NCAABB

7:00 AM ET It was absolute carnage throughout most of the Power Rankings this past week. Of the 16 teams ranked last week, eight suffered losses and one didn’t play a game. Of the next nine teams under consideration last week that would have been able to play themselves into the rankings this week, six

11:19 PM ET Associated Press Louisville men’s basketball coach Chris Mack has tested positive for COVID-19 with mild symptoms, and the Cardinals have postponed a third Atlantic Coast Conference game scheduled for Wednesday against Pittsburgh. Mack is among those who have tested positive and will follow protocols, which includes missing Saturday’s scheduled game at Virginia

11:02 PM ET Associated Press EDINBURG, Texas — Texas Rio Grande Valley coach Lew Hill died Sunday, a day after coaching what was his final game, the university said. Hill, who was 55, was in his fifth season as coach of the Vaqueros, who lost 77-75 against Texas Southern on Saturday night. The school said

2:43 PM ET Associated Press The Southeastern Conference has postponed two men’s basketball games scheduled for Wednesday night. The league on Sunday announced the postponement of the Georgia–Texas A&M and Florida–Tennessee games, citing a combination of positive COVID-19 tests, contact tracing and subsequent quarantining of individuals within the Texas A&M and No. 22 Florida programs.

8:30 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 After losing at home to North Carolina 91-87, Duke‘s record now stands at 7-7. A team that was ranked No. 9 in the AP’s preseason poll

4:44 PM ET Michigan men’s basketball has postponed Thursday’s game against Illinois, extending the program’s two-week pause. It’s the fifth consecutive game that Michigan, a top seed in ESPN’s Joe Lunardi’s latest bracketology, will miss. According to a statement Saturday from Michigan, Illinois and the Big Ten, the game is being postponed due to “return-to-play

5:28 PM ET Former NBA All-Star Terry Porter is out as Portland’s head coach, the school announced Friday. Assistant coach Ben Johnson will take over on an interim basis until the end of the season. Porter has been the Pilots’ head coach since 2016 and has struggled to turn the program around since taking over

1:15 PM ET Associated Press The Southeastern Conference says Saturday’s Florida-LSU basketball game has been postponed. The league announced the decision on Friday citing a combination of positive virus tests, contact tracing and subsequent quarantining of individuals within the Florida basketball program, consistent with Southeastern Conference COVID-19 management requirements. No makeup date was immediately determined.

7:30 AM ET The Duke Blue Devils come off a loss to Miami and are on the outside of the Bracketology bubble looking in. The North Carolina Tar Heels come off a loss to Clemson, and though in seemingly better NCAA shape, sit several spots behind Duke in the key metric rankings systems including KenPom.

10:00 PM ET It’s time to add Ohio State to the conversation for a 1-seed come Selection Sunday. The Buckeyes went into Iowa on Thursday, made 14 3-pointers and departed with an 89-85 win over the Hawkeyes. They now have a résumé to rival that of anyone in the country outside of the clear-cut top

6:31 PM ET Baylor, the No. 2 men’s basketball team in the country and one of three undefeated teams remaining, has postponed its next two games, the school announced Thursday. The decision is “due to the Big 12 Conference men’s basketball interruption guidelines.” Baylor’s game vs. TCU on Saturday and the Bears’ road tilt at

1:02 PM ET A new federal bill introduced Thursday would make it illegal for the NCAA or other college sports associations to place any restrictions on the type or size of endorsements deals that college athletes could sign in the future. The bill, co-authored by Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) and Rep. Lori Trahan (D-Massachusetts), is

7:00 AM ET Iowa star center Luka Garza is the odds-on favorite to win the John R. Wooden Award as college basketball’s best player this season. It’s what happens to Garza after his career at Iowa (vs. Ohio State, 7 p.m. Thursday, ESPN) ends that remains an open question. NBA scouts are divided on Garza’s

8:00 AM ET The watch list of 20 players for the 2021 John R. Wooden Award was announced Monday in a race that is shaping up as a matchup of Iowa’s Luka Garza — the nation’s leading scorer and last season’s Wooden runner-up — against the field. With roughly a month to play in the

5:00 PM ET Associated Press Saturday’s Atlantic Coast Conference men’s basketball game between Louisville and No. 14 Virginia has been postponed, with Pittsburgh now scheduled to visit the Cavaliers in Charlottesville that day. The postponement follows one earlier Wednesday of a game scheduled for that evening between Louisville and host Syracuse after a positive test,

4:38 PM ET Florida forward Keyontae Johnson‘s collapse during a game two months ago was “not related to or a result of a previous or current” COVID-19 diagnosis, his family said in a statement Wednesday. Johnson was rushed to a local hospital on Dec. 12 after falling face-first onto the court following a timeout in

7:00 AM ET Every player currently on a college basketball roster is eligible to play in the 2021-22 season if they so choose. The NCAA granted every player an extra year of eligibility, regardless of how many games played this season. What does that mean for the transfer portal? Well, it should be busier than

4:33 PM ET Associated Press The Nebraska men’s basketball team is emerging from a shutdown because of a COVID-19 outbreak that left coach Fred Hoiberg with a severe case. “I got a little scared, to be honest with you, just with everything I’ve had in my past with two open-heart surgeries and being fully dependent