NCAABB

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

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

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

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

7:29 PM ET For the last few days, Jaeson Maravich, the eldest son of “Pistol” Pete Maravich, has wondered what his late father would have thought about Detroit Mercy star Antoine Davis potentially breaking his NCAA all-time career scoring record on Thursday in his team’s matchup against Youngstown State in the Horizon League tournament quarterfinals

2:48 PM ET Associated Press AMES, Iowa — Former Iowa State men’s basketball player Caleb Grill said he has been battling mental illness and regrets what led to his dismissal. Coach T.J. Otzelberger announced Wednesday that Grill had failed to meet program expectations and was no longer on the team. Grill was the Cyclones’ third-leading

10:21 AM ET Notre Dame Fighting Irish men’s basketball coach Mike Brey is ending his time in South Bend partying. Brey, who led the Irish to the NCAA tournament 13 times in his 23 seasons as head coach, is having an ignominious final season. Notre Dame is 11-19 this season and next to last in

12:08 AM ET TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama‘s players stood at midcourt, throwing on T-shirts to celebrate an SEC regular-season championship. They did it at home against their biggest rival, in a comeback that the school hadn’t experienced for at least a decade. They brought out signs celebrating a title and cut down nets after a

10:46 PM ET Associated Press SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Marcus Hammond and Cormac Ryan each scored 20 points as Notre Dame won longtime coach Mike Brey’s final home game with an 88-81 victory over No. 25 Pittsburgh on Wednesday night. Nate Laszewski and Trey Wertz each added 14 points as the Fighting Irish (11-19, 3-16

5:55 PM ET Associated Press AMES, Iowa — Iowa State guard Caleb Grill, who started all but three games and was the Cyclones’ third-leading scorer, has been dismissed from the team, coach T.J. Otzelberger announced Wednesday. “We hold our players to high standards and there are expectations that our student-athletes are held accountable for,” Otzelberger

5:21 PM ET Ronald Bell, an Arizona man who attempted to extort money from Georgia Tech and conspired with his girlfriend and a security guard to accuse Yellow Jackets basketball coach Josh Pastner of sexually assaulting her, pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to commit extortion on Wednesday, according to U.S. Attorney Ryan K.

3:34 PM ET On Thursday, history could be achieved if Antoine Davis, the Detroit Mercy star, scores 26 points in his team’s matchup against Youngstown State in the Horizon League tournament quarterfinals (8 p.m. ET on ESPN+) and passes “Pistol” Pete Maravich on the career scoring list. He needs 25 points to tie the mark.