NCAA Basketball

There are over 1,500 players in the college basketball transfer portal this year, more than twice the number of players last season. The overwhelming number of players transferring comes from a decision from the NCAA stating that student-athletes can now transfer and not have to sit out a year. Due to COVID-19, seniors were also

USATSI After leading the Big South in scoring this past season with 21.2 points per game, Hampton star Davion Warren committed to Memphis as a transfer on April 3. However, the 6-foot-6 wing announced Monday that he is back on the market. The news makes Warren one of the top remaining available transfers during the

11:30 PM ET After a college basketball season unlike any we’ve ever seen, we’re about to enter a college basketball offseason unlike any we’ve ever seen. In addition to the usual NBA draft decisions, the transfer portal is filling up at an unprecedented rate, and every player in the country has been granted another year

USATSI Chris Beard’s track record of using the transfer portal to his advantage made it reasonable to assume, on the day he was hired at Texas, that he’d have no problem improving the Longhorns’ roster very quickly. But this quickly? And by this much? Gonzaga has its best recruiting class in history. Listen all about it here, and subscribe

By Joe Lunardi Updated: 4/20/2021 at 7:30 a.m. ET After the most unusual NCAA tournament in history, a return to the version of March Madness fans have known and loved is back on the schedule for 2021-22. A standard selection process, a multiple-city event, and the return of fans, bands and cheerleaders are among the

The timing of the 2021 NCAA men’s basketball tournament was perfect was Nevada. Restrictions were being lifted with vaccinations being rolled out. Many bettors were ready to get back to normalcy, which included a trip for one of the marquee sporting events of the year.  And Nevada did a near-record handle when it came to

Steve Woltmann/Loyola Athletics Around 4:15 p.m. local time on Friday, April 2, Porter Moser called Drew Valentine. The Loyola Chicago head coach took a day to vacillate before making his decision. It was time. Moser told Valentine he was leaving to be the next coach at Oklahoma.  Valentine was the guy Moser leaned on throughout

11:25 AM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — – Sandro Mamukelashvili of Seton Hall has won the Haggerty Award, presented annually since 1936 to the New York metropolitan area’s Division I men’s college player of the year. The award was chosen by the Met Basketball Writers Association and announced Tuesday. The group also selected Steve

LOUDONVILLE, N.Y. – Siena’s Jalen Pickett, a former Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference player of the year, is transferring to Penn State. Pickett announced his decision Sunday on Twitter. He will have two years of eligibility remaining, making him a nice addition for new Nittany Lions coach Micah Shrewsberry. Overlooked coming out of high school in

Maryland hired former Wake Forest coach Danny Manning as an assistant on Mark Turgeon’s staff on Monday, reuniting a couple of old college teammates. Manning, who played with Turgeon at Kansas in the 1980s, spent the past year as an ESPN analyst. He was fired by Wake Forest after finishing with a losing record in

6:58 PM ET Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa — Iowa guard Jordan Bohannon announced Monday he will return to the Hawkeyes for his sixth season in 2021-22. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the NCAA granted eligibility relief to winter-sport athletes in 2020-21. Bohannon is Iowa’s career record holder in assists (639), 3-pointers made (364), free

USATSI The Chris Beard era of Texas basketball appears to be off to a solid start after the Longhorns picked up yet another major transfer commitment on Monday with Dylan Disu announcing he’s headed back to Texas. Disu averaged 15 points and 9.2 rebounds per game while making 36.9% of his 3-pointers in 17 games

MMA Weekly UFC 261 results: Usman sleeps Masvidal, Namajunas reclaims belt, and Shevchenko dominates Though UFC 261 featured three championship fights, that fact was largely overshadowed in the lead-up by the idea that it also marked the promotion’s first event since the pandemic struck that a sold-out venue full of fans would be allowed in

USATSI When conversations arise about coaches who have succeeded at a high level via the transfer market, Eric Musselman’s name is usually the initial one mentioned — first because of what he did in four seasons at Nevada, then because of what he’s already done in two seasons at Arkansas. But Dana Altman also belongs

The Canadian Press Analysis: Coach of the year will be the NBA’s top award race It’s almost award-voting season in the NBA, and the best race is the one that not enough people are talking about. The MVP race between Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid and Denver’s Nikola Jokic seems like a toss-up, and the realization that

“Sooley,” by John Grisham (Doubleday) When you’ve written 35 novels and are working on a streak of 43 consecutive No. 1 New York Times bestsellers, you can write abut whatever you want. That’s probably the simplest way to explain why John Grisham’s latest is a basketball story and doesn’t feature a single courtroom scene. It’s

Getty Images Maryland coach Mark Turgeon announced Monday that former Kansas and NBA star Danny Manning is joining the Terrapins’ coaching staff as an assistant coach. Manning worked for ESPN this past season after serving as head coach at Wake Forest for six seasons. Turgeon’s hiring of Manning constitutes a reunion of sorts. The two

BATON ROUGE, La. — Hall of Fame coach Kim Mulkey has left Baylor to return home and take over the LSU women’s basketball team. The school announced the move Sunday. Mulkey, who won three national championships at Baylor, is a native of Tickfaw, Louisiana. She helped Baylor win the 2019 NCAA championship, and the Bears