NCAABB

5:46 PM ET Associated Press All a team needs to play in this year’s NCAA Tournament is five healthy players. How about a coach? The NCAA will get back to you on that. The fluid nature of a March Madness played amid the coronavirus pandemic was spelled out Wednesday, hours before the NCAA selection committee

11:14 AM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — For the first time in the 42-year history of the Big East Conference, three players will share the league’s player of the year award. Seton Hall’s Sandro Mamukelashvili, Villanova’s Jeremiah Robinson-Earl and Collin Gillespie tied in the voting by the league’s coaches, who were not permitted to

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 Every March, the pressure grows stronger on what everyone at ESPN headquarters now refers to as simply The Streak. We are speaking, of course, of the

11:32 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Jalen Suggs hit two late 3-pointers and scored 23 points, helping top-ranked Gonzaga survive its biggest test of an undefeated season to beat Brigham Young 88-78 in the West Coast Conference men’s basketball tournament title game on Tuesday night. The Bulldogs (26-0) had been unstoppable all season,

10:17 PM ET Associated Press HARRISONBURG, Va. — Mate Okros scored 14 points with four 3-pointers and sixth-seeded Drexel is headed to the NCAA tournament for the first time in 25 years after defeating eighth-seeded Elon 63-56 in the championship game of the Colonial Athletic Association tournament on Tuesday night. The Dragons, whose last NCAA

11:25 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 Championship Week is by definition filled with bubble drama. What has changed in 2021 are the names at the center of that drama: Louisville, Maryland, Drake,

6:43 PM ET Associated Press Iowa athletic director Gary Barta apologized to the family of Hawkeyes basketball great Roy Marble on Tuesday for any hard feelings they have over the retirement of star player Luka Garza‘s number. Garza last month broke the 32-year-old career scoring record held by Marble, is the two-time Big Ten player

5:16 PM ET Auburn freshman Justin Powell is leaving the program, he told ESPN on Tuesday. Powell is expected to enter the transfer portal soon. A 6-foot-6 guard from Kentucky, Powell was one of the nation’s standout freshmen early in the season. He scored 26 points in back-to-back games against South Alabama and Memphis, and

3:20 PM ET Kansas big men David McCormack and Tristan Enaruna will miss the Big 12 tournament due to COVID-19 protocols, coach Bill Self announced Tuesday. Self believes both players will be back for the NCAA tournament, and he indicated the rest of the roster would be able to suit up for the conference tournament

11:58 AM ET Associated Press Iowa’s Luka Garza is The Associated Press player of the year in the Big Ten Conference for the second year in a row and Michigan’s Juwan Howard is coach of the year. Garza won a split vote with Illinois’ Ayo Dosunmu after being a unanimous pick in 2020. Garza and

11:24 AM ET ESPN News Services Georgia Tech senior Moses Wright is The Associated Press’ men’s basketball player of the year for the Atlantic Coast Conference, while Virginia Tech coach Mike Young and Louisville‘s Carlik Jones also earned individual honors. Young was named the ACC coach of the year and Jones, a graduate transfer, was

10:55 AM ET Associated Press Alabama senior Herbert Jones is The Associated Press player of the year in the Southeastern Conference, while the Crimson Tide’s Nate Oats is its coach of the year and Arkansas guard Moses Moody is the top newcomer. Jones, who plays both guard and forward, earned five of the 14 votes

9:21 AM ET A University of Texas committee formed in November to investigate the history of “The Eyes of Texas” released a 58-page report Tuesday that says the school song was not written with racist intent, but acknowledges its first public performance was likely by performers in blackface during a minstrel show. The song, which

7:03 AM ET That the game would ultimately arrive at the finish line — the NCAA Bubble Tournament in Indianapolis — was never truly in doubt. The only question was how many hoops would the game have to jump through — and at what cost. Now, the NCAA Tournament Bubble Selection Committee will take over

10:22 PM ET Associated Press PENSACOLA, Fla. — Michael Almonacy scored a career-high 32 points with six 3-pointers and Appalachian State upset two-time defending champion Georgia State 80-73 on Monday night to win the Sun Belt Conference championship and return to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2000. It was an improbable run

7:10 PM ET Villanova guard Justin Moore is doubtful for the Big East men’s basketball tournament after suffering a severe ankle sprain over the weekend, coach Jay Wright announced on Twitter on Monday. Moore went down in the first half of Saturday’s loss to Providence and needed to be helped off the court. He eventually

5:48 PM ET Oklahoma State‘s Cade Cunningham, the projected No. 1 pick in ESPN’s latest NBA mock draft, was named the Big 12 player of the year and Big 12 freshman of the year, the league announced on Monday. Only three players had earned both honors — Marcus Smart, Kevin Durant and Michael Beasley —

4:42 PM ET Creighton men’s basketball coach Greg McDermott has been reinstated for all team activities following a one-game suspension for racially insensitive comments he made to his players in late February, the school announced Monday. The decision allows McDermott to coach the Bluejays in this week’s Big East tournament. McDermott apologized last Tuesday for