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Jul 12, 2023, 08:03 PM ET Longtime ESPN college basketball analyst Dick Vitale said Wednesday that he has vocal cord cancer and will need six weeks of radiation to treat it. “I plan to fight like hell to be ready to call games when the college hoops season tips off in the Fall,” Vitale wrote

Myron Medcalf, ESPN Staff WriterJul 12, 2023, 08:00 AM ET Close Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato The men’s college basketball offseason offers an opportunity not only to reflect on the previous season, but to look back at nostalgic moments in the game’s history. But sometimes those conversations

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterJul 10, 2023, 07:24 PM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. The potential legal battle between Bob Huggins and West Virginia continued to build on Monday, with Huggins releasing a statement saying he never submitted a resignation notice to the school and should

Myron Medcalf, ESPN Staff WriterJul 8, 2023, 11:19 PM ET Close Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato Weeks after Bob Huggins announced his resignation following a DUI arrest, an attorney for the former West Virginia men’s basketball coach claims he never formally resigned last month, and said Huggins

Top international basketball prospect Rocco Zikarsky will forgo college and professional options in the United States and sign with the Brisbane Bullets of the Australian National Basketball League Next Stars program, he told ESPN on Thursday. “I decided that the Next Stars opportunity was just too good a fit,” the 7-foot-3 Zikarsky told ESPN. “Being

Paul Biancardi, Basketball RecruitingJul 6, 2023, 09:30 AM ET Close 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 Once the high school season and the spring period were in the rearview mirror, we released our early summer player rankings

Associated Press Jul 1, 2023, 10:01 PM ET PARK HILLS, Mo. — Former New Mexico State basketball coach Greg Heiar has been hired to coach Mineral Area College, a junior college in Missouri, four months after he was fired in the wake of the Aggies’ hazing scandal. Heiar was dismissed from New Mexico State in

Pete Thamel, ESPNJun 30, 2023, 05:49 PM ET San Diego State is expected to deliver notice to the Mountain West on Friday that it will not withdraw from the league, a source told ESPN. The update from the school will be the latest in a back-and-forth between the school and the conference that began on

Myron Medcalf, ESPN Staff WriterJun 29, 2023, 04:32 PM ET Close Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato ORLANDO, Fla. — Michigan State coach Tom Izzo questions the value of expanding the NCAA tournament — a move that could be made in the coming months — beyond its current

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterJun 29, 2023, 07:30 AM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. With rosters finally close to being settled for the 2023-24 men’s college basketball season, coaches around the country are now able to turn their complete attention to the recruiting trail and the

Myron Medcalf, ESPN Staff WriterJun 28, 2023, 08:06 PM ET Close Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato A proposal to allow college basketball exhibitions in the summer months has been tabled, according to a release by the NCAA’s men’s and women’s basketball oversight committees on Wednesday. The Basketball

Associated Press Jun 28, 2023, 05:16 PM ET New Mexico State agreed to pay $8 million to settle a lawsuit involving two basketball players who said they were sexually assaulted by teammates. Terms of the settlement were released on the state’s open-records site Wednesday. Deuce Benjamin and his father, William, who was a co-defendant, will

Jun 28, 2023, 02:24 PM ET Fresh off the NBA draft, where 34 former ESPN100 players were selected, comes our updated early summer player evaluations and ESPN rankings. Each ranking cycle (there are 4 to 5 per year), we assess previous prospects and find up-and-coming talent. Prospects were evaluated in their high school role and

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterJun 28, 2023, 01:00 PM ET Close Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. The matchups for the first ACC/SEC Challenge were announced Wednesday morning, headlined by Duke’s trip to Arkansas on the men’s side and Virginia Tech’s game against LSU on the women’s side. The

Associated Press Jun 27, 2023, 06:39 PM ET LAS CRUCES, N.M. — The former New Mexico State basketball players who filed a lawsuit alleging they were ganged up on and sexually assaulted by teammates have settled the case, one of their attorneys said Tuesday. No details of the settlement were immediately made public. Aggie players

Associated Press Jun 27, 2023, 02:38 PM ET The governing body for the National Letter of Intent Program on Tuesday announced new policies allowing athletes to back out of NLI agreements without penalty under certain circumstances. The signing of letters of intent has been part of the recruiting process in NCAA divisions I and II

Dan Murphy, ESPN Staff WriterJun 27, 2023, 01:20 PM ET Close Covers the Big Ten Joined ESPN.com in 2014 Graduate of the University of Notre Dame The NCAA’s national office informed member schools on Tuesday some recent methods that schools have started using to get more directly involved in helping their athletes make money from

Associated Press Jun 26, 2023, 06:58 PM ET MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Josh Eilert was patiently waiting to become a head coach, and he’s hoping West Virginia players will show the same trait and stay around now that he has been given a chance to run the program. Eilert was selected as the interim men’s basketball