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8:00 AM ET This weekend’s men’s college basketball slate features multiple games every fan should watch. Brandon Miller and Alabama will go to rival Auburn in a major SEC matchup. Baylor and TCU will battle in Fort Worth, Texas, in a game with Big 12 title implications. And UConn will travel to Omaha, Nebraska, to

8:22 PM ET Oklahoma and Texas have agreed in principle to pay the Big 12 conference a total of $100 million to join the SEC in 2024, a year earlier than they had originally intended, the Big 12 conference announced on Thursday evening. The agreement is subject to the final approval from the Oklahoma and

6:32 PM ET Associated Press The Southeastern Conference says it distributed an average of $49.9 million to its 14 member schools for the fiscal year that ended last August. Commissioner Greg Sankey said Thursday the league divided $721.8 million of total revenue among its members. That included $698.5 million distributed by the league office and

12:57 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — Texas officials have more than doubled interim coach Rodney Terry’s salary to $1.2 million this season as he leads the No. 5 Longhorns after the midseason firing of former coach Chris Beard. Terry took over the team as acting head coach when Beard was initially suspended following

7:00 AM ET Around 1 a.m. ET, in the wee hours of Sunday morning, two storylines were emerging out of Moraga, California: Saint Mary’s was officially poised to end Gonzaga‘s reign atop the West Coast Conference, and Aidan Mahaney was ready to become a national name. Saint Mary’s came back in the final minutes to

3:50 PM ET Associated Press PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Junior forward Mawot Mag will miss the rest of the men’s basketball season for No. 24 Rutgers after tearing the ACL in his right knee. Rutgers announced the injury Tuesday, hours before the Scarlet Knights were to play at No. 18 Indiana. Mag was hurt Saturday in

7:00 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 The 2022-23 men’s college basketball season has already been a wild ride. North Carolina was everyone’s preseason No. 1. Now you’ll find the Tar Heels rubbing

4:33 PM ET Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota‘s game at Illinois that was scheduled for Tuesday has been postponed because of COVID-19 health and safety protocols within the Gophers’ program. The announcement was made Monday by Minnesota, which didn’t specify how many players would have been unable to play. The Gophers (7-15, 1-11) had only

12:20 PM ET Associated Press Purdue‘s unquestioned grip on No. 1 in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll is gone after a weekend loss. That didn’t stop the Boilermakers from remaining at the top anyway. The Boilermakers earned 38 of 62 first-place votes in the poll released Monday to remain at No. 1 for

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