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ESPN News Services Feb 11, 2025, 11:58 PM ET Open Extended Reactions EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State coach Tom Izzo has been trying to downplay being on the brink of breaking Bob Knight’s record for Big Ten Conference basketball wins. Perhaps he knew what was coming Tuesday night. Indiana beat the 11th-ranked Spartans 71-67,

Jeff BorzelloFeb 11, 2025, 08:07 PM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Florida forward Alex Condon, who earned SEC Player of the Week honors Monday, was ruled out of the No. 3 Gators’ game Tuesday against Mississippi State after leaving with an ankle injury in the opening

Associated Press Feb 11, 2025, 07:26 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PROVO, Utah — BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe is retiring at the end of the 2024-25 sports season after more than 20 years at the school. Holmoe helped BYU join the Big 12 Conference in 2023 after a decade as an FBS independent. He

Jeff BorzelloFeb 11, 2025, 03:59 PM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions Duke‘s Cooper Flagg and Auburn‘s Johni Broome headlined the men’s Wooden Award Late Midseason Top 20 list announced Tuesday night. The award is given annually to the best college basketball player in

Feb 11, 2025, 08:15 AM ET Open Extended Reactions When the Auburn men’s basketball team visits Vanderbilt tonight, the matchup will pit the nation’s top-ranked team against the most-penalized team for field and court storming this school year. In just the past four months, the Southeastern Conference has levied $850,000 in fines against Vanderbilt. The

Open Extended Reactions And down went No. 1 and No. 2. It was an eventful weekend for Associated Press ranked teams. Upsets were inevitable, including No. 1 Auburn losing at home to ranked Florida, and No. 2 Duke losing on the road to Clemson. Despite the home loss, Auburn remains No. 1 this week, while

Associated Press Feb 10, 2025, 02:17 PM ET Open Extended Reactions GAINESVILLE, Fla. — No. 3 Florida expects guard Alijah Martin to play at Mississippi State on Tuesday night. Martin missed the team’s upset at top-ranked Auburn on Saturday because of a hip pointer. But coach Todd Golden said Monday that Martin was “moving around

Associated Press Feb 10, 2025, 01:30 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Auburn‘s run at No. 1 is still intact despite a loss to No. 3 Florida, while UConn‘s latest loss has dropped the two-time defending national champions out of the poll for the first time in two years. The Tigers held the top spot in

David HaleFeb 8, 2025, 09:49 PM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions CLEMSON, SC — For the first 36 minutes of action, Clemson held Duke star Cooper Flagg in check. In the final seconds, Chase Hunter delivered daggers from the free throw line,

Feb 8, 2025, 07:41 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Dickie V is back, baby! And fans at Clemson showed him just how much he was missed while he battled cancer. Vitale returned to broadcasting for the first time in nearly two years for Saturday night’s Duke–Clemson matchup on ESPN and received a lengthy ovation from

ESPN News Services Feb 8, 2025, 06:39 PM ET Open Extended Reactions AUBURN, Ala. — Walter Clayton Jr. scored 19 points and Alex Condon added 17 as No. 6 Florida rallied from an early deficit and beat No. 1 Auburn 90-81 Saturday, ending the Tigers’ 14-game winning streak. Florida (20-3, 7-3 Southeastern Conference), down by

Associated Press Feb 8, 2025, 03:02 PM ET Open Extended Reactions AMES, Iowa — Curtis Jones scored 24 points and Milan Momcilovic returned from injury to add 14 as No. 8 Iowa State ended a three-game losing streak with an 82-52 win over TCU on Saturday. Dishon Jackson also scored 14 points, and Joshua Jefferson

Associated Press Feb 8, 2025, 04:03 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Michigan State coach Tom Izzo tied Bob Knight’s Big Ten record for wins, leading the ninth-ranked Spartans to a comeback 86-74 victory over Oregon on Saturday. Perhaps fittingly, Izzo matched the mark with conference win No. 353 on the day of the program’s annual

Jeff BorzelloFeb 8, 2025, 04:42 PM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions It didn’t take long for public speculation over Mike Woodson’s replacement at Indiana to commence. Given that Dusty May’s Bloomington homecoming was Saturday, it was inevitable. The Michigan head coach was a

ESPN News Services Feb 8, 2025, 03:36 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LEXINGTON, Ky. — Otega Oweh scored 15 of his 17 points in the second half and No. 14 Kentucky snapped a two-game skid with an 80-57 win over South Carolina on Saturday. Brandon Garrison came off the bench and scored 15 points for

Open Extended Reactions Kentucky Wildcats coach Mark Pope told ESPN that both Jaxson Robinson and Lamont Butler will both be “genuine game-time decisions” for Saturday’s SEC matchup with South Carolina Gamecocks at noon on ESPN. Pope said Robinson had a “brutal collision” in practice Friday and injured his wrist. While Robinson did not suffer a

Open Extended Reactions Iowa State star forward Milan Momcilovic will return from missing nearly a month with a hand injury to play for the No. 8 Cyclones against TCU on Saturday, coach TJ Otzelberger told ESPN. Momcilovic, a 6-foot-8 sophomore, last played Jan. 11, a win at Texas Tech. The injury occurred in practice after

ESPN News Services Feb 7, 2025, 11:38 PM ET Open Extended Reactions STORRS, Conn. — RJ Luis Jr. scored six of his 21 points in the final 2:16 to help No. 12 St. John’s extend its winning streak to 10 games with a 68-62 comeback victory over No. 19 UConn on Friday night. St. John’s