Championship Week and March Madness are nearly here. Beginning with the ASUN on Feb. 27 and ending with the Ivy, A-10, SEC, American and Big Ten right up until the bracket is revealed on Selection Sunday (March 12), teams across Division I men’s college basketball will be competing for the chance to cut down the nets in the conference championship […]

Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Texas Tech head coach Mark Adams has stepped down from his position, the school announced Wednesday night, days after he was suspended for using what the school called an “inappropriate, unacceptable, and racially insensitive comment.” Adams didn’t coach the Red Raiders in their Big 12 tournament loss to […]

Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. ESPN Insider college basketball contributor First began covering college hoops in 2004 Has written for Basketball Prospectus and the Wall Street Journal The career of the longest-tenured men’s college basketball coach in the country ended on Wednesday, with Syracuse announcing Jim Boeheim’s Hall of Fame career in Central […]

Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato While the NCAA tournament gets all of the buzz each year, Champ Week often produces the best basketball of the postseason. While many of the auto-bid leagues have already given us buzzer-beaters and game-winners to send their lone representatives to the field of 68 for the 2023 […]

Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Reigning Wooden Award winner Oscar Tshiebwe and this season’s favorite Zach Edey were among the 15 finalists named to the men’s national ballot Saturday morning, as revealed on ESPN’s “College GameDay.” Edey, Purdue’s 7-foot-4 center, is heading into the postseason as the perceived front-runner for the Wooden Award, […]

Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Tennessee starting point guard Zakai Zeigler has suffered a torn ACL and will miss the rest of the season, the school announced Wednesday. Zeigler left Tuesday’s game against Arkansas after landing awkwardly in the first half. There was a collective silence within Thompson-Boling Arena as Zeigler was helped […]

Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Is the debate for the fourth 1-seed — and the Nos. 4 and 5 spots in the Power Rankings — growing as we enter the final two weeks before Selection Sunday? Let’s look at the first three 1-seeds: Alabama bounced back from its road loss at Tennessee with […]

Australian Boomers forward Nick Kay has had a taste of international glory, now he and NBA-based teammates want to win gold at the FIBA World Cup in August. Kay and the locally based Boomers completed Asian qualifying with resounding wins over Bahrain and Kazakhstan in Melbourne over the weekend and as he posed for photos and signed autographs after Sunday’s […]

Previously covered University of Michigan for ESPN.com and AnnArbor.com Also covered Notre Dame for Fort Wayne Journal Gazette TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama men’s basketball coach Nate Oats maintains that he believes the university and his program have done the right thing in continuing to allow star freshman forward Brandon Miller to play after his name appeared in connection with a […]

Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. The Ole Miss Rebels have fired men’s basketball coach Kermit Davis with just over a week left in the regular season, it was announced Friday. “We thank Coach Davis for his dedication to the Ole Miss basketball program and our student-athletes,” athletic director Keith Carter said in a […]