College category, Page 44
Bellarmine wins Atlantic Sun tourney, giving NCAA bid to Jacksonville StateVideo
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — CJ Fleming scored a career-high 27 points, Dylan Penn added 22 and Division I newcomer Bellarmine defeated Jacksonville, 77-72, in the Atlantic Sun Conference tournament on Tuesday, handing the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament to regular-season champion Jacksonville State. The Knights, in the second of a...
Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh says door closed on return to NFLVideo
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh said Tuesday that the door is closed on his potential return to the NFL. Harbaugh said he took a look at possibly coaching the Minnesota Vikings — interviewing with them last month on signing day — to find out if he wanted...
Kansas considered team to beat in wide open Big 12 TournamentVideo
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Big 12 Tournament was the place where Kansas validated its regular-season conference championship each year, and usually confirmed its status as one of the top seeds and heavy favorites for the NCAA Tournament. That’s changed a bit over the years. Five different schools have played...
Hall of Famer, Jackson State coach Deion Sanders has 2 toes amputated after medical setbackVideo
Deion Sanders had two toes on his left foot amputated because of blood clots stemming from a previous surgery. The Jackson State coach and NFL Hall of Famer revealed the severity of his foot injury in an episode of his “Coach Prime” documentary series that will air Tuesday night on...
ACC returns to Brooklyn, not its typically strong self
NEW YORK — The Atlantic Coast Conference returns to Brooklyn this week, not quite the college basketball powerhouse it has historically been. The ACC Tournament starts Tuesday at Barclays Center, with just two teams ranked in the latest AP Top 25. No. 7 Duke is the top seed heading into...
Wake Forest’s Williams, Forbes earn ACC basketball awards
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Wake Forest’s Alondes Williams and coach Steve Forbes have earned the top individual honors from the Atlantic Coast Conference. The league announced Williams as its player of the year and Forbes as its top coach on Monday. The Demon Deacons were picked 13th in the preseason but...
Coach K’s final farewell to Cameron Indoor spoiled by rival North CarolinaVideo
DURHAM, N.C. — North Carolina spoiled the emotional home finale of retiring Hall of Famer Mike Krzyzewski, beating fourth-ranked rival Duke, 94-81, on Saturday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The day that was all about the coach who has 1,196 career victories and five NCAA championships abruptly turned into a...
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...
