basketball, are experiencing a staggering amount of roster turnover this offseason. The increased activity around the league is due in large part to the NCAA’s ruling to make all transfers eligible to play immediately upon arriving with their new team in 2021. This is a big opportunity

4:36 PM ET Associated Press NCAA president Mark Emmert told the organization’s more than 1,200 member schools Friday that he will seek temporary rules as early as July to ensure all athletes can be compensated for their celebrity with a host of state laws looming and congressional efforts seemingly stalled. In memo obtained by The