NCAABB

2:08 PM ET The Memphis Tigers will hold a pro day for NBA teams on October 6, head coach Penny Hardaway told ESPN. The pro day will be held at the Tigers’ practice facility, with a format similar to the NBA draft combine: shooting drills, skill-work and live 3-on-3 and 5-on-5 scrimmages. Memphis will also

2:44 PM ET Top-25 senior Malik Reneau announced his commitment to Florida on Wednesday, giving the Gators and coach Mike White their highest-ranked recruit since 2019. Reneau chose Florida over a final four that also included Memphis, Miami and Florida State. Reneau, a 6-foot-8 forward from Montverde Academy (Florida), boosted his stock over the summer

7:00 AM ET Fresh off of June team camps and the July evaluation period, we are updating the men’s college basketball recruiting player rankings in each class. Amid the reclassifications of Emoni Bates and Jalen Duren, we have a pair of new No. 1-ranked prospects, as well as some notable risers and new faces on

7:00 AM ET Adam Finkelstein For as much as men’s college basketball recruiting changes, it appears to still stay the same. With the impact of the transfer portal, the emergence of various professional options and now name, image and likeness, recruiting in 2021 is vastly different than it was even a few years ago. Nevertheless,

7:30 PM ET Penny Hardaway believes the new name, image and likeness rules helped him land another top recruiting class at Memphis. Hardaway said Tuesday the NIL rules helped ease the strain on players weighing their options between earning money by going to the NBA’s G League or going to college. Now Hardaway can add

7:25 AM ET Rosters are finally set for the 2021-22 college basketball season — at least we think that’s the case. With Western Kentucky announcing it was signing Cincinnati transfer Keith Williams, every transfer in ESPN’s top 100 rankings has picked his destination. And with Emoni Bates announcing his commitment to Memphis last week, every

6:51 PM ET Tubby Smith is heading back to Rupp Arena for the first time since leaving Kentucky nearly 15 years ago. Kentucky announced Monday it would host Smith’s High Point team for a nonconference game on New Year’s Eve, marking the first time Smith will be back at the school he led to a

4:48 PM ET Associated Press WEST LONG BRANCH, N.J. — Monmouth University men’s basketball coach King Rice has been given a five-year contract extension through the 2025-26 season. University president Patrick Leahy and athletic director Jeff Stapleton announced the deal on Monday. Terms were not disclosed. Rice was voted Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference coach of

1:33 PM ET Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. — Creighton has hired Marcus Blossom away from Holy Cross to be its new athletic director. Blossom replaces Bruce Rasmussen, the Bluejays’ longtime athletic director who retired this summer. Blossom was Holy Cross’ athletic director for two years after spending five years at Boston College as senior associate

7:26 AM ET Associated Press CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The Ivy League was the first conference to scuttle its basketball postseason when the pandemic broke out during March Madness a year and a half ago. It was the first Division I conference to suspend fall sports in July 2020. Now the schools are getting back on

6:13 PM ET Associated Press MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia men’s basketball coach Bob Huggins has agreed to a two-year contract extension that includes the option for him to step aside or continue coaching after the 2023-24 season. Under the agreement announced Friday, Huggins, who turns 68 next month, will earn $4.15 million in each

2:13 PM ET Louisville suspended men’s basketball coach Chris Mack for six games Friday after concluding that he didn’t follow university guidelines and procedures while being extorted by a former assistant coach. Louisville said in a statement that Mack would be suspended without pay from Nov. 8 through Nov. 27 and would miss six non-ACC

8:00 AM ET I was sitting at one of my favorite breakfast spots — the First Watch in Lakewood Ranch, Florida — the other day and started looking ahead to a college basketball season that is now just over two months away. There are quite a few storylines to be excited about, so many that

4:37 PM ET ESPN News Services MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis coach Penny Hardaway has added 16-year NBA veteran Rasheed Wallace as an assistant coach on a staff that also features former NBA coach Larry Brown. The Tigers announced the hiring Thursday with the move finally official. “I’m excited about adding Rasheed to the program,” Hardaway

3:12 PM ET The Pac-12 will not pursue expansion “at this time,” the conference said Thursday. The announcement ends speculation about whether the 12-team league might try to add any of the eight schools that will remain in the Big 12 following the eventual departures of Oklahoma and Texas to the SEC. “Following consultation with

9:00 PM ET Emoni Bates announced his commitment to the University of Memphis on Wednesday, ending weeks of speculation about the on-court plans of the prep phenom and No. 3 recruit in ESPN’s Top 100 for 2021. Bates — who as a 15-year-old made headlines when he was compared by scouts to LeBron James and

7:36 PM ET Emoni Bates, one of the best prospects in high school basketball, announced his commitment to Memphis on Wednesday, firmly positioning the Tigers as a potential Final Four team. Bates will suit up for Penny Hardaway’s program during the upcoming season. He appeared in the Memphis student directory early Wednesday afternoon; the last

6:35 PM ET Associated Press LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky will host Southern this season in men’s basketball to tip off a five-year Unity Series during which the Wildcats will play teams from the Southwestern Athletic Conference, a league that comprises historically Black colleges and universities. There will be a week of various activities leading up