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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

2:31 PM ET Jon Scheyer couldn’t possibly have chosen bigger shoes to fill for his first head-coaching job. The man likely tasked with replacing the winningest college basketball coach ever is a former Duke player who moved to the Blue Devils’ bench just eight years ago and was promoted to associate head coach in 2018.

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

7:52 PM ET Associated Press WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Wake Forest has hired former East Tennessee State head coach Jason Shay as an assistant. The school announced Shay’s hiring Tuesday. Shay led ETSU for one season after Steve Forbes left the Buccaneers to take over the Demon Deacons program in 2020. Shay had been an assistant

1:21 PM ET Associated Press KENT, Ohio — Kent State signed men’s basketball coach Rob Senderoff to a contract extension through the 2025-26 season. The 47-year-old is the winningest coach in Golden Flashes history. He’s gone 196-129 in 10 seasons, including 99-77 in the Mid-American Conference. Kent State has finished .500 or better in each

7:00 AM ET After a whirlwind two months since the end of the season, we can all take a collective breath … for now. The last several weeks have seen hundreds of players transfer schools, a dozen or so ESPN 100 prospects make commitments, and a longer-than-usual list of players enter the NBA draft. But

5:26 PM ET Associated Press John Calipari is awaiting a pivotal ruling on the eligibility of transfers before he will know who will be around to help the Wildcats bounce back from the coach’s first losing season in Lexington. As has been the case since Calipari’s 2009 arrival at Kentucky, the Wildcats underwent their annual

3:56 PM ET Howard University big man Makur Maker, the first five-star recruit to choose to play at a historically Black college and university, is declaring for the 2021 NBA draft, sources told ESPN. Makur, 20, won’t sign with an agent to keep open the option of returning to Howard for his sophomore year, sources

1:06 PM ET Associated Press AMHERST, N.Y. — University at Buffalo athletic director Mark Alnutt has signed a five-year contract extension that runs through May 2026. In addition to the new deal, the school added a vice president’s position to Alnutt’s title on Thursday. Alnutt is in his fourth year at Buffalo, during which the

11:20 AM ET A study out Thursday on the risk of heart damage to college athletes who have had COVID-19 contradicts other recent studies by suggesting symptoms are not the best indicator for possible heart problems and advocating for continued high-level cardiac monitoring, awareness and possible testing of athletes post-COVID. The study published in JAMA

11:00 AM ET College athletes would be able to form players’ unions and would be considered employees of their schools if a new Congressional bill introduced Thursday morning is passed into law. The College Athletes Right to Organize bill, co-authored by Sens. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., presents a direct challenge to the

7:00 AM ET ESPN staff ESPN continued its Sales Pitch (ESPN+) series this week, examining the men’s college basketball programs in the Pac-12 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

8:00 AM ET Michael A. Fletcher ON A FRIGID February night in Chattanooga, about 20 East Tennessee State basketball players, coaches and staff made the same peaceful, if provocative, statement many others had since 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick forged the silent act of resistance in 2016. In front of a reported 1,000 fans and many