8:02 PM ET ESPN News Services CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — North Carolina coach Roy Williams became the fifth Division I men’s basketball coach to reach 900 wins on Saturday, and was able to celebrate the milestone in front of home fans for the first time this season. Down 16 points to No. 11 Florida State
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8:55 PM ET There were moments during Cade Cunningham‘s career-best 40-point effort in his team’s 94-90 overtime win against No. 7 Oklahoma — in the first installment of the Bedlam rivalry — when he looked like the most unstoppable player in America. Perhaps not the Wooden Award winner. That honor will likely go to Iowa’s
7:15 PM ET Associated Press LAWRENCE, Kan. — LaVannes Squires, the first Black men’s basketball player at Kansas and a member of the Jayhawks’ 1952 national title team, died last week in Pasadena, California. He was 90. The school announced in a statement Saturday that he died Feb. 19. No cause was given. Squires was
2:00 PM ET Associated Press IOWA CITY, Iowa — Iowa forward Jack Nunge will miss the remainder of the season after injuring his right knee in the ninth-ranked Hawkeyes’ loss at No. 3 Michigan on Thursday. School officials said the 6-foot-11 sophomore has a torn meniscus and is expected to undergo surgery next week. Nunge
10:26 PM ET Paul Weir will be out as New Mexico’s head men’s basketball coach at the end of the season, the school announced Friday night. Weir is expected to coach in the regular-season finale against Colorado State on Wednesday and in the Mountain West Conference tournament. “Paul and I agree that a change of
3:58 PM ET Wichita State has removed the interim tag from Isaac Brown, promoting him to the Shockers’ permanent head coaching position on Friday. Brown has verbally agreed to a five-year deal, the school announced Friday. The deal is worth $6 million, a source told ESPN’s Rece Davis. Brown took over as Wichita State’s interim
3:00 PM ET Associated Press Indianapolis will relax coronavirus restrictions on the city’s bars and restaurants starting next week ahead of the upcoming Big Ten and NCAA men’s basketball tournaments. The changes will allow bars to operate at 50% capacity instead of 25% starting Monday, while restaurants will see their indoor restaurant capacity increase from
12:08 PM ET The NCAA has vacated multiple sanctions levied against the Georgia Tech men’s basketball program in an appeal ruling, potentially helping the school recoup scholarships and recruiting visitation privileges, a source told ESPN on Friday. Georgia Tech got hit with major recruiting violations in 2019 — including a postseason ban served in 2020
7:13 AM ET GIDEON GEORGE HAD been in the United States just a few days when he spotted the basketball shoes at the bottom of a garbage can in a dorm room at New Mexico Junior College. It was 2018, and the young player had just flown from Nigeria to a country he only knew
12:32 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 The last time an NCAA tournament was held without Tom Izzo, the Michigan State head coach was 42 years old and had just wrapped up his
10:05 PM ET All season, the narrative around men’s college basketball has been there’s Gonzaga and Baylor — and everyone else. The Zags and Bears were clearly the two best teams in the country, the prohibitive national champion favorites, and nobody else was even close. Instead of debates about No. 1, discussion has been about
5:36 PM ET Associated Press The easing of public-gathering restrictions in North Carolina has opened the door for a limited number of fans to attend the Atlantic Coast Conference men’s and women’s basketball tournaments. The league announced its decision Thursday, a day after Gov. Roy Cooper eased restrictions to allow attendance of up to 15%
2:39 PM ET The NCAA announced policies for how it will handle coronavirus-related withdrawals from the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, saying it will not allow replacement teams after the tournament begins. There will be no reseedings or bracket changes once the bracket is released on Selection Sunday, and replacement teams will only be introduced within
2:03 PM ET Illinois star guard Ayo Dosunmu is out indefinitely after suffering a facial injury, the school announced Thursday. Dosunmu suffered the injury in Tuesday’s loss to Michigan State. He was fouled hard by Spartans freshman Mady Sissoko late in the game; Sissoko was ejected after being hit with a flagrant 2 foul. Dosunmu
1:19 PM ET COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina‘s men’s basketball program was placed on probation for two years by the NCAA on Thursday for former assistant coach Lamont Evans accepting $9,100 in bribes from a sports agent. The NCAA’s decision put an end to South Carolina’s role in the college basketball corruption case that began
1:13 PM ET The deluge of bad news for the Pittsburgh Panthers has continued, as the program on Thursday announced that Au’Diese Toney, the No. 2 scorer in the program, will leave the team and enter the transfer portal based on a “mutual” decision. Toney, who missed Saturday’s 79-72 loss to Florida State due to
11:17 AM ET A federal judge ruled Wednesday that a former female student’s report of sexual assault against three former Michigan State basketball players was just one event and not enough to establish that she had been subjected to “systemic” harassment by the university. In dismissing the lawsuit filed in April 2018 by Bailey Kowalski,
7:00 AM ET Conference tournament season begins Thursday, when the Horizon League becomes the first 2021 postseason event to tip off in men’s basketball. More league tourneys will begin next week, and 31 conference champions will be crowned between March 6-14. Armed with the knowledge that a number of previous college basketball legends have made