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Williams: Xavier passes on running it back with one of their own, opting for a fresh voice in Richard Pitino. Great move.

The Vikings hit hits free throws and did just enough down the stretch to hold off the Eagles in the CBI semifinal 72-65 in Daytona Beach.

For the first time since the NCAA tournament expanded to 32 teams in 1975, every team that advanced to the Sweet 16 hails from a power conference. While the transfer portal works for the better, mid-major coaches say it’s tough to compete against Power Four teams with limited resources. The NIL ...

There will be more than one Pitino in the Big East next season. Xavier hired Richard Pitino, the son of St. John's coach Rick Pitino, as its basketball coach on Tuesday night. The school had an opening after Sean Miller left to accept the Texas job on Monday.

At 42 years old, Richard Pitino is 14 years younger than the Xavier Musketeers' previous head coach, Sean Miller.

Mar. 25—Men's basketball coach Richard Pitino will be leaving the University of New Mexico and has accepted the head coaching position at Xavier University in the Big East, the Journal confirmed shortly after 8 p.m. on Tuesday night. Pitino, 42, completed his fourth season at UNM on Sunday night with a 71-63 loss to No. 2 seed Michigan State in the second round of the NCAA Tournament — two ...

When 2024-25 is all said and done, the year will be remembered as one where so much went so right.

Kanye Clary will be one-and-done in Starkville. The Mississippi State point guard will be entering the transfer portal, per an announcement. He made his intentions known prior to the window opening next week. Clary came to MSU from Penn State and was a former four-star recruit out ...

Richard Pitino will now coach against Rick Pitino twice a season in the Big East.

The Xavier Musketeers got their new head basketball coach Tuesday night by hiring New Mexico head coach Richard Pitino to lead the program.

Xavier s hiring New Mexico's Richard Pitino to replace Sean Miller. He joins his father, Rick Pitino, in the Big East.

Richard Pitino is on the move...

The Pitinos are taking over the Big East as Xavier hires New Mexico's Richard Pitino.

Richard Pitino was New Mexico's head coach for four seasons. He led the Lobos to a Mountain West title and NCAA tournament first-round win.

Richard Pitino, the son of Hall-of-Famer and St. John's head coach Rick Pitino, will be the next head coach of the Xavier Musketeers in the Big East.

Samaje Morgan scored a season-high 28 points, Dougie Peoples had 21 points and five 3-pointers, and No. seed College of Idaho beat seventh-seeded Oklahoma Wesleyan 93-65 on Tuesday night to claim its second NAIA championship in three years. College of Idaho (35-2) won the program's third national title, also securing the NAIA Division II championship in 1996 and a D-I title in 2023.

Chris Mack, believed to be the frontrunner to replace Sean Miller as Xavier's coach, is returning to Charleston.

Greyhounds, who trailed by 25 points at one point, made a gallant run after intermission in national quarterfinal

Rick Pitino had a big season with St. John's.

Yahoo Sports' Caroline Fenton, Jason Fitz and basketball analyst Isis 'Ice' Young react to the devastating ACL to the USC star and what it means for the sport as a whole. Hear the full conversation on the “College Basketball Power Hour” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

Yahoo Sports' Caroline Fenton, Jason Fitz and basketball analyst Isis 'Ice' Young discuss the Connecticut head coach's antics in the tunnel following the Huskies' second-round loss to Florida in the NCAA tournament. Hear the full conversation on the “College Basketball Power Hour” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

It's safe to say Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo is not a fan of the transfer portal opening in the middle of the NCAA Tournament

Washburn men's basketball in the Elite Eight for the first time since 2001. Here is what happened in Tuesday's game against Lenoir-Rhyne.

The Rebels' head coach was straightforward with his team.

Koby Brea is the only player that is supposed to be selected in the 2025 NBA Draft, according to the latest release.

With 16 teams still alive in the NCAA men's tournament, Final Four combinations are plentiful. Here's a look at the most compelling ones.

John Tonje spent only one year at Wisconsin, but his classy farewell shows how much he enjoyed his time in Madison.

A four-star recruit Gonzaga pursued heavily in the class of 2023 has entered the transfer portal after an injury riddled start to his career.

Former Minnesota Gophers head coach Richard Pitino has been hired at Xavier, after four successful seasons at New Mexico.

Basketball fans around the country are learning what those in Michigan and Florida already know. Dusty May is a good basketball coach. A year ago, the Wolverines fired Juwan Howard after going 8-24 — the most losses in school history — and finishing last in the Big Ten at 3-17.

The UNC basketball team needs more height to compete at a higher level next season. UNC is showing early interest in Indiana forward Malik Reneau.

The gravitation toward the Gophers for Niko Medved began even before he was born, when his father bought the season tickets that would soon spark his young son's passion for college basketball. With that kind of initiation, becoming the coach at Minnesota might well have been inevitable — even if part of him was still having a hard time believing the job he left Colorado State to accept was his. “If you really believe in something and you stick with it and you get the right people who support you, anything can happen,” Medved said Tuesday at his introductory news conference packed with family members, current players, program boosters, other Gophers coaches and cheerleaders in maroon and gold.

Here's a look at who's leaving and joining UNC basketball as the transfer portal opens. The Tar Heels' roster will look different in the 2025-26 season.

The No. 1 seed Duke Blue Devils dominated through the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament, winning both games by a combined 66 points. However, while every other No. 1 seed has been somewhat tested, Duke has not. Legendary Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski, during his Sirius XM show, ...

Arkansas basketball reached the Sweet 16 without getting much from 'Big Z'. John Calipari knows they need more from Ivisic against Texas Tech.

Former Fordham commit flips to Tennessee basketball three days after decommitting from the Rams.

The former Xavier coach had drawn some attention for an in-game slap of hands with Tre Johnson in the NCAA Tournament First Four game last week.

With the first and second rounds of the NCAA Tournament wrapped up, the anticipation for the Sweet 16, which starts Thursday, is palpable. Former legendary Duke Blue Devils head coach Mike Krzyzewski chimed in on what he saw over the weekend during his Sweet 16 preview on his Sirius XM show, ...

Yahoo Sports' Caroline Fenton, Jason Fitz and basketball analyst Isis 'Ice' Young discuss the lack of lower seed non-power conference teams in this year's Sweet Sixteen and whether that is good or bad for the tournament as a whole. Hear the full conversation on the “College Basketball Power Hour” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

Athlon Sports recalls the top five career scorers in men's NCAA Tournament history.

UNC basketball points guard Elliot Cadeau is the first Tar Heel to enter the transfer portal after the 2024-25 season.

The Explorers are turning to Darris Nichols as their new men's basketball head coach after Fran Dunphy retired.

UNC was eliminated from the tournament...

The North Carolina Tar Heels didn't live up to expectations this season, despite having a roster brimming with talent, led by veteran guard RJ Davis and key returners Seth Trimble, Elliot Cadeau, and Jae'Lyn Withers. After barely securing the last bid into the NCAA Tournament, they initially showed ...

Smith posted on prestigious list.

John Calipari embraced the one-and-done era like few college basketball coaches, becoming one of the best annually at bringing in talented freshmen and routinely getting them to Final Fours before shipping them off to the NBA. The formula served him well during his 15-year run at Kentucky that ended after last season, as NIL money and the transfer portal skewed rosters older and created more parity. “I’m kind of back to the roots of being the underdog,” Calipari said before the Razorbacks’ NCAA Tournament first-round win over Kansas last week.

The first run to the NCAA Division I basketball tournament in more than 30 years by Saint Francis (Pa.) could also be its last.

Brandan Wesson, Wessography/TFON Cincinnati guard Abby Holtman has announced she will enter the transfer portal via IG. Holtman, a Florence Kentucky native spent the last two seasons at Cincinnati with Coach Merriweather.

AJ Storr’s season with Kansas basketball had its ups and downs. What’s next for him? At the NCAA tournament, he shared some of this thoughts.

The Alabama Crimson Tide will face No. 6 seed BYU in the Sweet 16 round of March Madness. Here is a preview of the Cougars.