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Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterApr 8, 2024, 12:19 PM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions Kentucky freshman Aaron Bradshaw entered the transfer portal Monday, the first domino to fall since the news of John Calipari finalizing a deal to become Arkansas‘ next head coach.

Open Extended Reactions Arkansas’ Trevon Brazile told ESPN his college career is over as he’s hiring an agent and declaring for the 2024 NBA draft. “I’m 100 percent into the draft,” Brazile said. “Arkansas made a big hire with John Calipari. I’m happy for the program, but the main thing for me is keeping a

Pete Thamel, ESPNApr 8, 2024, 08:58 AM ET Open Extended Reactions GLENDALE, Ariz. — The No. 1-seeded UConn Huskies are on the precipice of completing a rare feat, becoming the first repeat champions in college basketball since Florida in 2007. The No. 1-seeded Purdue Boilermakers are one win from duplicating the unprecedented turnaround arc executed

Apr 8, 2024, 01:15 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Nothing like a bombshell news drop on the eve of the national championship game. John Calipari is leaving Kentucky and headed across the SEC to Arkansas, finalizing a five-year deal to replace Eric Musselman in Fayetteville. Nobody could have foreseen this chain of events when SMU

Jeff Borzello Close Jeff Borzello ESPN Staff Writer Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Pete Thamel Apr 7, 2024, 11:12 PM ET Open Extended Reactions John Calipari is finalizing a five-year deal to become the next coach at Arkansas, sources told ESPN on Sunday night, a blockbuster move that

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterApr 7, 2024, 07:33 PM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions GLENDALE, Ariz. — In a college sports landscape increasingly filled with transfer-laden rosters and portal-focused rebuilds, Monday night’s national championship game between Purdue and UConn will feature two teams

Pete Thamel, ESPNApr 7, 2024, 07:48 PM ET Open Extended Reactions GLENDALE, Ariz. — The UConn basketball team is on the cusp of its second consecutive national title. And perhaps more impressive, it would mark the program’s sixth overall title since 1999. If the No. 1 overall seed Huskies can topple fellow No. 1 seed

Pete Thamel, ESPNApr 7, 2024, 05:02 PM ET Open Extended Reactions GLENDALE, Ariz. — No. 1 seed Purdue spent five weeks as the top-ranked team in the Associated Press poll this season and never dipped lower than No. 4. Just twice during the regular season they were underdogs entering a game. But the Boilermakers head

Myron Medcalf, ESPN Staff WriterApr 7, 2024, 05:14 PM ET Close Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato Open Extended Reactions GLENDALE, Ariz. — Matt Painter is not naive about the task his Purdue team will face when it plays UConn on Monday night in the national championship game

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterApr 6, 2024, 11:07 PM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions GLENDALE, Ariz. — If there’s one play from UConn’s win over Alabama on Saturday night that typified the Huskies’ run toward back-to-back national championships, it wasn’t a Donovan Clingan

Kevin Pulsifer Apr 7, 2024, 09:20 AM ET Open Extended Reactions March Madness brings out some of the best in the sports community: the upsets, the storylines, the magic of three glorious weeks of win-or-go-home basketball. When “One Shining Moment” plays at the end of the tournament, even the most stoic fans can be moved

Myron Medcalf, ESPN Staff WriterApr 6, 2024, 09:30 PM ET Close Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato Open Extended Reactions GLENDALE, Arizona — Purdue‘s past seems so far away. Following Saturday’s 63-50 win over NC State in the Final Four, the upset loss to 16-seed Fairleigh Dickinson in

Zach Edey and Purdue power their way into NCAA title game, beating N.C. State 63-50 — Purdue kept its March Madness dream alive while snuffing out North Carolina State’s, getting 20 points and 12 rebounds from Zach Edey in a 63-50 victory Saturday that placed the Boilermakers a win from their first NCAA title. Apr

Apr 6, 2024, 08:50 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PHOENIX — The Purdue Boilermakers will play in the national championship game for the first time since 1969. Zach Edey recorded a 20-point, 12-rebound double-double and Lance Jones added 14 points in a low-scoring 63-50 victory over NC State on Saturday. DJ Burns Jr. picked up

Myron Medcalf, ESPN Staff WriterApr 6, 2024, 08:22 PM ET Close Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato Open Extended Reactions GLENDALE, Arizona — Midway through the first half of Purdue‘s eventual 63-50 win over NC State in the Final Four on Saturday, Wolfpack big man DJ Burns Jr.

Associated Pressd Apr 6, 2024, 12:11 PM ET Open Extended Reactions GLENDALE, Ariz. – Vince Carter wowed the basketball world with his high-flying dunks for more than two decades. Chauncey Billups was a clutch guard and Finals MVP for the Detroit Pistons. Two icons from the 2000s era of basketball are headed to the Naismith

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterApr 6, 2024, 12:48 PM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions Top-50 senior Jalen Shelley has requested a release from his letter of intent to Arkansas and plans to reopen his recruitment, he told ESPN on Saturday. Shelley originally committed

Associated Press Apr 6, 2024, 11:26 AM ET Open Extended Reactions ST. LOUIS — Josh Schertz has been hired as coach at Saint Louis after he led Indiana State to its first 30-win season in 45 years, the Missouri Valley regular-season title and the NIT championship game, the Billikens announced Saturday. Schertz replaces Travis Ford,