NCAABB

10:30 AM ET ESPN Sports Betting The first two rounds of the men’s NCAA Tournament featured plenty of exciting action as the 64 teams were cut down to 16. There were several bracket-busting upsets that have added to the chaos fans are used to during March Madness. Now the teams left will face off this

10:00 AM ET Bettors are buying into the biggest Cinderella story left at the dance — the prancing Peacocks from Saint Peter’s. Hailing from the MAAC, the Peacocks were given a 15 seed and a first-round date with Kentucky. Saint Peter’s could be found as long as 10,000-1 win the tournament last week at Las

9:55 AM ET Maryland has hired Seton Hall‘s Kevin Willard as its next head coach, the school announced Monday morning. Willard arrives in College Park after 12 seasons at Seton Hall. “We are thrilled to welcome Kevin to the Terrapin family,” athletic director Damon Evans said in a prepared statement. “We are excited about the

1:00 AM ET Well, now it gets interesting. It’s at this point in the NCAA tournament when things generally stop making sense. The original seeds still carry weight for the teams that have survived — they give us the full picture about a team’s season thus far. But what do you do with the surprises

11:46 PM ET GREENVILLE, S.C. — Jabari Smith could be the first pick in the NBA draft, but after one of the most dismal outings of his career Sunday, he wasn’t ready to announce plans to leave Auburn. Smith said he hadn’t yet made up his mind if he’ll enter the draft after a freshman

11:00 PM ET GREENVILLE, S.C. — Mike Krzyzewski looked down the dais at the five players who’d refused to let his last dance come to an end, who engineered a frenetic comeback to advance to the Sweet 16 with an 85-76 win over Michigan State, and he choked back tears. For nearly a year, he

9:42 PM ET GREENVILLE, S.C. — Mike Krzyzewski turned around and saw the many members of his family behind the Duke bench cheering and crying and celebrating. It had not been the easiest win of his career, but it was another one. Sunday night, in the second round of the NCAA tournament during Krzyzewski’s final

10:28 PM ET MILWAUKEE — When new Iowa State coach T.J. Oztelberger assembled his team for the first time on June 10, he never put specific numbers on the goals ahead. The numbers had been bleak enough for the Cyclones in 2020-21: just two wins, none after Dec. 20, 2020, and 18 straight losses to

8:39 PM ET Kansas State is expected to hire longtime Baylor assistant Jerome Tang as its next men’s basketball coach, sources told ESPN. Kansas State officials flew to Texas on Sunday to discuss the job with Tang, sources said. Tang is considered one of the premier assistant coaches in the country, spending the past 19

7:40 PM ET MILWAUKEE — Wisconsin point guard Chucky Hepburn will not return to Sunday’s NCAA Tournament second-round game vs. Iowa State after sustaining a left ankle injury late in the first half. Hepburn, who started all 33 games as a true freshman, was defending Iowa State’s Tyrese Hunter on a drive when his left

5:34 PM ET Associated Press PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Tom Young, the former Rutgers basketball coach who led the Scarlet Knights to an undefeated regular season in 1975-76 and their only Final Four appearance, has died. He was 89. Young died early Sunday in Virginia Beach, Virginia, son Tom Young Jr. told the university. Young had

4:30 PM ET PITTSBURGH — Trailing by six Sunday afternoon, Illinois guard Alfonso Plummer stole the ball from Houston’s Jamal Shead and fed it forward to teammate RJ Melendez. Sprinting out in front of the nearest defender, Melendez made the easy two-handed slam to cut Houston’s lead to just four with 8 minutes, 40 seconds

11:42 AM ET Pete Thamel Jeff Borzello Close ESPN Staff Writer Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Mississippi State is expected to hire New Mexico State coach Chris Jans as the school’s next men’s basketball coach, sources told ESPN. There’s strong mutual interest, and a deal is expected to

11:00 AM ET ESPN staff March Madness 2022 has been an entertaining ride, and it’s just getting started. Saturday’s slate of NCAA tournament games saw 8-seed North Carolina upset the defending champion Baylor Bears. Michigan took down No. 3 Tennessee, adding to the hoops drama. That wasn’t all. Creighton played tough against No. 1 Kansas,

7:25 AM ET GREENVILLE, S.C. — Stephanie Hauser stood in one of the front rows of Bon Secours Wellness Arena late Friday, clapping, cheering and yelling as loud as she could. For years, she and her husband, Dave, have been through this. It’s a journey the Hausers couldn’t have expected when their son, Sam, committed

1:47 AM ET PORTLAND — After a first half where the top-seeded Gonzaga Bulldogs fell behind the No. 9 seed Memphis Tigers 41-31 Saturday in an NCAA tournament second-round matchup, leading scorer Drew Timme took it upon himself to set the tone for a second-half comeback. First, Timme delivered a motivational message in the hallway

12:08 AM ET INDIANAPOLIS — The video had gone viral on social media before Michigan coach Juwan Howard had even celebrated the 2022 NCAA tournament win with players, and well before he hugged former Fab 5 teammates Chris Webber and Ray Jackson as he made his way to the locker room. Howard was going through

12:20 AM ET INDIANAPOLIS — Saint Peter’s coach Shaheen Holloway said from the start that he didn’t bring his team to Indianapolis for the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament to just show up and lose. Holloway was right. The Peacocks are headed to the Sweet 16 for the first time in school history