College Basketball News

WASHINGTON -- Freshman Braylon Mullins sank a 3-pointer from at least 30 feet with 0.4 seconds remaining, and No. 2 seed UConn completed a miraculous 19-point comeback to defeat No. 1 Duke 73-72 on Sunday and reach its third Final Four in four years. ...

CHICAGO -- Yaxel Lendeborg collected 27 points, seven rebounds and four assists as top-seeded Michigan routed sixth-seeded Tennessee 95-62 on Sunday in the NCAA Tournament Midwest Region final. Michigan (35-3) advanced to the program's first Final Fou...

Duke point guard Caleb Foster is expected to play again in Sunday's Elite Eight game of the NCAA Tournament against UConn after he returned from a foot fracture on Friday. Foster came off the bench and recorded 11 points and two assists in an 80-75 Ro...

HOUSTON -- David Mirkovic and Keaton Wagler produced double-doubles as third-seeded Illinois parlayed a 17-0 second-half run into a 65-55 victory over second-seeded Houston on Thursday in the South Regional semifinals of the NCAA Tournament. The Fight...

CHICAGO -- Nate Oats planted Alabama in another Sweet 16 and has taken the Crimson Tide to the Final Four. Does that mean he won't pick up if North Carolina calls with a job offer? "Yeah, names are going to get mentioned. I'm probably one of 10 or 12....

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- St. John's coach Rick Pitino might not have plans for his 74th birthday in September, but he'll sooner consider putting them on his calendar than weigh the prospect of retirement. Pitino has St. John's back in the Sweet 16 with a s...

Georgia Southern and men's basketball coach Charlie Henry are in agreement on a new four-year contract, ESPN reported Thursday. No financial terms were disclosed. The Eagles finished the regular season at 16-15 and 8-10 in the Sun Belt Conference. To...

Pepperdine is finalizing a deal to hire Virginia associate head coach Griff Aldrich as the new head coach of the Waves, ESPN reported on Thursday. Aldrich, 51, was the head coach at Longwood from 2018-25, compiling a 127-100 record and leading the Lan...

HOUSTON -- Illinois is the road team in more ways than one on Thursday night when the Fighting Illini play in the South Region semifinal against the Houston Cougars. The University of Houston campus is less than three miles from the Toyota Center, whe...

LSU is parting ways with Matt McMahon to hire North Carolina State's Will Wade for a second stint as head coach, according to multiple reports on Thursday morning. Wade, 43, previously was the head coach of the Tigers from 2017-22, guiding the program...

HOUSTON -- Both Illinois and Houston have been forged by tradition and buoyed by veterans. Yet the Illini and Cougars owe a noteworthy measure of their success this season to freshmen. Guards Keaton Wagler of Illinois and Kingston Flemings of Houston ...

Filip Jovic registered 18 points and nine rebounds and top-seeded Auburn beat visiting Nevada, the No. 2 seed, 75-69 in a quarterfinal NIT matchup Wednesday night. The 6-foot-8 freshman forward was 9 of 12 from the field and had four offensive boards....

While his name is being thrown out as a candidate for the open North Carolina job, Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd said Wednesday his focus is on his current squad. Lloyd also pointed out that he already has a gig that's pretty solid during remarks one day ...

A pair of teams playing their best at the right time clash on Thursday night when No. 1 Arizona faces No. 4 Arkansas in the West Region semifinals in San Jose, Calif. Arizona (34-2) has won 11 in a row, while Arkansas (28-8) is on a 7-game win streak....

The status of Iowa State All-American forward Joshua Jefferson likely won't be determined until shortly before Friday night's Sweet 16 game against Tennessee in Chicago, Cyclones coach T.J. Otzelberger said Wednesday. Jefferson sprained his left ankle...

Iowa State coach T.J. Otzelberger on Wednesday disputed any speculation involving him and other coaching jobs as "not true," as rumors of him being a possible North Carolina coaching target persist. Otzelberger addressed the situation at the team hote...

The lowest-seeded team left in the NCAA Tournament will try to continue its unexpected run when No. 11 Texas faces No. 2 Purdue in the West Region semifinals on Thursday night in San Jose, Calif. The Longhorns (21-14) are the sixth team to go from the...

HOUSTON -- For Nebraska coach Fred Hoiberg, there was ample familiarity in reviewing how the fourth-seeded Cornhuskers' next opponent, Iowa, dispatched both Clemson and Florida en route to the South Region semifinals of the NCAA Tournament. For the ni...

Creighton officially tabbed Alan Huss as its new head basketball coach on Wednesday. The news comes two days after Greg McDermott announced his retirement after 16 seasons as head coach of the team. McDermott will coach the Bluejays through the postse...

Kansas coach Bill Self said he has made no decision about retirement, despite persistent rumors that say otherwise. Self, who just completed his 23rd season with the Jayhawks, told the Kansas City Star on Wednesday that any reports of his imminent ret...

Brad Stevens plans to continue to pilot the front office of the Boston Celtics and declined to interview for the coaching vacancy at North Carolina, according to CBS Sports. The former Butler coach hasn't had a sideline role since 2021 but reportedly ...

Butler hired former Bulldogs point guard Ronald Nored to succeed Thad Matta as head coach on Wednesday. Nored, 36, had worked as an assistant coach in the NBA since 2018 and was with the Atlanta Hawks since 2023. He was a two-time Horizon League Defe...

March Madness delivered a first-week ratings surge, with the men's NCAA Tournament averaging 10.1 million viewers across CBS, TNT, TBS and truTV, making it the most-watched tournament ever through the first two rounds, according to Nielsen Big Data. T...

A first-round NCAA Tournament collapse marked the end for Hubert Davis as North Carolina's coach, as the school fired him Tuesday night. "We appreciate all that Hubert has done for Carolina as a player, assistant coach, head coach and community leader...

Bill Self was noncommittal about his future as Kansas coach after the Jayhawks' season-ending loss in the NCAA Tournament on Sunday, saying he plans to meet with his family to discuss what comes next. "I haven't really gone through much on the court,"...

Head coach Greg McDermott announced his retirement on Monday after 16 seasons leading the Creighton men's basketball team. McDermott, 61, will coach the Bluejays through the postseason College Basketball Crown event before stepping down, at which poin...

Charlotte hired former Cincinnati and UNC Greensboro head coach Wes Miller to lead the men's basketball program on Monday. Miller, 43, agreed to a five-year contract with the 49ers, ESPN reported. The hiring comes 10 days after Cincinnati fired Mille...

Alvaro Folgueiras drained a wide-open 3-pointer from the right corner with 4.5 seconds left to give Iowa a dramatic 73-72 victory over defending national champion Florida in a South Region second-round game at Tampa, Fla. The top-seeded Gators' Xaivia...

Johnny Kinziger hit a tiebreaking 3-pointer with two seconds remaining as Illinois State rallied for a 78-75 victory over top-seeded Wake Forest Sunday in Winston-Salem, N.C. in the second round of the NIT. The fourth-seeded Redbirds (22-12) advanced ...

ST. LOUIS -- Short-handed Iowa State was without versatile star forward Joshua Jefferson for its second-round NCAA Tournament Midwest Region matchup with Kentucky on Sunday. But the Cyclones had their feral defense, and that was more than enough to ta...