7:00 AM 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 Everyone says we’re living in the era of the transfer — and everyone’s right. Reigning NCAA champion Baylor started two transfers (Davion Mitchell and MaCio Teague)
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1:14 PM ET Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. — Basketball great “Pistol” Pete Maravich’s college letterman jacket sold for nearly $117,000 at an auction over the weekend, more than 50 years after his record-setting career at Louisiana State University. The auction of various Maravich memorabilia, conducted by Grey Flannel Auctions of Scottsdale, Arizona, netted over
12:49 PM ET Kansas and Indiana have agreed to a home-and-home college basketball series that will begin next season, it was announced Tuesday. The first matchup will take place Dec. 17, 2022, in Lawrence, Kansas. The return game is set for Dec. 16, 2023, in Bloomington, Indiana. “We haven’t played Indiana in Lawrence since the
7:40 AM ET Another wave of NCAA conference realignment is upon us, and college sports fans have begun readying themselves for major changes across the Division I college basketball conference landscape as they have known it. While realignment in college sports has largely been centered around the earth-shaking moves to come in college football, men’s
5:10 PM ET Montverde Academy (Florida) won the GEICO National Championship in 2021. Will the Eagles repeat in 2022? We are ranking the top programs for the 2021-22 season. Below is the ESPN High School Boys’ Basketball Top 25 for the week of Monday, Dec. 13, 2021: 1. Duncanville (Texas) (11-0)2. IMG (Bradenton, Fla.) (8-1)3.
4:22 PM ET A stat-keeping error that impacted the final score and point spread of a mid-major college basketball game Saturday was spotted by bettors, prompting some sportsbooks to pay out winning wagers on both teams. The mistake occurred late in the second half of the Illinois State–Chicago State game Saturday. A made free throw
12:59 PM ET Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Louisville deputy athletic director Josh Heird has been appointed as interim AD to replace Vince Tyra, who resigned last Thursday after four years. Heird’s appointment by interim president Lori Stewart Gonzalez follows her appointment on Monday morning by Louisville’s Board of Trustees to replace Neeli Bendapudi, who
12:17 PM ET Associated Press Baylor won the national championship last season without ever reaching No. 1 in the AP Top 25. The Bears are there now. Baylor took advantage of Purdue’s last-second loss to Rutgers last week to become the fourth different team at No. 1 in the past four weeks. The Bears earned
7:15 AM ET Another week, another new team at the top of the 2021-22 men’s college basketball rankings. This time it’s a familiar face, and one that has been lurking in the shadows, as the college basketball world spent all offseason debating top-five teams and has rotated a new No. 1 team seemingly every week
6:56 PM ET Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — Tulane is temporarily shutting down its men’s basketball team because of a COVID-19 outbreak. The Green Wave is canceling upcoming games against Texas A&M on Tuesday and Grambling State on Dec. 18, the university said in a statement Saturday. The team also will not hold any meetings
1:10 PM ET WASHINGTON — Georgetown‘s home floor is now called John Thompson Jr. Court. The school announced the naming of the court at Capital One Arena on Saturday in honor of the legendary leader and former coach who died last year at age 78. Before Georgetown’s matchup against Syracuse, its former Big East rival,
8:27 AM ET Arizona men’s basketball players and coaches called Ubers to get from Indianapolis to Champaign for Saturday’s matchup at Illinois after their flight was diverted Friday because of low visibility. A severe weather system had created tornadoes, snow and heavy rains across the Midwest. Arizona’s plane was scheduled to land at the University
3:52 AM ET Associated Press MILWAUKEE — No. 4 UCLA‘s scheduled game Saturday at Marquette has been pushed back seven hours due to an issue with the Bruins’ aircraft that forced a change in travel plans. Both schools announced late Friday night via Twitter that the game will take place Saturday at 8:30 p.m. The
6:48 PM ET Top-30 senior Mark Mitchell announced his commitment to Duke on Friday, potentially giving the Blue Devils and coach-in-waiting Jon Scheyer the No. 1 recruiting class in the country. Mitchell chose Duke over a final list that included UCLA and Missouri, although it was a recruitment that shifted back and forth between the
12:23 PM ET The NCAA Committee on Infractions on Friday placed Auburn‘s men’s basketball program on four years’ probation and suspended coach Bruce Pearl for two games after it said he failed to adequately monitor former assistant coach Chuck Person and did not promote an atmosphere of compliance. The NCAA’s long-anticipated ruling comes more than
10:00 PM ET Was it only last season when Gonzaga won every game? When we always knew the name of the nation’s No. 1 team? When Bracketology was easy? Those were the days … The new season is barely a month old and we’re about to have our fourth top team in the AP Top
10:20 PM ET NEWARK, N.J. — The same night its in-state rival knocked off the No. 1 team in the country, Seton Hall made a statement of its own, knocking off No. 7 Texas, 64-60. It was the Pirates’ second win over a top-10 opponent this season, following their victory at then-No. 4 Michigan on
9:47 PM ET Associated Press PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Ron Harper Jr. hit a buzzer-beater from just inside half court, and Rutgers shocked Purdue in its first-ever game as the nation’s No. 1 team, winning 70-68 on Thursday night. Harper finished with 30 points on 10-of-15 shooting and 10 rebounds for the Scarlet Knights, a do-it-all