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6:18 PM ET Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. — No. 5 Gonzaga‘s game against Washington scheduled for Sunday has been canceled due to COVID-19 protocols within the Huskies program. The game will not be made up this season. The schools said Thursday that continuing the series is important and the programs would be working to find

3:28 PM ET Florida State named Michael Alford as its new athletic director Thursday, with the Seminoles changing course after targeting Louisville AD Vince Tyra for the job. Alford has served as president and CEO of Seminole Boosters since 2020, accepting that job after spending time as athletic director at Central Michigan from 2017 to

7:00 AM ET Following an 82-79 loss at Georgia on Dec. 1, Memphis coach Penny Hardaway compared his group to an AAU team. “I’m really gutted from looking at this,” he told reporters. “We look like an AAU team. It looks really bad, and I don’t really understand what these guys are thinking.” Three days

7:50 PM ET Miami is set to hire Clemson’s Dan Radakovich as its new athletics director, a source told ESPN, confirming multiple reports. The hire is expected to be made official on Thursday, according to a source, and represents another big step in Miami’s commitment to revamping its leadership after hiring former Hurricanes player Mario

3:29 PM ET LAS VEGAS — NCAA president Mark Emmert said trust and collegiality within college athletics is suffering after the recent round of conference realignment and other developments within the industry. Emmert, speaking Wednesday at the Sports Business Journal Learfield Intercollegiate Athletics Forum, said relations between leagues and individuals are “worse today” than at

8:30 AM ET On Tuesday night, Kobe King scored seven quick points in the first half during a 14-0 run in Valparaiso’s 101-58 win over East-West University (Chicago). King hadn’t played in a college basketball game in nearly two years. “It felt good,” said King, who finished with 19 points (9-for-13 on field goals). “It

7:30 AM ET The first month of the 2021-22 college basketball season is nearly in the books, and impressions have begun to form about the best teams in both the men’s and women’s games. But which schools are doing it best in both men’s and women’s college basketball? That’s the question we’ve attempted to answer

8:33 PM ET ESPN News Services GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Previously winless Texas Southern stunned No. 20 Florida 69-54 on Monday night behind PJ Henry‘s 16 points and Joirdon Karl Nicholas‘ perfect shooting performance. Texas Southern became the first Southwestern Athletic Conference team to beat a ranked SEC program in The Associated Press poll era dating

12:38 PM ET Associated Press Purdue is No. 1 in the Associated Press men’s college basketball poll for the first time. The Boilermakers were a unanimous No. 1 in the poll released Monday to move up from No. 2 last week. Reigning national champion Baylor moved up to No. 2, with Duke, UCLA and Gonzaga

7:15 AM ET Still less than one month into the 2021-22 men’s college basketball season, we’re already onto our third No. 1 team at the top of the rankings. But this time, it was a much easier debate than last week’s. Purdue is the clear No. 1 — and based on its upcoming schedule, that

10:42 PM ET ESPN News Services SEATTLE — Jaden Shackelford scored 20 of his 28 points in the first half, Jahvon Quinerly and JD Davison both hit key 3-pointers, and No. 16 Alabama held off Gonzaga’s big second-half rally for a 91-82 win over the third-ranked Bulldogs on Saturday night. The Crimson Tide (7-1) made

8:47 PM ET UCLA‘s game scheduled for Sunday at Washington has been canceled due to COVID-19 issues in the Huskies’ program, resulting in a Washington forfeit. It’s the first game cancellation to result in a forfeit this season. Washington was also forced to postpone its Thursday game against Arizona, but the two teams agreed to

3:20 PM ET Three-and-a-half weeks into the 2021-22 college basketball season, the coaching carousel officially began to turn on Friday, as Maryland announced head coach Mark Turgeon was stepping down. While college football has owned headlines all fall for its string of midseason coaching changes — not the least of which came earlier this week

1:18 PM ET Mark Turgeon is stepping down, effective immedately, as Maryland men’s basketball coach, it was announced Friday. Assistant coach Danny Manning has been named interim head coach for the remainder of the season, starting with Sunday’s game vs. Northwestern. “After a series of conversations with Coach Turgeon, we agreed that a coaching change

7:40 AM ET Entering last week’s NIT Season Tip-Off in Brooklyn, Iowa State was viewed as the clear-cut fourth team in the field. Three top-25 teams — Memphis, Virginia Tech, Xavier — battling for the championship and the Cyclones there to round out the field. By the end of the week, Iowa State was the

10:49 PM ET Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. — Washington’s game at No. 11 Arizona scheduled for Thursday night has been postponed due to COVID-19 protocols within the Huskies’ program. The Pac-12 Conference will work with the programs to try to find a mutually agreeable date to reschedule the game for later in the season, the

2:19 PM ET Robert Dillingham, the No. 1-ranked shooting guard in the 2023 class, announced his commitment to NC State on Wednesday. Dillingham becomes the highest-ranked recruit of the Kevin Keatts era and the highest-ranked NC State commit since Dennis Smith Jr. in the 2016 class. He chose NC State over a final five that

11:52 AM ET Iowa State athletic director Jamie Pollard recently was diagnosed with testicular cancer and underwent surgery, he revealed in a letter to ISU fans on Wednesday. Pollard, 56, wrote that he had a testicle surgically removed Nov. 23 and received the cancer diagnosis the following day. He first felt pain in his groin