NCAABB

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

8:08 PM ET The Kansas Jayhawks won the first Final Four matchup to book a spot in Monday’s NCAA tournament national title game. KU beat the Villanova Wildcats, 81-65. With a couple of monster dunks, Kansas senior forward David McCormack had a career night with a season-high 25 points and 9 rebounds. Ochai Agbaji added

8:12 PM ET NEW ORLEANS — Despite his team’s arrival as the only No. 1 seed in the Final Four, Bill Self’s pursuit of his second national championship had been tucked into the corner of a national semifinals that had minimized the weekend’s opening act and any storylines attached to it. And even if the

8:15 PM ET NEW ORLEANS — The Kansas Jayhawks got the 2022 Final Four off to a smoking start on Saturday night, running out to a 10-0 lead and keeping the Villanova Wildcats at arm’s length the rest of the way in an 81-65 win at the Caesars Superdome. The victory puts KU in Monday

7:16 PM ET Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. — Albany men’s basketball coach Dwayne Killings will serve a five-game suspension next season and pay a $25,000 fine for “inappropriate physical contact” with a player, the university announced Saturday. The university’s investigation concluded that it was an isolated incident. Killings admitted his mistake, apologized and will keep

6:33 PM ET Associated Press PITTSBURGH — Julius Pegues, the first Black basketball player at the University of Pittsburgh, has died after being treated for cancer. He was 86. The school said Pegues died this week at John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The 6-foot-3 forward joined Pitt in 1954 and played

Manu Ginobili, Tim Hardaway, Swin Cash, Lindsay Whalen among 13-member Hall of Fame class A star-studded 13-member Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2022 includes Manu Ginobili, Tim Hardaway, Swin Cash, Lindsay Whalen, Bob Huggins, George Karl and Marianne Stanley.

4:44 PM ET The calendar has turned to April, but we’ve reached the penultimate night of March Madness. Saturday’s tipoff of the 2022 Final Four in New Orleans features the bluest of blue-blood matchups and ticket prices to match. Between the Kansas Jayhawks, Villanova Wildcats, Duke Blue Devils and North Carolina Tar Heels, the schools

2:18 PM ET Andrew LopezESPN Four-time NBA champion Manu Ginobili, five-time NBA All-Star Tim Hardaway, three-time WNBA champion and two-time gold medalist Swin Cash, and five-time WNBA All-Star and three-time NBA champion Lindsay Whalen highlighted the 13-member Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2022 that was announced Saturday. Other honorees included two-time NCAA

7:00 AM ET The men’s version of the 2022 Final Four brings a heavy dose of the familiar, with just a touch of the unique. When the Duke Blue Devils, Kansas Jayhawks, North Carolina Tar Heels and Villanova Wildcats descend upon the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on Saturday, it will be a confluence of

7:28 PM ET With quite a few intriguing storylines to the 2022 Final Four, ticket marketplaces are seeing an increase in demand and price to watch the last four teams in the NCAA tournament. Duke and North Carolina are playing against each other for the first time ever in the NCAA Tournament — and it’s

6:01 PM ET Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — The sport Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski is leaving is run by an organization he doesn’t much recognize anymore. Or like at all. The 75-year-old coach, whose career ends after Duke is done at the Final Four, used the opportunity of what could be his last big news

4:46 PM ET Ohio State freshman Malaki Branham will enter the NBA draft, but will maintain his college eligibility, he told ESPN on Friday. “I will be testing the draft waters while keeping my college eligibility intact,” Branham said. “I want to find the best situation and the right fit for me. I am staying

6:14 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN NEW ORLEANS — The Villanova Wildcats’ Jay Wright has long been the don of the debonair among college basketball coaches. His rise to one of the sport’s elite coaches came accompanied by his stylish sideline suits, with no bold pattern left unworn. As Villanova emerged as an A-list program and

5:04 PM ET Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — Kentucky’s Oscar Tshiebwe spent an entire season relentlessly chasing and pulling down seemingly every rebound that came his way – and plenty that didn’t, too. “I want to be the greatest rebounder I can be,” Tshiebwe said. The 6-foot-9, 255-pound junior put up better rebounding numbers than

4:31 PM ET Associated Press Tommy Lloyd spent 22 years as Mark Few’s right-hand man turning Gonzaga into a national powerhouse. He needed just one season to return Arizona to prominence. Lloyd was named The Associated Press men’s college basketball coach of the year on Friday after leading the Wildcats to the Sweet 16 in

3:46 PM ET LSU lost its 11th player to the transfer portal on Friday, with sophomore Mwani Wilkinson opting to leave the program. Freshman forward Alex Fudge entered the portal earlier on Friday. In a fairly unprecedented situation, that now leaves new head coach Matt McMahon with zero scholarship players from this past season still

3:37 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — TCU announced a contract extension for men’s basketball coach Jamie Dixon through the 2027-28 season Friday after he led his alma mater to its first NCAA tournament victory in 35 years. Dixon was a player the last time the Horned Frogs won a tournament game, in