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12:49 PM ET A federal appeals court in New York has upheld the convictions of a former Adidas employee, a former Adidas consultant and an aspiring business manager who were found guilty for their roles in pay-for-play schemes to influence high-profile basketball recruits to attend Kansas, Louisville and NC State. Former Adidas employee James Gatto,

7:00 AM ET The Michigan Wolverines moved to 11-0 this week, smothering a top-10 Wisconsin team 77-54 to get the attention of anyone who still might have been sleeping on Juwan Howard’s squad. Michigan, which is beating Big Ten opponents by an average of 15.5 points, next faces Minnesota (Saturday, 2 p.m. ET, ESPN2) as

7:48 PM ET Butch Beard, one of the greatest players in Louisville basketball history, said he had a “nice” conversation with university president Neeli Bendapudi on Thursday afternoon after asking the school this week to strip his name from its records, citing concerns about the athletic department’s hiring practices and its failure to acknowledge former

7:48 PM ET Associated Press South Carolina men’s basketball coach Frank Martin and two other staffers will not travel with the Gamecocks for a game Saturday night at LSU. The school said Martin, assistant coach Chuck Martin and Doug Edwards, who’s in charge of student-athlete development, are staying home because of COVID-19 “health and safety

7:03 PM ET Associated Press The Atlantic 10 Conference is pulling its men’s basketball championship out of Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, because of concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic. The new location of the championship, which will be played March 10-14, is under review and will be announced in the near future. This will

6:27 PM ET Associated Press The Summit League men’s and women’s basketball tournaments will be held without fans and moved to a smaller venue in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, because of COVID-19 concerns, conference commissioner Tom Douple said Thursday. The tournament is scheduled for March 6-9. It originally was slated for the Denny Sanford Premier

9:20 AM ET The St. James NIBC Invitational is stacked with an abundance of highly ranked teams and nationally ranked players. This is the biggest and strongest event of the high school basketball season. There will be 10 games in the invitational — five on Sunday and five on Monday. Among the must-see matchups Sunday

7:00 AM ET The selection process for the NCAA tournament is never going to please everyone. This season, with cancellations and postponements due to the coronavirus pandemic wreaking havoc on team schedules and résumés from coast to coast, the complaints are going to be at an all-time high. Most of those arguments are going to

7:36 PM ET Associated Press Alabama forward Jordan Bruner is out indefinitely with a right knee injury after having a procedure for a meniscus injury Wednesday, the school announced. He suffered the injury in Tuesday night’s win over Kentucky. Bruner’s procedure Wednesday morning was performed by Dr. Lyle Cain of Andrews Sports Medicine in Birmingham.

5:26 PM ET Associated Press STORRS, Conn. — UConn men’s basketball guard James Bouknight will be out indefinitely after having surgery on his left elbow, the school said Wednesday. The school had earlier said the sophomore hyperextended his left elbow while diving for a loose ball in the first half of the Huskies’ win at

1:49 PM ET Associated Press Michigan State says center Mady Sissoko and guard Steven Izzo have tested positive for COVID-19. Spartans coach Tom Izzo, who tested positive for the coronavirus in November, said his son and the freshman from West Africa are roommates. Both are currently isolated and will be held out of competition for

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 Even in this most challenging and uncertain of seasons, we’ve now seen enough basketball to update our rankings for the top 25 players in the game.

Jan 7, 2021 The 2021 NBA draft cycle promises to be the most unusual of its kind, with restrictions on the NBA side and postponements and cancellations throughout college basketball making for a high degree of difficulty for evaluators. With that in mind, ESPN’s draft experts Jonathan Givony and Mike Schmitz touch on a range

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.

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