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Focus is key for No. 4 Duke, UNC in Coach K’s home finaleVideo
DURHAM, N.C. — Retiring Hall of Fame coach Mike Krzyzewski knows the focus for Saturday’s latest North Carolina-Duke rivalry game will be on his last sideline appearance at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Beyond the emotions sure to flow, he wants to see his fourth-ranked Blue Devils maintain the momentum they have...
NCAA football rules committee recommends targeting appealVideo
Players ejected for targeting in the second half of a college football game could be eligible to play the following game after an appeal through the conference office, if a recommendation handed down Friday by the NCAA rules committee is approved. After four days of meetings in Indianapolis, the committee...
Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim says there’s a plan for retirement
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim said Wednesday on a sports radio call-in show that there’s a plan in place for when he steps down. “There’s a plan,” Boeheim told ESPN Radio in Syracuse. “I’m just telling you there’s a plan.” Boeheim did not reveal any details of the...
Ex-Sooners QB Spencer Rattler ready for restart at South CarolinaVideo
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Spencer Rattler is not sure how things went sideways when he was Oklahoma’s quarterback, he just knows it was time for a reset and believes he’s found it at South Carolina. “I feel totally refreshed to be at a new university, a great university like this,” Rattler...
Sun Belt releases schedule with departing Conference USA schools
NEW ORLEANS — The Sun Belt Conference on Tuesday released a football schedule for the coming season that includes new members Marshall, Southern Mississippi and Old Dominion, two weeks after Conference USA put out its 2022 schedule with those schools included. The dispute over where Marshall, Southern Miss and ODU...
Art Briles out as Grambling offensive coordinator less than week after hiringVideo
Art Briles’ tenure as offensive coordinator at Grambling State is over less than a week after it started. The former disgraced Baylor coach said he didn’t want to be a “distraction” at the prominent HBCU with a storied football program in northern Louisiana, leaving the program just five days after...
Gonzaga, Arizona remain atop AP Top 25 in week of changes
The top six and seven of the top nine teams in the AP Top 25 lost on the same day last week, an unprecedented day of chaos that led to some big changes in this week’s poll — everywhere but at the top. Gonzaga and Arizona remained the top two...
Early madness: Top 6 teams lose on same day for 1st time in college basketballVideo
The madness arrived early this year. An unpredictable college basketball season took an unprecedented turn Saturday, when the top six and seven of the top 10 teams lost. Gonzaga, Arizona, Auburn, Purdue, Kansas and Kentucky all went down, marking the first time in AP poll era (1948—49) that the top...
‘I feel the pain and hurt’: Ex-Schenley star D.J. Kennedy playing for Ukrainian team praying for teammates
D.J. Kennedy has played professional basketball in 10 countries over three continents in the past decade, so the 32-year-old former Schenley star wasn’t worried about living in Ukraine until last week. That changed when Russia invaded Ukraine early Thursday, attacking major cities in which he has played for BC Prometey....
Late-season surge puts Rutgers in NCAA Tournament conversationVideo
PISCATAWAY, N.J. — After 31 years of coaching, Steve Pikiell is looking forward to the time when he can roll a basketball onto the court, sit back and watch Rutgers win game after game. As soon as the words came out his mouth Thursday, the 54-year-old Scarlet Knights coach started...
Nebraska AD: Men’s basketball coach Fred Hoiberg to return next seasonVideo
LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska men’s basketball coach Fred Hoiberg will return for a fourth season but has agreed to a pay cut and a reduced buyout if he’s fired after next season, athletic director Trev Alberts said Thursday night. Hoiberg is 21-65 overall and 6-49 in the Big Ten, with...
Marshall granted restraining order in Conference USA arbitration bid
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Marshall was granted a temporary restraining order Thursday against Conference USA after the league filed a request for arbitration in the school’s bid to expedite an early move to the Sun Belt. The order by Cabell County Circuit Judge Christopher Chiles prohibits Conference USA from proceeding with...
Longtime college basketball coach Phil Martelli leads Michigan for Juwan HowardVideo
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — In a hallway in the guts of Crisler Center, an anxious Michigan athletics employee walked Phil Martelli to the news conference. More than once, she offered to help: Do you need me? Can I do anything? Martelli, his shoulders relaxed and his demeanor confident, assured her...
Michigan men’s basketball coach Juwan Howard suspended 5 games for Wisconsin meleeVideo
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan basketball coach Juwan Howard has been suspended the final five games of the regular season and fined $40,000 for hitting a Wisconsin assistant in the head, triggering a postgame melee. The Big Ten Conference also on Monday suspended three players one game for the altercation...
North Carolina boosts NCAA Tournament hopes with key Quad 1 winVideo
North Carolina’s hopes for an NCAA Tournament berth became even more tenuous after a loss to Pitt. Before last week, the Tar Heels had no real marquee wins, but also no bad losses. They put one in the negative column with Wednesday’s 76-67 home loss to the Panthers, who are...
Clemson struggling to win games year after NCAA Tournament bidVideo
CLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson hoped to use its run to the NCAA Tournament last year during a pandemic-impacted season as a springboard to more success. Instead, the Tigers are in the midst of a five-game losing streak — their longest since 2017 — with their chances of playing beyond next...
Michigan raises Harbaugh’s pay back to over $7 million per year
Michigan has once again made Jim Harbaugh one of the highest paid coaches in college football. Harbaugh’s reworked five-year contract with the school, obtained Thursday through a records request, runs through the 2026 season and guarantees he will make more than $7 million annually. Harbaugh’s salary starts at $7.05 million...
Gonzaga back at No. 1 in AP Top 25; Wyoming enters poll
Gonzaga keeps finding its way back to the top of the The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll. The Zags reclaimed the No. 1 ranking Monday for a third stint this season atop the AP Top 25, moving up one spot to swap places with Auburn after the Tigers fell...
Florida enters AP women’s hoops poll; South Carolina No. 1
Florida coach Kelly Rae Finley has the Gators playing their best basketball in years, with wins over four ranked teams in their past five games. Buoyed by that success, the Gators jumped into The Associated Press women’s basketball poll at No. 19 on Monday, the team’s first ranking since 2016....
Auburn, Gonzaga stay 1-2 in AP Top 25; Texas Tech up to 9th
Auburn remained No. 1 in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll for the third straight week, while Texas Tech cracked the top 10 and Murray State joined the rankings for the first time in nearly seven years. Bruce Pearl’s Tigers earned 48 of 61 first-place votes to stay ahead...
America East bans Stony Brook from conference tournaments
Stony Brook’s basketball teams will need to receive at-large bids to the NCAAs if the Seawolves want to make it to the tournament this year. The America East announced Wednesday that the school is ineligible for conference postseason tournaments because it’s leaving for the Colonial Athletic Association next year. Stony...
With packed portal, NCAA signing day becomes transfer seasonVideo
The transfer portal remains remains packed as college football’s second signing period arrives, a glut that has the sport’s leaders pondering ways to clean up a roster management mess. The most notable free agent came off the market Tuesday when former Oklahoma quarterback Caleb Williams made his long-anticipated transfer to...
Former Oklahoma QB Caleb Williams transferring to USCVideo
LOS ANGELES — Quarterback Caleb Williams is transferring to Southern California, following coach Lincoln Riley from Oklahoma to the Trojans. Williams posted his long-awaited announcement on social media Tuesday with a video that included the former five-star recruit in a USC uniform and famous Trojans fan Snoop Dogg rapping. The...
Michigan earns its highest ranking in women’s AP Top 25Video
Michigan moved up one spot to sixth in the Associated Press women’s basketball poll Monday, the team’s highest ranking ever. South Carolina remained the No. 1 team in the poll, garnering 29 of the 30 first-place votes from a national media panel after beating Vanderbilt, then-No. 24 Mississippi and Florida....
Kentucky makes big leap in AP men’s Top 25Video
Auburn keeps winning, Kentucky is rising and that has the SEC putting its imprint atop this week’s Associated Press men’s college basketball poll. Bruce Pearl’s Tigers earned 49 of 61 first-place votes in Monday’s new poll to extend the program’s first stay at No. 1 for a second straight week,...
