9:55 PM ET Xavier star big man Zach Freemantle will undergo left foot surgery on Tuesday and won’t return this season, the school announced Sunday. Freemantle hasn’t played since Jan. 28 due to a left foot injury that was expected to sideline him for around a month. This week’s Big East conference tournament had been
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9:35 PM ET Austin Peay has fired coach Nate James after just two seasons, sources confirmed to ESPN. James went 21-38 in his two seasons at the helm. In his first year, he guided Austin Peay to an 8-10 record in the Ohio Valley Conference, finishing 12-17 overall. The school then left the OVC and
6:42 PM ET Alex Kirkland Rodrigo Faez Carlo Ancelotti blamed Real Madrid‘s “lack of efficiency” for the “strange” goal drought which continued with a 0-0 draw at Real Betis to leave them nine points behind LaLiga leaders Barcelona. Madrid have followed last week’s stunning 5-2 win at Liverpool in the Champions League round-of-16 with a
6:43 PM ET Associated Press KENNESAW, Ga. — Terrell Burden scored 19 points and made a free throw with less than a second left to rally Kennesaw State to a 67-66 victory over Liberty on Sunday, earning the Owls their first Atlantic Sun Conference championship and their first trip to the NCAA tournament. It is
4:33 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Drew Pember had 29 points, Tajion Jones scored 16 in the final 7:35 and No. 1 seed UNC Asheville stormed back to beat seventh-seeded Campbell 77-73 on Sunday, winning the Big South conference tournament championship and advancing to the NCAA tournament for the fifth time. Ricky Clemons
12:56 PM ET Pete Thamel Jeff Borzello Close Jeff Borzello ESPN Staff Writer Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Texas Tech has suspended men’s basketball coach Mark Adams for what the school is calling an “inappropriate, unacceptable, and racially insensitive comment.” According to the school, Adams was encouraging a
12:40 AM ET ESPN News Services EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Chris Harris scored 26 points, Phillip Russell added 21 — including the game’s last seven points — and No. 5 seed Southeast Missouri State beat Tennessee Tech 89-82 in overtime Saturday night to win the Ohio Valley Conference men’s basketball tournament and earn an automatic bid
11:22 PM ET Championship Week and March Madness are nearly here. Beginning with the ASUN on Feb. 27 and ending with the Ivy, A-10, SEC, American and Big Ten right up until the bracket is revealed on Selection Sunday (March 12), teams across Division I men’s college basketball will be competing for the chance to
11:32 PM ET Fairleigh Dickinson became the first team to punch its ticket to the 2023 NCAA tournament on Saturday — and the Knights did it without winning their conference tournament. Merrimack, the 1-seed in the Northeast Conference tournament, is still in the midst of its four-year reclassification process from Division II to Division I
9:54 PM ET Associated Press CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Miami coach Jim Larrañaga climbed the ladder, grabbed the last strand of net, ripped it off the rim and waved it in the air. It took all 20 league games, going down to the final second, but his Hurricanes can call themselves Atlantic Coast Conference champions.
2:43 PM ET Indiana point guard Xavier Johnson won’t return this season after suffering a broken foot in December, the school announced on Saturday. Johnson appeared to be nearing a return in recent weeks, taking part in pregame warmups and moving comfortably in layup lines. Head coach Mike Woodson never provided a definitive timetable for
11:28 AM ET Reigning Wooden Award winner Oscar Tshiebwe and this season’s favorite Zach Edey were among the 15 finalists named to the men’s national ballot Saturday morning, as revealed on ESPN’s “College GameDay.” Edey, Purdue‘s 7-foot-4 center, is heading into the postseason as the perceived front-runner for the Wooden Award, given annually to the
11:57 AM ET High Point has fired men’s basketball head coach G.G. Smith, sources told ESPN. Smith is the son of longtime Kentucky and Minnesota coach Tubby Smith, who won a national championship with the Wildcats in 1998. G.G. Smith took over at High Point for Tubby toward the end of last season, when his
12:53 PM ET Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Vanderbilt has announced on social media that scoring leader Liam Robbins will miss the rest of the season with a leg injury sustained early in Wednesday’s 68-66 victory at No. 23 Kentucky. The school wished the 7-footer a speedy recovery on its Twitter account Friday morning and
This is it. Although conference tournaments will still impact the NCAA tournament landscape, it’s no secret that — for most schools — this is the final weekend of the 2022-23 men’s college basketball season to impress the selection committee and be called on Selection Sunday. For the teams on the bubble, a bad loss or
7:00 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Gabriela Jaquez‘s biggest fan entered Pauley Pavilion on a Saturday afternoon with a couple of his buddies. He wore ripped jeans and a flannel shirt, and plopped down in the front row as fans whispered to one another about him. But his focus was solely on the freshman forward
10:57 PM ET ESPN News Services YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Detroit Mercy star guard Antoine Davis finished three points shy of matching Pete Maravich as the NCAA career scoring leader on Thursday night, managing 22 in a 71-66 loss to Youngstown State in the Horizon League tournament. Whether Davis gets another chance to break the record
9:19 PM ET Associated Press LEWISBURG, Pa. — Nathan Davis is out as the men’s basketball coach at Bucknell, ending an eight-year tenure that included a pair of close losses to much higher-seeded opponents in the NCAA tournament. Bucknell athletic director Jermaine Truax announced the move Thursday. The Bison went 12-20 this season, finishing with