6:28 PM ET Associated Press DETROIT — A former captain of the Michigan State University basketball team was charged with murder Monday in the fatal shooting of a man in Detroit, authorities said. Keith Appling, 29, is accused of killing Clyde Edmonds, 66, on May 22. “It is alleged that Appling had an argument with
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1:41 PM ET Associated Press EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo has promoted Doug Wojcik to assistant coach, replacing Dane Fife. Izzo also hired three former Spartans on Monday. Fife left the program in April to be the associate head coach at Indiana under Mike Woodson. Wojcik returned to Michigan State
5:18 PM ET Associated Press HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Marshall athletic director Mike Hamrick is stepping down at the end of the month to take on a new role at the school. Hamrick will become special assistant to university president Jerome Gilbert for one year, the school said Friday. Hamrick was hired in 2009 and became
3:09 PM ET Associated Press MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin announced the addition of 7-foot-1 center and Cincinnati transfer Chris Vogt on Friday. Vogt started 50 games at Cincinnati. He averaged 5 points, 3.5 rebounds and 1.1 blocks in 18.6 minutes per game in 2020-21, all drops from the previous season. “Chris brings depth to our
2:09 PM ET Jean Montero is signing with Overtime Elite, as the Dominican Republic native becomes the first international player to join the new American professional basketball league. Montero, the projected No. 17 pick in ESPN’s 2022 mock draft, will be on loan from Spanish ACB team Gran Canaria, where he is still under contract.
12:04 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The convictions of a sports business manager and an amateur basketball coach in a conspiracy to bribe top college coaches to get them to steer NBA-bound athletes to favored handlers were upheld Friday by an appeals court. The ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
12:49 PM ET Mike Krzyzewski opened his introductory news conference at Duke in 1980 by spelling his last name for the media in attendance. Forty-one years later, his replacement started the same way. “So, I don’t want to break any tradition yet,” Jon Scheyer joked Friday. “Do I need to spell my last name?” Scheyer
12:27 PM ET Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A former Louisville basketball assistant has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of attempted extortion and will avoid prison time. Dino Gaudio was dismissed from the team along with another assistant in March after the Cardinals missed the NCAA tournament. During a meeting with Louisville officials, Gaudio
11:40 AM ET Associated Press Northwestern hired NCAA executive Derrick Gragg as its athletic director Friday, the Big Ten school’s second time filling the position in a little more than a month. Mike Polisky, a longtime deputy AD at Northwestern, was promoted to the job May 3 but stepped down amid backlash because he was
7:40 AM ET ESPN staff ESPN continued its Sales Pitch (ESPN+) series this week, examining the men’s college basketball programs in the SEC 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 Gasaway and
5:23 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The Big East has eliminated its intraconference transfer policy, allowing athletes to transfer within the conference without losing a year of eligibility. The decision was made by the league’s board of directors and announced Thursday. It takes effect immediately. The old policy had been in effect for
1:51 PM ET Shortly after athletic director Kevin White called Duke‘s longtime head coach the “GOAT” and promised a deep NCAA tournament run in the final season of his legendary career, Mike Krzyzewski corrected him. “You know, my [athletic director], my friend, Kevin White comes up there and he calls me a GOAT,” Krzyzewski joked
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 When Mike Krzyzewski steps down as Duke head coach after the 2021-22 season, he will have won more than 1,100 career games and at least five
7:00 AM ET It was announced Wednesday that the 2020-21 season would be Mike Krzyzewski’s 42nd and last as Duke’s head men’s basketball coach. Those born after 1980 don’t know a world in which Coach K is not on the sidelines of Duke’s Cameron Indoor Stadium. After next season, they will know that world for
5:06 PM ET The first time I saw Mike Krzyzewski was on a fall Saturday in 1983. It wasn’t at Cameron Indoor Stadium, but rather across the street at Wallace Wade Stadium, the long-miserable home of Blue Devils football. In those days, there was plenty of misery to be found in the basketball gym too.
5:07 PM ET Associated Press DETROIT — The Detroit Pistons hired John Beilein as a senior adviser for player development Wednesday, saying the hope is that the former NBA and Michigan coach can help the young team “maximize its potential.” Owner Tom Gores credited coach Dwane Casey for the decision to add the 68-year-old Beilein.
4:29 PM ET Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. — – South Carolina guard Seventh Woods has entered the NCAA transfer portal with the intention to play his sixth and final season elsewhere. A team spokesperson confirmed Wednesday that Woods is seeking to the South Carolina program. Woods, 6-foot-2, 184 pounds, is from Columbia. He played in
1:23 PM ET Duke‘s Mike Krzyzewski, the winningest coach in Division I men’s basketball history who has led the Blue Devils to five national championships in his 41 seasons, plans to retire after the 2021-2022 season, sources confirmed to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Wednesday. Associate head coach Jon Scheyer has agreed to become the next