9:56 PM ET PORTLAND, Oregon — Iowa State head coach T.J. Otzelberger had tears in his eyes as he sat next to senior Caleb Grill at the postgame news conference. Grill delivered what Otzelberger called a “surreal” performance against the No. 1 team in the nation, scoring a career-high 31 points and going 7-for-11 from
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10:18 PM ET ESPN News Services PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas — Santiago Vescovi scored 20 points while No. 22 Tennessee locked down on third-ranked Kansas to beat the reigning national champions 64-50 in Friday night’s championship game at the Battle 4 Atlantis. Vescovi hit five 3-pointers to drive the offense for the Volunteers (5-1), who dominated
5:03 PM ET Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. — Michigan State forward Malik Hall will be sidelined for about three weeks due to a stress reaction in his left foot, the school announced Thursday. The 12th-ranked Spartans face No. 18 Alabama on Thursday night in the opening round of the Phil Knight Invitational. Along with Hall,
8:00 AM ET Chris Harden With two and a half weeks of men’s college basketball under our belts, we’re all ready to sit down to Thanksgiving dinner, argue with extended family about how our favorite team is handling the opening slate of games — and, regardless of fandom, watch the quarterfinals of the Phil Knight
5:46 PM ET ESPN News Services PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas — Bill Self couldn’t wait to get started Wednesday at the Battle 4 Atlantis. Neither could hot-shooting Kansas rookie Gradey Dick. Dick scored a season-high 25 points to help the third-ranked Jayhawks beat NC State 80-74 in Wednesday’s tournament opener, giving Self a successful return to
8:00 AM ET WHEN NC STATE TOOK on Purdue in mid-December of last season, the attention was all on the Boilermakers. They had just moved to No. 1 in the AP poll, and guard Jaden Ivey was in the midst of a sophomore campaign that would ultimately vault him to becoming a top-five pick in
10:03 PM ET The University of New Mexico said Tuesday that its two men’s basketball games against rival New Mexico State won’t be played this season, a decision that came in the wake of a shooting over the weekend involving one Aggies player. The teams had been scheduled to play in Albuquerque this past Saturday
1:22 PM ET Associated Press For the first time, the Final Four is headed to Las Vegas, where wagering on the NCAA tournament has long been a staple of March Madness revelry, after the NCAA awarded the men’s national semifinals and championship game to Allegiant Stadium for the 2027-28 season. The NCAA also announced Tuesday
12:38 PM ET Associated Press Virginia had the difficult task of playing two ranked teams while grieving a tragedy that shook the Cavaliers and the rest of their campus. Playing a week after three football players were shot to death on a bus, Virginia won the Continental Tire Main Event in Las Vegas over No.
12:35 PM ET AJ Johnson, the top available prospect in high school basketball, has committed to Texas, he told ESPN on Monday. Johnson, ESPN’s No. 25-ranked player in the 2023 high school class, was the lone top-40 prospect to announce where he’ll be playing next season besides Bronny James, who ranks No. 34. Johnson picked
7:00 AM ET All the complaints about a quiet first week of the 2022-23 men’s college basketball season quickly disappeared over the past seven days, with blockbuster games seemingly every night, including the Champions Classic, Gonzaga at Texas and the Continental Tire Classic. And can you remember a Sunday quadruple-header featuring games like Virginia vs.
8:51 PM ET A New Mexico State men’s basketball player shot early Saturday was “lured” to the University of New Mexico campus by four New Mexico students before an altercation ensued wherein he shot and killed one of the students, according to a Sunday release from the New Mexico State police. In the predawn shooting
8:51 PM ET New Mexico State men’s basketball player Mike Peake was shot early Saturday after he was “lured” to the University of New Mexico campus by four New Mexico students before an altercation ensued wherein Peake shot and killed one of the students, according to a Sunday release from the New Mexico State police.
3:02 PM ET ESPN News Services A New Mexico State student-athlete was involved in the fatal shooting of a student from the University of New Mexico early Saturday, according to a school official. New Mexico State chancellor Dan E. Arvizu confirmed Sunday that “one of our student athletes is now in the hospital following an
4:03 PM ET Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The New Mexico State–New Mexico men’s basketball game scheduled for Saturday was postponed after a 19-year-old man was killed and a 21-year-old man was wounded in a predawn shooting at the University of New Mexico campus in Albuquerque. The shooting took place at about 3 a.m. Saturday
9:56 PM ET ESPN News Services LAS VEGAS — Armaan Franklin scored a career-high 26 points, and No. 16 Virginia used a big second-half run to knock off No. 5 Baylor 86-79 on Friday night in the team’s first game since three Cavaliers football players were killed in a campus shooting. Virginia’s players wore sweatshirts
5:27 PM ET Duke freshman star Dariq Whitehead scored six points off the bench in his collegiate debut, helping the Blue Devils beat Delaware 92-58 on Friday night. Whitehead hadn’t played yet this season after undergoing surgery on his right foot in late August. He shot 3-for-11 from the field and added two rebounds in
8:05 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Virginia players took the court before their game Friday against No. 5 Baylor wearing sweatshirts honoring three Cavaliers football players who were fatally shot on campus nearly a week ago. The names of those players were printed on the backs of the shirts, and their jersey numbers