1:09 PM ET Florida starting wide receiver Trevon Grimes will skip Wednesday’s Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic to begin preparation for the 2021 NFL draft, he announced Monday. Grimes ranks third on the team in receptions (38), receiving yards (589) and receiving touchdowns (9). He’s the second prominent Gators pass-catcher to opt out of the game
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12:20 PM ET Associated Press It’s hard to decide who has been more dominant in men’s college basketball this season: Gonzaga or the Big Ten Conference. The Bulldogs remained the clear-cut No. 1 on Monday, earning 62 of 64 first-place votes in the Associated Press poll after their latest win over a Top 25 foe,
7:00 AM ET Entering the season, it appeared that the Big Ten was going to be the best conference in the country. It had three consensus top-10 teams in the preseason, plus Michigan State, plus a slew of teams hanging around the borderline top-25 range. Through the first month of the season, that hasn’t changed
3:54 PM ET Villanova coach Jay Wright has tested positive for COVID-19, the school announced Sunday, and the No. 5 Wildcats are pausing all team activities. One other Villanova staff member also tested positive. “Our players have been very diligent and disciplined with all of the COVID protocols,” Wright said in a statement. “Unfortunately, we
4:40 PM ET Coach John Calipari’s summation of the Kentucky Wildcats‘ sixth straight loss — a 62-59 defeat to rival Louisville on Saturday — was simple and to the point: “Losing stinks.” “Let me just say this again, losing stinks,” Calipari said. “We had our chances, and we had some breakdowns.” Kentucky fell to 1-6
5:14 PM ET Associated Press Oregon’s men’s basketball game against UCLA scheduled for Wednesday has been postponed because of COVID-19 testing protocols for game officials. The Pac-12 initially announced that the start of the game set for noon Pacific time between the No. 25 Ducks and the Bruins was being delayed while the conference was
4:15 PM ET Chicago State is suspending its men’s basketball program for the remainder of the 2020-21 season “to focus on the health, safety, and academic pursuits of the Men’s Basketball student-athletes.” “It was a difficult decision, but a necessary decision in order to prioritize the health, wellness, and academic success of the student-athletes,” athletic
9:15 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 Four of the seven Big Ten college basketball teams currently ranked in the AP Top 25 will be in action on Christmas Day. With luck, this
6:33 PM ET Pittsburgh Panthers forward Justin Champagnie, one of the most productive basketball players in the country, will miss the next six to eight weeks after suffering a knee injury in practice over the weekend. Panthers guard Au’Diese Toney also suffered a right ankle injury in practice and is considered day-to-day. He is out
3:15 PM ET Paul Pierce, Doug Collins, Michael Cooper and Lauren Jackson headline the group of first-time nominees for the 2021 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame class, announced Tuesday on ESPN’s The Jump. Also joining the first-time group is Howard Garfinkel, Lou Henson, Val Ackerman and Yolanda Griffith, to go with popular returning candidates
1:09 PM ET Ten days after collapsing during a game, Florida star Keyontae Johnson is being released from the hospital. “Today is a great day! Keyontae is being released from the hospital. We continue to be amazed at the pace of his recovery and look forward to spending Christmas together as a family,” Johnson’s family
7:00 AM ET A version of this column first appeared in January, 2001. Some of the names have been changed to protect the guilty. Congratulations to Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State and Notre Dame. They are the unsurprising “final four” of college football. We won’t use the initial caps Final Four until the powers that be
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7:31 PM ET Guard Aminu Mohammed announced his commitment to Georgetown on Monday, giving the Hoyas their first five-star recruit since 2014. Mohammed also becomes the first five-star pledge for Patrick Ewing, who took over as Georgetown men’s basketball coach in 2017. Mohammed chose the Hoyas over Georgia, Indiana, Kansas State, Texas, SMU and DePaul.
3:23 PM ET Associated Press SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The Syracuse and Buffalo men’s basketball programs are on pause after a member of the Bulls tested positive for COVID-19. The decisions announced Monday by both teams came after they played Saturday in Syracuse’s Carrier Dome. The Mid-American Conference school did not reveal who tested positive, except
12:33 PM ET On Monday, the sky kept falling around Kentucky men’s basketball when coach John Calipari announced that he has asked freshman Cam’Ron Fletcher to “step away” from the team after the four-star recruit was visibly upset toward the end of the team’s Saturday loss to North Carolina. In a series of tweets, Calipari
12:18 PM ET Associated Press Gonzaga has strengthened its hold on the No. 1 spot in the Associated Press men’s college basketball poll after beating Iowa. First-place votes in parentheses: 1. Gonzaga (61)2. Baylor (3)3. Kansas4. Iowa5. Villanova6. Houston7. West Virginia8. Tennessee9. Wisconsin10. Texas11. Rutgers12. Michigan State13. Creighton14. Missouri15. Texas Tech16. Virginia17. North Carolina18. Illinois19.
12:47 PM ET Memphis coach Penny Hardaway has agreed to a five-year contract extension through the 2025-26 season, the school announced Monday. The extension is worth $12.25 million over the five years, starting at $2.325 million in 2021-22 and 2022-23, increasing to $2.5 million the next two years and then $2.6 million for the final