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7:15 AM ET Feast Week is upon us. Maybe the best non-March week on the college basketball calendar. What’s not to love? Daytime hoops, late-night hoops, games while you’re eating turkey, games while you’re in a food coma. And lest you think these are just November nonconference games that are irrelevant in the long run,

2:43 AM ET ESPN News Services Duke freshman forward Paolo Banchero, speaking for the first time since he was charged with aiding and abetting impaired driving during a Nov. 14 incident that involved teammate Michael Savarino, said Monday night that the Blue Devils “all learned from it” and have “moved on.” “My teammates had my

9:39 PM ET Associated Press DURHAM, N.C. — The Citadel coach Duggar Baucom collapsed barely a minute into a game Monday night against No. 5 Duke and was helped off the floor by medical personnel. The 61-year-old Baucom fell along the sideline with Duke leading 3-2 and 18:57 left in the first half. He was

12:43 PM ET Associated Press Gonzaga and UCLA continued their hold on the top two spots in the Associated Press Top 25 men’s college basketball poll Monday, setting the stage for their highly anticipated showdown this week, while Purdue and Duke barged their way into the top five. The Bulldogs (4-0) had an easy week

7:15 AM ET Nearly every power conference in college basketball has been facing questions about how good it’ll be this season: ACC teams not named Duke or Virginia Tech are struggling in general; the bottom of the SEC looks very weak; the Big Ten suffered an assortment of ranked losses this week; and the Pac-12

3:16 PM ET Southern Utah coach Todd Simon said “gymnastics” at the scorer’s table cost his team in a 75-68, double-overtime loss to California on Thursday. The chaos started when Jason Spurgin, a 6-foot-11 center, got fouled and went to the free throw line with his team up 41-34 at the 14:02 mark of the

2:04 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 Top-40 junior Reed Sheppard, son

5:34 PM ET German forward Michael Rataj has committed to Oregon State, he told ESPN on Friday. Rataj, 18, is considered one of the most promising European forwards committing to the college route. He averaged 15 points, 3.8 rebounds and 1.4 steals in just 22 minutes per game at the FIBA U18 European Challengers this

6:38 PM ET Associated Press Jim Calhoun, who led UConn to three national titles, has retired again, this time from Division III Saint Joseph. The 79-year-old Hall of Fame coach, who has struggled with stomach cancer and other ailments, said his health was not a factor in his decision to leave the former women-only school

5:42 PM ET Penny Hardaway called on the city of Memphis to “do better” after his friend, rapper Young Dolph, was shot and killed on Wednesday at a local cookie shop. Young Dolph, whose real name was Adolph Thorton Jr., was a rap star who surprised Memphis basketball fans when he performed at Memphis Madness

12:00 PM ET We’re trending toward an awfully familiar situation at the top of the 2022 recruiting class rankings: Kentucky and Duke finishing at No. 1 and No. 2. Arkansas looked set to crash the party earlier this fall after landing top-10 prospects Nick Smith and Jordan Walsh in a three-week span. Eric Musselman’s Razorbacks

7:25 AM ET We’re just over a week into the 2021-22 men’s college basketball season, but we already have surprises, disappointments, victory laps and wrong predictions. While you might say it’s too early to truly evaluate anything, I would counter with the fact there’s no better time for overreactions and knee-jerk assessments. After one weekend

7:15 AM ET For decades, the equation for high school basketball stars advancing to the next level was fairly simple: college basketball, or the NBA. The overwhelming majority chose the former, with universities and the NBA embracing a system — one that persists to this day — that effectively utilized college basketball as a sort

2:16 PM ET Associated Press The NCAA announced Wednesday that the Division I Infractions Appeals Committee upheld penalties against Massachusetts’ men’s basketball and women’s tennis programs in a case that garnered national attention as one of the athletes involved took her fight public. The appeals committee confirmed the school provided impermissible financial aid of about

2:08 PM ET Associated Press LUBBOCK, Texas — Texas Tech has cleared junior Terrence Shannon Jr. to return to play for the Red Raiders after being held out of the team’s first three games during a review of eligibility rules. The school said Wednesday that all questions related to Shannon having gone through the NBA

8:30 AM ET After suffering three consecutive ACL tears and enduring a canceled season last year, Penn’s Jelani Williams, a fifth-year senior, finally played in his first collegiate home game — an 85-57 win over Lafayette at the Palestra in Philadelphia — on Tuesday night. He had waited 1,795 days for that opportunity. The 23-year-old

7:15 AM ET College basketball fans and NBA draft enthusiasts have plenty of rankings to tell them who the best teams in the men’s game are and plenty telling them who the best college players and NBA prospects are. But which teams have the most guys who will eventually make money playing basketball, whether in

7:37 PM ET Michigan coach Juwan Howard has agreed a new five-year contract through the 2025-26 season, the school announced Tuesday. Financial terms of the deal were not immediately available. “I’m honored to be regarded in such a way that the University wished to continue a lasting relationship with me,” Howard said. “It was a