5:30 PM ET Associated Press PITTSBURGH — Pitt sophomore forward Justin Champagnie is going to test the NBA waters. Head coach Jeff Capel made the announcement on Tuesday. Champagnie was one of the bright spots for the Panthers (10-12), earning All-Atlantic Coast Conference first-team honors after averaging 18.0 points and 11.1 rebounds. “The feedback I
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3:21 PM ET Associated Press The National College Players Association said Tuesday that NCAA president Mark Emmert has informed a group of basketball players who started a social media campaign to protest inequities in college sports that he will meet with them after March Madness. NCPA executive director Ramogi Huma said in a statement he
10:00 AM ET Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire It’s a March Madness like no other, an NCAA tournament held in one state during what everyone hopes is the tail end of a pandemic. Every game took place in arenas in Indiana, the first state with regulated sports betting to ever host an NCAA tournament. The crowds at
11:35 AM ET George Mason has hired Tennessee assistant Kim English as its next head coach, the school announced Tuesday. English beat out several high-major assistant coaches for the job, sources told ESPN. “Kim English is a rising star in the college basketball world,” athletic director Brad Edwards said. “He is a tremendous communicator, tireless
1:36 AM ET INDIANAPOLIS — USC defeated No. 3 seed Kansas 85-51 on Monday night to reach the Sweet 16 of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament — and in doing so handed the Jayhawks the third-worst loss in program history. Prior to Monday’s game, Kansas had suffered only eight 30-point losses in program history, the
12:59 AM ET The 2021 NCAA tournament provided more surprises and upsets in the second round on Sunday and Monday, as March Madness chaos continued to reign. But now we have a larger sample size with which to analyze the remaining field. Complete your bracket by selecting the winner in each of the games in
11:55 PM ET Colorado men’s basketball coach Tad Boyle opened his postgame news conference Monday night by addressing the mass shooting that happened just a few miles from the school’s campus in Boulder, saying the tragedy left “an emptiness” in his stomach win or lose. “First of all, before we talk about this basketball game,
10:49 PM ET ESPN News Services INDIANAPOLIS — Illinois big man Kofi Cockburn is the second player to face racist comments on social media following a loss in the NCAA tournament. Cockburn shared on Instagram a racist social media post directed at him after the top-seeded Illini lost to No. 8 Loyola Chicago on Sunday.
9:34 PM ET INDIANAPOLIS — Creighton has been itching to reach its first Sweet 16 since last year’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament was canceled because of COVID-19. Monday’s 72-58 win over Ohio was worth the wait. “It’s a phenomenal feeling,” junior guard Marcus Zegarowski said, “We worked — this is a two-year kind of thing
5:48 PM ET A historic NCAA men’s basketball tournament filled with a record number of upsets might strike concern into top-ranked title favorite Gonzaga, but the Bulldogs rolled through Oklahoma on Monday in their typical, convincing fashion. Sophomore big man Drew Timme said the team has paid attention to the double-digit seeds knocking off highly
6:39 PM ET March Madness, has been a story of upsets in 2021. We’re in the second day of the round of 32 and it’s anybody’s guess who will fall today. Sunday saw the continued Cinderella stories of both Loyola Chicago and Oral Roberts. The 8-seed Ramblers knocked off Illinois, in a 71-58 win which
3:39 PM ET Davidson Wildcats men’s basketball star Kellan Grady has entered the transfer portal and will explore his options as a graduate, sources told ESPN. A 6-foot-5 shooting guard from Boston, Grady earned first-team All-Atlantic 10 honors as a sophomore and senior and second-team honors as a freshman and junior. He averaged 17.1 points
4:03 PM ET INDIANAPOLIS — Disappointment set in when Oregon’s first-round NCAA tournament game against VCU was declared a no-contest Saturday. The Ducks wouldn’t be going home, like first-round opponent VCU, which had multiple positive COVID-19 tests on its roster. But after spending days in the NCAA bubble, they desperately wanted to play. During a
4:28 PM ET Minnesota is expected to hire Xavier assistant Ben Johnson as its next head coach, sources told ESPN. Johnson will replace Richard Pitino, who was let go last week after eight seasons with the Golden Gophers. An official announcement could come as soon as Monday night. Johnson is a Minneapolis native who graduated
1:46 PM ET Portland is expected to hire Eastern Washington‘s Shantay Legans as its next head coach, sources told ESPN. Legans has been the head coach at Eastern Washington for four seasons, leading the Eagles to a Big Sky regular-season championship last season and a conference tournament title this season. The Eagles had third-seeded Kansas
11:16 AM ET Former five-star recruit Walker Kessler announced Monday he’s transferring from North Carolina after one season. Kessler released a statement on Twitter. “While this season did not go as planned for our entire basketball community, the relationships that I have been able to develop this year will forever mean the world to me,”
1:14 AM ET No. 12 seed Oregon State upset the fourth-seeded Oklahoma State Cowboys at Hinkle Fieldhouse 80-70 on Sunday night to advance to the Sweet 16 in the Midwest region of the NCAA tournament. Senior guard Ethan Thompson led the Beavers with 26 points on 5-of-11 shooting and seven rebounds. Oregon State also got
12:15 AM ET Sunday’s NCAA tournament second round was weird and wild from start to finish, with Loyola Chicago starting things off by handling top-seeded Illinois and upsets by No. 11 seed Syracuse, No. 15 seed Oral Roberts and No. 12 seed Oregon State to mean this week’s Sweet 16 will feature some clear underdogs.