NCAA Basketball

12:51 AM ET Shaqir O’Neal, Shaquille O’Neal’s youngest son, is committed to Texas Southern, he announced on Instagram on Friday. During an interview with Overtime, O’Neal, a 6-foot-6 shooting guard, said he committed to the Tigers to “change the narrative” on historically black colleges. “You can expect a lot of buckets,” he said in the

5:52 PM ET Top-ranked junior Emoni Bates, widely considered one of the best high school basketball prospects in the last decade, announced Friday that he was decommitting from Michigan State and reopening his recruitment. “I would like to thank Tom Izzo and the coaching staff at Michigan State but I have decided to reopen my

7:21 PM ET Florida lawmakers passed a bill Friday afternoon that reinstates this July as the start date for allowing college athletes to make money from endorsements, reversing a brief push to delay the new opportunities by a year. Politicians hurried to introduce an amended bill Friday on the final day of the state’s current

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) Rasir Bolton, Iowa State’s leading scorer last season, said Friday he is transferring to Gonzaga. The 6-foot-3, 185-pound guard said on Twitter that he’s ”110% committed” to the Zags. Bolton averaged 15.5 points, 4.8 rebounds and 3.9 assists per game for the Cyclones, who finished 2-22 last season. Iowa State coach Steve

Emoni Bates, quite possibly the best NBA prospect since LeBron James, is no longer the crown jewel of Michigan State’s recruiting class, and it remains possible he doesn’t play college basketball at all. The No. 1 recruit in the Class of 2022 announced Friday that he is decommitting from the Spartans and reopening his recruitment,

Tom Izzo has two open scholarships to fill. But first, Michigan State basketball added another guy he hopes can follow the paths of some of his best walk-ons. Peter Nwoke from Orchard Lake St. Mary’s announced via Twitter on Friday that he committed to join the Spartans as a preferred walk-on for this fall. The

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) Syracuse small forward Alan Griffin is entering the NBA draft. Griffin made the announcement Friday in a video post on Instagram that featured his father, Adrian, who spent a decade in the NBA as a player and now is an assistant coach for the Toronto Raptors. ”You have all the tools and

3:18 PM ET The rich got richer in college basketball on Friday when Gonzaga, the No. 1 team in ESPN’s Way-Too-Early Top-25 poll, landed transfer Rasir Bolton, his father, Ray Bolton, told ESPN. Bolton, who averaged 15.5 points and 3.9 assists for Iowa State last season, started his career at Penn State. He chose Gonzaga

7:00 AM ET At the start of every offseason, I go through the depth charts of every team from the top six conferences and a couple dozen other noteworthy teams. It’s been a difficult task this spring because of the NCAA granting every player an additional year of eligibility, not to mention the enormous influx

6:47 PM ET Cal State Northridge has placed men’s basketball coach Mark Gottfried and his staff on paid administrative leave while it conducts an internal investigation into alleged rules violations, according to a university statement issued Thursday. “Upon learning of potential rules violations within our men’s basketball program, I directed an immediate review and have

4:07 PM ET Andrea Adelson Close ESPN Senior Writer ACC reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2010. Graduate of the University of Florida. Dan Murphy Close ESPN Staff Writer Covers the Big Ten Joined ESPN.com in 2014 Graduate of the University of Notre Dame Football players, coaches and athletic directors in the state of Florida spoke out

Getty Images Cal State Northridge’s entire men’s basketball coaching staff, including head coach Mark Gottfried, has been put on paid administrative leave while the school conducts a review of the program, the university announced Thursday.  CSUN athletic director Michael Izzi said that there are “potential rules violations” with the men’s basketball program. The possible wrongdoing

Michigan State’s men’s basketball team didn’t let a season filled with problems on the court and disrupted by COVID-19 affect them in the classroom. All 12 players who were eligible named to the Academic Honor Roll on Thursday. It is the first time in the 23-year history of the awards that has happened for Tom

Getty Images Considering the recruiting and on-court success of Michigan in two seasons under 19-year NBA veteran Juwan Howard, it’s easy to see why schools are taking swing on coaches with NBA pedigrees, despite the tenuous history of former professional stars in the college ranks.  The fraternity of former NBA players who are now college

7:00 AM ET The unpredictability and tumult in college basketball over the past six months didn’t end when the buzzer sounded on Baylor’s blowout win over Gonzaga in the national championship game on April 5. It simply gave way to the wildest offseason we’ve ever seen, with names entering the transfer portal at an unprecedented

10:16 PM ET Associated Press WACO, Texas — National champion Baylor is adding transfer guard James Akinjo, the leading scorer for Arizona last season. Coach Scott Drew announced Wednesday that Akinjo has signed with the Bears. The 6-foot-1 guard is expected to join the team this summer and will have two seasons of eligibility remaining.

6:59 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA Division I Board of Directors ratified a rule change Wednesday that will allow all athletes who have not yet transferred the ability to do so one time in a college career and be immediately eligible to play. The Division I Council adopted the proposed legislation earlier

MILWAUKEE — D.J. Carton is leaving Marquette to pursue a professional career, a move that means the Golden Eagles won’t return at least four of their top five scorers from this past season. The 6-foot-2 guard said in a university release that he was entering his name in the upcoming NBA draft and planned to