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7:52 PM ET NEW YORK — Xavier interim head coach Jonas Hayes led his team to the NIT championship game at Madison Square Garden after Travis Steele was fired a few weeks ago. Per new head coach Sean Miller on Thursday, Hayes will be retained as his new associate head coach, if he wants the

4:59 PM ET Associated Press SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. — Having coach Shaheen Holloway get the head coaching job at Seton Hall wasn’t a surprise at all. The Pirates’ career assists leader and star of the college coaching scene after taking Cinderella Saint Peter’s to the Elite Eight, was the only person athletic director Bryan Felt

4:34 PM ET ESPN News Services WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue‘s Jaden Ivey has entered his name in the NBA draft, forfeiting his final two seasons of college eligibility. “This has been a lifelong dream of mine and I am beyond excited for this journey,” Ivey posted on social media. 🖤 pic.twitter.com/we2EGvDhrE — Jaden Ivey

3:43 PM ET Wisconsin sophomore guard Johnny Davis 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 Thursday. “After taking some time off and discussing everything with my family and coaches, I have decided to pursue a lifelong dream

1:27 PM ET Kansas State guard Nijel Pack entered the transfer portal Thursday, becoming arguably the best available basketball transfer this spring. Pack, a 6-foot guard from Indianapolis, departs the program two weeks after the school replaced Bruce Weber with longtime Baylor assistant Jerome Tang. Pack led the Wildcats in scoring, averaging 17.4 points, 3.8

10:00 AM ET The Final Four is the deciding weekend of the national championship in college basketball, and while the conclusion is paramount, the event is far more than that. On this fabulous weekend when the game crowns a champion, there is also the largest gathering of the year in fans, media and the game’s

7:27 AM ET Dalen CuffESPN Duke vs. North Carolina, the greatest rivalry in college sports, has produced a plethora of iconic moments. On Saturday night, the two storied schools will meet in the NCAA tournament for the first time in an unlikely clash in the Final Four. Mike Krzyzewski is the greatest college coach of

6:43 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN PHILADELPHIA — North Carolina Tar Heels men’s basketball coach Hubert Davis exited the collective embrace of his coaching staff, walked down the sideline for the postgame handshake after UNC clinched a Final Four bid on Sunday and began feeling the emotion bubbling up inside of him. As he approached Saint

6:48 PM ET Seton Hall has hired Shaheen Holloway — fresh off leading Saint Peter’s on its historic Elite Eight run — as its next head coach, the school announced Wednesday. Holloway, who will be introduced as the Pirates’ new coach on Thursday, agreed to a six-year deal, sources told ESPN. “Life has a way

7:00 PM ET Five men’s college basketball players were named finalists for the John R. Wooden Award on Wednesday, with Kansas junior guard Ochai Agbaji among the five standouts on the list. Agbaji, who will lead the Jayhawks in a Final Four matchup with Villanova on Saturday, joins Wisconsin‘s Johnny Davis, Iowa‘s Keegan Murray, Gonzaga‘s

7:41 PM ET ESPN News Services WACO, Texas — Baylor standout freshman Kendall Brown and point guard James Akinjo both announced Wednesday they are entering their names into the NBA draft. The players revealed their decisions individually on their social media accounts. Akinjo still had another season of eligibility at Baylor, where he transferred last

6:20 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — Three Georgetown players — Timothy Ighoefe, Tyler Beard and Jalin Billingsley — entered the NCAA transfer portal Wednesday, the latest in a series of members of coach Patrick Ewing’s team to leave the Hoyas. Ighoefe is a 7-foot junior center who averaged 2.6 points and 4.1 rebounds across

4:06 PM ET Notre Dame freshman Blake Wesley will enter the 2022 NBA draft, saying he has no plans to return to the Fighting Irish. “I plan on staying in the draft,” he told ESPN on Wednesday. “I’m in a great position. I’m ready for the NBA. I’m ready to start my next journey.” Wesley,

4:30 PM ET Tory BarronESPN Editor Close Tory Barron is a Bristol-based writer and editor for ESPN.com. After retiring from playing lacrosse at UConn, the DC native decided to try her hand at writing about people playing sports. On Tuesday, Eric Church released a statement via Ticketmaster letting fans know he was cancelling his sold-out

2:00 PM ET For the first time ever, all four Final Four teams enter having won multiple national championships. All four teams entered the year with 30-1 or shorter odds, with Villanova leading the way at 12-1, and North Carolina the biggest preseason longshot at 30-1. North Carolina was a much bigger longshot entering the

12:17 PM ET Chattanooga is expected to hire VMI‘s Dan Earl as its men’s basketball coach, sources told ESPN. An official announcement is expected later this week. Earl has been the coach at VMI — considered one of the toughest jobs in America — for the past seven seasons. He led the Keydets to back-to-back

9:00 AM ET WWE will begin talent tryouts Wednesday for 45 current and former college athletes, including 19 football players, as part of WrestleMania Week in the Dallas area. The three-day tryout, taking place at Dallas Cowboys headquarters in Frisco, Texas, will include evaluations for performance and promotion as well as interviews and technical sessions

11:51 PM ET ESPN News Services CHICAGO — Villanova-bound Cam Whitmore scored 19 points, future Duke Blue Devil Dariq Whitehead added 13 points, and the East beat the West 105-81 at Wintrust Arena on Tuesday night. Whitmore had eight rebounds. Whitehead added seven rebounds and seven assists while taking MVP honors as the East rolled