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11:48 AM ET Stephanie Rempe and a small group of staff members at LSU have spent several hours each day in June diving down a seemingly endless series of rabbit holes. Rempe, who serves as the executive deputy director of athletics/chief operating officer of the LSU athletic department, pieced together a task force more than

7:02 PM ET Marquette forward Dawson Garcia announced Friday he planned to enter the transfer portal, potentially becoming the best available transfer while also delivering a blow to new head coach Shaka Smart’s roster. Garcia did leave open the option to return to the Golden Eagles, and he also plans to continue pursuing the NBA

11:21 AM ET Bill Moos will retire as Nebraska’s athletic director at the end of the month, the school announced Friday. “I step away completely content, knowing that our athletic program is reborn and rebuilt and that it has a solid, stable foundation,” Moos said in a statement. Moos, 70, had led Nebraska’s athletic department

5:34 PM ET Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear signed an executive order Thursday allowing the state’s college athletes — including players on the nationally renowned Kentucky and Louisville men’s basketball teams — to make money through the use of their name, image or likeness. The Democratic governor said he took the

5:18 PM ET Associated Press WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue said Thursday that center Trevion Williams has decided to withdraw from the NBA draft and will return to campus for his senior season this fall. Williams was a first-team all-Big Ten selection last season and one of five finalists for the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award, which

4:05 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Michigan, Illinois and five other teams that earned berths in the NCAA Tournament will play in the sixth annual Gavitt Tipoff Games in mid-November. The Big East and Big Ten conferences announced the matchups for the eight games Thursday. The games will be televised on FS1 or

1:40 PM ET Associated Press SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. — Grant Billmeier was promoted Thursday to associate head coach at Seton Hall, and Donald Copeland has been named an assistant men’s basketball coach. Billmeier, a former Pirates player, has been on coach Kevin Willard’s staff for 10 of 11 seasons, including the last six as an

7:00 AM ET ESPN staff ESPN completed its Sales Pitch (ESPN+) series this week, examining the men’s college basketball programs beyond the top seven conferences that have the most and fewest advantages in enticing recruits and transfers to campus. After seeing the results of our survey, ESPN.com’s writing team of Myron Medcalf, Jeff Borzello, John

4:23 PM ET Associated Press NCAA president Mark Emmert said Wednesday the association is working on interim rules that will permit college athletes to earn money off their fame and celebrity by July. The rules would act as a bridge until there is a permanent solution. In a memo sent to member schools and obtained

7:00 AM ET Last month, we started our Sales Pitch series by ranking the schools in the ACC based on the quality of their enticements for men’s basketball recruits and then moved on to the Big East, where we examined whether anyone in the league can close the recruiting gap on Villanova. We followed that

1:55 PM ET Five-star basketball recruit Dior Johnson has committed to Oregon, he told ESPN on Tuesday. “I decided to commit to Oregon because of the great relationships I have built with the coaching staff,” Johnson said. “Coach Crutchfield and Coach Altman welcomed me with open arms from day one. We were able to get

2:26 PM ET Associated Press MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin‘s seniors were openly critical of coach Greg Gard during a late-season team meeting that was secretly recorded and later got sent to a newspaper. The Wisconsin State Journal says it received a 37-minute audio file this week of a Feb. 19 team meeting that included seven

12:10 PM ET Paula Lavigne Close ESPN Staff Writer Data analyst and reporter for ESPN’s Enterprise and Investigative Unit. Winner, 2014 Alfred I. duPont Columbia University Award; finalist, 2012 IRE broadcast award; winner, 2011 Gannett Foundation Award for Innovation in Watchdog Journalism; Emmy nominated, 2009. Myron Medcalf Close ESPN Staff Writer Covers college basketball Joined

7:07 PM ET Associated Press CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — North Carolina big man Armando Bacot is returning for his junior season after making himself eligible for the NBA draft. The school announced the 6-foot-10 Bacot’s decision Monday. Bacot led UNC with 12.3 points and 7.8 rebounds per game as a sophomore while part of a

4:30 PM ET Projected first-round pick Trey Murphy has elected to hire an agent, forgo his remaining eligibility at Virginia and keep his name in the 2021 NBA draft, he told ESPN on Monday. “I loved my time at UVA and everyone there, but it’s time for me to move on,” Murphy told ESPN. “I

2:44 PM ET Baylor forward Matthew Mayer will withdraw from the NBA draft and return to school, a source told ESPN on Monday. Mayer was one of 69 players announced as having accepted an invite to attend the NBA Combine in Chicago, which starts Tuesday, but has changed course and withdrawn his name from the

1:08 PM ET Carmine CarcieriESPN After a smaller 2020 event that featured a 24-team bracket and a bubble because of the coronavirus pandemic, The Basketball Tournament is officially back in 2021 with a full 64-team field competing for the $1 million winner-take-all prize. While four-time title winner Overseas Elite won’t be participating, Marquette’s alumni team,

10:29 AM ET ESPN News Services WASHINGTON — In a ruling that could help push changes in college athletics, the Supreme Court on Monday unanimously sided with a group of former college athletes in a dispute with the NCAA over rules limiting certain compensation. The high court ruled that NCAA limits on the education-related benefits