Southeastern RUMORS & NEWS

Gwinnett Daily Post "Georgia State has scheduled a unique weekend in 2026 for its men’s basketball and football programs as both squads will travel to Oxford, Miss., to face Ole Miss during a 24-hour period. The men’s basketball team will face Ole Miss on Friday, Nov. 20, 2026, followed by a..." July 09

ESPN "ESPN 100 prospect Alex Tchikou committed to play for Alabama on Sunday. Tchikou, ranked No. 56 in the 2020 ESPN 100, made the announcement in a statement posted to Twitter. " July 05

CBS Sports "David Patrick played a key role in helping LSU land two top-10 recruiting classes during a three-year span under former Tigers' coach Johnny Jones. Now Patrick is leaving a Division I head coaching job in order to return to the SEC. Arkansas coach Eric Musselman announced..." July 03

12 Up "Getting top programs to play each other is not always easy in college sports, especially in a non-conference matchup during the regular season. Indiana and Kentucky have a rivalry in college basketball that stretches back to the 1920s. However, the two teams have..." July 02

12 Up "Kentucky was one of the hottest teams in college basketball before the NCAA Tournament was cancelled in March, so head coach John Calipari is surely itching to get back to work with his team in preparation for the 2020-21 season. Well, the Wildcats' official Twitter..." July 01

USA Today "The carpool from Georgia to Knoxville for Pat Summitt’s funeral was filled with reflection and reminiscing. Seven former Lady Vols cried and laughed as they shared memories during the drive of their former coach. Eventually, the conversation turned to race. Six members..." June 29

USA Today "Kentucky women's basketball coach Matthew Mitchell is recovering from brain surgery following complications from a concussion in March. "Coach Mitchell sustained a concussion in March," a UK spokesman said in a statement to The Courier Journal. "At the..." June 28

USA Today "Mississippi junior basketball player Blake Hinson, who entered the NCAA’s transfer portal last week, plans to transfer to Iowa State. The 6-foot-7 forward will apply for a waiver to gain immediate eligibility. In a phone interview, Hinson said there..." June 27

247 Sports "Florida transfer Andrew Nembhard has announced he is transferring to Gonzaga over Memphis, Duke, Stanford, USC and Georgetown. Nembhard initially declared for the 2020 NBA Draft before opting to become one of the top transfers to hit the portal this year. Gonzaga..." June 23

12 Up "The list of NBA free agents available to join forces with potential playoff teams for the Orlando-based restart operation was trimmed a smidge on Tuesday as reports confirmed that DeMarcus Cousins, who is currently recovering from a torn ACL suffered in August,..." June 23

Larry Brown Sports "Grant Williams chose to celebrate Father’s Day very fittingly on Sunday. Williams, the former Tennessee star and current Boston Celtics forward, took to Twitter to troll his old SEC rival school Vanderbilt with a hilarious tweet implying that he was their father. Take a..." June 22

The Score "The NCAA announced Friday that it's expanded its Confederate flag policy to keep all championship events out of states "where the symbol has a prominent presence." Mississippi is the only state affected, as its flag features the Confederate battle emblem, which..." June 19

CBS Sports "Former Tennessee coach Donnie Tyndall has found his way back into college coaching. After a five-year layoff with pit stops across the professional ranks, the ex-Vols coach was announced Thursday as the new head coach at Chipola College, a junior college in Florida that competes in..." June 19

247 Sports "LSU associate head coach Greg Heiar has left the program after three seasons, he told Geaux247 on Thursday. The 44-year old just completed his first season as associate head coach after serving for two years as an assistant for head coach Will Wade. "We were..." June 18

Clarion Ledger "Daeshun Ruffin has made his decision. Callaway's rising senior guard committed to Ole Miss. The 2020 Mississippi Gatorade Player of the Year announced his decision on Wednesday afternoon on Instagram. In the 2019-20 season, Ruffin averaged 26.8 points, 4.1 rebounds,..." June 17

The State "South Carolina men’s basketball coach Frank Martin said he expected top scorer A.J. Lawson back on campus at the end of June. And a report from CBS Sports college basketball insider Jon Rothstein made it appear the talented rising junior was fully headed back to USC and out..." June 16

CBS Sports "Someone left a copy of an article on Arkansas coach Eric Musselman's desk recently that laid out in plain terms just how different his second Arkansas team will be from his first undersized, overachieving bunch. The point was something to this effect: last year's..." June 15

The Score "The first step in the creation of the 2009-10 Kentucky Wildcats was the hiring of head coach John Calipari. Calipari had led Memphis to a 38-2 record and a trip to the NCAA championship game two years earlier, but that entire season was vacated because of the Derrick Rose SAT..." June 13

Winston-Salem Journal "Coach Steve Forbes has added a transfer that he and his staff are familiar with for the second time in the last couple of weeks. Jalen Johnson announced Monday that he’ll join Wake Forest’s men’s basketball program as a graduate transfer after playing at Tennessee..." June 09

The Score "Kentucky head coach John Calipari is a Hall of Famer and one of the all-time winningest bench bosses in NCAA history, but the 61-year-old knows he wouldn't have reached those peaks without the black players who have suited up for him over the years. "Where I am now is..." June 06

12 Up "The New York Knicks' coaching search hasn't even properly gotten started, and already unusual names like Mike Woodson are being mentioned as potential candidates for the 2020 season and beyond. Insiders like Ian Begley and Stefan Bondy have mentioned some even more..." June 06

Pro Basketball Talk "Dirk Nowitzki was not headed to an American college before the NBA. Like most of the best European players — Giannis Antetokounmpo, Luka Doncic, Pau Gasol, Tony Parker, even going back to Tony Kukoc and others — he was taking a straight trip from his European team to the..." June 04

CBS Sports "The youth of college basketball has grown in importance as the one-and-done era has matured. Players are no longer consistently staying four years and winning championships, in part because it's no longer a prerequisite to success. 18- and 19-year-olds can make an immediate impact for..." June 03

TMZ "University of South Carolina hoops coach Frank Martin just revealed he tested positive for coronavirus last month ... but fortunately, he says he did not have to be hospitalized. The Gamecocks coach says he got the test prior to a knee surgery on May 8 ... and 2 days later,..." June 02

CBS Sports "Kobe Bryant's death in a January helicopter accident rocked the NBA world to its core. Virtually everybody in the league that knew Bryant shared their lament in some fashion, and that includes Shareef O'Neal.  O'Neal, son of Bryant's..." June 01

ESPN "Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari canceled Monday's "Coffee with Cal" show, which has streamed live on Facebook to raise funds for coronavirus relief for the past three months, and instead asked supporters to have "a moment of silence" a week after..." June 01

SI "According to a report today from Stadium's Jeff Goodman, Gators point guard Andrew Nembhard is set to withdraw from the 2020 NBA Draft, and transfer upon re-gaining eligibility. Nembhard, 6-foot-5, originally declared for the 2020 NBA Draft on April 26th, creating a hole..." June 01

The Score "Kentucky and Notre Dame play this fall to begin a three-year series between two of college basketball’s winningest programs. Kentucky hosts Notre Dame on Dec. 12 in the first regular-season meeting between the schools since Notre Dame's 64-50 victory at home on Nov. 29,..." May 30

ABC 7 Chicago "Kentucky and Notre Damewill play this fall, beginning a three-year series between two of college basketball's winningest programs. Kentucky hosts Notre Dame on Dec. 12 in the first regular-season meeting between the schools since Notre Dame's 64-50 victory at..." May 28

WYMT "Kentucky target Moussa Cisse, as some expected, has reclassified into the 2020 class. Cisse has Kentucky in his final six, which includes Memphis, LSU, Georgia, Florida State and Georgetown. " May 27

The Score "New UCLA guard Johnny Juzang will be able to play next season after getting a transfer waiver, sources told CBS Sports' Jon Rothstein. Juzang transferred from Kentucky in April ... " May 27

ESPN "Legendary college basketball coach Eddie Sutton, who won more than 800 games and was the first coach to take four different schools to the NCAA men's basketball tournament, died Saturday of natural causes, his family said in a statement. He was 84. Sutton died at his home in South..." May 24

MSN.com "Doug Gottlieb did his late coach justice with an incredible tribute. Gottlieb wrote a great post on Instagram Saturday to pay tribute to Eddie Sutton, who died at the age of 84. Gottlieb played for Sutton at Oklahoma State from 1997-2000, becoming the school’s..." May 24

Hoops Rumors "Three early entrants have decided to pull their names out of the 2020 NBA draft poll and will return to school for one more year, according to reports from Jeff Goodman of Stadium and Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports. Richmond guard Jacob Gilyard told Goodman (Twitter link) that..." May 21

TMZ "A group of 850 former Kentucky Wildcats cheerleaders are rallying behind the coaches fired over wild hazing allegations ... demanding they get their jobs back! As we previously reported, UK axed the cheer team's advisor, head coach and 3 assistants after investigation into a crazy..." May 21

San Diego Union-Tribune "Vanderbilt has signed guard Isaac McBride as a transfer from Kansas. Coach Jerry Stackhouse announced Monday that McBride will join the roster for the 2020-21 season. " May 19

Yardbarker "The Kentucky Wildcats and Michigan Wolverines won't be doing any Christmas shopping in London later this year, after all.   On Tuesday, Gary Washburn of the Boston Globe tweeted that a game between the two universities scheduled for the O2 Arena in London on..." May 19

Complex "The University of Kentucky has fired its entire cheerleading coaching staff after conducting a three-month investigation into allegations of hazing, alcohol use, and public nudity, CNN reports. "The advisor and the coaches failed to stop a culture of hazing, alcohol use..." May 19

Bleacher Report "John Wall will forever be tied to the University of Kentucky.  In one season with the Wildcats, the point guard was a consensus first-team All American, SEC Player of the Year and helped reboot a program that had fallen below its own enormous standards. He just never would've..." May 19

USA Today "When Kentucky athletics director Mitch Barnhart began his search for a coach to replace Tubby Smith in 2007, there was a clear favorite. Florida coach Billy Donovan, a former UK assistant, had just won his second consecutive national championship. No other coach could be considered at..." May 16

Clarion Ledger "The Ole Miss men's basketball team added one of the nation's top graduate transfers to its 2020-21 roster with the signing of Romello White, Rebels head coach Kermit Davis announced Friday. White, a 6-foot-8 forward ranked as the No. 2 graduate transfer according to ESPN,..." May 15