Sources: Syracuse is set to hire Toledo athletic director Bryan Blair as its next AD.
The school’s compensation committee is expected to approve the deal tonight.
The 41-year-old Blair has led the Rockets since 2022.
St. John’s forward Zuby Ejiofor is the Big East’s first unanimous player of the year since Creighton’s Doug McDermott in 2013-14.
Ejiofor is the second player to win the league’s POTY, Defensive POTY and Scholar-Athlete OTY in the same season, joining UConn’s Emeka Okafor.
Northwestern’s locker room is abuzz right now … with everyone talking about Bam Adebayo (seriously)
Oregon coach Dana Altman on his emotions after the Ducks fall 70-60 to Maryland in the first round of the Big Ten tourney, ending their season at 12-19:
“It’s been 30 years since my teams have had a losing season, so it’s kind of hard to digest.”
Illinois has hired Steven Koch as assistant special teams coach.
Koch was a special teams analyst with New Mexico last season.
Power conference coaches of the year:
ACC: Jon Scheyer
Big Ten: Dusty May
Big 12: Tommy Lloyd
SEC: Todd Golden
It's refreshing to see common sense prevail around the nation this year. These awards too often go to those who "do more with less," not to the actual best coaches.
Santa Clara pulls off the upset and plays spoiler, depriving us all of one last Saint Mary’s-Gonzaga game.
Onions from Sash Gavalyugov.
2026 Mountain West Conference football schedule:
Ohio State president Ted Carter resigns after an "inappropriate relationship."
My college sports pyramid theory — the people at the top of the food chain (presidents) are the least impressive of this operation, and the people at the bottom (players) are the most impressive — continues to hold true.
Big East, Atlantic 10, American and Mountain West Conference men’s basketball tournament brackets for this week:
ACC, Big Ten, Big 12 and SEC men’s basketball tournament brackets for this week:
Current MBB head coach openings:
✈️ Air Force
‼️ Ball State
🔵 Cal State Bakersfield
🐝 Georgia Tech
😈 Kansas State
🔺 Lamar
🗡️ Little Rock
🐺 Northern Illinois
🦫 Oregon State
⚫️ Providence
🤘 San Diego
🐺 St. Bonaventure
🤠 Tarleton State
🦅 Tennessee Tech
🐴 Western Michigan
UConn coach Dan Hurley has been fined $25,000 by the Big East for unsportsmanlike conduct today at Marquette.
From the conference office:
St. John’s is your back-to-back outright Big East champion.
Starting to think this Rick Pitino guy can coach.
Oregon will host Western Kentucky on Sept. 18, 2027.
The Ducks’ 2027 nonconference opponents are WKU, Eastern Washington and at Baylor.
UMass and Hawaii have mutually agreed to cancel their 2026 and 2027 football games.
Hawaii will now host Sac State on Nov. 28, 2026 and needs a replacement opponent for the 2027 opener.
Penn State has fired women’s basketball head coach Carolyn Kieger.
Kieger went 84-123 overall and 30-97 in Big Ten play across seven seasons with the Lady Lions.
An educated guess here, but Notre Dame-Wisconsin at Lambeau Field that same Sunday sure seems more likely to be a day game now.
The Louisville-Ole Miss season opener in Nashville has been moved to Sunday, Sept. 6 and will air at 7:30 ET on ABC.
RIP, Coach Lou Holtz, whose family announced his passing today at the age of 89.
Clemson has hired Rich Bisaccia as special teams coordinator.
Bisaccia, most recently the Green Bay Packers’ assistant head coach, had coached Tigers running backs from 1994-98.
AJ Redd. Million-dollar moment.
Notre Dame's Hannah Hidalgo is the ACC player of the year for the second straight season.
Hidalgo has also been named the ACC's defensive player of the year for the third straight season.
Kentucky AD Mitch Barnhart will retire in June after 24 years leading the Wildcats.
He is currently the longest-tenured Power 4 AD in the country.
Illinois has hired Montana DL coach Mike Linehan as defensive ends coach.
NEW: Illini coach Bret Bielema goes long on the Big Ten’s 24-team College Football Playoff proposal:
"I think it’s gonna amplify what we’ve already seen to a thousand levels higher."
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"This was never the best chance to win a championship. It was probably, that day, in less position to win a championship than anywhere else of all the schools we talked to at that moment."
Dusty May made a choice two years ago.
Big Ten hoops are better for it.
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Illini coach Brad Underwood on Michigan:
“They took the belt off and beat our behinds with it.”
Michigan is your outright Big Ten champion.
The No. 3 Wolverines smoke No. 10 Illinois, 84-70.
Aday Mara has taken over with 14 points in the first 11 minutes of the second half.
The big has 18 points off 8-9 shooting as Michigan tkaes a 65-52 lead.
