5:55 PM ET Pete Thamel Jeff Borzello Close Jeff Borzello ESPN Staff Writer Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Notre Dame is finalizing a deal to make Penn State‘s Micah Shrewsberry the school’s next men’s basketball head coach, sources told ESPN on Wednesday. Shrewsberry will sign a seven-year contract
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4:37 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — Ed Cooley’s task at Georgetown is to bring a once-storied program back to prominence in a competitive conference that has three teams still part of March Madness in the Sweet 16. Cooley’s lofty aspirations go beyond lifting the Hoyas up from the bottom of the Big East Conference.
3:34 PM ET North Carolina big man Armando Bacot will return for a fifth season with the Tar Heels, he told Stadium on Wednesday. Bacot, who is among the 15 finalists for the Wooden Award, averaged 15.9 points and 10.4 rebounds this season. The Tar Heels (20-13) decided not to play in the NIT after
1:59 PM ET Arizona‘s Kerr Kriisa told ESPN he will enter the transfer portal later Wednesday, immediately becoming one of the most coveted players in the portal. “I went to compliance earlier and filled out all the paperwork; they said my name will be in the portal soon,” Kerr said. Kriisa, a 6-2 point guard,
12:12 PM ET UCF freshman Taylor Hendricks will forgo his remaining college eligibility and enter the 2023 NBA draft, he told ESPN on Wednesday. Hendricks says he has signed with attorney Raymond Brothers, president of Roc Nation basketball, as his NBA representation. “I want to thank my mom and brothers Tyler and Jamal,” Hendricks said.
9:49 AM ET DES MOINES, Iowa — Sir’Jabari Rice came to Texas like a lot of his teammates, for the chance to win championships — Big 12 and NCAA. He couldn’t help but wonder, if only for a brief moment, whether his dreams were ruined on the morning of Dec. 12, when he received word
8:00 AM ET No 16-seed had ever beaten a 1-seed in the men’s NCAA tournament until 2018. Now it’s happened twice. In the first 28 tournaments that featured 15-seeds (1985-2012), four 15s had beaten 2-seeds. Seven have done so in the past 11. No 15-seed had reached the Sweet 16 until Florida Gulf Coast did
9:18 PM ET Arizona State men’s basketball coach Bobby Hurley has received a two-year contract extension through the 2025-26 season, the school announced Tuesday. Hurley had just one year left on his current deal. The two sides engaged in contract discussions for most of this past season, sources told ESPN, and while Hurley was linked
8:00 PM ET Wichita State is expected to hire Oral Roberts‘ Paul Mills as its next coach, sources told ESPN. An official announcement is expected this week. Editor’s Picks 2 Related Mills has coached Oral Roberts the past six seasons, going 106-84 overall. He guided the Golden Eagles to the NCAA tournament in two of
5:47 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The video banner above the entrance to Madison Square Garden on Tuesday read: “Welcome Rick Pitino.” More like welcome back for the new St. John’s coach. Back to the Garden, where he once coached the Knicks. Back to the Big East, the conference that launched his stardom
4:50 PM ET Wofford has removed the interim tag from Dwight Perry and made him the full-time head coach, the school announced Tuesday. Perry took over for Jay McAuley in late November after McAuley took a leave of absence from the program. McAuley fully stepped down from his position in late December, although the school
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
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
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
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