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Click highlighted text to view annotation Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. That’s the lowest I’ve ever seen Dick Vitale since the owner of the Detroit Pistons called him in and told him he should go into broadcasting. I can’t tell you what an honor it is to even be mentioned in the

12:30 AM ET ESPN staff The top-ranked Duke Blue Devils‘ reign as college basketball’s undisputed team to beat was short-lived. Despite leading for much of the game, the Blue Devils faded late in a 71-66 loss to the unranked Ohio State Buckeyes in Columbus, Ohio, resetting the national conversation yet again and opening the door

12:15 AM ET Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio — Zed Key scored a career-high 20 points and Ohio State held top-ranked Duke scoreless for the final 4 1/2 minutes, completing a rally from a 15-point second-half deficit to beat the Blue Devils 71-66 on Tuesday night. E.J. Liddell hit two free throws with 1:06 remaining to

11:00 AM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — Georgia State has canceled its men’s basketball game Wednesday against Tennessee State because of COVID-19 protocols and injuries. The Panthers (4-2) lost 94-59 on Saturday at Rhode Island with a squad that included only seven scholarship players and nine players overall. One player was out after testing positive

Nov 30, 2021 Jeremy WillisESPN.com ESPN and the V Foundation are committed to the fight against cancer. V Week 2021 is Nov. 30-Dec. 12. If you are able, please support cancer research by visiting V.org/donate. Art Korney will never forget the day he found out his son Coleton had cancer. Coleton Korney was diagnosed with

7:30 AM ET Friday night’s epic battle between the expected top two picks in the 2022 NBA draft — Chet Holmgren of Gonzaga and Paolo Banchero of Duke — lived up to its billing not only for college basketball fans but for the dozens of NBA evaluators on hand for the matchup in Las Vegas.

12:46 PM ET Associated Press Mike Krzyzewski’s final team at Duke has reached a familiar milestone: No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 men’s college basketball poll. The Blue Devils jumped four spots to the top of Monday’s poll following a win against Gonzaga that knocked the Bulldogs from the top spot. That adds

9:47 AM ET Associated Press The Atlantic Coast Conference, Big Ten and Pac-12 launched an initiative Monday to raise awareness of the importance of mental health as part of their conference alliance announced earlier this year. Teammates for Mental Health will be unveiled this week during basketball games involving the three conferences, including the ACC/Big

8:00 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Seven hours before its 84-81 loss to No. 5 Duke at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, No. 1 Gonzaga‘s players, coaches and staffers launch half-court shots at the end of a pregame shootaround. Minutes earlier, assistant coach Roger Powell Jr. was talking trash to freshman Nolan Hickman in their

7:15 AM ET Less than three weeks into the 2021-22 college basketball season, we have our first No. 1 debate. After the way Gonzaga dispatched Texas and UCLA, it seemed unlikely the Zags were going to relinquish the top spot anytime soon. But Duke showed a level of skill, physicality and talent Gonzaga hadn’t seen

8:19 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: Trayce Jackson-Davis, Indiana. He hit 18-of-24 field goals with 43 points in a 90-79 win over Marshall, the first Hoosier since 1994 to score

1:15 AM ET ESPN staff Any college basketball fan left disappointed by Gonzaga’s wire-to-wire manhandling of UCLA on Tuesday night had to feel made whole by Friday’s epic showdown between No. 1 Gonzaga and No. 5 Duke in Las Vegas, won by the Blue Devils by a score of 84-81 in a game played on

12:57 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Everything about No. 1 Gonzaga‘s matchup against No. 5 Duke on Friday night at T-Mobile Arena felt magnified. The game, an 84-81 win for Duke, lived up to the hype. Paolo Banchero, ESPN’s projected No. 2 pick in the 2022 NBA draft, had 20 of his game-high 21 points

5:11 PM ET Associated press LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Mustapha Amzil‘s lone basket of the game was a memorable one. Amzil hit a running jumper in the lane at the buzzer, and Dayton beat No. 4 Kansas 74-73 on Friday. Kansas’ David McCormack blocked Malachi Smith‘s layup with three seconds left. Amzil picked up

8:06 PM ET ESPN News Services LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Rick Pitino’s Iona Gaels became the first team in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference’s history to beat an AP top-10 team after upsetting No. 10 Alabama 72-68 on Thursday night. Nelly Junior Joseph and Walter Clayton Jr. made key free throws in the final

1:37 PM ET The Michigan football team will have its own “12th man” on the sideline for Saturday’s pivotal rivalry game against Ohio State: Juwan Howard. The Michigan men’s basketball coach said he will be at the game in Ann Arbor as the No. 5 Wolverines (10-1) take on the No. 2 Buckeyes (10-1) in

12:52 PM ET Associated Press PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas — No. 22 UConn is holding out forward Isaiah Whaley from Thursday’s game against Michigan State after he fainted following a first-round game at the Battle 4 Atlantis. The team said its medical staff had evaluated Whaley overnight and before the game and decided “it would be

7:32 AM ET Mike SchmitzESPN Las Vegas has been the center of the basketball world since Sunday, with team presidents and general managers bouncing back and forth between arenas to evaluate the next wave of NBA players. After a long week of scouting and schmoozing, the large contingent of NBA executives will be treated to