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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

8:36 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN The acrimonious departure of Old Dominion, Marshall and Southern Miss from Conference USA to the Sun Belt has been finalized, the league announced on Tuesday in a joint statement with the three schools. The schools are officially headed to the Sun Belt for the 2022 football season, ending a spate

4:50 PM ET Iowa sophomore Keegan Murray will enter the 2022 NBA draft. “I am forever grateful that Coach [Fran] McCaffery gave me the opportunity to live out my dream,” Murray told ESPN on Tuesday. “Iowa will always be my home and I’m forever grateful to be part of Hawkeye Nation.” Murray, the No. 5

2:17 PM ET Associated Press HAMILTON, N.Y. — Colgate men’s basketball coach Matt Langel has agreed to a contract extension through 2030, the university announced Tuesday. Langel guided the Raiders to their third 20-win season and third Patriot League regular-season and tournament championships in four years. Colgate beat Navy for the Patriot League Tournament title

7:30 AM ET CHICAGO — The chant began right after the announcement. Kansas fans occupying most of the United Center stood to salute the most outstanding player of the Midwest Region, who had helped their team reach its first Final Four since 2018. Remy! Remy! Remy! Jayhawks guard Remy Martin had connected with the crowd

7:46 PM ET Jeff Borzello Close ESPN Staff Writer Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Paul Biancardi Close 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 The Muss Bus is getting

5:52 PM ET New Mexico State hired former Northwest Florida State coach Greg Heiar as its next men’s basketball head coach, the school announced on Sunday. Heiar replaces Chris Jans, who left the school for the Mississippi State job after leading the Aggies to a first-round upset of UConn in the NCAA tournament. “While the

6:27 PM ET Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. — The number of South Carolina players returning from this past season’s men’s basketball team continues to shrink, leaving the program before they see what new coach Lamont Paris can do. The Gamecocks have had six players from this year’s roster enter the transfer portal. The latest was

4:47 PM ET Illinois guard Andre Curbelo entered the men’s basketball transfer portal on Monday, ending a frustrating season for the sophomore. Curbelo appeared in the portal shortly before releasing a statement on Twitter. “Illini Nation … where do I begin?” he wrote. “These past two years have been insane. So many amazing moments and

10:30 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN Louisiana Tech is expected to hire Texas Tech assistant coach Talvin Hester as the school’s next men’s basketball coach, sources told ESPN. The hire is expected to be completed on Monday, per sources. Hester is a familiar face in Ruston. He spent three years there as an assistant under the

9:48 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN PHILADELPHIA — About an hour after Saint Peter’s charmed March run sputtered to an end against North Carolina, coach Shaheen Holloway emerged from the Peacocks’ locker room. As he walked toward the team bus with his oldest son, Xavier, Holloway wore a backpack with an oversized yellow tube of Wet

9:20 PM 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 PHILADELPHIA — With North Carolina‘s 20-point win over Saint Peter’s in the East Regional final, the stage is now set for perhaps the ultimate meeting of

8:35 PM ET Duke heads into the Final Four as the consensus favorite to win the national title at sportsbooks, but the Blue Devils will have to get past archrival North Carolina to get to the championship game. Duke has been installed as a 4.5-point favorite over the Tar Heels in their Final Four showdown

6:16 PM ET ESPN News Services DALLAS — SMU named Rob Lanier as its men’s basketball coach on Sunday after he took Georgia State to the NCAA tournament this season. Lanier was 53-30 in his three seasons at Georgia State. He previously took Siena to the NCAA tourney in 2002, in the first of his

7:30 PM ET The 2022 men’s NCAA tournament has offered a variety of upsets that have made it one of college basketball’s best postseason events in recent history. Saint Peter’s, a school with just under 3,000 students, made the Elite Eight as a 15-seed. Three of the top seeds (Baylor, Arizona and Gonzaga) were eliminated

6:50 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN PHILADELPHIA — North Carolina and Duke have played each other 257 times since 1920. They’ve competed in thunderclap matchups of No. 1 vs. No. 2, battled frequently in the ACC tournament and even faced off once in the 1971 NIT semifinals. The 258th matchup will be the first one to

6:32 PM ET CHICAGO — Kansas coach Bill Self never ruled out the possibility of his team reaching the Final Four. He didn’t feel as certain as he did in 2020, when Kansas spent the final month of the season ranked No. 1 before the coronavirus pandemic canceled the NCAA tournament. This Jayhawks version had