8:24 PM ET Associated Press The 22nd-ranked Oregon men’s basketball team has paused all team-related activities because of COVID-19 protocols. The Ducks won’t play planned games at home against Arizona State on Thursday and Arizona on Saturday. The games will be rescheduled. Oregon (9-2, 4-1 Pac-12) is in second place in the Pac-12 behind UCLA.
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3:15 PM ET West Virginia‘s next three games have been postponed due to COVID-19 issues, the school announced Tuesday. On Monday, the Mountaineers announced their game against Baylor, scheduled for Tuesday night, was postponed due to West Virginia not being able to meet the required COVID-19 thresholds. Two more games were postponed Tuesday, with the
12:43 PM ET Kentucky baseball player Ben Jordan, who walked on to the basketball team last season when it had a need, has died at age 22, the school said. No cause of death was given. We love you, Ben. Your memory will live forever in our hearts. pic.twitter.com/j7aYZ3uJYc — Kentucky Basketball (@KentuckyMBB) January 12,
11:15 AM ET Associated Press The Southeastern Conference has postponed Tuesday night’s basketball game between in-state rivals No. 10 Tennessee and Vanderbilt because of a combination of positive coronavirus tests, contact tracing and quarantining within the Commodores’ program, it was announced Tuesday. The game was a late addition to the schedule because of COVID-19 issues
7:30 AM ET On Sunday, Texas men’s basketball coach Shaka Smart punctuated a weekend that included a thrilling victory at West Virginia — cancer survivor Andrew Jones made the winning 3-pointer — by playing in the snow with his daughter during a rare winter snowstorm in the Lone Star State. “My daughter has never lived
10:40 PM ET Kentucky president Eli Capilouto and athletic director Mitch Barnhart on Monday supported the men’s basketball team, which has faced backlash after players and coaches, including coach John Calipari, knelt before Saturday’s win over Florida at Rupp Arena to protest social injustice days after rioters stormed the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Beyond the
11:43 PM ET Associated Press TUCSON, Ariz. — Arizona junior guard Jemarl Baker Jr. will miss the remainder of the season with a broken wrist. Wildcats coach Sean Miller said during his radio show on Monday that X-rays showed a broken bone in Baker’s wrist. Baker was injured in the first half of Saturday’s loss
5:38 PM ET Dan Murphy Close ESPN Staff Writer Covers the Big Ten Joined ESPN.com in 2014 Graduate of the University of Notre Dame Adam Rittenberg Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. The NCAA will not meet its self-administered deadline to update rules that dicatate how
5:53 PM ET Associated Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Former Indiana star Wayne Radford, a prominent backup on the Hoosiers’ 1976 unbeaten national championship team, has died. He was 64. Athletic department officials confirmed Radford’s death Sunday with one of his family members but did not provide any details. Radford spent his entire career playing for
12:13 PM ET Associated Press Gonzaga and Baylor remain atop The Associated Press men’s basketball poll for the seventh consecutive week in the regular season. The Zags received 63 of 64 first-place votes from a national media panel in the poll released Monday, and the Bears had the other one. Villanova, Texas and Iowa rounded
7:00 AM ET It feels like the Pac-12 is being a bit underrated this season — and that’s coming from someone who doesn’t have a single Pac-12 team in his Power Rankings. But the league has four teams in the top 28 at KenPom, four teams in the top 35 of the BPI and four
7:37 PM ET West Virginia transfer Oscar Tshiebwe has committed to Kentucky, he announced Sunday night. “I am grateful for the time I spent at West Virginia, and the lessons that I learned. I’ve spent a lot of time praying to God to help me make the best decision for my future,” Tshiebwe wrote on
5:50 PM ET Associated Press STORRS, Conn. — Former UConn men’s basketball coach Donald “Dee” Rowe, who served for more than five decades as an ambassador for the school’s athletic department and as a mentor for coaches including Jim Calhoun and Geno Auriemma, died Sunday. He was 91. Rowe was hired as UConn coach in
5:04 PM ET Three years to the day of being diagnosed with leukemia, Texas guard Andrew Jones made a game-winning 3-pointer with 1.1 seconds left to give the No. 4 Longhorns’ a 72-70 win over No. 14 West Virginia. Down by one in the final minute, Texas allowed West Virginia to grab two offensive rebounds
4:41 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI — The NCAA is preparing to delay a potential landmark vote on legislation that would permit college athletes to be compensated for their fame for the first time after receiving a warning from the Department of Justice about potential antitrust violations. NCAA president Mark Emmert on Saturday emailed a
10:46 AM ET Associated Press Hall of Fame coach Mike Krzyzewski will return to the sideline Saturday for No. 21 Duke after missing a game due to COVID-19 quarantine protocol, the university announced. Krzyzewski, 73, missed Wednesday’s win against Boston College while he and his wife were in quarantine after a family member had tested
10:46 AM ET Auburn freshman Sharife Cooper has been cleared to play by the NCAA and will make his debut for the Tigers on Saturday, the school announced. “Sharife Cooper has been deemed eligible by the NCAA,” the school said in a statement. “He will play Saturday vs. Alabama.” Cooper had sat out the first
4:10 PM ET The Clemson Tigers ended one of college basketball’s most historic streaks last season, taking down the North Carolina Tar Heels in Chapel Hill for the first time. UNC is better in 2020-21, but so is Clemson, which enters their latest ACC foray as a top-20 team. Our experts took a look at