NCAA Basketball

8:00 AM ET Mike SchmitzESPN Davion Mitchell became a household name this March thanks to his NCAA tournament heroics as the engine powering Baylor’s title run. He posted 15 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists in 35 minutes in a win over undefeated Gonzaga and projected top-five pick Jalen Suggs, earning fans nationwide with his

5:46 PM ET Associated Press A former strength coach for UConn’s men’s basketball team has sued the school, claiming his contract wasn’t renewed after he refused demands from coach Dan Hurley that he violate NCAA guidelines and school COVID-19 protocols. A hearing was held Thursday in Rockville Superior Court on a motion by the school

The 2021-22 season will be one with major implications for Florida basketball. Though it seems coach Mike White, who was just extended through the 2026-27 season, isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, UF is coming off back-to-back seasons where the team underachieved based on its talent. And now, the team is going to look a lot

7:00 AM ET ESPN staff ESPN continued its Sales Pitch (ESPN+) series this week, examining the men’s college basketball programs in the Big 12 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 Gasaway

After a successful visit to Madison, Wisconsin went in on fast-rising 2023 prospect Owen Freeman. The 6-foot-9 power forward has an impressive offer list already piled up and the Badgers have officially added to it. Freeman currently holds offers from the likes of Butler, Purdue, Illinois, Iowa, Marquette, and Ohio State among others. The Bradley,

Longtime Mount St. Mary’s basketball coach Jim Phelan dies originally appeared on NBC Sports Washington EMMITSBURG, Md. — Jim Phelan, the bow-tied basketball coach who won 830 games during nearly a half-century at Mount St. Mary’s, has died. He was 92. The athletic department at Mount St. Mary’s said Phelan died in his sleep at

Getty Images Duke’s 2021-22 basketball season was already shaping up as an intriguing storyline before coach Mike Krzyzewski announced earlier this month that he will retire once it’s complete. For the first time in more than a quarter-century, the Blue Devils are entering a new campaign after missing the NCAA Tournament, and that alone meant

USATSI Texas and first-year coach Chris Beard had arguably already assembled college basketball’s most impressive class of incoming transfers this offseason before Tuesday night’s big announcement from former UMass big man Tre Mitchell. But now that Mitchell has committed to the Longhorns, there is little doubt that Texas is the biggest winner of the transfer

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

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