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USATSI The son of Detroit Lions legend and NFL Hall of Famer Barry Sanders is following in his father’s athletic footsteps, but he is doing so in a different sport. Michigan State released its official 2022-23 roster on Friday, and Nicholas Sanders was listed among the players joining Tom Izzo’s team. Now that the roster

The college basketball season is still 74 days away from tipping off, but CBS Sports is already looking ahead to the NCAA Tournament field in March. According to Jerry Palm’s latest bracketology update, the Gators are projected to finish the regular season as a 10-seed in the Midwest Region. That draw puts them up against

Getty Images Happy Thursday, everyone. It’s Wajih AlBaroudi filling in for Zachary Pereles for the final time this week. First things first: we had some breaking NBA news late last night. The Lakers are reportedly finalizing a trade to send Talen Horton-Tucker and Stanley Johnson to the Jazz in exchange for Patrick Beverley. You can

Aug 23, 2022 It has been a very quiet few weeks in the men’s college basketball world. July was filled with recruiting movement, including G.G. Jackson‘s decision to reclassify to the 2022 class and commit to South Carolina at the end of the month. And that’s about it. We’ve yet to see anything like last

Bryce James, the youngest son of LeBron James, announced late Sunday that he received his first college basketball scholarship offer from a Division I program. Bryce, 15, confirmed on Instagram that he received an offer letter from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The team is coached by Keith Dambrot, who coached LeBron for two years

Aug 20, 2022 Florida transfer Keyontae Johnson, who hasn’t played since collapsing during a game in December 2020, signed with Kansas State on Saturday. Johnson chose the Wildcats over fellow finalists Nebraska, Western Kentucky and Memphis. He took a visit to Kansas State in July, and also went on a visit to Nebraska earlier this

Florida basketball standout Keyontae Johnson is transferring to Kansas State. The 23-year-old forward announced his decision on Instagram on Saturday. His next game action will mark the first time he’s played since he collapsed on the court during a 2020 game against Florida State, leaving him hospitalized in critical condition and placed in a medically

Getty Images Florida men’s basketball transfer Keyontae Johnson, who entered the 2020-21 season as the SEC’s Preseason Player of the Year before a season-ending health issue arose just four games into the year, announced on Saturday he has committed to Kansas State after considering Memphis, Nebraska and Western Kentucky as possible landing spots. Johnson has

USATSI At first glance, Michigan State’s losses from its 2021-22 roster appear minimal, as the Spartans bid farewell to just one double-digit scorer from a 23-13 squad that exited the NCAA Tournament with a second-round loss to No. 2 seed Duke. But a deeper look reveals a slightly more uncertain perspective for a program that

Aug 18, 2022 John GasawayESPN Insider Close ESPN Insider college basketball contributor First began covering college hoops in 2004 Has written for Basketball Prospectus and the Wall Street Journal Welcome to the final installment in our series on college basketball’s new era of frequent transfers. First we considered the most significant modern-era transfers into and

Finally, Dick Vitale is officially cancer free. The iconic college basketball announcer revealed on Twitter Wednesday afternoon that he has officially been given the all-clear after multiple lengthy battles with cancer. Dr Rick Brown just notified me with my results of my major Pet Scan & told me news I wish EVERY cancer patient can

USATSI Carrying the namesake of the greatest basketball player of all time presents its benefits, but also challenges. For LeBron James Jr., better known as “Bronny,” that includes the lofty expectations surrounding his development as a prospect and whether — as LeBron James himself has said he hopes will come to fruition — the two

2:51 PM ET Pete Carril, the Hall of Fame coach who brought notoriety to the “Princeton Offense” during his 30-year tenure with the Tigers, died Monday morning at the age of 92. “We kindly ask that you please respect our privacy at this time as we process our loss and handle necessary arrangements. More information

John Calipari isn’t wrong that the University of Kentucky is a basketball school. That’s what he told the Athletic last week and any suggestion, let alone any huffing and puffing, to the contrary is ridiculous. That’s not a shot at Mark Stoops’ football program, which this week is ranked in the AP preseason poll for

11:00 AM ET The California Basketball Club’s roster features four players whose fathers are NBA legends. Bronny James and his younger brother, Bryce, are the sons of LeBron James. Ashton Hardaway, Bronny’s teammate at Sierra Canyon (California) High School, is the son of Memphis head coach and four-time NBA All-Star Penny Hardaway. And Justin Pippen,

Megan Mendoza/The Republic Mookie Cook made it an awesome August of basketball recruiting for Oregon on Friday, when the five-star wing committed to the Ducks to give coach Dana Altman his second top-10 pledge of the 2023 recruiting cycle. Cook joins forward Kwame Evans Jr. in the class after Evans committed on Aug. 2 amid

John Calipari’s public crusade for basketball facility improvements turned into a public Twitter fight with Kentucky football coach Mark Stoops on Thursday. Hours before his team’s second exhibition game in the Bahamas, Calipari went on the offensive again in a push to build a new practice facility for his program in an interview with The

4:35 AM ET The University of Kentucky’s newly-signed center Ugonna Kingsley Onyenso sees parallels between himself and Giannis Antetokounmpo, whose character he auditioned to play in the recently-released Disney+ film Rise. Rise is the dramatised story of the Antetokounmpo brothers’ unlikely ascent to the top of the basketball world, despite having grown up undocumented in