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12:12 PM ET Associated Press Gonzaga carried a No. 1 ranking all last season before falling a win short of becoming college basketball’s first unbeaten national champion in 45 years. Mark Few’s Bulldogs start this season in the same position, hoping to complete that final step this time around. The Zags were the runaway top

6:57 AM ET Associated Press A college basketball player hatched the idea after seeing a discrimination case nearly implode his own team, then wondering why nobody had done anything about it sooner. Ten years later, that player has developed the idea into a key tool for fixing a sports landscape teeming with cases of sexual

9:25 PM ET Jeff Borzello Close ESPN Staff Writer Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Paul Biancardi Close Basketball Recruiting National Recruiting Director for ESPN.com 18 years of coaching experience at Division I level Former Horizon League coach of the year at Wright State Five-star junior Simeon Wilcher committed

11:26 AM ET An NCAA task force recommended on Friday that incoming freshmen in Division I and II sports should no longer be required to meet minimum scores on standardized tests for initial eligibility. The recommendation was made by the NCAA Standardized Test Score Task Force, which was formed as part of the NCAA’s eight-point

11:26 AM ET An NCAA task force recommended on Friday that incoming freshmen in Division I and II sports should no longer be required to meet minimum scores on standardized tests for initial eligibility. The recommendation was made by the NCAA Standardized Test Score Task Force, which was formed as part of the NCAA’s eight-point

7:30 AM ET TUCSON, Arizona — Riccardo Fois laughs ironically when asked how Tommy Lloyd might adapt the Gonzaga blueprint to Arizona. “Arizona was the blueprint for the original Gonzaga,” the Wildcats assistant said. “Arizona and Duke. Lute Olson and Coach K and the brotherhood and the way everybody was together, was one of the

7:30 AM ET The Geico Top Flight Invite is a great early-season evaluation opportunity for some of the nation’s best college basketball and next-level prospects to go head-to-head in an eight-team tournament. The field will include eight elite club teams from five states competing in a three-day tournament at Coronado High School in Las Vegas.

6:14 PM ET Jeff Borzello Close ESPN Staff Writer Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Paul Biancardi Close Basketball Recruiting National Recruiting Director for ESPN.com 18 years of coaching experience at Division I level Former Horizon League coach of the year at Wright State Jordan Walsh, the highest-ranked available

7:30 AM ET As the countdown continues to the start of the 2021-22 college basketball season on Nov. 9, ESPN.com’s panel of experts is making its predictions for all of the nation’s top leagues. After taking a look at Gonzaga and the best teams from the mid-major conferences (Atlantic 10, C-USA, Ivy, MAC, Missouri Valley,

9:33 PM ET Jeff Borzello Close ESPN Staff Writer Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Paul Biancardi Close Basketball Recruiting National Recruiting Director for ESPN.com 18 years of coaching experience at Division I level Former Horizon League coach of the year at Wright State Jett Howard plans to play

9:29 PM ET Shaedon Sharpe, the nation’s No. 1 college basketball recruit, is considering enrolling at Kentucky for the upcoming second semester, sources told ESPN. No decision has been made yet, sources told ESPN, and Sharpe doesn’t plan on playing in games this season even if he does enroll early. He would redshirt and practice

8:00 AM ET MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin — All summer long, Patrick Baldwin Jr. had been impressing his new University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers teammates. He easily shot deep 3-pointers, put the ball between his legs in midair and dunked in workouts for the Horizon League school where his father, Patrick Baldwin Sr., is head coach. For all

5:30 PM ET Jeff Borzello Close ESPN Staff Writer Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Paul Biancardi Close Basketball Recruiting National Recruiting Director for ESPN.com 18 years of coaching experience at Division I level Former Horizon League coach of the year at Wright State Top-30 prospect JJ Starling announced

7:30 AM ET The 2021-22 men’s college basketball season will begin Nov. 9 with the Champions Classic matchups between Kentucky and Duke, as well as Kansas and Michigan State, tipping off the schedule in style from storied Madison Square Garden. In preparation for a season that figures to look more “normal” than the pandemic-altered 2020-21

7:30 AM ET As the countdown continues toward the start of the 2020-21 college basketball season on Nov. 9, ESPN’s panel of experts is making its predictions. We begin by breaking down the best of the mid-major conferences, including a league (the West Coast Conference) which houses a team that rests comfortably outside the mid-major

7:30 AM ET It’s still very early in the pre-draft process for 2022, but NBA teams are out in full force getting first impressions of many of the best prospects in the 2022 NBA draft class. Although the start of college basketball is still a month away, college pro days, practices and European league games

8:00 AM ET After a busier-than-usual summer due to the delayed withdrawal deadline for the NBA draft, and then some significant reclassifications and commitments in August, roster changes expectedly slowed in September. We did make some tweaks since the last update in late August, however, moving a couple of veteran-laden groups in UConn and St.

11:39 AM ET Gonzaga coach Mark Few has been suspended through the team’s season opener following his citation for driving under the influence in early September. “I have had a month to reflect on the regretful decisions I made on Sept. 6,” Few said in a statement Saturday morning. “I again offer my sincere apology