The Los Angeles Lakers roster is already stretched thin as it is, but there’s a chance they could be down one more body for Game 2 against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday night. Luke Kennard was added to the Lakers injury report on Wednesday with neck soreness. He’s still on it as of the 5:30 p.m. NBA injury report …

In the NCAA’s latest move to give us things that nobody wants, the 76-team NCAA Tournament is now official for both the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments. The NCAA made the move a while back to expand from 64 to 68 teams, giving us a ‘First Four’ to open the tournament. Now we’ll have 12 teams in what they’re calling …

Oklahoma City Thunder have been cruising so far through the 2026 NBA playoffs despite not being at full strength. Thunder star Jalen “J-Dub” Williams has not played since suffering a Grade 1 left hamstring strain during the first round against the Phoenix Suns on April 22. Williams played in the first two games of the opening series and has been …

Florida basketball will participate in the 2026 Players Era Tournament held in Las Vegas alongside 23 other schools next November. The event is organized by the EverWonder Studio company in partnership with ESPN, which will broadcast the games. The Players Era Festival, a Las Vegas-based NIL event that pays millions to college basketball players, debuted in 2024 with just eight …

Way to get rid of the fun. After hinting at it for the past two years, the NCAA finally did what many people didn’t want and expanded its basketball tournaments, upping the field from 68 teams to 76 beginning next season. Advertisement Historically, it makes sense given this tournament has had significant growth since the first edition of eight teams …

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Randy Bennett was thrilled to be introduced as the next coach at Arizona State, his hometown school and the only place that could lure him away from a 25-year career at Saint Mary’s. A health issue interrupted, sending him to the hospital and pushing back his introductory news conference to five weeks after he was hired. …

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The Los Angeles Lakers’ depth was already tenuous heading into the playoffs. It’s even more so now ahead of Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals on Thursday night. Jarred Vanderbilt went down with a gruesome hand injury when his fingers hit the backboard while trying to contest an alley-oop towards the end of the first half in Game 1 …

Big Ten hoops dominates NIL spending spree amid 76-team NCAA Tournament expansion originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. The NCAA Tournament may be over, but the financial data rolling in proves exactly why the Big Ten is driving the future of college basketball. Advertisement Thursday’s announcement of the tournament’s …

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Fifteen years after its last expansion, the NCAA Tournament is once again set for a broader field. On Thursday, May 7, the NCAA formally ratified a proposal to expand both the men’s and women’s tournaments from 68 to 76 teams — or, approximately one-fifth of all Division I programs. Advertisement Coaches expressed mixed sentiment on the expansion, which comes as …

Every single person who signed off on the decision Thursday to expand the NCAA basketball tournament to 76 teams understands they are doing something fans didn’t ask for and that nobody in a position of power can justify. It is the Seinfeld of expansions — a decision about nothing, that gains nothing for college basketball, that exists mostly because the …

The Cleveland Cavaliers reportedly held discussions with the Milwaukee Bucks about a potential deal at this year’s trade deadline. The swap would have included Evan Mobley and all of Cleveland’s available draft picks for 10-time All-Star Giannis Antetokounmpo. “There’s another Eastern Conference contender, however, that folks around the league are looking at as a potential Antetokounmpo landing spot,” said Jake …

There are few basketball players alive who can match the accomplishments of Oscar Robertson. The former Indiana high school trailblazer, Cincinnati Bearcat and 12-time NBA All-Star has pretty much seen it all. And now, the 87-year-old Hall-of-Famer can see a larger NCAA Tournament. Advertisement On Thursday, the NCAA announced it is expanding the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments to 76 …

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Expanded March Madness bracket: Here’s what a 76-team NCAA Tournament would have looked like in 2026 originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. The NCAA Tournament is expanding, in spite of backlash from fans and coaches alike. The move from 68 teams to 76 became official on Thursday on both …

The NCAA formally approved expanding the men’s and women’s Division I basketball tournaments to 76 teams on Thursday, May 7. Starting in 2027, March Madness will get even madder. The new opening round will grow from eight teams to 24, be played Tuesday/Wednesday prior to the first round for men and Wednesday/Thursday for women and feature at-large teams and automatic …

Indiana men’s basketball head coach Darian DeVries addressed the media on Thursday, providing a handful of updates on the Hoosiers’ offseason. DeVries was asked about and addressed Indiana’s strategy in the transfer portal, the staff’s offseason work, the frontcourt pairing between former Alabama forward Aiden Sherrell and former SMU center Samet Yigitoglu, the impending international trip to Peru for the …

NEW YORK (AP) — OG Anunoby has a strained right hamstring, but the New York Knicks forward appears to have avoided a serious injury after leaving late in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. Anunoby will be listed as questionable to play in Game 3 at Philadelphia on Friday, a person with knowledge of the details told The Associated …

After much uncertainty, it appears the Louisville men’s basketball team will indeed compete at the third annual Players Era Festival Tournament in Las Vegas over Thanksgiving week. The event announced Thursday morning that it’s expanding to 24 teams in 2026, with two separate bracket-play tournaments over the course of two weeks in Vegas. The PEF has also struck a television …

Subscribe to The Kevin O’Connor Show Kevin O’Connor and Tom Haberstroh recap the latest in the NBA Playoffs. How did the Philadelphia 76ers hang on in Game 2 without Joel Embiid? Are the New York Knicks true Finals contenders? Can the Cleveland Cavaliers pull it together? Are the San Antonio Spurs showing prowess beyond their years? Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Then, …

One of the feel-good stories of March Madness is now in the NCAA’s sights. The Long Island University Sharks made the NCAA men’s basketball tournament this year after winning just three games just three years ago. Advertisement It turns out the Sharks had multiple ineligible players during coach Rod Strickland’s first two seasons, when the Sharks won a combined 10 …

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Charlotte Hornets gave head coach Charles Lee a contract extension on Thursday following a season in which the team improved its win total by 25 games. Details of Lee’s new deal was not released by the team. Advertisement “Charles has done an outstanding job establishing a foundation for who we want to be as a …

After years of debate, the NCAA Tournament is on the cusp of expanding. Multiple NCAA committees have approved growing the field from its current 68-team format to 76 ahead of the 2026-27 season, a person involved in the discussions said Thursday. The NCAA will next ratify its contract with CBS and Warner Bros. Discovery before making it official. Advertisement The …