5:20 PM ET ESPN News Services After 47 seasons, Jim Boeheim will not be returning as the men’s basketball coach at Syracuse, it was announced Wednesday. Just hours after the Orange lost to Wake Forest on a buzzer-beating 3-pointer at the ACC tournament, Syracuse announced that Adrian Autry will be replacing Boeheim. “There is no
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4:39 PM ET UCLA forward Jaylen Clark is out for the season with an Achilles injury, sources confirmed to ESPN. Clark suffered the injury in Saturday’s regular-season men’s basketball finale against Arizona, exiting the game with a leg injury and later returning to the bench with crutches and his right foot in a boot. UCLA
4:04 PM ET ESPN News Services Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim hinted that Wednesday’s loss to Wake Forest in the ACC tournament could have been his last after 47 seasons as coach of the Orange. “I gave my retirement speech last week and nobody picked up on it,” Boeheim said after the 77-74 loss on a
3:51 PM ET Alabama freshman forward Brandon Miller declined to discuss specifics about the fatal shooting of Jamea Jonae Harris in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in January, but he called the entire situation “really heartbreaking.” Miller spoke to the media Wednesday for the first time since Tuscaloosa police investigator Branden Culpepper testified on Feb. 21 that Miller
1:09 PM ET Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. — A pair of basketball players from Brown allege in a federal lawsuit that the Ivy League’s policy of not offering athletic scholarships amounts to a price-fixing agreement that denies athletes proper financial aid and payment for their services. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court
1:42 PM ET Pete Thamel Jeff Borzello Close Jeff Borzello ESPN Staff Writer Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Former Texas coach Chris Beard has emerged as the leading candidate for the basketball job at Ole Miss, sources told ESPN on Wednesday. The sides have been in recent contact,
8:00 AM ET Chris Harden With Champ Week well underway, ESPN Analytics set out to identify the upcoming conference tournament games with the most impact on the NCAA tournament field. To do this, we’re using Bubble Factor: a metric driven by the College Basketball Power Index (BPI), which simulates the results of the rest of
7:30 AM ET Dalen CuffESPN Champ Week is already upon us, the buzzer beaters, dreams realized and hopes dashed all in a moment. The joy of victory and the agony of defeat affects those in the arena and us with money on the combatants. The smaller conferences have already provided some drama but the power
11:28 PM ET ESPN News Services LAS VEGAS — Drew Timme scored 18 points and became Gonzaga’s all-time leading scorer to lead the sharpshooting No. 9 Bulldogs past No. 16 Saint Mary’s 77-51 on Tuesday night in the West Coast Conference tournament championship game. The Zags (28-5) continued their domination of the WCC with their
11:43 PM ET Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Max Abmas had 26 points and 11 assists and Oral Roberts overwhelmed North Dakota State 92-58 in the Summit League tournament championship game Tuesday night to clinch an automatic berth into the NCAA tournament. Reserve Patrick Mwamba scored 17 of his 20 points in the first
9:55 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Marques Warrick scored 18 points and Sam Vinson added 16 to lead Northern Kentucky to a 63-61 victory over Cleveland State and win the Horizon League Tournament championship on Tuesday. The Norse (22-12), one-point losers to Wright State in last year’s title game, advance to the NCAA Tournament
11:19 AM ET ESPN News Services Alabama freshman Brandon Miller, whose tremendous season on the court has been clouded by controversy off it, is the Associated Press player of the year and newcomer of the year in the SEC. The AP released the results one day after Miller also was announced as the winner of
9:00 AM ET When Amir Abdur-Rahim arrived at Kennesaw State in the spring of 2019, he was aware the program had history. Sure, it didn’t come at the Division I level, but it was still a program with a national championship in 2004. Yet when he walked into the team’s home arena four years ago,
10:29 PM ET ESPN News Services PENSACOLA, Fla. — Themus Fulks scored a career-high 23 points, Jordan Brown had 13 points and 16 rebounds and second-seeded Louisiana beat No. 8 seed South Alabama 71-66 on Monday night to claim the Sun Belt Conference tournament championship. Louisiana (26-7) secured its 11th NCAA tournament berth and first
10:34 PM ET Associated Press ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Jalen Slawson scored 20 points and Furman beat Chattanooga 88-79 on Monday night to win the Southern Conference tournament and advance to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1980. The NCAA field contained 48 teams the last time the top-seeded Paladins made the Big Dance.
12:36 PM ET Associated Press UCLA is surging, both toward the postseason and in the Associated Press men’s college basketball poll. While Houston was No. 1 for a third straight week in Monday’s poll, the Bruins rose two spots to No. 2 for their highest ranking of the season. UCLA (27-4) has won its past
8:00 AM ET While the NCAA tournament gets all of the buzz each year, Champ Week often produces the best basketball of the postseason. While many of the auto-bid leagues have already given us buzzer-beaters and game-winners to send their lone representatives to the field of 68 for the 2023 edition, the major conferences are
7:00 AM ET Another week of upsets, another No. 1 debate, and more upheaval and losses throughout the Power Rankings. The final week of the 2022-23 men’s college basketball regular season looked much like the previous four months did, with the added intrigue of conference championship games and bubble battles. If the past couple of