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6:32 PM ET Associated Press DENVER — University of Denver basketball player Coban Porter, the brother of Denver Nuggets star Michael Porter Jr., was charged Wednesday with felony counts of vehicular homicide and vehicular assault stemming from a suspected drunken-driving crash that killed a 42-year-old woman. Investigators say Porter, 21, smelled of alcohol and his

8:00 AM ET John GasawayESPN Insider Close ESPN Insider college basketball contributor First began covering college hoops in 2004 Has written for Basketball Prospectus and the Wall Street Journal Ask Jamie Dixon about the idea of a 24-second shot clock in men’s Division I basketball, and he doesn’t mince words. “I think it’s coming,” the

11:30 PM ET ESPN News Services LAWRENCE, Kan. — Jalen Wilson remembers every slight. Every criticism. Every chip that has landed on his shoulder. You can bet the Kansas forward remembers watching Kansas State fans storm the court after beating the Jayhawks. So with revenge on their mind, Wilson and his pals jumped on the

11:45 AM ET Dalen CuffESPN As we turn the calendar to February, March looms large on the college basketball landscape and the national consciousness. This year’s tournament should be wild as no team (outside maybe Purdue) has separated itself. We have yet to see greatness but a lot of good teams capable of making it

12:54 AM ET ESPN News Services LUBBOCK, Texas — Texas Tech coach Mark Adams was just happy fans stuck around for the biggest comeback in school history and the first Big 12 win of the season for a team that reached the Sweet 16 a year ago. The Red Raiders erased a 23-point deficit after

6:52 PM ET Reigning winner Oscar Tshiebwe was among the players selected to the men’s Wooden Award Late Season Top 20 list announced Monday evening. The award is given annually to the best college basketball player in the country. Tshiebwe, a 6-foot-9 Kentucky forward, ran away with the Wooden Award on the men’s side last

6:14 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — TCU leading scorer Mike Miles Jr. will miss Tuesday night’s home game against West Virginia because of a hyperextended right knee. Miles got hurt less than four minutes into 15th-ranked TCU’s overtime loss at Mississippi State on Saturday in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge. A subsequent MRI

12:16 PM ET Associated Press Purdue became this season’s first unanimous No. 1 team in the AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll Monday after wins over Michigan and Michigan State last week, but chaos ensued behind the Boilermakers among other ranked teams. More than half of the Top 25 teams lost, including second-ranked Alabama,

8:00 AM ET Last week in this space, we debated the merits of Alabama and Purdue in the battle for the top spot in the 2022-23 men’s college basketball Power Rankings. This week, there’s no need for a debate. The Crimson Tide lost by 24 to Oklahoma on Saturday (and it wasn’t even that close

9:23 PM ET Associated Press MANHATTAN, Kan. — Keyontae Johnson gathered with a few of his old Florida teammates after leading No. 5 Kansas State to a 64-50 win over the Gators on Saturday night, the group smiling for some cameras for a picture he’ll no doubt cherish. Because of not only what Johnson had

4:47 PM ET Associated Press NORMAN, Okla. — Grant Sherfield scored a season-high 30 points, and Oklahoma beat No. 2 Alabama 93-69 on Saturday in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge. Jalen Hill added a career-high 26 points on 9-for-11 shooting, helping second-year Oklahoma coach Porter Moser to his biggest win with the program. Tanner Groves had

7:00 AM ET The SEC/Big 12 Challenge is perfectly timed. The other leagues should take notes — particularly the SEC/ACC Challenge, which ESPN announced is set to take its place next season. This mid-January series impacts NCAA tournament résumés. It is a chance to play meaningful matchups in the middle of conference action. It has

11:45 PM ET Longtime college basketball commentator Billy Packer, the voice of the NCAA tournament for more than 30 years, died Thursday night. He was 82. Packer’s two sons, Mark and Brandt, announced the news via Twitter on Thursday night. The Packer Family would like to share some sad news. Our amazing father, Billy, has

5:59 PM ET Don’t expect courtside food deliveries at Duquesne basketball games in the future. Duquesne issued a statement Thursday regarding Wednesday night’s viral moment of an Uber Eats delivery person wandering onto the court during the Dukes’ game against Loyola Chicago. The game was briefly paused after a man in a yellow jacket holding

4:32 PM ET Associated Press DURHAM, N.C. — Duke won’t have touted freshman Dariq Whitehead for Saturday’s game at Georgia Tech due to a left-leg injury and it’s unclear exactly when he’ll return. Coach Jon Scheyer didn’t reveal specifics beyond describing it as a “strain.” But Whitehead seems to have avoided what appeared to be

9:00 AM ET Nearly every first-year coach has a learning curve after taking over a new program. A few weeks to get their feet wet, find their way around campus, learn the area. That wasn’t the case for Sean Miller, who returned to Xavier after spending eight years with the Musketeers as an assistant and

10:30 PM ET Sometimes a craving for fast food just can’t wait. Or at least that was the case for someone at Wednesday’s game between the Loyola Chicago Ramblers and Duquesne Dukes, as the game was paused when an UberEats delivery person walked onto the floor holding a bag of McDonald’s. With 16:30 left in

6:47 PM ET Associated Press Bill Self hasn’t had to go through many stretches like this in his 20 seasons at Kansas. Yet the coach hasn’t seemed angry or even all that discouraged during a rare three-game losing streak. Self knows this isn’t the same Jayhawks team that won the national championship last season. Kansas