NCAABB

7:30 AM ET Well, at least we had one week with minimal No. 1 debate. After Purdue solidified its position atop the rankings last week, chaos reigned supreme once again. Both the top-ranked Boilermakers and No. 2 Tennessee lost this past week, as did Nos. 6, 7, 8, 10, 15, 16 and two of the

8:00 AM ET Chris Harden With a Matchup Quality of 97.7 (fifth best this season), tonight’s clash between Texas and Kansas (9 p.m. ET, ESPN) is one you won’t want to miss. Two of the top teams in men’s college basketball all season long, the Longhorns and Jayhawks are currently ranked sixth and 13th, respectively,

8:10 AM ET ESPN News Services Colorado State issued a public apology to Utah State and Ukrainian guard Max Shulga after some of its fans chanted “Russia” at Shulga during Saturday’s game. Shulga — who is from Kyiv, Ukraine, where his family still resides — went to the free throw line late in the game,

10:30 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. — At age 78 and amid his 47th season as the head coach at Syracuse, Jim Boeheim acknowledges that he has heard chatter about his retirement for well over a decade. After the Orange’s 77-68 win over Boston College here Saturday evening, Boeheim told ESPN he would

7:41 PM ET ESPN News Services IOWA CITY, Iowa — Tony Perkins scored 25 of his career-high 32 points in the second half, and Iowa edged Illinois 81-79 on Saturday to snap a five-game losing streak to the Fighting Illini. Perkins shot 8 of 11 from the floor and missed just one of 16 free-throw

4:32 PM ET Less than one year after suffering a serious knee injury, Baylor‘s Jonathan Tchamwa Tchatchoua returned to the basketball court Saturday, playing his first minutes of the season. With 13:06 left in the first half against Texas Tech, Tchamwa Tchatchoua went to the scorer’s table and checked into the game, earning a standing

10:23 PM ET Two days after saying Iowa officials had canceled 200 tickets it had purchased for Saturday’s matchup between Iowa and Illinois in Iowa City because the school was “fearful,” an Illinois fan group admitted that it had lied to get the tickets at a discount. After the Orange Krush posted a statement Wednesday

10:07 PM ET Eastern Illinois‘ top scorer will be disciplined “internally” after he tried to hit a fan in a loss on Thursday, according to the school. Late in the first half of Eastern Illinois’ 80-67 loss at Lindenwood, guard Kinyon Hodges – per a video of the incident – walked up to a fan

1:43 PM ET Associated Press TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama men’s basketball coach Nate Oats has agreed to a new six-year, $30 million contract amid the program’s best regular season in decades. Oats will average $5 million plus incentives over the deal running through the 2028-29 season under a deal approved Friday by the University of

1:43 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Ball State has hired Southern Miss deputy director of athletics Jeff Mitchell to be the school’s new athletic director, it was announced Friday. Mitchell is a respected veteran administrator who spent the past five years in Hattiesburg, where he managed the daily operations of the Southern Miss athletic department. While

2:10 PM ET Jeff Borzello Close Jeff Borzello ESPN Staff Writer Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Paul Biancardi Close Paul Biancardi Basketball Recruiting National Recruiting Director for ESPN.com 18 years of coaching experience at Division I level Former Horizon League coach of the year at Wright State ESPN

9:56 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN The negotiations for Oklahoma and Texas to leave the Big 12 a year early and join the SEC in 2024 have stalled and a deal is not expected to come to fruition, sources told ESPN on Friday morning. After weeks of negotiations, Texas and Oklahoma are still slated to join

9:00 AM ET Jon Scheyer remembers being forced to attend his sister’s high school variety show as a kid. He was in junior high, and the show conflicted with the single most important event in his life at the time: the Duke-North Carolina basketball game. Luckily, his dad understood. They went to the show, Scheyer

8:00 AM ET This weekend’s slate of basketball games features matchups that will have implications in conference races and NCAA tournament seedings on Selection Sunday. But North Carolina and Duke, the highlight clash of the weekend, boast the premier rivalry in men’s college basketball. Their initial meeting of the 2022-23 season will be the first

8:00 AM ET As the college basketball transfer portal continues to grow and, in some cases, become the primary way for coaches to build rosters year to year, the discussion surrounding newcomers is beginning to change. Entering a season, the elite freshmen are always the biggest talking point. Last season, it was Chet Holmgren vs.

12:52 AM ET ESPN News Services GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Colin Castleton is accustomed to being double-teamed every time he touches the ball, so he was pleasantly surprised — maybe even downright stunned — when Tennessee opted to guard him with a single defender in the second half. “I’ve got to take advantage of that,” Castleton

12:06 AM ET Pittsburgh coach Jeff Capel, following his team’s 65-64 win at North Carolina on Wednesday, spoke out about the Tar Heels fans’ treatment of his brother and current Panthers assistant, former UNC standout Jason Capel. Jason Capel, who averaged 12.1 PPG in four years at North Carolina (1998-2002), was booed by UNC fans

11:10 PM ET Days before they’re set to battle at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City this weekend, the Hawkeyes and Fighting Illini are already jousting with one another. The Orange Krush, a longstanding group of Illinois supporters and fans, said their purchase of 200 tickets for Saturday’s matchup between Iowa and Illinois was canceled by