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Pete Thamel, ESPNMar 30, 2024, 01:05 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Veteran college basketball coach Chris Mack is headed back to the sideline. Mack is expected to become the next head coach at Charleston, sources confirmed to ESPN on Friday night. Mack is the former head coach at Louisville and Xavier and has led his

Adam Teicher, ESPN Staff WriterMar 29, 2024, 11:15 PM ET Close Covered Chiefs for 20 seasons for Kansas City Star Joined ESPN in 2013 Open Extended Reactions DALLAS — Star Houston Cougars guard Jamal Shead suffered what the team called a badly sprained right ankle in the first half of the team’s Sweet 16 game

Adam Teicher, ESPN Staff WriterMar 29, 2024, 10:59 PM ET Close Covered Chiefs for 20 seasons for Kansas City Star Joined ESPN in 2013 Open Extended Reactions DALLAS — None of this year’s North Carolina State players were born in 1983 when the Wolfpack last went on its improbable run to the NCAA Tournament championship.

Adam Teicher, ESPN Staff WriterMar 29, 2024, 10:59 PM ET Close Covered Chiefs for 20 seasons for Kansas City Star Joined ESPN in 2013 Open Extended Reactions DALLAS — None of this year’s NC State players were born in 1983 when the Wolfpack last went on its improbable run to the men’s NCAA tournament championship.

Pete Thamel, ESPNMar 29, 2024, 11:52 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Utah State is finalizing a five-year deal to hire Youngstown State‘s Jerrod Calhoun as the school’s next head coach, sources told ESPN. Calhoun led Youngstown State to back-to-back 20-win seasons for the first time in school history. He went 118-106 in seven seasons there,

NC Central coach, Mike Tomlin backing minority hoops coaches “The Next Up” conference, launched by North Carolina Central coach LeVelle Moton and the Steelers’ Mike Tomlin, aims to find minority basketball coaches who could benefit from relationships with decision-makers and executives across the college landscape.

Myron Medcalf, ESPN Staff WriterMar 29, 2024, 04:05 PM ET Close Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato Open Extended Reactions North Carolina Central coach LeVelle Moton and Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin have partnered to launch an initiative to help young minority men’s and women’s basketball coaches gain

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterMar 29, 2024, 01:03 PM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions James Madison has hired Morehead State‘s Preston Spradlin as its new men’s basketball coach, the school announced Friday. Spradlin is coming off his second NCAA tournament appearance with the

Associated Press Mar 29, 2024, 11:19 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Gerry McNamara has signed a deal to take over as the men’s basketball coach at Siena, deciding to leave Syracuse after two decades as a standout player and assistant before eventually ascending to associate head coach for the Orange. McNamara’s signing was announced by

Pete Thamel, ESPNMar 29, 2024, 02:33 AM ET Open Extended Reactions BOSTON — The Illinois men’s basketball team is so experienced that many of its players wouldn’t get carded at a local dive bar. They are physical enough that their frontline looks like they could be auditioning for linebacker spots at the NFL combine. They

Associated Press Mar 29, 2024, 12:23 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LOS ANGELES — Grant Nelson converted a go-ahead three-point play with 38 seconds remaining, and Alabama beat top-seeded North Carolina 89-87 on Thursday night to reach the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament for the second time in school history. Nelson finished with a

Paolo Uggetti, ESPNMar 29, 2024, 12:41 AM ET Open Extended Reactions LOS ANGELES — The crowd of Clemson fans that made the cross-country trip to Los Angeles for the West regional semifinals was outnumbered by the Arizona fans that filled the Crypto.com arena, but by the time the buzzer sounded and Clemson outlasted Arizona 77-72

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterMar 28, 2024, 11:55 PM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions BOSTON — There’s been a tongue-in-cheek mantra for UConn over the past two seasons: The Huskies can’t win close games. In reality, it’s not that they can’t win one-

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterMar 28, 2024, 11:30 PM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions BOSTON — It wasn’t long after the UConn Huskies cut down the nets in Houston last April that Dan Hurley started thinking about the 2023-24 season. And it was

Mar 28, 2024, 10:00 PM ET Open Extended Reactions résumé UConn is the first reigning champion to reach the Elite Eight since Florida defended its title in 2007. The top-seeded Huskies have advanced to the regional finals in the East, and No. 6 Clemson has done the same in the West — for the first

Top-seeded UConn blows through another opponent, beating San Diego State 82-52 to reach Elite Eight — Stephon Castle had 16 points and 11 rebounds for top-seeded UConn and the defending NCAA champion advanced to the Elite Eight with another double-digit victory, beating San Diego State 82-52 on Thursday night in a rematch of last year’s

Associated Press Mar 28, 2024, 07:37 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Louisville athletic director Josh Heird set a goal of hiring a coach who wanted the job so badly he would crawl to the campus to accept it. Pat Kelsey didn’t do that, but he demonstrated plenty of energy and passion when

Associated Press Mar 28, 2024, 05:54 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PITTSBURGH — Duquesne didn’t look far to replace retired head coach Keith Dambrot. The Dukes promoted assistant Dru Joyce on Thursday to take over for Dambrot, who stepped down last week after leading the school to its first men’s NCAA tournament appearance since 1977.