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Associated Press Apr 3, 2024, 07:04 PM ET Open Extended Reactions DETROIT — Mark Montgomery, the former Northern Illinois coach who has served as an assistant on Tom Izzo’s staff at Michigan State for the past three seasons, has been hired as the new head coach at Detroit Mercy. The Horizon League school announced the

Associated Press Apr 3, 2024, 04:11 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The average price paid for a ticket on the resale market this week was twice as high for the NCAA women’s Final Four compared with that for the men’s semifinals, according to a technology company that analyzes prices across multiple platforms. The average price

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterApr 3, 2024, 04:16 PM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions Utah State big man Great Osobor, the Mountain West Player of the Year, entered the transfer portal Wednesday. He’s also expected to go through the NBA draft process, sources

Associated Press Apr 3, 2024, 03:33 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LOS ANGELES — Fox Sports and AEG will launch a new postseason college basketball tournament next year. The College Basketball Crown will be a 16-team tournament taking place March 31 through April 6, 2025, in Las Vegas. The games will be played at the

Open Extended Reactions Devin Carter, the Big East player of the year, told ESPN his college career is over and he will be declaring for the 2024 NBA draft. “I will be forgoing my senior year at Providence,” Carter said. Carter, ranked No. 17 in the ESPN 100 among NBA draft prospects, had an outstanding

Ryan McGee, ESPN Senior WriterApr 3, 2024, 08:00 AM ET Close Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year Open Extended Reactions A rusty commemorative soda can, a newspaper, a pocket schedule and a VHS tape with no machine to play it on. That’s

Associated Press Apr 3, 2024, 12:12 AM ET Open Extended Reactions HOUSTON — Derik Queen outshined high school teammate Cooper Flagg, the nation’s top-ranked recruit, leading the East team to an 88-86 victory over the West on Tuesday night in the McDonald’s All-American game. Queen, a bruising 6-foot-9 center and teammate of Flagg’s at Montverde

Associated Press Apr 3, 2024, 12:12 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Washington State hired David Riley as its men’s basketball coach on Tuesday, nabbing the two-time Big Sky Conference coach of the year at a time of uncertainty for the Cougars. Riley will move down the Palouse highway after three successful seasons as coach at

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterApr 2, 2024, 11:08 PM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions Florida Atlantic star guard Johnell Davis has entered the transfer portal and plans to declare for the NBA draft, he announced on Tuesday. Davis officially entered the transfer portal

Associated Press Apr 2, 2024, 07:56 PM ET Open Extended Reactions DALLAS — Andy Enfield went from Florida Gulf Coast’s “Dunk City” and the Sweet 16 to Los Angeles, and now Dallas to take over the SMU program that is headed to the Atlantic Coast Conference with a 36-year drought since winning an NCAA tournament

Pete Thamel, ESPNApr 2, 2024, 07:40 PM ET Open Extended Reactions The American Athletic Conference is targeting veteran college sports executive Tim Pernetti as the league’s next commissioner, sources told ESPN. Pernetti is the president of IMG Academy and has extensive experience in college space from his time as the former athletic director at Rutgers

Alexa Philippou, ESPNApr 2, 2024, 05:32 PM ET Close Covers women’s college basketball and the WNBA Previously covered UConn and the WNBA Connecticut Sun for the Hartford Courant Stanford graduate and Baltimore native with further experience at the Dallas Morning News, Seattle Times and Cincinnati Enquirer Open Extended Reactions Upcoming women’s Final Four participants Caitlin

Apr 2, 2024, 11:28 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Following the McDonald’s All American Game on Tuesday, the high school basketball season will conclude this week with Chipotle Nationals in Indiana. Montverde Academy will be looking to complete a perfect season, while the rest of the field looks to hand the Eagles their first loss

Open Extended Reactions Trent Perry, a McDonald’s All American and the No. 26 prospect in the 2024 class, is decommitting from USC in light of its coaching change, he told ESPN. Former USC head coach Andy Enfield recently elected to depart for SMU, a move that was officially announced Monday. USC has not yet selected

Apr 2, 2024, 08:58 AM ET Open Extended Reactions A regular season filled with top-25 upsets every week has led to a Final Four that includes the two teams that were ranked No. 1 in the AP poll more than anyone else. There is also just the sixth 11-seed to ever reach the Final Four

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterApr 1, 2024, 05:39 PM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions Oklahoma State has hired Western Kentucky‘s Steve Lutz as its men’s basketball coach, the school announced Monday. Lutz had emerged as the focus of the Cowboys’ search last week.

Jeff Borzello Close Jeff Borzello ESPN Staff Writer Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Pete Thamel Apr 1, 2024, 03:50 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Drake named Northwest Missouri State’s Ben McCollum as its next men’s basketball head coach, athletic director Brian Hardin announced on Monday. The deal is

Associated Press Apr 1, 2024, 04:38 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PITTSBURGH — Coaching is essentially baked into Dru Joyce III’s DNA. His father is a basketball coach. His brother, too. So when Duquesne coach Keith Dambrot called Joyce in the spring of 2022 and asked his former point guard to help him turn around