5:58 PM ET Associated Press North Carolina State scoring leader Devon Daniels is out for the season due to a serious knee injury. The school announced Thursday that the 6-foot-5 senior had torn his left anterior cruciate ligament during the second half Wednesday night in a victory over Wake Forest. Daniels was averaging 16.5 points
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3:58 PM ET Associated Press CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Freshman forward Matt Cross has left the Miami Hurricanes‘ program, the latest personnel loss for a reeling team plagued by injuries. No reason was given when Miami made the announcement Thursday. Cross started nine games, ranked fifth on the team in points and fourth in rebounds,
7:00 AM ET The transfer portal has begun to own the college basketball offseason. Sure, there’s the coaching carousel and the NBA draft early-entry deadline, but much of the discussion surrounds transfers. Preseason top 25s are dictated heavily by incoming transfers or players who sat out — everyone who sat out was “the best player
1:24 PM ET Associated Press UConn said it has postponed its next two men’s basketball games, including Thursday’s scheduled contest with No. 3 Villanova, after learning that an official who worked its Tuesday night win over Butler has tested positive for the coronavirus. The Huskies have been placed in a daily testing protocol and a
7:30 AM ET With January nearing its conclusion, and despite the ever-present cancellations and postponements that have come with the coronavirus pandemic, college basketball’s bigger picture is slowly coming together. With a number of telling games on the Tuesday night slate, ESPN.com’s college basketball team of Myron Medcalf, Jeff Borzello, John Gasaway and Joe Lunardi
12:05 AM ET Associated Press Stanford’s athletic teams are able to return to campus after Santa Clara County lifted the restrictions that were in place on contact sports because of the coronavirus. Stanford’s men’s and women’s basketball teams have been playing home games in Santa Cruz because of the ban that has been in place
5:03 PM ET Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. — One of South Carolina’s most experienced forwards in Alanzo Frink will miss the rest of the men’s basketball season due to medical reasons. Gamecocks coach Frank Martin announced Frink’s status on Tuesday. The 6-foot-8 junior from Jersey City, New Jersey, has played in three games, all starts
3:14 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Big East Commissioner Val Ackerman has signed a three-year contract extension, the league announced Tuesday. Ackerman was appointed the conference’s fifth commissioner in June 2013. The extension runs through June 2024. “It’s been a tremendous honor to lead the Big East over the past seven-plus years, and
2:37 PM ET Associated Press The Michigan State Spartans are planning to resume competing later this week after postponing three straight games due to a COVID-19 outbreak within the men’s basketball program. Coach Tom Izzo says the Spartans (8-4, 2-4 Big Ten) are planning to play at Rutgers (8-6, 4-6) on Thursday night. He expects
1:58 PM ET Fordham head coach Jeff Neubauer is leaving the program after six seasons at the helm, the school announced Tuesday. Neubauer has been on the hot seat for the past couple of seasons, and many expected him to be out after last season. But Fordham athletic director Dave Roach retired last spring, and
8:15 AM ET Just in case the 48- and 16-team versions aren’t enough to satisfy the craving for pandemic alternatives to the traditional 68-team NCAA tournament field, we present the next monthly update of a potential 80-team bracket. 2 Related Here’s a refresher on the basics: All conference champions — regular-season and tournament — qualify
5:22 PM ET Associated Press BLACKSBURG, Va. — Virginia Tech has indefinitely suspended starting guard Tyrece Radford from all men’s basketball team activities. In a release Monday, school school officials said Radford failed to uphold “the high standards Virginia Tech has for its students and athletes.” The release also stated there would be no further
1:29 PM ET Duke men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski reached out and apologized to a student reporter days after a viral exchange between the two. Jake Piazza, a reporter for the Duke Chronicle student newspaper, asked Krzyzewski about his team’s “next step forward” after Saturday’s 70-65 loss to Louisville — Duke missed multiple shots in
12:44 PM ET Texas coach Shaka Smart announced Monday that he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is in isolation. “I tested positive for COVID and am in isolation away from our team and my family,” Smart said in a statement. “I am working remotely and look forward to rejoining our team in person when
12:12 PM ET Associated Press Gonzaga, Baylor and Villanova remained atop The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll Monday, while ninth-ranked Alabama climbed to its highest ranking in 14 years. Mark Few’s Bulldogs earned 61 of 64 first-place votes in the latest Top 25, while Scott Drew’s Bears claimed the other three. Those two teams
7:00 AM ET Much like the nation’s men’s college basketball pecking order has become a two-team tier atop the rest of the field, most of the big conferences have seen a clear delineation among its title contenders. The ACC is Virginia, Florida State, and everyone else. In the Big East, despite its monthlong pause, Villanova
11:04 PM ET Following positive tests for a new coronavirus strain within Michigan athletics, the state department of health and human services has closed all facilities and paused all University of Michigan teams and activities for up to 14 days, according to a release from the school. Per the release, the state is taking a
2:44 PM ET Associated Press NORMAN, Okla. — De’Vion Harmon scored 22 points as Oklahoma beat No. 9 Kansas 75-68 on Saturday for its second victory this month over a top-10 opponent and the Jayhawks’ first three-game losing streak since February 2013. Oklahoma (9-4, 5-3 Big 12) has won three of its past four games