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Associated Press Apr 13, 2024, 01:17 PM ET Open Extended Reactions HARTFORD, Conn. — Thousands of fans lined the streets of downtown Hartford on Saturday to fete the UConn men’s basketball team following its second straight NCAA championship, its sixth in 25 years. The players and coaches paraded on a double-decker bus with an open-air

Associated Press Apr 13, 2024, 01:06 AM ET DAYTON, Ohio — Don Donoher, the winningest basketball coach at Dayton and a member of the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame, has died. He was 92. The university announced Donoher’s death on Friday night. No cause of death was given. Donoher went 437-275 in a 25-year

Associated Press Apr 12, 2024, 09:41 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Eastern Washington hired Dan Monson on Friday, the coach who led Long Beach State to the NCAA tournament after the school told him he would be fired at the end of the season. Monson, who also coached at Gonzaga and Minnesota, will take over

Adrian Wojnarowski, ESPNApr 12, 2024, 03:30 PM ET Open Extended Reactions UConn 7-foot-2 sophomore Donovan Clingan — one of the cornerstones of the Huskies’ back-to-back NCAA championship teams — will enter the 2024 NBA draft, Clingan told ESPN on Friday. The No. 3 prospect in ESPN’s Top 100 list, Clingan is expected to be in

Apr 12, 2024, 12:39 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Duke’s top two scorers from last season, All-American Kyle Filipowski and ACC All-Freshman selection Jared McCain are entering the NBA draft. “This has been a lifelong dream of mine, and I’m incredibly grateful for the opportunity to pursue it,” Filipowski said in a statement posted on

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterApr 12, 2024, 10:45 AM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions Mark Pope is officially Kentucky new men’s basketball coach, the school announced Friday. Pope was a captain on Kentucky’s 1996 national championship team and has been the head coach

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterApr 12, 2024, 12:40 AM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions Alabama sophomore Rylan Griffen, who started 33 games on the Crimson Tide’s Final Four team this season, plans to enter the transfer portal, sources told ESPN. Griffen, a 6-foot-6

Pete Thamel Jeff Borzello Close Jeff Borzello ESPN Staff Writer Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Apr 11, 2024, 09:44 PM ET Open Extended Reactions After being turned down by multiple top-tier candidates, Kentucky is turning to one of its own as the school’s next men’s basketball coach. The

Apr 11, 2024, 11:35 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Last month, SMU shocked the college basketball world when it fired Rob Lanier following a 20-win season. The move opened the door for Andy Enfield to leave USC and fill that opening. Then, Eric Musselman left Arkansas to replace Enfield, and John Calipari signed a gigantic

Pete Thamel Jeff Borzello Close Jeff Borzello ESPN Staff Writer Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Apr 11, 2024, 09:44 PM ET Open Extended Reactions After being turned down by multiple top-tier candidates, Kentucky is targeting one of its own, BYU‘s Mark Pope, as the school’s next men’s basketball

Shwetha Surendran, ESPNApr 11, 2024, 05:51 PM ET Close Shwetha Surendran is writer in ESPN’s investigative and enterprise unit. The University of Illinois has closed an internal investigation into a sexual assault allegation against basketball player Terrence Shannon Jr. In a letter to Shannon dated April 5, Robert Wilczynski, the director of the Office for

Pete Thamel Jeff Borzello Close Jeff Borzello ESPN Staff Writer Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Apr 11, 2024, 10:59 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Scott Drew has decided to stay at Baylor, turning down interest from Kentucky after emerging as that school’s top target to replace John Calipari,

Myron Medcalf, ESPN Staff WriterApr 10, 2024, 09:25 PM ET Close Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato Open Extended Reactions John Calipari told a raucous crowd he’s “excited” to lead Arkansas as he pumped his fists while Razorbacks fans cheered for him during his official introduction in Fayetteville

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterApr 10, 2024, 06:51 PM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions Purdue star Zach Edey was named the winner of the John R. Wooden Award on Wednesday, becoming the first repeat winner in more than 40 years. The award is

Open Extended Reactions Baylor freshman Yves Missi, a projected first-round pick, is hiring an agent and declaring for the 2024 NBA draft, he told ESPN on Wednesday. “I intend to enter the 2024 NBA draft and I am looking forward to the process,” Missi said via text message. “I’m hiring Wasserman as an agency and

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterApr 10, 2024, 04:05 PM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions Five-star forward Jayden Quaintance, the highest-ranked member of John Calipari’s 2024 recruiting class, has requested a release from his letter of intent to Kentucky and plans to reopen his

Adrian Wojnarowski, ESPNApr 10, 2024, 12:15 PM ET Open Extended Reactions USC freshman point guard Isaiah Collier will enter the 2024 NBA draft, he told ESPN on Wednesday. Collier will be represented by agent B.J. Armstrong of Wasserman. He recently was ranked as the No. 10 overall draft prospect by ESPN’s Jonathan Givony and the

Andrea Adelson, ESPN Senior WriterApr 9, 2024, 07:45 PM ET Close ACC reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2010. Graduate of the University of Florida. Open Extended Reactions A Florida judge denied the ACC’s motion to stay Florida State’s lawsuit against the conference Tuesday, as dueling lawsuits between the two sides continue to move forward. The decision