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.
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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
5:01 PM ET Auburn sophomore Walker Kessler will enter the 2022 NBA draft and forgo his remaining college eligibility by hiring an agent, he told ESPN on Sunday. “I am fully committed to the NBA draft,” Kessler said. “I am not planning on returning to college.” Kessler, ESPN’s No. 24 prospect, was awarded both Naismith
11:57 AM ET Thad Matta is back in coaching — and back at Butler. The Bulldogs announced Sunday they were hiring Matta as their next head coach. Matta, who spent the last year as an associate athletic director at Indiana, replaces LaVall Jordan, who was fired Friday after five seasons as Butler’s head coach. “The
8:00 AM ET The support group for 66 fan bases has returned. The Duke Blue Devils and Villanova Wildcats were the latest to join the March Madness list that will ultimately include every team but one, the group of NCAA tournament teams destined to end otherwise fine seasons with a loss. Either the Kansas Jayhawks
3:00 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN NEW ORLEANS — As Mike Krzyzewski limped off the Superdome court at 10:07 p.m. local time Saturday night, he clasped the left hand of his wife, Mickie, with his right hand. As they reached the threshold where the exit of the arena floor ends and the tunnel to the locker
1:38 AM ET NEW ORLEANS — After the last game of his 47-year career, Mike Krzyzewski walked to the podium in a makeshift media room at the Superdome and spoke after Duke’s 81-77 loss to North Carolina in the Final Four – exactly four weeks after the Tar Heels spoiled his last home game at
11:47 PM ET Jeremy WillisESPN.com Coach K’s career is officially over. The Duke Blue Devils‘ season ended with a loss to the North Carolina Tar Heels in the Final Four of the 2022 NCAA tournament. With that, the legendary career of Mike Krzyzewski, who announced in June that he would retire following the season, comes
11:38 PM ET ESPN staff The storylines from Duke and North Carolina‘s first meeting in the Final Four were aplenty in one of the most anticipated matchups of the NCAA tournament. The first Final Four meeting between the Tobacco Road rivals lived up to the hype in UNC coach Hubert Davis’ first Final Four as
11:12 PM ET NEW ORLEANS — One could make the argument that no game in college basketball history featured the pregame hype of Saturday night’s Duke vs. North Carolina Final Four contest. Given the historic ramifications of the first NCAA tournament game in the sport’s greatest rivalry — a spot in the title game at