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Associated Press Aug 28, 2023, 06:03 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Bronny James, the 18-year-old son of Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James, is doing well and attending classes after the highly regarded freshman guard went into cardiac arrest during a workout last month, USC basketball coach Andy Enfield said Monday. “The good thing is

Pete Thamel, ESPNAug 28, 2023, 10:30 AM ET A decision on ACC expansion is expected this week, and sources told ESPN that there’s “continued momentum” toward the league adding Stanford, Cal and SMU to the league. Early Monday morning, ACC officials were working on gathering the league’s presidents and chancellors on a call to further

Coveted international basketball prospect Lee Aaliya has committed to the Michigan Wolverines in the class of 2023, his NIL agent, Alex Saratsis, told ESPN on Saturday. The 6-foot-9 big man from Argentina drew interest from more than 50 Division I programs after having his eligibility certified by the NCAA in early August and electing to

Myron Medcalf, ESPN Staff WriterAug 25, 2023, 07:37 PM ET Close Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato USC freshman guard Bronny James, the son of Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James, is expected to return to the court “in the very near future” after suffering cardiac arrest during

Aug 24, 2023, 06:47 PM ET Patrick Behan, a highly successful prep basketball coach in the Washington D.C. area who has ALS, stepped down Thursday, he told The Washington Post. The 35-year-old Behan has coached at St. John’s High School for five years. He’s sent 26 players to college programs and has a 127-51 record.

Myron Medcalf, ESPN Staff WriterAug 24, 2023, 08:30 AM ET Close Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato LAST MONTH, MOREHEAD STATE men’s basketball head coach Preston Spradlin entered Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas around 4 a.m., 90 minutes before his flight to Cincinnati was scheduled to

Pete Thamel, ESPNAug 23, 2023, 05:54 PM ET The ACC is again seriously considering the potential additions of Stanford, California and SMU, multiple sources told ESPN on Wednesday. A series of meetings will be held this week to further vet and discuss different financial models that would come with the additions, sources said. The inclusion

Aug 22, 2023, 08:07 PM ET Reggie Chaney, a forward on the Houston men’s basketball team that reached the Final Four in 2021, has died, the university said Tuesday. He was 23. Houston coach Kelvin Sampson called Chaney the “ultimate teammate” and the epitome of “Cougar basketball culture.” Sampson added that Chaney was due to

Pete Thamel, ESPNAug 21, 2023, 01:40 PM ET USC is set to hire Washington’s Jennifer Cohen as the school’s new athletic director, sources told ESPN. Cohen is one of the country’s most established athletic directors and will become the first women to lead the Trojans’ athletic department. She takes over at a crucial time for

Myron Medcalf, ESPN Staff WriterAug 18, 2023, 06:20 PM ET Close Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato For the first time in 20 years, Bill Self will return to Champaign, Illinois, to help raise money for the victims of the Maui fires. Self, who has not coached a

Aug 18, 2023, 10:19 AM ET Indiana has given men’s basketball coach Mike Woodson a $1 million annual raise after leading the Hoosiers to back-to-back NCAA tournament appearances in his first two years on the job. The university announced Woodson’s new average salary of $4.2 million on Friday, noting it makes him one of the

Jay Bilas, College Basketball AnalystAug 18, 2023, 10:51 AM ET Close College basketball analyst for ESPN and ESPN Insider Played and coached at Duke Practicing attorney The NCAA and its member schools talk a good game. But they are hypocrites. All of them. They wax poetic about values and principles but, over the past three

Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior WriterAug 17, 2023, 09:00 AM ET Close College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University. More than 1,000 former Northwestern athletes have sent an open letter condemning hazing “in any form” while also defending an athletics culture they say is not represented or defined by allegations that surfaced

Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterAug 17, 2023, 07:45 AM ET Close Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Jennifer Pendley, an Arizona woman who falsely accused then-Georgia Tech basketball coach Josh Pastner of sexually assaulting her, has been sentenced to one year in prison and

Myron Medcalf, ESPN Staff WriterAug 16, 2023, 12:52 PM ET Close Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato The Big 12 will not add Gonzaga and UConn, two basketball powerhouses, after initial conversations about the potential moves, Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark said on Wednesday. Yormark joined John Ourand

Associated Press Aug 16, 2023, 10:53 AM ET Former West Virginia men’s basketball coach Bob Huggins has entered a 12-month diversion program to resolve a drunken driving arrest. Huggins had been scheduled for a formal arraignment Thursday. According to court records in Pittsburgh, that hearing was canceled last month after he was accepted into the

Trentyn Flowers, a five-star recruit in the class of 2023, has decommitted from Louisville and will sign with the Adelaide 36ers of the National Basketball League in Australia, he told ESPN on Monday. “This was the toughest decision I’ve ever made,” Flowers said. “Louisville was my dream college. But I feel like signing in the

Jeff Borzello Close Jeff Borzello ESPN Staff Writer Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Paul Biancardi Close Paul Biancardi Basketball Recruiting National Recruiting Director for ESPN.com 18 years of coaching experience at Division I level Former Horizon League coach of the year at Wright State Aug 12, 2023, 10:47