College Basketball

[ad_1] South Carolina players explain how winning is their sole focus and everything else is canceled out as they head to the national semifinal matchup against NC State. Video Transcript BREE HALL: We’ve noticed that we might not get as much coverage. But we’re just so focused on us and just want to win every game. We just approach every …

[ad_1] PHOENIX – Places all over the Valley are preparing for the Final Four in Glendale. Hance Park, Old Town Scottsdale and Westgate in Glendale all have special events going on for the end of the college basketball season, taking place at State Farm Stadium. The host committee party is even making sure basketball fans who fly into Sky Harbor …

[ad_1] LOS ANGELES — Eric Musselman was hired as Southern California men’s basketball coach on Thursday, the first major hire by new athletic director Jennifer Cohen. He replaces Andy Enfield, who left for the same job at Southern Methodist on Monday. The 59-year-old Musselman will be introduced at a news conference on Friday at Galen Center. The Trojans will move …

[ad_1] The Gophers men’s basketball team got some much-needed good news on Thursday when star player Dawson Garcia announced he would be returning to the program for the 2024-25 season. He said on social media that he is electing to use his COVID year for next season and will return to the University of Minnesota for his fifth and final …

[ad_1] GLENDALE, Ariz. – It’s easy for Zach Edney now. Or at least easier for a big man who was once too large for Halloween. “I got banned from trick or treating in fourth grade because people got mad at me because I was too big,” Purdue’s 7-foot-4 All-American post said Thursday in the run up to the Final Four. …

[ad_1] INDIANAPOLIS — To be great at anything, you have to be willing to have your heart broken. That was the opening sentiment from Indiana State coach Josh Schertz in the aftermath of a gut-wrenching 79-77 loss to Seton Hall in the NIT championship game. “Our hearts are certainly broken tonight.” Stakes aside, the season-ending setback was made especially painful …

[ad_1] INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana State’s magical postseason run ended in heartbreak Thursday. Seton Hall out-scored the Sycamores 9-0 over the final 2:38 with Lawrence Central product Dre Davis converting the eventual game-winning layup with 16 seconds remaining to clinch the NIT championship, 79-77, at a raucous Hinkle Fieldhouse. The Sycamores had a few attempts on the final possession of regulation, …

[ad_1] INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Dre Davis scored on a layup with 16 seconds left Thursday night to cap Seton Hall’s decisive late run, giving the Pirates a 79-77 victory over Indiana State and their first NIT championship since 1953. Seton Hall (25-12) scored the final nine points in a battle between two No. 1 seeds to erase a 77-70 deficit. …

[ad_1] GLENDALE, Ariz. — DJ Burns Jr. can play four musical instruments: the tuba, piano, baritone saxophone and upright bass. He loves fashion. Reading is one of his many hobbies. He has his own song in which he raps about being a beast and feasting. NC State’s big man, all 6-foot-9, 275 pounds of him, is a man of many …

[ad_1] New USC basketball coach Eric Musselman had barely landed in Los Angeles with his family Thursday night and he already had his first Trojans recruit on board. Josh Cohen, a 6-foot-10 graduate transfer from UMass, had committed to Musselman at Arkansas and flipped that commitment to USC after Musselman was officially announced as the Trojans’ coach. Cohen averaged 15.9 …

[ad_1] Seton Hall erased a seven-point deficit in the final three minutes of the NIT Championship Game for a 79-77 win over Indiana State on Thursday night inside Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. The Pirates captured their first NIT title since 1953 with a win in a thrilling matchup between teams who just missed the NCAA Tournament cut and were awarded …

[ad_1] Getty Images The search led to Schertz. Barring an unexpected change by Friday morning, Saint Louis is expected to hire Indiana State’s Josh Schertz as its next coach, sources told CBS Sports.  Schertz’s Sycamores lost 79-77 to Seton Hall in an incredibly competitive game Thursday night for the NIT championship at Hinkle Fieldhouse to cap a 32-7 season. Schertz spent …

[ad_1] NC State basketball continues its run in March Madness as one of the teams competing for a national championship at the Final Four in Arizona. But head coach Kevin Keatts and the coaching staff have to juggle their duties with the transfer portal open across college basketball. The Wolfpack’s projected starting lineup for its game against Purdue on Saturday …

[ad_1] Michigan State Mady Sissoko thanks the crowd during the senior night celebration after the game against Northwestern on Wednesday, March 6, 2024, at the Breslin Center in East Lansing. 1. What Sissoko transferring means for MSU’s basketball team My sense at the end of the season was that Mady Sissoko wanted to stay at Michigan State for his fifth …

[ad_1] UMass transfer big man Josh Cohen has flipped his pledge from Arkansas to USC, he announced Thursday evening. The news comes after former Razorback head coach Eric Musselman officially took the head coaching job for the Trojans earlier Thursday. Cohen spent just one year with the Minutemen after spending his first four years at St. Francis (PA). He committed …

[ad_1] Michigan State is in the thick of things for another elite wing transfer on the market. The Spartans are set to host Omaha wing transfer Frankie Fidler on a official visit, after making the small forward’s top four. This past season at Omaha, Fidler averaged 20.1 points and 6.3 rebounds per game. MSU was featured inside of the 6-foot-7 …

[ad_1] USC freshman Bronny James will weigh his options in the coming weeks about his basketball future, and the process of his next decision could accelerate with his college coach Andy Enfield departing his post at USC to take the vacant coaching job at SMU, and Eric Musselman becoming the next coach at USC. The son of Los Angeles Lakers superstar …

[ad_1] HATTIESBURG — Southern Miss basketball had its sights set on an NCAA Tournament appearance after winning the Sun Belt Conference regular-season championship in 2022-23. But that didn’t happen, with the Golden Eagles going 16-16 while battling through a revolving door of injuries, including head coach Jay Ladner missing the last month of the season due to a heart attack. …

[ad_1] Wisconsin basketball is a finalist to land Omaha transfer forward Frankie Fidler, according to Joe Tipton of On3. The Badgers made Fidler’s final four list alongside Nebraska, Creighton and Michigan State. Related: Tracking Wisconsin basketball’s reported transfer portal visits and targets The top-ranked forward visited the Badgers last weekend and is one of the school’s top portal targets. He played …

[ad_1] Freddie Dilione V is entering the transfer portal after his redshirt freshman season with Tennessee basketball, Dilione told Knox News on Thursday. The 6-foot-4 guard spent one full season in Knoxville during which he averaged 1.7 points in 5.2 minutes per game. He played in 18 of Tennessee’s 36 games. He enrolled early in the 2022-23 season and redshirted. …

[ad_1] Brad Brownell and the Clemson men’s basketball team’s dream run in the NCAA Tournament came to an end in the Elite 8 with a loss to Alabama, and with the season behind them, the offseason begins. Like football, the transfer portal has become an even more integral part of college basketball. When the season concludes, players fly into the …

[ad_1] Oklahoma State Vice President and Athletic Director Chad Weiberg and President Dr. Kayse Shrum introduce head men’s basketball coach Steve Lutz during an introduction ceremony of the at Gallagher-Iba Arena in Stillwater, Okla., Thursday, April 4, 2024. STILLWATER — Fans filed into the rows of orange seats inside Gallagher-Iba Arena to see what Steve Lutz had to say. Oklahoma …

[ad_1] FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Arkansas basketball lost one of its best players just minutes after losing its head coach. According to CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein, Khalif Battle will enter the transfer portal Thursday, with the University of Southern California making the hire of Eric Musselman official earlier in the afternoon. Arkansas now has just two players — Tramon Mark and …

[ad_1] The NIT championship game at Hinkle Fieldhouse pits Indiana State against Seton Hall. Indiana State (32-6) continues to play like its reminding the NCAA Tournament selection committee that it should have been in March Madness. The Sycamores beat Utah 100-90 on Tuesday night, and they are one of the nation’s most efficient teams, averaging 84.9 points per game (6th), …

[ad_1] A team that lost all of its starters, one that’s been chronically injured, one that graduated key role players, and another that seemingly came out of nowhere. That’s the lineup of competitors for the Final Four. And while there are big-name teams and star players, if you look back at the start of the season, this group is somewhat …