NCAABB

7:30 AM ET Dan Quinn watched closely as the bracket for the NCAA tournament was unveiled on Selection Sunday. Like a lot of folks in Las Vegas, he had something on the line, but this year the stakes were higher. March Madness has always been a big event in Las Vegas. It conveniently coincides with

1:01 PM ET Wyoming star big man Graham Ike entered the transfer portal Tuesday, immediately becoming one of the most sought-after transfers in the country. Ike, a 6-foot-9 power forward, averaged 19.5 points and 9.6 rebounds in 2021-22, helping lead the Cowboys to the NCAA tournament. He tallied 14 double-doubles during the campaign, including 33

11:40 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN Boston College has agreed to a two-year contract extension for basketball coach Earl Grant through the 2028-29 season, sources told ESPN on Tuesday. Grant has shown steady progress in his two seasons with the Eagles, as BC finished 16-17 this year and 9-11 in ACC play — the most conference

10:58 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN Fairleigh Dickinson‘s Tobin Anderson, the breakout coaching star of the NCAA tournament, has emerged as the top target to be the next coach at Iona, sources told ESPN. Anderson would replace Rick Pitino, who left Iona for St. John’s on Monday after three seasons. In replacing Pitino, Iona appears poised

7:30 AM ET Well, this won’t be controversial. A few weeks ago, we had an idea. What if you took the teams in the Sweet 16, and what if there was a way to put their greatest teams of all time in the same gym, and you played a tournament with those teams? Which squad

8:23 AM ET LAS VEGAS — About one court length, or a snap-of-the-wrist Larry Johnson outlet pass, from the entrance to UNLV’s Thomas & Mack Center rests a 2,000-pound bronze statue of the Runnin’ Rebels’ late Hall of Fame coach Jerry Tarkanian. A solitary figure, the 6-foot-high sculpture sits on a stool with its right

6:45 PM ET Associated Press Antoine Davis has ended his pursuit of “Pistol” Pete Maravich’s NCAA scoring record. The Detroit Mercy guard finished four points shy of breaking Maravich’s mark earlier this month in a loss during the Horizon League Tournament. While it looked like Davis’ college career was over when the College Basketball Invitational

5:04 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — St. Francis College, one of the smallest NCAA Division I schools, announced Monday that its board of trustees has approved a plan to eliminate its athletic program at the end of the spring semester. St. Francis sponsors 21 NCAA teams, including men’s and women’s basketball, and has

4:45 PM ET If Ed Cooley jumping from Providence to Georgetown wasn’t enough, the Big East had a second landscape-shifting hire on Monday, with St. John’s officially agreeing to a deal with Hall of Fame coach Rick Pitino. Pitino was the top target for the Red Storm from the outset, emerging as the favorite even

5:04 PM ET Pepperdine sophomore Maxwell Lewis will enter the 2023 NBA draft, he told ESPN on Monday. “I’m going all in and forgoing my college eligibility,” Lewis said. “This is the right time to make this decision.” Lewis, the No. 27 prospect in ESPN’s NBA draft projections, was named second-team All-WCC after averaging 16.6

2:48 PM ET Adrian Wojnarowski Close Adrian Wojnarowski Senior NBA Insider Host of The Woj Pod Joined ESPN in 2017 Pete Thamel Iona coach Rick Pitino has been named the new coach at St. John’s, returning to the Big East Conference with ambitions of restoring the Red Storm to national prominence. The school announced Pitino’s

11:14 AM ET Dan Murphy Close Dan Murphy ESPN Staff Writer Covers the Big Ten Joined ESPN.com in 2014 Graduate of the University of Notre Dame Anthony Olivieri Tom Izzo scanned the faces of the Michigan State basketball players gathered in the basement of his home, searching for an idea about how to proceed on

11:33 AM ET Pete Thamel Jeff Borzello Close Jeff Borzello ESPN Staff Writer Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Georgetown is expected to hire Providence coach Ed Cooley as the Hoyas’ next coach, sources told ESPN. The sides have been in deep discussions Monday, and a deal is expected

10:57 AM ET And … relax. We can finally catch our collective breath after a weekend that saw a 15-seed and 16-seed advance to the second round for the first time in NCAA tournament history; two 1-seeds go down before the Sweet 16; and a trio of game-winning baskets in the final seconds. True college

10:24 AM ET Former St. John’s coach Mike Anderson said he will file an arbitration lawsuit against the school after he was terminated “for cause.” Per his contract, Anderson would have been owed $11 million if he had not been fired for cause, and he believes he has been wrongfully terminated. According to ESPN’s Jeff

9:00 AM ET Steve Fezzik, a longtime Las Vegas pro bettor, admits it: He bet a lot — potentially upwards of $100,000 — for a chance to win just a couple thousand dollars on heavily-favored Purdue to beat Fairleigh Dickinson on Friday in the opening round of the NCAA tournament. To Fezzik, it was “simple

9:47 PM ET COLUMBUS, Ohio — While the 16-seed Fairleigh Dickinson Knights have been the Cinderella story of this NCAA tournament, the school doesn’t have a band. The University of Dayton, however, does. And the UD band, whose campus is only a little over an hour’s drive from Nationwide Arena, has stepped in to cheer

12:20 AM ET So … how’s your bracket? Yeah, we understand. The first two rounds have given us historic moments and thrilling wins. Remember when Furman beat Virginia on a 3-pointer in the final seconds on Thursday? We don’t either. Because since then, Fairleigh Dickinson and Princeton manufactured more consequential upsets that quickly stole Furman’s