7:00 AM ET The ACC coaches weren’t completely clueless when, back in September, they proposed an expanded NCAA tournament. The notion that a pandemic-riddled season requires more, not less flexibility has merit. The ACC proposal just went too far. About 275 teams too far. We don’t need an all-inclusive tourney to crown a worthy champion.
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8:02 AM ET The parents of some of America’s top men’s and women’s basketball players have formed a new organization that aims to build a national network that empowers parents across the country and helps educate them about the culture and climate of the sport and their role within it, while also advocating for the
7:00 AM ET The 2019-20 college basketball season ended unceremoniously, and in unprecedented fashion, as a global pandemic started. Never before, not even during times of war or other catastrophe, has the NCAA tournament been canceled or otherwise not played. On March 12, 2020, the lights went out on college basketball, and there was uncertainty
9:44 PM ET ESPN News Services Utah men’s basketball coach Larry Krystkowiak and multiple Utes players have tested positive for COVID-19. Krystkowiak announced the positive tests on his weekend radio show. 1 Related The Utah women’s basketball team also announced it was pausing basketball activities because of a positive coronavirus case. It’s two opening games
9:44 PM ET Associated Press Utah men’s basketball coach Larry Krystkowiak and eight Utes players have tested positive for COVID-19. Krystkowiak announced the positive tests on his weekend radio show. He said five players who tested positive were living in the same house and three were living in another. 1 Related The Utah women’s basketball
9:41 PM ET Arizona freshman guard Kerr Kriisa will return to his home country of Estonia to play with the senior national team in two FIBA Eurobasket qualifying games at the end of November, the school announced Tuesday. Kriisa has also not been cleared by the NCAA Eligibility Center, according to the school. “Given the
9:15 PM ET Associated Press LEXINGTON, Ky. — Billy Evans, a member of the 1956 gold medal-winning U.S. Olympic team and Kentucky Hall of Famer who helped the Wildcats go 25-0 in 1953-54, has died. He was 88. The school announced Evans’ death on Sunday upon confirmation from his family. He had 716 points and
9:01 PM ET Associated Press The season opener for No. 20 Oregon against Eastern Washington scheduled for Wednesday has been postponed because of two positive COVID-19 cases within the Eagles’ program. The Eagles called for the postponement due to concerns of having enough scholarship players available due to the positive tests and contact tracing protocols.
7:14 AM ET Less than 24 hours after Arizona State withdrew from the Empire Classic, the Sun Devils are back in — with Baylor dropping out of the event. Arizona State had planned to withdraw on Sunday night, sources told ESPN, after the news that Baylor coach Scott Drew tested positive for COVID-19. The Bears
1:12 PM ET Tennessee men’s basketball has paused all team activities following multiple positive COVID-19 test results, including one from head coach Rick Barnes. The positive tests were conducted Sunday afternoon, and the entire program is getting retested today. Barnes has entered isolation protocol following his positive test. Tennessee was scheduled to start the season
12:38 PM ET The Duke men’s basketball team will not play its season-opening game against Gardner-Webb on Wednesday because of a positive coronavirus test within the Gardner-Webb team, Duke announced on Monday. Per its website, the program made the decision after consulting with its medical personnel. The team said it hopes to reschedule the game
12:20 PM ET The Ole Miss men’s basketball program is pausing team activities until Dec. 7 because of COVID-19 and will therefore have to cancel its first four games. Coach Kermit Davis tested positive for the coronavirus last week, but the Rebels planned to proceed with the start of their season, with assistant coach Ronnie
11:39 AM ET Jeff Borzello Close ESPN Staff Writer Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Mark Schlabach Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Auburn star freshman Sharife Cooper hasn’t practiced in recent weeks for
7:14 AM ET Arizona State is withdrawing from this week’s Empire Classic, sources told ESPN, following the news that Baylor men’s basketball coach Scott Drew tested positive for COVID-19. No. 18 Arizona State was scheduled to face No. 2 Baylor on Wednesday at Mohegan Sun in the marquee game of college basketball’s opening night. Drew
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 Forgive me for being giddy, but we are now just days away from seeing college basketball being played. It seems like decades ago that the sport
7:30 AM ET Without the abnormal circumstances that 2020 has brought, Luka Garza might have heard his name called by Adam Silver alongside other established college standouts in the 2020 NBA draft. Instead of navigating the increased uncertainty of the draft process, the Iowa star returns as the face of college basketball entering the 2020-21
12:12 AM ET John Thompson Jr.’s death in August was a significant loss for college basketball. But the legendary leader’s legacy will be highlighted with a heartwarming gesture this week. Multiple Black head coaches will wear a towel over their right shoulder during their season-opening games to honor Thompson, sources told ESPN on Sunday. Thompson’s
6:10 PM ET Auburn men’s basketball has self-imposed a postseason ban this season as part of the investigation into bribery charges brought against former assistant coach Chuck Person, the school announced Sunday. The athletic department, university administration and coach Bruce Pearl reached the decision, according to the statement, “in light of the ongoing matter that