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12:36 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Auburn is finalizing a deal Monday to make Mississippi State’s John Cohen its next athletic director, per ESPN sources. As first reported Saturday, Cohen, who is currently in his seventh year as Mississippi State’s athletic director would replace Allen Greene, who negotiated a departure from Auburn in August as his

3:04 PM ET Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Larry Brown, the legendary basketball coach who has won NCAA and NBA titles, is taking a leave of absence from his role as the special adviser to Memphis coach Penny Hardaway because of a “minor medical issue.” The school announced Brown’s move on Sunday, saying he hopes

11:15 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN The Big 12 is on the cusp of extending its current television contract with ESPN and Fox, according to ESPN sources. The league is in the final stages of putting together a six-year, $2.8 billion contract extension that includes a sizable pay bump for schools. The new contract, which takes

12:31 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN Mississippi State athletic director John Cohen is in talks to become the next AD at Auburn, sources told ESPN. A deal has yet to be finalized but could happen in the near future. Cohen is in his seventh year as the athletic director at Mississippi State, and his move would

6:16 AM ET Florida State freshman Baba Miller will miss the first half of the 2022-23 season after losing an appeal of an NCAA penalty over a travel benefit, the school announced. In a release from the school, Florida State said Miller, a 6-foot-11 forward who played for Spain’s under-18 national team over the summer,

9:00 AM ET Every 2022-23 men’s college basketball preseason list coming out right now will be naming superlatives. In fact, we did the same thing, with our picks for the top coaches and players across every Division I conference. We’re going to choose something a little different for this next edition: the come-from-behind team that

6:23 PM ET Associated Press LORMAN, Miss. — Alcorn State men’s basketball coach Landon Bussie has agreed to a contract extension that will keep him in Lorman, Mississippi, through 2026, the university announced Thursday. “I’m humbled and honored to have the continued support of our university president, as well as our director of athletics,” Bussie

12:27 PM ET Two of high school basketball’s most prominent showcases rescinded invitations to Donda Academy’s boys’ basketball program earlier this week following the recent antisemitic statements made by the school’s founder, the artist formerly known as Kanye West. The revoked invitations to the boys’ basketball program by The Hoophall Classic and Kentucky Play-By-Play Classic

12:16 PM ET Associated Press Jay Wright will be in the midst of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. The biggest difference now is the former Villanova coach gets to enjoy it a lot more. CBS Sports and Warner Brothers Discovery Sports announced on Thursday that Wright will be a studio analyst during March Madness on

As the 2022-23 men’s college basketball season draws closer, ESPN.com’s panel of experts is predicting the order of finish for the nation’s top conferences. We’ve already looked at the mid-majors, American, Pac-12, Big East, and Big Ten. Now our focus turns to the SEC. Anyone still believing the SEC is only a football conference hasn’t

5:42 PM ET Mookie Betts, the superstar outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers who signed a $365 million deal two years ago, continues to prove he’s more than just a baseball player. 1 Related Earlier this month, he bowled a perfect 300 game on his 30th birthday. That followed a viral video from three years

3:45 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA’s Division I board of directors approved on Wednesday new guidance to members on name, image and likeness activities, clarifying how schools, coaches and staffers can be involved with athletes’ endorsement and sponsorship deals. The latest clarifications to the NCAA’s interim NIL policy creates no new rules,

4:29 PM ET Associated Press North Carolina coach Hubert Davis has a new six-year contract and a raise after his first-year run to the NCAA championship game. Signed in late August, the deal runs through the 2027-28 season and is worth about $16.7 million. That includes base and supplemental pay, as well as compensation tied

3:09 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO — USC‘s and UCLA‘s upcoming move to the Big Ten has not been popular with their supporters, according to Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff. Both USC and UCLA will become full members of the Big Ten in 2024 after an offseason move that changed the structure of college sports. During Pac-12

4:14 PM ET Associated Press LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky forward and consensus national player of the year Oscar Tshiebwe said Tuesday he “absolutely” anticipates being ready for the No. 4 Wildcats’ season opener after having a procedure on his right knee earlier this month. The 6-foot-9 senior spoke publicly for the first time since Wildcats

1:50 PM ET Steve Masiello is out as Manhattan‘s head coach, sources told ESPN, just two weeks before the start of the season. Masiello was entering the final season of his contract and no agreement on an extension had been reached, sources told ESPN. Associate head coach RaShawn Stores is the leading candidate to be

8:30 AM ET The 2022-23 men’s college basketball season is 17 days away, and ESPN.com’s panel of experts continues to provide everything you need to know about the nation’s top conferences before tip. They’ve squared away the mid-majors, the American, the Pac-12 and the Big East. Now, the focus turns to the Big Ten. This

9:36 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Jim Nantz will step away from calling the NCAA men’s basketball tournament after next year and will be succeeded by Ian Eagle. CBS Sports confirmed the move on Monday night. It was first reported by the New York Post. Nantz has been a part of the CBS