12:22 PM ET Associated Press Michigan finally broke the stranglehold of Gonzaga and Baylor atop The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll on Monday, taking advantage of the Bears’ loss at Kansas to leap into the No. 2 spot behind the Bulldogs. Gonzaga continued to hold down the top spot in the Top 25, just
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7:00 AM ET Thirty-one NCAA Division I men’s basketball conferences will crown champions over a nine-day stretch that begins with the Ohio Valley Conference tournament on Saturday, March 6, and comes to an end with five leagues — the Patriot League, Atlantic 10, SEC, American and Big Ten — all crowning their champions on Sunday,
7:00 AM ET For the first time since the first week of the season, we’ve made a change in the top two of the Power Rankings. It has been Gonzaga then Baylor all season — and for most of the season, it looked like there was an enormous gap between the top two and everyone
12:37 AM ET Following No. 2 Baylor‘s first loss of the season on Saturday night, a 71-58 defeat at No. 17 Kansas, coach Scott Drew acknowledged that the COVID-19 protocols that sidelined the Bears for 21 days are his team’s “kryptonite.” “We were the No. 1 shooting team in the country and we’ll get back
12:30 AM ET With its 86-69 win over Loyola Marymount Saturday night, the Gonzaga men’s basketball team completed its first undefeated regular season — and became the first Division I team to enter its conference tournament undefeated since Kentucky in 2015. While this season has been full of uncertainty because of COVID-19 — namely shortened
2:00 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 For Loyola Chicago, the season began with being picked to finish second behind Northern Iowa in the preseason Missouri Valley Conference poll. That same regular season
8:55 PM ET There were moments during Cade Cunningham‘s career-best 40-point effort in his team’s 94-90 overtime win against No. 7 Oklahoma — in the first installment of the Bedlam rivalry — when he looked like the most unstoppable player in America. Perhaps not the Wooden Award winner. That honor will likely go to Iowa’s
8:02 PM ET ESPN News Services CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — North Carolina coach Roy Williams became the fifth Division I men’s basketball coach to reach 900 wins on Saturday, and was able to celebrate the milestone in front of home fans for the first time this season. Down 16 points to No. 11 Florida State
7:15 PM ET Associated Press LAWRENCE, Kan. — LaVannes Squires, the first Black men’s basketball player at Kansas and a member of the Jayhawks’ 1952 national title team, died last week in Pasadena, California. He was 90. The school announced in a statement Saturday that he died Feb. 19. No cause was given. Squires was
2:00 PM ET Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa — Iowa forward Jack Nunge will miss the remainder of the season after injuring his right knee in the ninth-ranked Hawkeyes’ loss at No. 3 Michigan on Thursday. School officials said the 6-foot-11 sophomore has a torn meniscus and is expected to undergo surgery next week. Nunge
10:26 PM ET Paul Weir will be out as New Mexico’s head men’s basketball coach at the end of the season, the school announced Friday night. Weir is expected to coach in the regular-season finale against Colorado State on Wednesday and in the Mountain West Conference tournament. “Paul and I agree that a change of
3:58 PM ET Wichita State has removed the interim tag from Isaac Brown, promoting him to the Shockers’ permanent head coaching position on Friday. Brown has verbally agreed to a five-year deal, the school announced Friday. The deal is worth $6 million, a source told ESPN’s Rece Davis. Brown took over as Wichita State’s interim
3:00 PM ET Associated Press Indianapolis will relax coronavirus restrictions on the city’s bars and restaurants starting next week ahead of the upcoming Big Ten and NCAA men’s basketball tournaments. The changes will allow bars to operate at 50% capacity instead of 25% starting Monday, while restaurants will see their indoor restaurant capacity increase from
12:08 PM ET The NCAA has vacated multiple sanctions levied against the Georgia Tech men’s basketball program in an appeal ruling, potentially helping the school recoup scholarships and recruiting visitation privileges, a source told ESPN on Friday. Georgia Tech got hit with major recruiting violations in 2019 — including a postseason ban served in 2020
7:13 AM ET GIDEON GEORGE HAD been in the United States just a few days when he spotted the basketball shoes at the bottom of a garbage can in a dorm room at New Mexico Junior College. It was 2018, and the young player had just flown from Nigeria to a country he only knew
12:32 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 The last time an NCAA tournament was held without Tom Izzo, the Michigan State head coach was 42 years old and had just wrapped up his
10:05 PM ET All season, the narrative around men’s college basketball has been there’s Gonzaga and Baylor — and everyone else. The Zags and Bears were clearly the two best teams in the country, the prohibitive national champion favorites, and nobody else was even close. Instead of debates about No. 1, discussion has been about
5:36 PM ET Associated Press The easing of public-gathering restrictions in North Carolina has opened the door for a limited number of fans to attend the Atlantic Coast Conference men’s and women’s basketball tournaments. The league announced its decision Thursday, a day after Gov. Roy Cooper eased restrictions to allow attendance of up to 15%