10:05 PM ET Following Baylor’s bounce-back win over West Virginia and considering the fact Illinois was going to be without Ayo Dosunmu heading into its game at Michigan, it looked like we would exit Tuesday night with a pretty good idea of the first three 1-seeds and a wide-open race for the fourth spot in
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9:19 PM ET ESPN News Services MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Coach Scott Drew jumped on Mark Vital‘s back after Baylor clinched the Big 12 championship, pointed a finger to the sky, then raced off the court ahead of his players to prepare for an even more raucous celebration. “I was able to beat them into the
6:49 PM ET Creighton men’s basketball coach Greg McDermott apologized Tuesday for racially insensitive comments he made to his players following a loss to Xavier last week. “On February 27th, after an emotionally tough loss on the road, I addressed our student-athletes and staff in the postgame locker room and used a terrible inappropriate analogy
2:37 PM ET Associated Press The SEC wants the few fans able to attend the men’s basketball tournament in Nashville, Tennessee, to know the rules. Health officials are allowing a seating capacity of 20% at Bridgestone Arena for approximately 3,400 fans because of COVID-19 restrictions at the tournament starting March 10. The SEC said Tuesday
7:00 AM ET Heather Dinich Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of Indiana University Tom VanHaaren Close ESPN Staff Writer ESPN staff writer Joined ESPN in 2011 Graduated from Central Michigan College basketball still owns the month of March, even amid a global pandemic, but for a select few
5:31 PM ET Associated Press VESTAL, N.Y. — Binghamton University announced Monday that men’s basketball coach Tommy Dempsey is out and assistant Levell Sanders has been named interim coach for next season. Athletic director Patrick Elliott said in a news release that Dempsey’s contract would not be renewed after his nine years at the helm.
4:54 PM ET DENVER — The University of Denver is parting ways with basketball coach Rodney Billups after five seasons. Billups finished 48-94 at the school where he once was a standout player. The Pioneers were 2-19 overall this season and 1-13 in Summit League play. Denver didn’t qualify for the conference tournament in two
3:51 PM ET The National Invitational Tournament is downsizing and moving its annual tournament this month, the NCAA announced Monday. The NIT will feature 16 teams all playing in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area, with games being held at Comerica Center in Frisco, Texas and at UNT Coliseum on North Texas’ campus in Denton, Texas.
2:32 PM ET Florida State coach Leonard Hamilton agreed to a five-year extension through the 2024-2025 season that will pay him $2.25 million annually plus bonuses, the school announced Monday. Hamilton, 72, is the all-time winningest coach in school history and has the Seminoles on the verge of winning back-to-back ACC regular-season titles. Florida State
2:24 PM ET ALBANY, N.Y. — University of Albany men’s basketball coach Will Brown is out after two decades. Brown said in a news release issued Monday that he and the school had agreed “to mutually part ways.” The 2020-21 season was the final year of his contract extension. “Anyone who knows me knows this
1:57 PM ET Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Louisville forward/center Malik Williams will miss four to six weeks after reinjuring his right foot in just his third game after returning from nearly a year away because of injury. Williams won’t require additional surgery for the third injury to the foot since September 2019. The 6-foot-11
12:20 PM ET Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. — Teddy Allen, the Nebraska scoring leader who set the Pinnacle Bank Arena scoring record less than a week ago, left the Huskers basketball team on Monday. Nebraska was Allen’s third Division I program in a mercurial career on and off the court. Coach Fred Hoiberg mentioned last
12:22 PM ET Associated Press Michigan finally broke the stranglehold of Gonzaga and Baylor atop The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll on Monday, taking advantage of the Bears’ loss at Kansas to leap into the No. 2 spot behind the Bulldogs. Gonzaga continued to hold down the top spot in the Top 25, just
7:00 AM ET Thirty-one NCAA Division I men’s basketball conferences will crown champions over a nine-day stretch that begins with the Ohio Valley Conference tournament on Saturday, March 6, and comes to an end with five leagues — the Patriot League, Atlantic 10, SEC, American and Big Ten — all crowning their champions on Sunday,
7:00 AM ET For the first time since the first week of the season, we’ve made a change in the top two of the Power Rankings. It has been Gonzaga then Baylor all season — and for most of the season, it looked like there was an enormous gap between the top two and everyone
12:37 AM ET Following No. 2 Baylor‘s first loss of the season on Saturday night, a 71-58 defeat at No. 17 Kansas, coach Scott Drew acknowledged that the COVID-19 protocols that sidelined the Bears for 21 days are his team’s “kryptonite.” “We were the No. 1 shooting team in the country and we’ll get back
12:30 AM ET With its 86-69 win over Loyola Marymount Saturday night, the Gonzaga men’s basketball team completed its first undefeated regular season — and became the first Division I team to enter its conference tournament undefeated since Kentucky in 2015. While this season has been full of uncertainty because of COVID-19 — namely shortened
2:00 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 For Loyola Chicago, the season began with being picked to finish second behind Northern Iowa in the preseason Missouri Valley Conference poll. That same regular season