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Dan Murphy, ESPN Staff WriterMar 5, 2024, 01:23 PM ET Close Covers the Big Ten Joined ESPN.com in 2014 Graduate of the University of Notre Dame Open Extended Reactions The Dartmouth men’s basketball team voted 13-2 Tuesday to join its local service employees union, marking the first time any group of college athletes has taken

Associated Press Mar 5, 2024, 01:10 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MALIBU, Calif. — Lorenzo Romar is out as Pepperdine coach after six years when the Waves’ season ends. The ninth-seeded Waves (12-19) play No. 8 seed Pacific (6-25) in the first round of the West Coast Conference Tournament on Thursday in Las Vegas. The

ESPN News Services Mar 4, 2024, 11:41 PM ET Open Extended Reactions WACO, Texas — Texas big man Dylan Disu had to be helped off the court after spraining his left knee in the Longhorns’ 93-85 loss to the 11th-ranked Baylor Bears on Monday night. Disu fell to the floor and remained down after getting

Associated Press Mar 4, 2024, 05:02 PM ET Open Extended Reactions HOUSTON — Freshman Joseph Tugler, one of top-ranked Houston‘s best defenders, broke a bone in his right foot and will miss the remainder of the season, coach Kelvin Sampson said Monday. Tugler will have surgery Thursday, Sampson said. “That’s a big hit. Everyone will

Associated Press Mar 4, 2024, 03:20 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Charleston Southern promoted interim men’s basketball coach Saah Nimley to the permanent job going forward. Buccaneers athletic director Jeff Barber announced Nimley’s full-time hiring on Monday. Nimley, a former Charleston Southern player, joined the coaching staff in 2019 and was

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterMar 4, 2024, 12:57 PM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions Pacific has relieved Leonard Perry of his head-coaching duties after three seasons, the school announced Monday. He has been reassigned to other duties at the school, according to the

Associated Press Mar 4, 2024, 01:31 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Houston still has a tight grip on No. 1 in the AP Top 25. The Cougars received 52 first-place votes from a 62-person media panel in the poll released Monday to hold the top spot for the second straight week. UConn moved up a

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterMar 4, 2024, 11:21 AM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions Marquette star guard Tyler Kolek will miss the final two games of the regular season with an oblique injury, the school announced Monday. Kolek will be reevaluated before next

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterMar 4, 2024, 09:00 AM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions Is there some separation — and semblance of calm — coming to 2023-24 college basketball just as we enter the madness of March? After four months of action that

Feb 20, 2024, 08:45 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Men’s college basketball’s Championship Week and March Madness are nearly here. Beginning with the ASUN tournament on March 4 and ending with the Ivy, A-10, SEC, American and Big Ten tournaments right before the bracket is revealed on Selection Sunday (March 17), teams across all 32

Associated Press Mar 3, 2024, 02:37 PM ET Open Extended Reactions STORRS, Conn. — Donovan Clingan scored 19 points and pulled down 11 rebounds to lead a balanced attack as No. 3 UConn clinched its first outright Big East regular-season title in 25 years Sunday with a 91-61 rout of Seton Hall. Freshman Stephon Castle

Mar 2, 2024, 11:20 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Saturday’s slate began with the ultimate bubble battle: Villanova at Providence, which pitted one team among the “first four out” against one clinging to a “last four in” spot. The schedule ended with a Gonzaga squad in need of a win to secure an at-large bid

Associated Press Mar 2, 2024, 11:30 PM ET Open Extended Reactions WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Zach Edey had 32 points and 11 rebounds, Braden Smith added 23 points and nine boards, and No. 2 Purdue beat Michigan State 80-74 on Saturday night to clinch a share of the Big Ten regular-season championship. Gold confetti fell

Associated Press Mar 2, 2024, 11:01 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NORMAN, Okla. — Jamal Shead hit a short follow shot with 0.4 seconds left, and No. 1 Houston beat Oklahoma 87-85 on Saturday night, giving coach Kelvin Sampson a victory over one of his former schools. Shead missed a driving layup attempt, but corralled

ESPN News Services Mar 2, 2024, 06:08 PM ET Open Extended Reactions WACO, Texas — Kansas is almost certain to slip out of the top 10 in The Associated Press poll for the first time in three seasons after losing consecutive games for the first time this year. The Jayhawks also can’t win the Big

ESPN News Services Mar 2, 2024, 04:56 PM ET Open Extended Reactions OMAHA, Neb. — Baylor Scheierman scored 26 points and made three straight 3-pointers late in the game Saturday to lead No. 12 Creighton to an 89-75 victory over No. 5 Marquette, which played without star guard Tyler Kolek and big man Oso Ighodaro.

Associated Press Mar 2, 2024, 02:23 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MADISON, Wis. — Former Wisconsin player and assistant coach Howard Moore received a standing ovation in his first public appearance at the Kohl Center since a 2019 car wreck that killed his wife and daughter and left him with serious injuries. Wisconsin honored Moore’s

Associated Press Mar 1, 2024, 06:27 PM ET Open Extended Reactions ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Jon Sanderson has resigned as a strength and conditioning coach at Michigan, two-plus months after he stopped working with the men’s basketball program under coach Juwan Howard. “We appreciate Jon’s contributions over the years and wish him the best moving