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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,

Getty Images A prosecutor from Wayne County, Michigan announced Monday that former Michigan State basketball star Keith Appling will face a first-degree murder charge in addition to three other felony charges in connection with the May shooting death of 66-year-old Clyde Edmonds, the Detroit Free Press reported. Appling was arrested for the shooting last month after being

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

USATSI The 2020-21 college basketball season marked a down year by the recent standards of the SEC. After sending eight teams to the NCAA Tournament in 2018 and seven in 2019, the conference landed six in this year’s Big Dance with just two surviving the first weekend as Kentucky missed the tournament and Auburn dealt

10:04 PM ET Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. — Gonzaga athletic director Mike Roth said Monday he will retire on Aug. 31, ending a 24-year run during which the Bulldogs had unprecedented success in men’s basketball and other sports. Roth has spent a total of 34 years at the private Jesuit university in Spokane. He was

Former Michigan State basketball player Keith Appling faces a first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a family member, prosecutors announced Monday. Detroit Police previously named Appling a suspect in the May 22 killing of 66-year-old Clyde Edmonds, his mother’s cousin. On Monday, the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office announced that Appling faces charges of first-degree

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7:00 AM ET It was announced Wednesday that the 2020-21 season would be Mike Krzyzewski’s 42nd and last as Duke’s head men’s basketball coach. Those born after 1980 don’t know a world in which Coach K is not on the sidelines of Duke’s Cameron Indoor Stadium. After next season, they will know that world for

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

DURHAM, N.C. — Jon Scheyer remembers handling the pressure of playing for a national championship or in front of hostile crowds in high-profile games at Duke. He confidently points to that history in his approach to managing an even bigger challenge: being the successor to Mike Krzyzewski. “I’ve always been at my best when the