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2:44 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Bowling Green is targeting Southern Utah coach Todd Simon to be its next coach, sources told ESPN on Tuesday. A deal is expected to come together in the upcoming days, sources said. Simon is set to replace Michael Huger, who was fired in the wake of an 11-20 season. Simon

1:43 PM ET Associated Press Purdue‘s Zach Edey and Indiana‘s Trayce Jackson-Davis have given the Big Ten Conference a third straight year with multiple first-team Associated Press All-America picks, while Kansas‘s had a second straight first-teamer in Jalen Wilson. The 7-foot-4, 305-pound Edey appeared on all 58 ballots as a first-team selection from AP Top

12:17 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Alabama assistant coach Charlie Henry is set to become the next head coach at Georgia Southern, sources told ESPN on Tuesday. The four-year deal is expected to be finalized later today, sources said. Henry will continue to coach with Alabama through the rest of the men’s NCAA tournament. Alabama is

11:30 AM ET Delaware star guard Jameer Nelson Jr., son of the former Saint Joseph’s star and NBA veteran, entered the transfer portal Tuesday morning. Blue Hens coach Martin Ingelsby confirmed the news in a statement. “Jameer has been a great ambassador for our basketball program,” Ingelsby said. “He’s a CAA champion, first team all-league

10:08 AM ET Former Notre Dame guard J.J. Starling, one of the top college basketball transfers this spring, told ESPN he has committed to play at Syracuse next season. “I felt like it was a great fit for me,” Starling said. “The coaching staff are people I know I can put my trust in to

10:04 AM ET Federal lawmakers are taking their first steps toward considering legislation for college sports since a new Congress was installed. A spokesman for the House Energy and Commerce Committee told ESPN on Tuesday it plans to host a hearing to discuss the name, image and likeness (NIL) rights of college athletes on March

10:00 AM ET If you hold the belief that college basketball playing greatness is a meaningful prerequisite to college basketball coaching greatness, 2022 was your year. Each of last season’s Final Four coaches — Kansas’ Bill Self (Oklahoma State), North Carolina’s Hubert Davis (UNC), Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski (Army) and Villanova’s Jay Wright (Bucknell) — had

8:45 AM ET The field of 68 is set, and the 2022-23 season took a remarkable series of twists and turns to get us this far. The men’s basketball selection committee said “no thanks” to the AP poll’s preseason No. 1 (which then said “no thank you” to the NIT). The team picked in the

7:30 AM ET Dalen CuffESPN The best time of the year is back! With gambling being legalized all over the country, even more people can get in on the action from the comfort of their homes. College sports has changed a ton in recent years but looking at the data the past 5-10 years have

8:43 PM ET UT Arlington is expected to hire Kentucky assistant K.T. Turner as its next head coach, sources told ESPN. Editor’s Picks 1 Related Turner joined John Calipari’s staff last offseason after spending one season at Oklahoma under Porter Moser and one season at Texas under Shaka Smart. Prior to moving to Austin, Turner

5:56 PM ET Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — Temple coach Aaron McKie is out after four years and no NCAA tournament appearances and will become a special advisor to the athletic department, the school announced Monday. McKie, who starred at Temple under Hall of Fame coach John Chaney and played for the Philadelphia 76ers in a

12:19 PM ET Millions of brackets will be filled out, then busted, and billions of dollars will be bet on one of America’s favorite wagering events — the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. In the first 14 hours after the field was set Sunday night, roughly 2,600 brackets per minute — totaling 2.2 million — were

12:22 PM ET Pete Thamel Jeff Borzello Close Jeff Borzello ESPN Staff Writer Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Boston Celtics assistant Damon Stoudamire is finalizing a five-year deal to become Georgia Tech‘s next head coach, sources said. The school’s Board of Trustees is planning to approve the hire

12:09 PM ET Associated Press The overall No. 1 seed for March Madness is No. 1 in the final AP Top 25, too. Alabama, fresh off an SEC tournament title to go with its regular-season crown, ascended to the top spot Monday, earning 48 of 61 first-place votes to jump Houston, which lost in the

9:38 AM ET Jeff Borzello Close Jeff Borzello ESPN Staff Writer Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Pete Thamel Chris Beard and Ole Miss are closing in on an agreement to make him the Rebels’ next men’s basketball coach, sources told ESPN. An official announcement is expected to come

11:32 PM ET “Pistol” Pete Maravich’s Division I career scoring record could be preserved after the CBI decided against inviting Detroit Mercy and star Antoine Davis to the postseason event. Davis, who has 3,664 career points, is three shy of Maravich’s NCAA mark of 3,667, which he achieved in three seasons at LSU. Davis, a

10:56 PM ET Hours after finding out that they failed to make the NCAA tournament field, Oklahoma State, Rutgers, Oregon and Clemson were given No. 1 seeds in the National Invitation Tournament on Sunday night. The Cowboys, a team that NCAA tournament committee chair Chris Reynolds specifically mentioned as receiving strong consideration on the bracket

9:57 PM ET The NCAA tournament is seeded with plenty of the usual suspects, but every year there are new mascots, school colors and Fight songs to learn, too. Whether you are filling out a bracket and need to find inspiration in the team’s traditions or want to know who might be rooting along with