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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

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