10:02 AM ET Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. — The NCAA has suspended Nebraska basketball player Derrick Walker for the first 16 games of the season for a rules violation while he was at Tennessee in 2018-19. The Nebraska athletic department made the announcement Wednesday, shortly before the Cornhuskers’ opener against McNeese State. The 6-foot-8, 232-pound
NCAABB
Previewing the biggest names in college basketball (1:26) Check out the highlights of some of the biggest names to look out for in college basketball, including Garrison Brooks, Ayo Dosunmu, Marcus Garrett, Luka Garza, Keyontae Johnson, Oscar Tshiebwe and Marcus Zegarowski. (1:26)
8:00 AM ET Welcome back, college hoops! It seems like only yesterday that you were so abruptly taken away from us. Those terrible handful of days when plug after plug was pulled on the 2020 postseason, just as it was tipping off. A stack of conference tournaments shuttered, followed by what will forever be remembered
5:25 PM ET Gonzaga guard Andrew Nembhard, who transferred from Florida in the spring, is eligible to play immediately this season after the NCAA approved his waiver Tuesday. Prior to his waiver, Nembhard was considered the top sit-out transfer in the country for the 2021-22 men’s basketball season. A 6-foot-5 point guard from Canada, Nembhard
3:06 PM ET Sunday’s game between Baylor and Seton Hall has been canceled, both programs announced Tuesday. For the Bears, ESPN’s preseason No. 1 team, it’s their third game cancelled since coach Scott Drew tested positive for COVID-19 last Sunday. “While we were excited about this Big 12-Big East Battle matchup, we agreed that canceling
1:35 PM ET Tennessee is out of next week’s Jimmy V Classic after extending its men’s basketball shutdown following further COVID-19 test results, the school announced. The Volunteers announced Monday they were pausing team activities due to positive COVID-19 test results, including one from coach Rick Barnes. The entire program was retested on Monday, while
By Joe Lunardi 11/24/20 The 2020–21 college basketball season is unique. All involved — coaches, players, administrators, media, fans — can expect postponements, cancellations and adjustments to the normal cycle of games and the postseason. This includes the NCAA tournament, which is under the largest microscope after the abrupt end to the 2019–20 season. The
7:00 AM ET The ACC coaches weren’t completely clueless when, back in September, they proposed an expanded NCAA tournament. The notion that a pandemic-riddled season requires more, not less flexibility has merit. The ACC proposal just went too far. About 275 teams too far. We don’t need an all-inclusive tourney to crown a worthy champion.
8:02 AM ET The parents of some of America’s top men’s and women’s basketball players have formed a new organization that aims to build a national network that empowers parents across the country and helps educate them about the culture and climate of the sport and their role within it, while also advocating for the
7:00 AM ET The 2019-20 college basketball season ended unceremoniously, and in unprecedented fashion, as a global pandemic started. Never before, not even during times of war or other catastrophe, has the NCAA tournament been canceled or otherwise not played. On March 12, 2020, the lights went out on college basketball, and there was uncertainty
9:44 PM ET ESPN News Services Utah men’s basketball coach Larry Krystkowiak and multiple Utes players have tested positive for COVID-19. Krystkowiak announced the positive tests on his weekend radio show. 1 Related The Utah women’s basketball team also announced it was pausing basketball activities because of a positive coronavirus case. It’s two opening games
9:41 PM ET Arizona freshman guard Kerr Kriisa will return to his home country of Estonia to play with the senior national team in two FIBA Eurobasket qualifying games at the end of November, the school announced Tuesday. Kriisa has also not been cleared by the NCAA Eligibility Center, according to the school. “Given the
9:15 PM ET Associated Press LEXINGTON, Ky. — Billy Evans, a member of the 1956 gold medal-winning U.S. Olympic team and Kentucky Hall of Famer who helped the Wildcats go 25-0 in 1953-54, has died. He was 88. The school announced Evans’ death on Sunday upon confirmation from his family. He had 716 points and
9:01 PM ET Associated Press The season opener for No. 20 Oregon against Eastern Washington scheduled for Wednesday has been postponed because of two positive COVID-19 cases within the Eagles’ program. The Eagles called for the postponement due to concerns of having enough scholarship players available due to the positive tests and contact tracing protocols.
9:44 PM ET Associated Press Utah men’s basketball coach Larry Krystkowiak and eight Utes players have tested positive for COVID-19. Krystkowiak announced the positive tests on his weekend radio show. He said five players who tested positive were living in the same house and three were living in another. 1 Related The Utah women’s basketball
7:14 AM ET Less than 24 hours after Arizona State withdrew from the Empire Classic, the Sun Devils are back in — with Baylor dropping out of the event. Arizona State had planned to withdraw on Sunday night, sources told ESPN, after the news that Baylor coach Scott Drew tested positive for COVID-19. The Bears
1:12 PM ET Tennessee men’s basketball has paused all team activities following multiple positive COVID-19 test results, including one from head coach Rick Barnes. The positive tests were conducted Sunday afternoon, and the entire program is getting retested today. Barnes has entered isolation protocol following his positive test. Tennessee was scheduled to start the season
12:38 PM ET The Duke men’s basketball team will not play its season-opening game against Gardner-Webb on Wednesday because of a positive coronavirus test within the Gardner-Webb team, Duke announced on Monday. Per its website, the program made the decision after consulting with its medical personnel. The team said it hopes to reschedule the game