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
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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
6:34 PM ET Villanova junior guard Justin Moore suffered a torn right Achilles and will undergo surgery this week, the school announced Sunday. Moore suffered the injury in the final minute of Saturday’s Elite Eight win over Houston. He is out indefinitely. “This is a tough blow for all of us, not just because of
11:52 AM ET The improbable NCAA tournament run by Saint Peter’s has some sportsbooks facing historic liabilities and put New Jersey bookmakers in the unusual position of potentially having to pay out on a losing team. The 15th-seeded Peacocks could be found as long as 10,000-1 to win the national men’s basketball championship before the
3:25 AM ET SAN FRANCISCO — He swears he can’t remember records or scores, but he can’t forget an ending. The devastating ones, the jubilant ones and every one that falls somewhere in between. This one, though — the final one — has been an ending from the beginning. It has taken on the feel
7:56 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN PHILADELPHIA — One of the most endearing facets of Saint Peter’s NCAA tournament run is the proportional size of the school’s athletic budget compared to the schools that it has slayed. Saint Peter’s has beaten No. 2 Kentucky, No. 7 Murray State and No. 3 Purdue, which is remarkable considering
11:23 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO — Before Duke beat Arkansas 78-69 on Saturday night in the Elite Eight of the men’s basketball tournament, securing Mike Krzyzewski’s record 13th trip to the Final Four in his final season, it was easier to talk about what the Blue Devils were missing instead of what they have. Their
11:05 PM ET Two Elite Eight games down, two to go. And at least one of Sunday’s 2022 NCAA tournament meetings is what March Madness is about for a great many viewers. The Saint Peter’s Peacocks have been the story of the tourney to date, becoming the first No. 15 team in NCAA tournament history
9:55 PM ET Villanova guard Justin Moore will have an MRI after suffering an apparent injury to his leg late in Saturday’s win over Houston in the Elite Eight, Wildcats coach Jay Wright said. Wright said X-rays on Moore’s injury revealed no broken bones but that “it’s probably not good for Justin.” Moore had to
8:27 PM ET SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Villanova is headed to its third Final Four in the past six NCAA tournaments, with a chance to win its third national championship over that same stretch. In a grind-it-out affair at the AT&T Center on Saturday night, 2-seed Villanova got out to an early lead over 5-seed
7:56 PM ET Pete ThamelESPN PHILADELPHIA — One of the most endearing facets of St. Peter’s NCAA tournament run is the proportional size of the school’s athletic budget compared to the schools that it has slayed in the NCAA tournament. St. Peter’s has beaten No. 2 Kentucky, No. 7 Murray State and No. 3 Purdue,
5:45 PM ET Associated Press Joe Williams, who coached Artis Gilmore and tiny Jacksonville University to the 1970 NCAA tournament championship game against mighty UCLA, died Saturday. He was 88. Williams, who also coached at Furman and Florida State, died in Enterprise, Mississippi, while in hospice care after a lengthy battle with cancer, his son