The NCAA has asked an Alabama judge to recuse himself from the lawsuit against Crimson Tide men’s basketball player Charles Bediako due to an “inadmissible appearance of impropriety.” Bediako was immediately cleared to return to Alabama last week even though he left school early to declare for the 2023 NBA Draft, signed a two-way contract […]
Arizona’s perfect record will be tested by the Big 12 gauntlet over the next four weeks. But for now, there’s no doubt about it: the Wildcats (20-0, 7-0 Big 12) are by far the No. 1 team in the country. The Wildcats were the unanimous No. 1 pick in the Associated Press Top 25 for […]
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Thirteen years later, Trey Burke’s famous shot against Kansas takes place in a space between imagination and memory, a moment preserved in amber. Burke took about 8 seconds to dribble across the floor and launch a 30-footer that helped Michigan upset top-seeded Kansas in the Sweet 16 on its way to […]
Another former G League player saw minutes in a college basketball game on Saturday, although, coincidentally, it wasn’t his first NCAA experience. Charles Bediako scored 13 points and grabbed three rebounds in 25 minutes for No. 17 Alabama, though his contribution wasn’t enough to stave off an upset bid from unranked Tennessee. The Volunteers got […]
HARTFORD, Conn. – After two hours of haymakers, of burns on the floor, of elbows disguised as spears and battering rams, a classic Big East slugfest would come down to… this? At a loose ball, bouncing all over the place, almost begging for someone to finally grab it and win this game? Of course it […]
Alabama will play Charles Bediako in Saturday’s game against Tennessee, Nate Oats said Friday, two days after a court granted Bediako a temporary restraining order from returning to the Crimson Tide and nearly three years after his last collegiate game. Bediako, a 6-foot-1 center, played for Alabama from 2021 to 2023, entered the NBA Draft […]
Welcome, football fans who are finally heading to college hoops. Come in. The water is fine. To put you at ease, this week’s 12 thoughts start in a familiar place: Is there a college basketball equivalent of Indiana Football? 1. You’ve almost certainly heard it by now, but when Curt Cignetti arrived in Bloomington in […]
Charles Bediako, a former Alabama men’s basketball player who spent most of the past three years in the G League, will be immediately eligible to return to the Crimson Tide and participate in practices and games, an Alabama judge ruled Wednesday. Judge James H. Roberts Jr. in Tuscaloosa County Circuit Court granted Bediako a temporary […]
Charles Bediako, a former Alabama men’s basketball player, has sued the NCAA in an effort to return to the court for the Crimson Tide for the remainder of this season. In a motion filed Tuesday in Tuscaloosa County, Ala., court, Bediako requested a temporary restraining order and/or preliminary injunction that would make him immediately eligible […]
It’s a tough era for the mid-major in men’s basketball. But it’s a good week. If you took it all in with the rest of the hoops junkies on Saturday, you saw as many replays of Miami — Ohio, not Florida — hitting wild shots to outlast Buffalo and stay undefeated as anything else. That’s […]