The NCAA men’s basketball championship game between the Michigan Wolverines and UConn Huskies will feature several players projected as first-round picks in the 2026 NBA Draft. While top picks including AJ Dybantsa as well as Cameron Boozer and Darryn Peterson were eliminated earlier during March Madness, the Final Four saw several star-studded prospects participate. Arizona freshmen Brayden Burries and Koa …

Indiana forward Josh Harris plans to enter the NCAA Transfer Portal, per On3’s Joe Tipton. He has three years of eligibility remaining. Harris missed the 2025-26 season for Indiana due to a lower-body injury. He transferred to Indiana last offseason after spending his true freshman year at North Florida. Advertisement In his lone seasons with the Ospreys, Harris started in …

There was always going to be something jarring about whoever North Carolina was going to hire as its next men’s basketball coach. After firing Hubert Davis following a first-round NCAA tournament flameout last month, it was widely expected that for the first time in 74 years, the tradition-rich, arguably insular Tar Heels were going to get a replacement with no …

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Michigan is the heavy favorite to win its second NCAA Tournament crown tonight. The Wolverines have rolled through March Madness and their dominating Final Four win over Arizona is the reason for the opening line of Michigan -7.5. It’s settled down to UM -6.5 as of Monday afternoon before tipoff (8:50 p.m. ET/5:50 p.m. PT, TBS/HBO Max). Advertisement RELATED: Michigan, …

Last week was the fantasy basketball championship for most Yahoo High Score leagues. If you took home the hardware, congratulations! If you lost — like me — it’s going to be a long summer and offseason. And if you lost by two points in the final because of Nikola Jokić — again, like me — it may be a rough …

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Is Yaxel Lendeborg playing for Michigan tonight vs. UConn in national championship? originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. Michigan jumped on Arizona from the get-go on Saturday and never looked back, leading to a dynamic 91-73 Final Four victory. Advertisement While the Wolverines are likely in good spirits heading …

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Not a surprise. Redshirt junior point guard Braeden Smith becomes the third Gonzaga Bulldog to enter his name in the NCAA transfer portal, along with junior wing Emmanuel Innocenti and redshirt freshman guard Cade Orness. After transferring away from the Colgate Raiders and redshirting in 2024-25, Smith started 18 of the 35 games for the Zags in 2025-26. The 6-0 …

Ding-dong, the witch is dead. That might be the reaction among Chicago Bulls fans, as the organization announced the firing of Artūras Karnišovas and Marc Eversley, the team’s two leading executives. Advertisement To be fair, the reaction is appropriate, as the duo bordered on incompetent during their six-year tenure, refusing to choose a direction for the Bulls and failing to …

March Madness doesn’t need a tagline. The name says everything. Every single year, the NCAA Tournament delivers something that makes you forget whatever you were doing and just stare at the screen. And no moment does that quite like a buzzer-beater. Not a close loss. Not a big comeback. A buzzer-beater, where the ball is in the air, and a …

As another disappointing season wraps up, the Chicago Bulls are making some big front office changes. The Bulls announced Monday that they have dismissed executive vice president of basketball operations Artūras Karnišovas and general manager Marc Eversley. Chicago, with four games remaining in the 2025-26 season, is currently 29-49, recording its fourth straight losing season under the front office duo. …

North Carolina has plucked both its football and men’s basketball coaches from the professional ranks in the last two years, hiring New England Patriots legend Bill Belichick prior to the 2025 season and former Denver Nuggets head coach Michael Malone on Monday, April 6, sources confirmed to USA TODAY Sports. Former Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, one of the sport’s legendary …

It looks as though the North Carolina Tar Heels have found their next head coach, and it’s a surprising name in former Denver Nuggets coach Mike Malone. According to ESPN college basketball reporter Pete Thamel, North Carolina is set to hire Malone, who won an NBA Championship with Denver in 2023 before being fired two seasons later. Advertisement This, despite …

Kansas transfer portal tracker: Jayhawks live updates, news on commits, departures of Flory Bidunga, Bryson Tiller, Paul Mbiya originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. Bill Self is back for another season with the Kansas Jayhawks. That’s the good news. Advertisement The uncertain reality is what every college basketball offseason …

CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Bulls fired executive vice president of basketball operations Arturas Karnisovas and general manager Marc Eversley on Monday, ending a six-year run that produced just one playoff appearance. The Bulls gutted their roster before the trade deadline. But Karnisovas and Eversley won’t be around for the next phase. Advertisement Chicago was 224-254 during their tenure. The …

On Sunday, Boston College junior guard Fred Payne announced his decision to enter the transfer portal. Fred Payne (@fred_.5) • Instagram photo Payne was Boston College’s leading scorer in 2025-26, leading the Eagles offense with 15.8 points per game on 40% shooting from the field. He was one of the lone bright spots for a BC offense that finished 339th …

It’s the final week of the NBA regular season, meaning it’s crunch time for teams battling for playoff positioning. And there are big battles across both conferences, with just a handful of games left before the postseason begins with the NBA Play-In Tournament on April 14. Only one thing is certain at this point: the Detroit Pistons have locked up …

John Blackwell is leaving Wisconsin after scoring 19.1 points per game for the Badgers this season. Blackwell issued an Instagram post Monday saying he won’t return to Wisconsin next season and is instead going through the NBA draft process while also entering his name in the transfer portal. The transfer portal for basketball officially opens Tuesday. Advertisement “This was one …

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North Carolina appears to have found its next head coach and, surprise, it is someone no one was really talking about. Despite connections to the university due to his daughter playing volleyball at Carolina, former Denver Nuggets head coach Michael Malone was not a name you heard a lot of in relation to the Tar Heels’ head coaching job. However, …

A member of Tennessee’s 2025-26 roster entered the NCAA transfer portal. Vols’ combo guard Bishop Boswell declared his entry into the transfer portal, according to Joe Tipton of On3. The 6-foot-4, 203-pound guard is from Myers Park High School in Charlotte, North Carolina. 247Sports ranked him as the No. 13 combo guard and No. 8 player in North Carolina during …

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North Carolina has its next basketball coach, as it intends to hire former Denver Nuggets coach Michael Malone for its vacancy, three people close to the situation confirmed to USA TODAY Sports on Monday, April 6. Malone was fired by the Nuggets before the playoffs in 2025, two years after winning the NBA Finals with the organization. The 54-year-old coach …