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11:24 AM ET ESPN News Services Georgia Tech senior Moses Wright is The Associated Press’ men’s basketball player of the year for the Atlantic Coast Conference, while Virginia Tech coach Mike Young and Louisville‘s Carlik Jones also earned individual honors. Young was named the ACC coach of the year and Jones, a graduate transfer, was
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10:55 AM ET Associated Press Alabama senior Herbert Jones is The Associated Press player of the year in the Southeastern Conference, while the Crimson Tide’s Nate Oats is its coach of the year and Arkansas guard Moses Moody is the top newcomer. Jones, who plays both guard and forward, earned five of the 14 votes
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9:21 AM ET A University of Texas committee formed in November to investigate the history of “The Eyes of Texas” released a 58-page report Tuesday that says the school song was not written with racist intent, but acknowledges its first public performance was likely by performers in blackface during a minstrel show. The song, which
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10:22 PM ET Associated Press PENSACOLA, Fla. — Michael Almonacy scored a career-high 32 points with six 3-pointers and Appalachian State upset two-time defending champion Georgia State 80-73 on Monday night to win the Sun Belt Conference championship and return to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2000. It was an improbable run
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7:10 PM ET Villanova guard Justin Moore is doubtful for the Big East men’s basketball tournament after suffering a severe ankle sprain over the weekend, coach Jay Wright announced on Twitter on Monday. Moore went down in the first half of Saturday’s loss to Providence and needed to be helped off the court. He eventually
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4:42 PM ET Creighton men’s basketball coach Greg McDermott has been reinstated for all team activities following a one-game suspension for racially insensitive comments he made to his players in late February, the school announced Monday. The decision allows McDermott to coach the Bluejays in this week’s Big East tournament. McDermott apologized last Tuesday for
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2:52 PM ET UMBC guard Darnell Rogers, believed to be the shortest scholarship player in Division I basketball history, has entered the transfer portal, he told ESPN on Monday. Rogers, who is 5-foot-2, started all 20 games for UMBC this past season. He played seven games last season before suffering a hamstring injury and then
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2:18 PM ET Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby said it could be “a matter of years” before its schools recover from the financial blow they took when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down sports and then limited how games have returned. The loss of revenue from the canceled Big 12
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12:23 PM ET Associated Press Gonzaga remains entrenched at No. 1 in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll in its bid to go wire-to-wire. The Zags received 61 of 63 first-place votes from a media panel in the poll released Monday as they attempt to become the first wire-to-wire No. 1 since Kentucky in
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9:52 PM ET Associated Press EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State‘s NCAA tournament streak under Basketball Hall of Fame coach Tom Izzo appears to be alive and well after it was in dire straits a month ago. Rocket Watts scored 21 points and Aaron Henry had 18 to lead the Spartans in a 70-64 victory
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9:34 PM ET Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. — Five Creighton men’s basketball players explained Saturday in a short pregame video why they were hurt by coach Greg McDermott’s remarks in his locker room talk following a loss last weekend. A sixth player who didn’t speak in the video, star guard Marcus Zegarowski, said after Saturday’s
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8:33 PM 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 This season, we’ve become accustomed to many strange things: no fans or very few in arenas; games being cancelled; and championships being awarded in leagues where
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