Category: NCAA Basketball

The NCAA hired Signify Group to monitor messages directed at athletes, coaches, game officials, selection committee members, and others with official roles in the tournament.

Dick Vitale has signed a multi-year extension with ESPN and the network has created the Dick Vitale Invitational, an annual event in his honor

Tyrese Proctor had a productive run in college, and the former Duke guard is working to showcase his ability to teams ahead of the draft.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (June 9, 2025) – West Virginia University men’s basketball coach Ross Hodge has announced the signing of Morris Ugusuk to a grant-in-aid for the 2025-26 season.Ugusuk, a 6-foot-4, 170-pound junior guard from Helsinki, Finland, comes to West Virginia from South Carolina, where he played the last two seasons.

Dick Vitale started working for ESPN in 1979.

Dick Vitale is inextricably intertwined with college basketball, with his iconic voice, exuberant style and enthusiastic catchphrases melding into a soundtrack for nearly five decades of the sport’s history. ESPN announced Monday that Vitale has signed a contract through the 2027-28 season, while ESPN Events is launching the Dick Vitale Invitational — the first matchup coming with a season-opening tilt between Duke and Texas on Nov. 4 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The Basketball Hall of Famer, also a former college and NBA coach, has been with ESPN since it launched in 1979 and called the network’s first college basketball broadcast.

Arkansas head coach John Calipari returns four key players from last year's Sweet 16 run in 2025-26. (Photo by Gregory Fisher-Imagn Images) The deadline to withdraw from the NBA Draft has passed, players have moved to their new campuses, teams have started offseason workouts, and it seems, for the most part, rosters are set, barring any last minute additions from the European ranks.

Cornish started 23 of 27 games for the Big Green as a senior, averaging 17.1 points and 4.9 rebounds to earn All-Ivy League first-team honors.

Young was hired last year after coach Mark Pope left to become Kentucky’s head coach.

BYU has signed men's basketball coach Kevin Young to a long-term contract extension following the program's first run to the NCAA Tournament's Sweet 16 in 14 years. Terms of the deal announced Thursday were not released, with the school saying only that the contract would keep Young in Provo for the “foreseeable future.” “My family and I have loved our first year at BYU, being surrounded by great people, at a great university with shared values,” Young said in a statement.

During a meeting on Wednesday at the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV received a hat of his alma mater, Villanova, from the National Italian American Foundation.

Matt Cashore/IMAGN USC basketball coach Eric Musselman had already done an impressive job rebuilding the Trojans' roster almost from scratch, with just one returning player in Terrance Williams II leftover after the annual transfer portal exodus, but he added one more extra piece Wednesday.

Guard Ryan Cornish has transferred to Southern California from Dartmouth, where he played four seasons. Cornish started 23 of 27 games for the Big Green as a senior, averaging 17.1 points and 4.9 rebounds to earn All-Ivy League first-team honors. “Ryan is a combo guard that can give us versatility at both guard spots,” Trojans coach Eric Musselman said.

The school’s next athletic director made it clear that the football program must lead the way to make his statement ring true.

The West Virginia Mountaineers basketball program is now up to 11 scholarship players with the return of redshirt freshman big Abraham Oyeadier.Oyeadier, 6-foot-9, 221-pounds, initially entered his name into the transfer portal April 22 but kept open the option to return.