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North Carolina must now go outside the family to replace Hubert Davis, and that’s a good thing originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. If you wish to look at things from the most positive perspective possible, Bill Guthridge, Matt Doherty and Hubert Davis reached a combined three Final Fours …

MUNCIE — The Chris Capko era of Ball State basketball has officially begun. Ball State introduced Capko to the Muncie community as the school’s next basketball coach with his introductory news conference Tuesday. The Ball State Alumni Center was standing room only as it was packed with fans, alumni, administrators, fellow coaches and former basketball players who all wanted to …

North Carolina and men’s basketball coach Hubert Davis have parted ways after five seasons leading the tradition-rich program. The school announced the decision Tuesday night, saying it had made “a leadership change” to end Davis’ tenure as successor to retired Hall of Fame coach Roy Williams. That run featured featured multiple high points, but also wild swings of results, an …

Kentucky Basketball’s offseason shakeup continued Tuesday night with news that assistant Jason Hart was leaving the program to join the SMU Mustangs coaching staff. KSR’s Jacob Polacheck broke the news first. Hart, who came to Kentucky as part of Mark Pope’s first coaching staff in Lexington, was working on a two-year contract that will expire this summer. That’s the case …

Hubert Davis won nearly 70% of his games as North Carolina head coach. But that wasn’t enough to keep him in the job at his alma mater. Davis led the Tar Heels to the national championship game in his first season 2021-22 and back to the Sweet 16 in 2023-24. But UNC missed the tournament altogether in 2022-23 and was …

Hubert Davis is out at North Carolina. That means one of the most well-resourced, tradition-rich jobs in all of college basketball is open. Expect some of the sport’s biggest names linked to the opening. Will UNC stay in the family like it did with Davis, Roy Williams, Matt Doherty and Bill Guthridge since Dean Smith retired after the 1997 season? …

The North Carolina Tar Heels will be on the market for a head men’s basketball coach. They’ve parted ways with head basketball coach Hubert Davis, according to Pete Nakos. Davis was the successor to legendary head coach Roy Williams. He was an assistant coach to Williams from 2012 until Williams’ retirement in 2021, and he helped coach the Tar Heels …

A changing of the guard is going to take place in Chapel Hill. According to ESPN’s Pete Thamel, the North Carolina Tar Heels are set to part ways with head coach Hubert Davis after this season, where the Tar Heels failed to make it past the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Davis coached for five seasons at North Carolina, …

There may be a head coaching job opening within the North Carolina Tar Heels basketball program, and analysts are saying Arizona Wildcats head coach Tommy Lloyd fits the bill. Four days after UNC’s March 19 First-Round loss to VCU in the NCAA Tournament, famed college basketball analyst Jeff Goodman cited the Arizona head coach as a name that is “floating …

The Chris Capko era of Ball State basketball has officially begun. Ball State officially introduced Capko to the Muncie community as the school’s next head basketball coach with his introductory press conference on Tuesday, March 24. The Ball State Alumni Center was standing room only as it was packed with fans, alumni, administrators, fellow coaches and former basketball players who …

St. Mary’s star forward Paulius Murauskas is entering the transfer portal, he told DraftExpress’ Jonathan Givony. The move comes shortly after longtime St. Mary’s head coach Randy Bennett left to take over the Arizona State Sun Devils. Murauskas emerged as one of the best players in the West Coast Conference as a junior. The Kaunas, Lithuania native made the First …

Texas basketball’s Sean Miller credits SEC gauntlet for unlikely March Madness run appeared first on ClutchPoints. Add ClutchPoints as a Preferred Source by clicking here. The Texas basketball team is in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament. That is a great start to the tenure of head coach Sean Miller, who is in just his first season in Austin. …

Until Rick Pitino took charge of the program in 2023, St. John’s basketball in this century was defined by their repeated failed efforts to live up to the standard set by Lou Carnesecca. Every successive head coach fizzled out due to incompatibility or incompetence, any glimmer of a turnaround was a mirage, and one could bank on an uneventful March …

Hello Sweet Sixteen! The Texas Longhorns have stormed through the NCAA Tournament so far, winning its play-in game against NC State and upsetting two highly thought of higher seeds in BYU and Gonzaga. The three wins in five days have made UT one of the rare First Four teams to advance this far and are the lowest seed left in …

With coaching changes come roster turnover. The Arizona State men’s basketball team has its first newcomer, as four-star guard JRob Croy has flipped his commitment from Saint Mary’s to Arizona State, following coach Randy Bennett’s move to Tempe. Advertisement Croy, a 6-foot-5 guard out of Riverside (Calif.) Poly High School had offers from the likes of Stanford, Oregon, USC, and …

The Colorado Buffaloes added another piece to their frontcourt puzzle on Monday evening, landing a commitment from 6-foot-9 power forward Goc Malual. Malual is currently suiting up for the Sydney Kings in Australia’s NBL, where he has played a depth role this season, averaging 1.9 points per game in fewer than 5 minutes per appearance. While the numbers are modest, …

UConn has shooters and slashers, its offense an array of moving parts all in synch. The central cog is big man Tarris Reed Jr. The 6-foot-11, 265-pound senior has been punishing opposing teams at a record rate, giving the Huskies a huge inside advantage that they’re more than happy to take advantage of as they climb through the NCAA Tournament …

We’re through two rounds of the men’s NCAA tournament; now, we (and the teams) get a chance to catch our breath. These three open days between the end of the Round of 32 and the beginning of the Sweet 16 are filled with intrigue and small sample-size lessons. Who looks like they’re handling the stage better than others? Which favorites …

It was a big day for Cameron Boozer, as Duke’s sensational freshman won both the Oscar Robertson Trophy and the Wayman Tisdale Award. Both are awarded by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association. Only five guys have ever done that before, and two of them went to Duke: Zion Williamson did it in 2019, and Cooper Flagg accomplished it last season. …

Iowa State basketball plays Tennessee on Friday night in the Sweet 16 round of Men’s March Madness. The NCAA Tournament regional semifinal will be played at United Center in Chicago. The 2-seed Hawkeyes beat 7-seed Kentucky in the round of 32 in St. Louis. The 6-seed Volunteers beat 3-seed Virginia to get to the Sweet 16. Advertisement Here’s what you …

With 16 teams still alive in the NCAA men’s tournament, there are 256 potential Final Four combinations left. Here’s a look at 16 compelling ones, some chosen for basketball reasons and others chosen for reasons scarcely related to basketball at all. 1. Chalk Final Four: Duke, Houston, Arizona, Michigan This Final Four would feature three No. 1 seeds and the …

One of the top three-point shooters in the country is set to enter the transfer portal. South Alabama forward Adam Olsen is entering the portal after one season with the Jaguars, according to On3’s Joe Tipton. Olsen is from Surrey, B.C., Canada, and made the All-Sun Belt Second Team with the Jaguars after averaging 16.7 points and 4.1 rebounds per …

History favors Duke basketball in its Sweet 16 matchup against St. John’s in the 2026 Men’s NCAA Tournament. Each time the Blue Devils have won a national championship, they’ve faced the Red Storm along the way. Only one of those meetings came in the NCAA Tournament, with Duke beating the Johnnies 78-61 in the 1991 Elite 8. The other four …

Another massive blow hit the Oregon Ducks’ men’s basketball program on Tuesday. A day after the news that star forward Kwame Evans Jr. would be entering the transfer portal, the Ducks’ biggest star, point guard Jackson Shelstad, announced that he would be transferring this offseason as well. Advertisement Shelstad, a local kid from West Linn, Oregon, played for three seasons …

Some questions simply have to be asked. Whether they get answered is a separate matter, but they have to be brought up. For Saint Mary’s basketball, the question looms after longtime coach Randy Bennett left for Arizona State: Would the Gaels have lost their elite coach if SMC had been invited to the Pac-12 alongside rival Gonzaga? Low ceiling Saint …