NCAABB

3:44 PM ET Tennessee freshman Kennedy Chandler will enter the 2022 NBA draft and forgo his remaining college eligibility by hiring an agent, he told Malika Andrews on ESPN’s NBA Today on Tuesday. “I am staying in the NBA draft and signing with agent Ryan Davis of Rep 1 Sports,” Chandler told ESPN. Chandler, the

3:22 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN La Salle is expected to hire Fran Dunphy as the Explorers’ next coach, sources confirmed to ESPN on Tuesday. Dunphy has spent 30 years as a head coach in Philadelphia at both Penn and Temple, taking 17 different teams to the NCAA tournament at the two schools. Dunphy, 73, is

12:50 PM ET Three key members of the Saint Peter’s Cinderella run in the NCAA tournament are leaving the men’s basketball program. Junior guards Doug Edert, Daryl Banks III and Matthew Lee all entered the transfer portal Tuesday morning. The decisions come one week after coach Shaheen Holloway left Saint Peter’s to become the head

1:54 PM ET Associated Press AUBURN, Ala. — Auburn freshman Jabari Smith, who led the Tigers to their first No. 1 ranking, is entering the NBA draft. Smith, who is projected as a potential No. 1 overall pick, lived up to his billing as the highest-rated recruit in program history. He announced his decision in

8:41 AM ET The rock chalk champions are the favorites to win it all again next season. Caesars Sportsbook has installed the Kansas Jayhawks as the favorites, at 10-1, to win the 2023 national championship. On Monday, the Jayhawks pulled off the largest comeback in a championship game to nip North Carolina 72-69 to earn

11:56 AM ET Joe DeMartinoESPN Editor Close General Editor Joined ESPN in 2006 Massachusetts native, Northwestern graduate What a first season for Hubert Davis as North Carolina Tar Heels head coach. Roy Williams’ successor brought his squad on an epic run through the NCAA tournament, culminating in a trip to the national championship game. It’s

2:47 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN NEW ORLEANS — A few minutes before midnight in the loading area outside the Caesars Superdome, the police motorcycles roared their engines to life. The flashing lights highlighted the front seats of the North Carolina men’s basketball team bus, which illuminated the emotion of a strange night. UNC star big

2:00 AM ET NEW ORLEANS — As he sat just a few rows behind the Kansas bench at the Caesars Superdome on Monday night, Mario Chalmers tried not to squirm. The program he had led to the 2008 basketball national championship had entered halftime with a 15-point deficit. Chalmers, the hero of that team who

11:40 PM ET After an NCAA tournament that featured a 15-seed in the Elite Eight, a Duke-North Carolina rivalry game with unprecedented stakes, the final game of Mike Krzyzewski’s legendary career and as hyped a Final Four as we’ll ever see, we all need a minute to catch our breath and recharge. Done? OK, good.

1:30 AM ET Men’s college basketball has a new national champion. The Kansas Jayhawks launched a historic comeback to prevail 72-69 over the North Carolina Tar Heels in Monday night’s final, the school’s fourth national title and second under head coach Bill Self, who also led KU to the 2008 crown. Kansas made history by

11:56 PM ET NEW ORLEANS — Entering Monday, Kansas had trailed at halftime just once in this year’s NCAA tournament. It was in the Elite Eight against Miami, when the Jayhawks turned a six-point halftime deficit into a 26-point win. They outscored the Hurricanes 47-15 in the final 20 minutes of that game. “I told

9:40 PM ET We’re coming to the end of March Madness 2022. After Saturday’s Final Four there is one game to play. The North Carolina Tar Heels face the Kansas Jayhawks. The Jayhawks, a No. 1 seed, crushed the Villanova Wildcats behind a career night from David McCormack. It continued an impressive run by Kansas.

7:38 PM ET Morehead State star Johni Broome entered the transfer portal on Monday, immediately becoming one of the top-five transfers this spring. Broome, a 6-foot-10 sophomore center from Florida, was a first-team All-Ohio Valley Conference selection in each of the past two seasons. He averaged 16.8 points, 10.5 rebounds and 3.9 blocks this past

4:03 PM ET Associated Press LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky forward Keion Brooks Jr. will enter the NBA draft but does not plan on hiring an agent, leaving open the possibility of returning to school. Brooks averaged career bests in several categories as a junior, including 10.8 points per contest on 49% shooting. His best performance

1:15 PM ET Western Michigan is expected to hire Michigan State associate head coach Dwayne Stephens as the school’s new men’s basketball coach, sources told ESPN’s Pete Thamel. A Michigan State alum, Stephens has worked under Spartans head coach Tom Izzo for 19 years. Before joining Izzo’s staff, Stephens was an assistant at Oakland (1997-99)

12:54 PM ET Associated Press SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse forward Cole Swider will forgo his final year of eligibility and declare for the NBA draft, he announced on social media. “I’ll be forever thankful for the opportunities Syracuse provided. I believe it is time to challenge myself at the next level,” Swider wrote Sunday on

6:00 AM ET Two celebrated men’s college basketball programs will compete for the right to add another banner to the home rafters on Monday night. The No. 1 seed Kansas Jayhawks and No. 8 seed North Carolina Tar Heels will meet for the NCAA Division I men’s basketball national championship at Caesars Superdome in New

4:19 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN NEW ORLEANS — North Carolina star big man Armando Bacot plans to play in the national championship game against Kansas on Monday night. Bacot sprained his right ankle in UNC’s 81-77 win over Duke in the Final Four on Saturday. He left for less than a minute of game time