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3:09 PM ET INDIANAPOLIS — The group of 21 college sports stakeholders tasked with transforming NCAA Division I sports before the start of next football season gathered in a hotel ballroom in Indianapolis this week to begin sketching out its plan of attack. NCAA members adopted a new constitution Thursday during their annual convention, reaffirming

2:15 PM ET Associated Press Creighton men’s basketball coach Greg McDermott has tested positive for COVID-19 and will not be with the Bluejays when they play DePaul on Saturday in Omaha, Nebraska. The school’s athletic department made the announcement Friday. The Bluejays (11-5, 3-2) have had three Big East games postponed because of COVID-19 issues

7:00 AM ET The debate surrounding who will become the No. 1 pick in the 2022 NBA draft is growing louder — and the pool of potential candidates is growing deeper. Since the day the 2021-22 college basketball season tipped off on Nov. 9, much of the conversation has been centered around Gonzaga’s Chet Holmgren

11:31 PM ET Following Memphis‘ third straight loss, a 70-62 home defeat to SMU on Thursday night, coach Penny Hardaway sounded off during his postgame news conference, telling the assembled media to “stop asking me stupid f—— questions.” Hardaway was asked by one reporter if he had lost faith he could get the job done

3:33 PM ET Associated Press STORRS, Conn. — An independent arbitrator has ruled that UConn improperly fired former men’s basketball coach Kevin Ollie and must pay him more than $11 million, Ollie’s lawyer said Thursday. Attorney Jacques Parenteau called Thursday’s ruling from arbiter Mark Irvings a “total vindication” for Ollie, who was fired in the

3:28 PM ET INDIANAPOLIS — NCAA members voted Thursday to ratify a new, streamlined version of this association’s constitution. The motion passed with 80.4% of members voting in favor, putting an expected stamp of approval on the first part of a two-step process to significantly reduce the responsibility of the association’s national office and to

1:48 PM ET Shaedon Sharpe, who was ESPN’s No. 1 prospect in the 2022 high school class, can apply for the 2022 NBA draft as an early-entry candidate, a source told ESPN on Thursday. Sharpe started the current school year at Dream City Christian in Phoenix, but he had sufficient credits to graduate high school

7:00 AM ET Kevin ConnorsESPN Close ESPN studio anchor Writer, ESPN mid-major college basketball top 10 4-year member of the Ithaca men’s basketball team Bob McKillop just wouldn’t have handled it well. Or maybe, his presence would have changed everything. We’ll never know. In the spring of 1972, following a stellar college basketball career at

7:30 AM ET It was an unusually quiet winter on the recruiting trail. Only three ESPN 100 seniors made commitments, although one of them, Mark Mitchell, gave Duke the No. 1 recruiting class in the country. Part of the reason for the slow machinations in the 2022 class over the past couple months was the

8:31 AM ET ESPN News Services The University of Michigan has agreed to a $490 million settlement with hundreds of people who say they were sexually assaulted by a former sports doctor at the school, those involved in the agreement said Wednesday. Attorney Parker Stinar said that 1,050 people will share in the settlement, which

7:00 AM ET Adam Finkelstein There has been plenty of movement across all three men’s college basketball recruiting classes, with new names and big risers alike populating the ESPN 100 of 2022, ESPN 60 of 2023 and ESPN 25 of 2024. Seven high school seniors went from unranked to the top 100. Two of those

7:00 AM ET Selecting the No. 1 men’s college basketball prospect in each recruiting class is more than looking at statistics, analytics or forecasting potential (although each of those certainly are taken into consideration). When talent is close or equal, other factors come into play, such as how one impacts a game, levels of consistency

7:00 AM ET It has been more than two months since the early signing period ended … and not much has happened on the recruiting trail in the 2022 class. We last fully updated our rankings shortly after the signing period in November, and since then, only three ESPN 100 prospects have committed. Part of

6:57 PM ET Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota has become the latest Big Ten team with a COVID-19 problem. The Gophers announced Tuesday they were postponing their Wednesday game at Penn State because the team had fallen below the conference minimum of seven available scholarship players. The rescheduled date has not yet been determined. When

12:36 PM ET Associated Press A wild week of upsets led to big changes in the AP Top 25. Amid the chaos, a familiar team returned to the top. Preseason No. 1 Gonzaga climbed back to the top of The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll released Monday, ending Baylor‘s five-week run. The Bulldogs had

7:15 AM ET After a tumultuous first month of the 2021-22 men’s college basketball season that saw the No. 1 spot constantly changing teams, Baylor brought some stability to the top of the Power Rankings. The Bears looked legitimately dominant through the first eight weeks, carrying their momentum from last season’s national championship run over

8:10 PM ET Every week in 2021-22, I will hand out awards for the week that just unfolded in college basketball and unveil a new top 25: PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Darius McGhee, Liberty. He had 48 points in a win over Florida Gulf Coast. TEAM OF THE WEEK: Oregon. The Ducks beat a pair

9:17 AM ET William E. Ricks South Carolina fan Zoey Cunningham had a question for her father, Donald, as the two watched the top-ranked Gamecocks’ game against Texas A&M on Jan 13. The 8-year-old, who was seeing her first game in person, wanted to know one thing. “Aliyah Boston again?” she asked her dad. Boston