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Source: Duke, UVA, KU OK to play in tournament

Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Teams that were affected by COVID-19 this past week haven’t told the NCAA that they will not participate in the NCAA tournament if chosen by the selection committee, ESPN has learned. Those teams include Duke, Kansas and Virginia, which were forced to withdraw […]

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Georgetown’s miracle run adds to the madness of committee seeding Field of 68

What Georgetown accomplished by reclaiming the Big East Tournament championship didn’t just ruin Creighton’s Saturday evening and cause an outbreak of heartburn from Syracuse to Boise. The Hoyas also made a challenging job even trickier for the members of the NCAA men’s basketball committee. Known colloquially as the “selection committee,” they now must deal with how to seed into a […]

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Source: Duke could play in tournament if chosen

Duke could play in the NCAA tournament if selected as an at-large team or a COVID-replacement team, a source told ESPN’s Rece Davis. The Blue Devils withdrew from the ACC tournament Thursday after a positive COVID-19 test within the program. At the time, athletic director Kevin White said in a statement that the cancellation of the conference tournament quarterfinal game […]

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Fulkerson out of SEC tourney with facial injuries

Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Tennessee forward John Fulkerson is out for the rest of the SEC tournament because of facial injuries suffered in Friday’s win over Florida, the school announced. Fulkerson left Friday’s game after receiving two elbows to the head from Florida’s Omar Payne, who was ejected. “That was a dirty […]

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NBA: Joel Embiid injures knee in first game back with Sixers

LOS ANGELES (AFP, Reuters) – National Basketball Association MVP candidate Joel Embiid emerged from quarantine Friday (March 12) only to exit his first game back with a left knee injury in the Philadelphia 76ers’ 127-101 win over the Washington Wizards. Embiid, who missed Sunday’s All-Star Game because of Covid-19 restrictions, landed awkwardly on his left knee and fell to the […]

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OK St. stuns Baylor, nears ‘vision’ of Big 12 title

Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Back in the preseason, Oklahoma State men’s basketball coach Mike Boynton had his team do what it did every preseason: practice cutting down nets. Every player went up on the ladder with scissors and snipped a piece of the net. For freshman Cade Cunningham, it was the first […]

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Bubble Watch 2021: Who can still improve their bubble position?

ESPN Insider college basketball contributor First began covering college hoops in 2004 Has written for Basketball Prospectus and the Wall Street Journal If watching Champ Week has left you with the impression that bubble teams have been losing left and right, well, you might be on to something. Xavier, Syracuse and Boise State have all wrapped up their conference tournament […]

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