College Basketball

Rick Barnes said Tennessee basketball locked in on Chaz Lanier as a top target as soon as he entered the transfer portal. The Vols coach said the 6-foot-4, 199-pound Lanier has shared goals with the Vols. “Chaz has a desire to help us win another SEC championship, as well as contend for a national title,” Barnes said Saturday in a …

The North Carolina Tar Heels are going to be set for the coming college basketball season. It’ll be weird not seeing Armando Bacot suiting up, plus I’m sure it’ll take some time adjusting to no Harrison Ingram. The duo provided a rare, solid 2-man post presence not seen since the Isaiah Hicks-Kennedy Meeks days. UNC is still searching for an …

2024 Purdue signee and incoming freshman center Daniel Jacobsen has gotten off to a strong start in Colorado Springs as he looks to secure a spot on the USA Basketball Men’s U18 National Team roster in the FIBA U18 Men’s AmeriCup. On Saturday, Jacobsen was named one of the 18 finalists for the 12-man roster that is headed for Bueno …

May 25—CHAMPAIGN — A sentiment circulating throughout college basketball circles concerns how rosters might be built moving forward in that level’s version of the NBA’s player empowerment era. The transfer portal and the opportunity for players to benefit off their name, image and likeness have changed the game. Not to mention the recent developments Thursday that essentially paves the way …

1 Kansas This ranking is based on Bill Self’s Jayhawks returning three of the top six scorers – specifically Hunter Dickinson, KJ Adams and Dajuan Harris – from a team that secured a No. 4 seed in the 2024 NCAA Tournament. The additions of AJ Storr (Wisconsin), Rylan Griffen (Alabama) and Zeke Mayo (South Dakota State) from the transfer portal, …

It has been a transformative week in the world of college athletics, with the NCAA and its Power Five conferences — the Big Ten, SEC, ACC, Big 12 and Pac-12 — agreeing to a 10-figure settlement in which athletes will be compensated directly from the schools for which they competed. On Thursday, the settlement in the House v. NCAA case …

After landing forward P.J. Hayes earlier this week, another transfer portal addition is being predicted for Rutgers basketball in center Ugonna Onyenso. A former four-star recruit, Onyenso committed to Kentucky as part of the 2022 recruiting class. Onyenso would certainly fit a need at Rutgers. The 7-foot center played his high school basketball at Putnam Science Academy (Putnam, Connecticut). He …

LAWRENCE — Kansas basketball has officially announced a pair of matchups for the 2024-25 season. The Jayhawks, seen as one of the favorites to compete for a national championship next season, will participate in the 2024 Vegas Showdown. That event will see Kansas face Duke on Nov. 26 in Las Vegas, with Furman and Seattle also playing as a part …

Signage at the headquarters of the NCAA is viewed in Indianapolis, March 12, 2020. | Michael Conroy, Associated Press College athletes will finally get their due. It’s comeuppance time. College sports were sorely impacted by greed when schools started paying coaches millions and a money chase ensued, and now it has from the other end, the players. Things will never …

What was long-known as coming was finally officially announced by Arkansas on Thursday. Brad Calipari will serve as an assistant coach on the basketball team. John Calipari, his father, was hired as head coach about two months ago. The younger Calipari spent last year as director of on-court player development under Jerry Stackhouse at Vanderbilt. Before that, he held the …

The structure of college sports is about to change. Get ready for schools to start paying athletes directly. Thursday night, NCAA President Charlie Baker issued a release alongside the major college sports conferences, including the ACC and SEC, announcing an agreement to a landmark settlement in a case involving athlete compensation. The deal would set aside nearly $2.8 billion in …

Michigan State basketball has extended a scholarship offer to a shooting guard prospect from Indiana. Four-star shooting guard Braylon Mullins announced on Friday that he’s received a scholarship offer from the Spartans. Mullins hails from Greenfield, Ind. and has picked up a ton of interest on the recruiting trail recently. Mullins ranks as the No. 13 shooting guard and No. …

With KJ Simpson, Tristan da Silva, Cody Williams and other key players moving on in their careers, Colorado men’s basketball could be entering a rough welcome-back season in the Big 12. Head coach Tad Boyle has added some intriguing transfers, including Andrej Jakimovski (Washington State) and Trevor Baskin (Division II Colorado Mesa), but overall, the Buffs enter 2024-25 with some …

COLUMBIA — South Carolina men’s basketball on Friday secured the commitment of four-star power forward EJ Walker, the No. 2 recruit from the state of Kentucky. Walker, who announced his decision on social media, chose South Carolina over Wisconsin, Purdue and Ohio State. The 6-foot-8 Class of 2025 recruit plays at Lloyd Memorial High School in Kentucky, where he averaged …

Rick Barnes received some extra depth to Tennessee basketball’s roster for the upcoming season heading into the Memorial Day weekend. Chaz Lanier on Friday announced he’s heading to Rocky Top for the 2024-25 college basketball season. The former North Florida guard and Nashville native was one of the most efficient players in the country last season as he shot 50% …

Chaz Lanier is transferring to Tennessee basketball after a breakout season at North Florida. The Nashville native announced he is transferring to UT after the senior guard averaged 19.7 points and shot 44.4% on 3-pointers with the Ospreys. He picked the Vols over Kentucky and BYU after visiting all three schools in succession in late May. The 6-foot-4, 199-pound Lanier …

Mark Pope knows what success at Kentucky basketball looks like, having helped lead the Wildcats to a national championship in 1996 while playing for Rick Pitino. Now, Pope takes over the program after John Calipari’s stunning offseason departure to Arkansas and the former BYU head coach is being forced to rebuild the Kentucky basketball roster. Every remaining scholarship player from …

Stodgy old heads dispersed across college athletics — whose power has been reduced and whose perspective on reality is only now finally crystallizing through the one course of action they can’t deny: losing their money — may semantically disagree with this next sentence, but I assure you every word of it is fundamental truth.  On Thursday, the NCAA and its …

The May 29th NBA Draft withdrawal deadline is rapidly approaching, leaving dozens of players with big decision to make about their futures over the coming days. Among them are a bevy of talented players who have positioned themselves with maximum leverage by also entering the transfer portal as they mull where they will suit up in the 2024-25 season. In …

May 24—The NCAA and the nation’s five biggest conferences announced Thursday night that they have agreed to pay nearly $2.8 billion to settle a host of antitrust claims, a monumental decision that sets the stage for a groundbreaking revenue-sharing model that could start steering millions of dollars directly to athletes as soon as the 2025 fall semester. NCAA President Charlie …

The weeks leading up to the NBA Draft on June 26-27 are crucial to NBA teams as players travel around the country and participate in individual workouts at different NBA facilities. In a draft that is still considered widely unpredictable with no consensus top pick — and a potential second-round pick in Bronny James grabbing a lot of the attention …

Jordan Prather / USA TODAY Sports The Arkansas men’s basketball program doubled its number of Caliparis on the coaching staff Thursday with the hiring of John Calipari’s son, Brad Calipari, the school announced. Brad will serve as an assistant coach in the role of director of on-court player development under his father. Brad previously played under his father as a …

With RJ Davis leaving Chapel Hill after the coming college basketball season, the North Carolina Tar Heels will have a major hole to fill at guard. Ian Jackson, Elliot Cadeau and Seth Trimble will be the top candidates to take minutes, but Cadeau previously expressed his desire to only play two years in Chapel Hill. If Jackson is as good …

Colorado offensive line transfer Isaiah Jatta announced his plans to transfer last month. He had offers from BYU, USC, Auburn, South Carolina, Kansas, Illinois, NC State, San Diego State, Oklahoma State and Syracuse. He picked BYU, denying USC a chance to build extra offensive line depth. Jatta entered the transfer portal with one year of eligibility remaining and took visits …

AUBURN — Auburn basketball coach Bruce Pearl has a process at the end of every season. Pearl likes to sit down with his players, talk to them about their options and outline the best paths for them to take, both for their personal careers and for the team’s future. With someone such as senior guard KD Johnson, Pearl admitted his …