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Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterJul 13, 2024, 07:00 PM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions While the past few months of the college basketball calendar have been filled with the transfer portal, coaching changes and the NBA draft, the start of the July live

Yahoo Sports NBA draft analyst Krysten Peek talks with Cooper Flagg and Kevin Love about Flagg’s recent USA Basketball scrimmage where the incoming Duke freshman stole the show. Cooper & Kevin join Yahoo Sports on behalf of the Gatorade National Player of the Year award. Video Transcript I’m Kristen Pe joined by Cooper flag and

USATSI So much of high school recruiting comes down to a two-week period in the middle of the summer, commonly known as the “live period.”  The live period is when college coaches can evaluate prospects in person. Not weighed down by the season or the transfer portal, coaches travel the country to various recruiting events, often

Dick Vitale, College Basketball analystJul 11, 2024, 10:00 AM ET Close Dick Vitale, college basketball’s top analyst and ambassador, joined ESPN during the 1979-80 season. His thorough knowledge of the game is brought forth in an enthusiastic, passionate style. Vitale also contributes columns to ESPN.com. Open Extended Reactions Here’s an early preseason look at my

Getty Images There are names that exist in a special type of lore in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, thanks to their achievements on college sports’ biggest stages and almost all of them are associated with Alabama football. Mark Sears entered that sort of rarefied air this spring by leading the Crimson Tide men’s basketball team to its

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterJul 9, 2024, 09:25 AM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions High school recruiting used to take center stage almost immediately after the college basketball season ended: evaluation periods in April, target boards for the upcoming cycle finalized heading into

BLOOMINGTON — The Indiana basketball team announced its full nonconference schedule Tuesday morning. The Hoosiers open the year with a midweek matchup against SIU-Edwardsville on Nov. 6 at Assembly Hall. An exhibition game wasn’t announced, but the program will likely host at least one tune-up before the season-opener. Indiana’s schedule only includes one high major opponent, South Carolina,

Former Colorado football quarterback Drew Carter isn’t giving up on his college basketball career just yet. After spending last season hooping at UC Davis, Carter announced via Instagram on Friday his commitment to the Oregon Ducks men’s basketball program. The 6-foot-3, 200-pound Oregon native will join head coach Dana Altman’s team as a walk-on guard,

Getty Images Maximizing the one year of Cooper Flagg is of utmost importance for Duke. It’s started in the transfer portal. Jon Scheyer didn’t hit the 2024 portal cycle looking for a star. Flagg, the ballyhooed, No. 1 recruit in the Class of 2024 and a candidate for No. 1 overall in the 2025 NBA

ALEXANDER CITY — As fifth-year Florida guard Zyon Pullin raced down the floor in the second half of the 2024 SEC Tournament title game against Auburn basketball, he set his sights on the rim. Only one foe stood in his way: freshman point guard Aden Holloway, whose 6-foot-1 stature doesn’t exactly make him a strong

USATSI Four-time NBA All-Star Kemba Walker retired from basketball on Tuesday after 12 seasons. The former UConn standout spent the past season overseas at AS Monaco and last played in the NBA during the 2022-23 campaign for the Dallas Mavericks.  While Walker’s NBA credentials (over 14,000 career points, four-time NBA All-Star and a third-team All-NBA

Paul Biancardi, Basketball RecruitingJul 2, 2024, 02:00 PM ET Close National Recruiting Director for ESPN.com 18 years of coaching experience at Division I level Former Horizon League coach of the year at Wright State Open Extended Reactions The NBA draft was the highlight of June, and once again the ESPN 100 rankings fed the draft.

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterJul 2, 2024, 09:23 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Open Extended Reactions Sixteen former men’s college basketball players, including Kansas stars Mario Chalmers and Sherron Collins, UConn guard Ryan Boatright and Arizona guard Jason Terry, have

Getty Images UCF landed a commitment Monday from former four-star guard Dior Johnson, who once ranked as the No. 53 overall player in the 2022 recruiting cycle by 247Sports. Johnson played this past season at Clarendon Community College in Texas and was the top-ranked JUCO player in the 247Sports rankings.  Johnson originally committed to Syracuse

The North Carolina Tar Heels basketball program will be battling a few blue bloods in a recruitment for a rising power forward in the 2025 recruiting class.  Hubert Davis and the Tar Heels offered four-star power forward Nikolas Khamenia back in May, officially entering the recruitment. But the talented recruit has drawn a lot of

Share Yale Director of Athletics Victoria M. “Vicky” Chun has been appointed to serve on the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Committee, with her term effective immediately through Aug. 31, 2029. Chun, who has served in her post at Yale since July 1, 2018, will be filling the committee position vacated by Lisa Peterson, senior

Share INDIANAPOLIS — Manhattan Athletics Director Irma Garcia has been appointed to the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee, becoming the seventh woman to serve with this group. Her five-year term begins immediately and runs through Aug. 31, 2029. Garcia has been in her current role for a year. She spent the prior 35 years

Getty Images A player from France has been selected No. 1 in each of the past two NBA Drafts — first Victor Wembanyama in 2023, then Zaccharie Risacher in 2024. That streak should end next year because, barring a surprise, the first player selected in the 2025 NBA Draft will be Cooper Flagg, the projected one-and-done