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NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. — In 1981, Milt Wagner was an 18-year-old shooting guard from Camden, New Jersey, who made the McDonald’s All-American Team.  Twenty years later, in 2001, Dajuan Wagner emerged from Camden as a genre-morphing combo guard who was not only a McDonald’s All-American but also rated the No. 1 boys basketball recruit in […]

Back in the 2018-19 season, Duke played four teams during nonconference play that were ranked in the top 15 at the time, and the Blue Devils won three of those games. They spent that entire season ranked in the top five of the AP Top 25 with freshmen phenoms Zion Williamson, R.J. Barrett and Cam […]

It was obvious when Memphis hired Penny Hardaway in March 2018 that he’d quickly secure commitments from multiple elite prospects considering he already had relationships with some of the nation’s best — most notably James Wiseman, the top-ranked player in the Class of 2019. But what would happen when those relationships no longer existed? Could […]

Jon Lopez Creative/Nike EYBL You probably will not be surprised to learn that Duke is still an attractive destination for the best basketball players in the country. Five-star small forward Dariq Whitehead proved that by announcing his commitment to the Blue Devils on Sunday night, according to ESPN. Whitehead is the No. 6 overall player […]

The bureaucratic wheels of the NCAA are officially in motion toward a massive change in the governance of college sports as the NCAA’s Board of Governors announced Friday it will hold a “special constitutional convention in November” amid calls for a reduction in the NCAA’s role by its own president, Mark Emmert.  “As the national […]

On the morning after the 2020 NBA Draft, back on Nov. 19, 2020, I projected that Cade Cunningham, Jalen Green, Evan Mobley, Scottie Barnes, Jalen Suggs and Jonathan Kuminga would be among the first seven players selected in the 2021 NBA Draft. Then they all became top-seven picks. So that’s the latest bit of evidence that […]

Louisville’s noisy offseason continued Friday, as the university announced it has suspended men’s basketball coach Chris Mack for six games to start the 2021-22 season.  Mack’s suspension comes in the aftermath of one of the more surprising plot twists in college basketball from the spring: an extortion attempt against Mack by former Louisville assistant Dino […]

The college basketball coaching carousel accelerated dramatically in 2021 after a slow turn in 2020 amid the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. While some suspected schools would again be slow to fire coaches this offseason, any trepidation quickly faded as several major programs made changes and a few big-name coaches retired. Among the most notable […]

It’s been two days since three Power 5 commissioners sat in front of cameras, matching backdrops behind them, and talked about a new alliance they described as a “collaborative approach surrounding the future evolution of college athletics and scheduling.” If you watched the press conference, you know it was long on talking points and cliches, […]

USATSI Villanova star guard Collin Gillespie has been cleared for all basketball-related activities less than six months after suffering a season-ending knee injury, according to CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein. The clean bill of health gives the Wildcats back their top returning scorer in a season where they will begin as the clear favorite to win […]