NCAA Basketball

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

Michigan State remained exactly where it previously was in the latest update of Bracketology from Joe Lunardi of ESPN. Lunardi put out a new 2023 NCAA Tournament bracket projection on Tuesday, which saw the Spartans remain as a No. 8 seed. Lunardi has Michigan State facing No. 9 seed Oklahoma State in the West Region,

The NCAA earned praise last year when it agreed to pay referees at its men’s and women’s basketball tournaments equally. The gesture only cost about $100,000, a tiny fraction of the roughly $900 million networks pay annually to broadcast March Madness. Now, as the NCAA examines various disparities across men’s and women’s sports, pressure is

Getty Images Since the NCAA Tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985 — and eventually to 68 in 2011 — just two programs have won back-to-back national championships: Duke in 1991 and 1992 and Florida in 2006 and 2007. As the 2022-23 season approaches, Kansas has some significant holes to fill from last season’s roster

USATSI When John Calipari and Mark Few announced their agreement to a home-and-home series, there was a small — but significant — distinction in the lingo used by the two legendary coaches. Few said he was excited to take his Gonzaga team to Rupp Arena, the Kentucky’s home court, whereas Calipari notably stopped short of

8:00 AM ET 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 The share of minutes played by transfers at major-conference men’s basketball programs jumped in 2021-22 over the previous season, as both the extra season of eligibility

Getty Images The Kentucky men’s basketball program held a quickly-put-together telethon on Tuesday night that coach John Calipari tweeted Wednesday morning raised nearly $3 million to help communities in the state devastated by flooding that has killed more than three dozen people. That’s the big and awesome headline. But a secondary story also emerged from

USATSI Making the leap from college basketball rotation player to college basketball superstar is a rarity in a sport that is known for one-and-dones and features a lot of roster turnover because of professional opportunities, transfers and injuries. But in recent years, it’s a path that has been blazed somewhat routinely, with the likes of

7:00 AM ET One of the first things on coach Lamont Paris’ to-do list after taking the South Carolina job in late March was to take the 25-minute drive to Ridge View High School and meet with elite recruit G.G. Jackson and his father. Jackson had been a primary target for Frank Martin, but the

10:21 PM ET After Blue Collar U’s run in The Basketball Tournament ended one game shy of the final last summer, the former Buffalo basketball stars made sure to finish the job this year. Blue Collar U was on top of Americana for Autism from the opening tip, leading by as many as 22 points

Two of college basketball’s preeminent programs are squaring off. Kentucky and Gonzaga will play a men’s basketball home-and-home series starting this upcoming season. Wildcats head coach John Calipari and Bulldogs head coach Mark Few announced the series on Tuesday during a UK fundraiser at Rupp Arena to aid victims of the deadly flooding in Kentucky.

The book Rick Pitino sought to suppress has come back to bite him. Merl Code’s “Black Market,” which paints the former Louisville men’s basketball coach as complicit in the bribery scheme behind the 2017 recruitment of Brian Bowen, prompted the NCAA’s Complex Case Unit (CCU) to lodge additional allegations of infractions months after submitting its

Getty Images Michigan State added another big name to its 2023 recruiting class Saturday as five-star prospect Xavier Booker, the No. 3 recruit in the 247Sports rankings, pledged his allegiance to the Spartans. Booker, an Indianapolis product, chose Michigan State over an offer sheet that included Indiana, Auburn, Cincinnati, Gonzaga and more than two dozen

The aiding and abetting DWI charge against former Duke star Paolo Banchero has been dismissed, according to The News & Observer. Banchero was charged in November after police stopped him and teammate Michael Savarino, who is coach Mike Krzyzewski’s grandson, driving early one morning in Orange County, North Carolina. Savarino reportedly admitted to drinking alcohol

Matt Norlander / CBS Sports CHICAGO — Summer basketball recruiting is an ethos built on, among many other things: being a walking/talking logo; showering with your wristband(s) on; inevitable wasted time; unavoidable wasted money; paying hundreds of dollars just to look at a roster; bad eating habits; worse sleep cycles; a continuously sore ass; and

Jul 27, 2022 ESPN announced its early-season tournament schedule for the 2022-23 college basketball season early this week — a slate that highlights some of the game’s top programs and elite players, and builds on the 2021-22 campaign, which ended with four powerhouses in the Final Four: Kansas, North Carolina, Duke and Villanova. Here is

Jul 26, 2022 On the college basketball calendar, July has long been a month dedicated to recruiting. Rosters are usually set by then, and coaches can begin to turn toward the future of their programs before going all-in on the upcoming season. For obvious reasons, however, 2020 and 2021 brought some changes to the old

A new face represented Duke last weekend at the Peach Jam, where head coach Jon Scheyer and assistants Jai Lucas and Chris Carrawell were on the hunt for future players. Rachel Baker, hired as Duke basketball’s first general manager in June, joined those three coaches at the Nike grassroots tournament in North Augusta, South Carolina,