NCAA Basketball

There’s been a lot of movement early on in the men’s college basketball offseason with a record number of players entering the transfer portal and Hall of Fame coach Roy Williams announcing his retirement after 33 years. A few high-major jobs opened up after Sean Miller (Arizona) and Archie Miller (Indiana) were both let go

With the benefit of hindsight, it’s wild that there was even a little bit of a debate about whether Michigan should hire Juwan Howard to replace John Beilein in May 2019. It’s been a total home run. The Wolverines finished 16th at KenPom in Howard’s first season (2019-20), finished third at KenPom in his second

1:39 PM ET Top international basketball prospect Igor Milicic has committed to Virginia, he told ESPN on Saturday. “There are many things that are special about UVA,” Milicic said. “In terms of basketball culture, great fans, and really good academics which is also a big thing for me. Coach Bennett and his coaching staff are

Shaqir O’Neal, son of Hall of Fame player Shaquille O’Neal, will be playing college basketball at Texas Southern next season. O’Neal announced his commitment Friday night on Instagram.  He’ll be playing for Johnny Jones’ Tigers; Texas Southern has statistically been the best program in the SWAC for a decade.  The decision is significant not just

Michigan continued adding to its No. 1 ranked 2021 recruiting class Saturday, when the Wolverines secured a commitment from Coastal Carolina transfer DeVante Jones. The 6-foot-1 guard earned Sun Belt Player of the Year honors as a junior this past season while averaging 19.3 points, 7.2 rebounds, 2.9 assists and 2.8 steals for a team

12:14 PM ET Coastal Carolina transfer DeVante’ Jones, the Sun Belt Player of the Year and one of the best available point guards in the portal, committed to Michigan on Saturday. Jones chose the Wolverines over a final list that also included Texas Tech, Texas and Memphis. “I had a great relationship with coach [Juwan]

The transfer market got a high-profile addition on Saturday, when Syracuse forward Quincy Guerrier announced he will enter the transfer portal and test the NBA Draft waters after a strong sophomore season. Guerrier earned third-team All-ACC honors while averaging 13.7 points and 8.4 rebounds for an Orange squad that reached the Sweet 16. At 6-foot-7,

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

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