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ESPN News Services Jun 20, 2024, 02:08 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The NCAA has presented a plan to Division I conference commissioners that would expand the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments by four or eight teams alongside an option to leave each field at 68 teams, a source confirmed to ESPN on Thursday. The

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterJun 19, 2024, 09:30 AM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions The men’s basketball transfer window opened more than three months ago and closed more than six weeks ago — but we’re finally nearing the end of the portal season.

Open Extended Reactions Kanon Catchings, a projected first-round pick in 2025, told ESPN he has committed to BYU. “My family and I met with Coach Young and the coaching staff last week and we immediately clicked,” Catchings told ESPN. “I knew right away this was the best fit for me.” Catchings, who committed to Purdue

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterJun 17, 2024, 04:38 PM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions St. John’s and athletic director Mike Cragg are parting ways after six years, the school announced on Monday. Cragg’s tenure will end on June 30. “It has been an

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterJun 17, 2024, 01:09 PM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions Oswin Erhunmwunse, the No. 31 overall college basketball recruit in the 2025 ESPN 100, is reclassifying into the 2024 class and will enroll at Providence for the 2024-25 season,

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterJun 14, 2024, 11:46 AM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions Former Illinois forward Coleman Hawkins, the best player left in the transfer portal, announced Friday that he has committed to Kansas State. Hawkins visited the Wildcats’ campus last weekend

Dan Murphy, ESPN Staff WriterJun 13, 2024, 06:10 PM ET Close Covers the Big Ten Joined ESPN.com in 2014 Graduate of the University of Notre Dame Open Extended Reactions A Congressional committee voted Thursday to move forward with a bill that would prevent college athletes from being deemed employees of their schools, conferences or the

Associated Press Jun 13, 2024, 05:53 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Former Illinois standout Terrence Shannon Jr., a potential first-round NBA draft pick, was found not guilty Thursday on a rape charge after a jury in Douglas County, Kansas, spent less than two hours deliberating the verdict. The 23-year-old Shannon was accused of committing sexual

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterJun 13, 2024, 04:10 PM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions Virginia men’s basketball coach Tony Bennett, who led the Cavaliers to a national championship in 2019, has signed a contract extension through the end of 2029-30 season, the school

Pete Thamel, ESPNJun 13, 2024, 01:34 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The Big 12 is exploring selling its naming rights to a title sponsor, with potential revenue of hundreds of millions of dollars over the course of the deal, sources told ESPN on Thursday. The commercial sponsor would potentially take the name “Big” out of

Myron Medcalf, ESPN Staff WriterJun 13, 2024, 12:18 PM ET Close Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato Open Extended Reactions Dan Hurley said Thursday his decision to reject a six-year, $70 million offer to coach the Los Angeles Lakers was not a “leverage play” because he’d already agreed

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterJun 13, 2024, 09:08 AM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions With roster movement for the 2024-25 college basketball season finally settling down, coaches around the country are looking at the 2025, 2026 and 2027 classes. But before we fully

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterJun 12, 2024, 05:36 PM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions The matchups for the second annual ACC/SEC Challenge were announced Wednesday, highlighted by Auburn‘s trip to Duke and North Carolina hosting Alabama. The first edition of the series between

ESPN News Services Jun 12, 2024, 09:56 AM ET Jerry West, who was selected to the Basketball Hall of Fame three times in a storied career as a player and executive and whose silhouette is considered to be the basis of the NBA logo, died Wednesday morning at the age of 86, the LA Clippers

Jay Bilas, College Basketball AnalystJun 12, 2024, 06:23 AM ET Close College basketball analyst for ESPN and ESPN Insider Played and coached at Duke Practicing attorney Open Extended Reactions The field for the first Players Era Festival, a new in-season men’s college basketball tournament that promises to provide each team at least $1 million in

Scott Van Pelt, Host, SportsCenter with SVPJun 11, 2024, 05:06 PM ET Close Scott Van Pelt joined ESPN in Spring 2001 as the network’s lead professional golf reporter. He has since become a SportsCenter anchor, primarily hosting the 11 p.m. ET edition while remaining the lead reporter and host of the network’s coverage of golf’s

Open Extended Reactions Meleek Thomas, the No. 7 basketball prospect in ESPN’s Class of 2025, is leaving Lincoln Park Performing Arts High School in Pittsburgh to sign with Overtime Elite, he told ESPN on Tuesday. “I did everything I needed to do where I’m from,” Thomas told ESPN. “We won back-to-back state championships. Now it’s

Jun 11, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Our usual NBA mock drafts lean heavily on intel to make projections for the players and the 30 teams. This isn’t that. Instead, ESPN draft analysts Jonathan Givony and Jeremy Woo explored the first round from two differing perspectives: selecting for team need versus drafting for