7:48 PM ET An NAIA school in Virginia has forfeited its men’s basketball game Thursday after suspending players for kneeling during the national anthem throughout several games in January and February. In a statement on Thursday, Bluefield College president David Olive said that after players knelt during multiple games in January and February, even after
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6:05 PM ET Associated Press The Memphis Tigers now have two men’s basketball games missed by positive COVID-19 tests and contact tracing with their Sunday game at No. 8 Houston postponed. The American Athletic Conference announced the latest postponement Thursday. Memphis paused activities Wednesday and the Tigers’ game with Cincinnati on Thursday night was also
4:52 PM ET The CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT) has been canceled for the 2021 season, it announced Thursday. “Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, there will be no CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT) in 2021,” an official statement read. “The safety and welfare of student-athletes, coaches, administrators and fans is paramount. Therefore we believe it is
4:02 PM ET Associated Press VALPARAISO, Ind. — Valparaiso University announced Thursday that it is dropping the team name Crusaders, the school mascot and all logos associated with the term that it said has been embraced by hate groups. The decision comes after a decadeslong debate that had intensified recently because groups such as the
3:01 PM ET The Ivy League Council of Presidents has approved the opportunity for current senior student-athletes to play an additional season as graduate students next season, according to a statement sent to student-athletes on Thursday. The statement, obtained by ESPN, makes it clear that the rule change is a one-time waiver because of the
12:18 PM ET Associated Press Saturday’s men’s basketball game between Texas A&M and Florida scheduled for Exactech Arena has been postponed due to COVID-19. A combination of positive tests, contact tracing and subsequent quarantining of individuals within the Texas A&M program caused the change. The postponement is consistent with Southeastern Conference COVID-19 management requirements. It’s
7:00 AM ET Stanford coach Jerod Haase hasn’t been in his office since last spring. Saint Louis hasn’t had a team meal or been in its locker room together since last March. There are teams that have played four games; there are teams that have played 23 games. The entire Ivy League canceled its season,
8:00 AM ET Though the 2020-21 John R. Wooden Award could very well be won by a senior such as Iowa’s Luka Garza, the group of freshmen on the most recent Wooden Watch list is intriguing. Four freshmen, led by expected No. 1 NBA draft pick Cade Cunningham of Oklahoma State, appear on the 20-member
7:00 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 The Super Bowl’s in the books, Punxsutawney Phil either did or did not see his shadow (does anyone ever keep that straight?) and Valentine’s Day is
6:50 PM ET Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Phil Rollins, a starting guard on Louisville’s 1956 NIT championship squad who went on to play in the NBA, has died. He was 87. The school announced that Rollins died Monday morning but did not specify a cause. A Louisville funeral home confirmed it is handling Rollins’
2:17 PM ET North Carolina‘s players and team managers released a statement of apology Tuesday after a video showing multiple players partying without masks on after Saturday’s win over Duke forced the postponement of Monday’s game against Miami. Two hours before Monday’s men’s basketball game between Miami and North Carolina in Chapel Hill, the ACC
12:34 PM ET The Big Ten is moving its men’s basketball tournament from the United Center in Chicago to Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis in order to provide more centralized testing and medical protocol efficiencies during the coronavirus pandemic, the conference announced on Tuesday. The 2021 tournament will be held March 10-14 and will precede
7:30 AM ET Evidence. Empirical, verified reality. Data. Results. Science which, as Steve Martin once said, is pure empiricism and by virtue of its method excludes metaphysics. Now, in February, the dog days of the college basketball season, we have results and data that allow all to move beyond what we think about a team,
6:52 AM ET BY THE AGE of 15, there were few places in the basketball world Jalen Green could go and retain some level of anonymity. Green’s highlight tapes had become the stuff of internet legend. He’d been ranked the No. 1 player in the high school Class of 2020 before he ever played in
7:28 PM ET Arkansas State athletic director Terry Mohajir has agreed to take the athletic director’s job at UCF, sources told ESPN. Mohajir, a member of the College Football Playoff selection committee, has overseen the Arkansas State athletic department since 2012. He played football at Arkansas State in the 1990s and worked at Kansas and
6:27 PM ET Hours before the scheduled tipoff, Monday night’s men’s basketball game between Miami and North Carolina in Chapel Hill was postponed, the ACC announced. The decision came hours after The Daily Tar Heel, North Carolina’s student newspaper, posted a Snapchat video that shows UNC standouts Day’Ron Sharpe and Armando Bacot partying without masks
12:56 PM ET Jeff Borzello ESPN Baylor, the No. 2 men’s basketball team in the country and one of two two undefeated teams remaining, is postponing three more games, the school announced Monday. The decision is in accordance with Big 12 Conference men’s basketball interruption guidelines. Baylor had already postponed two games, vs. TCU this
12:27 PM ET Associated Press LAWRENCE, Kan. — Kansas dropped out of The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll for the first time in 12 years on Monday, ending the Jayhawks’ record streak of 231 consecutive weeks ranked in the Top 25. Gonzaga and Baylor held down the top two spots, just as they have