Tobin Anderson has agreed to a five-year contract to be the new coach at Iona, leaving Fairleigh Dickinson after one sun-kissed year there. He spoke to ESPN about the move and the whirlwind week after No. 16 seeded FDU beat Texas Southern in the First Four and upset No. 1 Purdue in a historic NCAA tournament game. Anderson, 51, spent […]

Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato Well, this won’t be controversial. A few weeks ago, we had an idea. What if you took the teams in the Sweet 16, and what if there was a way to put their greatest teams of all time in the same gym, and you played a tournament […]

And … relax. We can finally catch our collective breath after a weekend that saw a 15-seed and 16-seed advance to the second round for the first time in NCAA tournament history; two 1-seeds go down before the Sweet 16; and a trio of game-winning baskets in the final seconds. True college hoops junkies are already thinking about what’s next, […]

Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato So … how’s your bracket? Yeah, we understand. The first two rounds have given us historic moments and thrilling wins. Remember when Furman beat Virginia on a 3-pointer in the final seconds on Thursday? We don’t either. Because since then, Fairleigh Dickinson and Princeton manufactured more consequential […]

Covers the Big 12 Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Washington & Lee University COLUMBUS — Coach Tobin Anderson said he and his Fairleigh Dickinson players will remember it all. “Everything. Everybody chanting ‘F-D-U.’ The place going crazy. The police escorts. Leaving the hotel with the band playing,” Anderson said. “Every part of this I’ll remember forever — and they […]

Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Iona coach Rick Pitino met with St. John’s officials on Sunday, and the sides remain in serious discussions about him becoming the school’s next coach, sources told ESPN. Some clarity from Pitino is expected early this week, as he’s been the school’s primary target since they fired Mike […]

Covered Chiefs for 20 seasons for Kansas City Star Joined ESPN in 2013 DES MOINES, Iowa — Kansas’ worst fears about the Jayhawks’ second-round NCAA tournament matchup with Arkansas came true. As a result, the Jayhawks are no longer around to defend last year’s title. Kansas, the top seed in the West, fell to the Razorbacks 72-71. Arkansas, the region’s […]

Covers the Pac-12. Joined ESPN in 2014. Attended Washington State University. SACRAMENTO, Calif. — No. 15-seeded Princeton advanced to the Sweet 16 with 78-63 win against No. 7 Missouri on Saturday, becoming the second Ivy League team to do so since the men’s NCAA basketball tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985. It is the third straight year a No. […]

Previously covered University of Michigan for ESPN.com and AnnArbor.com Also covered Notre Dame for Fort Wayne Journal Gazette ALBANY, N.Y. — After the final game of his third season at Iona, Rick Pitino didn’t know whether he’d be back for a fourth — or if he’d be coaching somewhere else. The 70-year-old Pitino, who reached the NCAA tournament with Iona […]

Covers the Pac-12. Joined ESPN in 2014. Attended Washington State University. Covered University of Florida for 13 seasons for ESPN.com and Florida Times-Union Graduate of Jacksonville University Multiple APSE award winner March Madness is defined by two phases: Early-tournament upsets and Final Four heroics. The former, perhaps more than the latter, is what makes the tournament’s energy so hard to […]