College basketball

Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer says it’s “heartbreaking” and “a nightmare” for the Cardinal to be leaving the Pac-12.
The Big Ten is again expected to be one of the toughest conferences in the country this season. A league-record-tying seven teams made the NCAA Tournament in 2023.
Atlanta Dream guard Rhyne Howard now has a second job. Howard formally joined Florida’s coaching staff and will be on the bench of a college competitor and her mother’s alma mater.
The ideal approach to sustained success for Ohio State revolves around recruiting players straight from high school and developing them over four or five seasons.
Dartmouth College lawyers say the Ivy League school’s basketball players shouldn’t be considered employees because they are unpaid members of a money-losing program whose need-based scholarships don’t depend on their participation or talent.
Playing in a national championship game that attracted a record television audience and bringing back the star player who transcends the sport has taken Iowa women’s basketball to unprecedented levels of popularity in the state.
John Calipari of Kentucky will receive the John R. Wooden Award Legends of Coaching honor. Wooden’s grandson, Greg Wooden, announced his selection Tuesday.
South Carolina will play Wofford in a men’s basketball charity exhibition game on Nov. 1 to raise funds for those affected by the fatal Maui wildfires this past summer.
LeBron James says his 18-year-old son is progressing in his rehabilitation from cardiac arrest in hopes of playing for the University of Southern California this season.
UConn has announced that center Donovan Clingan injured his right foot in practice this week and is expected to be sidelined for about a month.
Kansas basketball player Arterio Morris was charged Friday with one count of rape and dismissed from the Jayhawks’ men’s basketball program.
South Carolina opened its preseason camp without the talented and accomplished group of players led by All-Americans Aliyah Boston and Zia Cooke.
South Carolina will host Rutgers in an exhibition game on Oct. 22 dedicated to the late Nikki McCray-Penson, who had been an assistant on both staffs.
The NCAA will hold the inaugural 32-team Women’s Basketball Invitation Tournament next spring on campus sites with the champion crowned April 3 in Indianapolis.
LSU women’s basketball coach Kim Mulkey is publicizing that she had two stents put in a major artery this summer in an effort to promote screening for life-threatening arterial blockages.
Kansas State and Jerome Tang agreed to a new seven-year contract Monday. The deal comes after the men’s basketball coach took a program that had just two returning players and was picked last in the Big 12 to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament last season.
Georgetown women’s basketball coach Tasha Butts is taking time away from the team to focus on her health in her ongoing battle against breast cancer the school announced.
Iowa basketball star Caitlin Clark has won the 93rd AAU James E. Sullivan Award as the nation’s top collegiate or Olympic athlete.
Tennessee has extended basketball coach Rick Barnes’ contract through the 2027-28 season. That should help ensure he finishes his career with the Volunteers.
Michigan coach Juwan Howard underwent heart surgery Friday but is expected to make a complete recovery. School officials said Dr.
The Maui Invitational will be held in Honolulu this year because of the wildfires that devastated Lahaina, where the tournament usually is played.
An attorney for Kansas guard Arterio Morris says the player has entered a plea deal to end a misdemeanor assault case against him in Texas.
Men’s basketball players at Dartmouth College have become the latest college athletes to attempt to unionize.
The teenage son of University of Iowa men’s basketball coach Fran McCaffery was found guilty of failure to yield to a pedestrian who later died from injuries suffered in the crash.
St. John’s and Rutgers will play an exhibition game for charity in October to benefit the Dick Vitale Pediatric Cancer Research Fund at the V Foundation.
Sue Bird is going back to international basketball. But as an ambassador, not a player. The American great was introduced by FIBA as the global ambassador for the 2026 Women’s Basketball World Cup that will be played in Berlin.
The Maui Invitational has launched an online auction with all proceeds going directly to relief and recovery efforts after the fires that killed at least 115 people on the island.
A person familiar with the situation says LSU women’s basketball coach Kim Mulkey has agreed to a 10-year contract worth about $32 million.
Wake Forest coach Steve Forbes says his wife is regaining movement on her left side following a stroke last month and that he plans to continue with his coaching duties entering preseason practices.
Michigan State and Tennessee will meet in an exhibition basketball game to raise money for relief efforts in the aftermath of the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century.