Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Alabama freshman Brandon Miller will play Wednesday night at South Carolina, the school announced about 3.5 hours before tipoff, despite Tuscaloosa police testifying a day earlier that the star forward brought a now-former teammate the handgun used to kill a woman in January. “UA Athletics continues to cooperate […]

The chancellor at New Mexico State expressed his confidence in athletic director Mario Moccia on Wednesday, less than a week after the school’s most high-profile sports program — the men’s basketball team — was shut down for what the chancellor said was a culture of bad behavior, egregious violations of the student code of conduct and other “despicable acts.” In […]

Women’s National Basketball League club Sydney Flames has broken its silence on an investigation into their coach, Australian basketball great Shane Heal, over allegations of bullying. Heal has not been courtside since he was a late omission from the Flames’ January 18 clash with Southside Flyers. Heal’s daughter Shyla was also a late withdrawal that night, and has since departed […]

Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. Maybe we’ll get one week of calm atop the Power Rankings before the end of the season. Even with the chaos throughout the rest of the field, the trio of Purdue, Alabama and Houston seemed fairly rock-solid. According to ESPN Stats & Information research, this past Saturday was […]

Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware. The officials in Saturday’s Duke-Virginia game made an “incorrect adjudication” on the final play of regulation, the ACC announced Saturday night. With 1.2 seconds left in a 58-58 game, Duke’s Tyrese Proctor inbounded the ball to a cutting Kyle Filipowski. Filipowski drove to the rim and attempted a […]

With a Matchup Quality of 97.7 (fifth best this season), tonight’s clash between Texas and Kansas (9 p.m. ET, ESPN) is one you won’t want to miss. Two of the top teams in men’s college basketball all season long, the Longhorns and Jayhawks are currently ranked sixth and 13th, respectively, by ESPN Analytics’ BPI. Both have performed well despite difficult […]

Colorado State issued a public apology to Utah State and Ukrainian guard Max Shulga after some of its fans chanted “Russia” at Shulga during Saturday’s game. Shulga — who is from Kyiv, Ukraine, where his family still resides — went to the free throw line late in the game, and the “Russia” chants could be heard from the Colorado State […]

Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, Mankato This weekend’s slate of basketball games features matchups that will have implications in conference races and NCAA tournament seedings on Selection Sunday. But North Carolina and Duke, the highlight clash of the weekend, boast the premier rivalry in men’s college basketball. Their initial meeting of the 2022-23 […]

ACC reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. Jon Scheyer remembers being forced to attend his sister’s high school variety show as a kid. He was in junior high, and the show conflicted with the single most important event in his life at the time: the Duke-North Carolina basketball game. Luckily, his dad understood. They went […]

Purdue became this season’s first unanimous No. 1 team in the AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll Monday after wins over Michigan and Michigan State last week, but chaos ensued behind the Boilermakers among other ranked teams. Source: Read Full Article