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Finish freshman Miika Muurinen has quickly impressed his peers and opponents before the college basketball season has even officially begun. “Miika could be the No. 1 overall pick,” Memphis head coach Penny Hardaway told the media on Thursday. “This dude is ridiculous, he’s like so long, so active. When he spreads out man it’s like he covers the entire arena.”
The University of Hartford cut the ribbon on its new athletics complex named after NBA All-Star and graduate Vin Baker on Thursday. The complex will allow the university to expand its club and intramural sports along with adding training facilities for the Division III sports.
Michael Scotto: The New York Knicks will sign Dink Pate to an Exhibit-10 deal after his withdrawal from Providence, sources say. He averaged 16.4 points, 6.7 boards and 4 assists last season in the G League. He was the youngest pro USA player ever when he signed with the G League Ignite in 2023.
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Front Office Sports: Memphis men’s basketball coach Penny Hardaway contributed $2.6 million of his own salary to the Tigers’ NIL collective for the 2026–27 season. “We had $5 million, and then I had to put $2.6 million of my own to try and build the roster up.”
Scott Agness: Boston Celtics president Brad Stevens is back in Indy for Ronald Nored’s first game as Butler head coach. Butler and Indiana playing an exhibition.
Boston Celtics president Brad Stevens is back in Indy for Ronald Nored’s first game as Butler head coach. Butler and Indiana playing an exhibition.
— Scott Agness (@scottagness.bsky.social) 2026-10-11T23:22:11.243Z
Michael Porter Jr. on the impact of NIL on college basketball: "If I was getting paid millions of dollars, yeah, I would have stayed in college for sure. I would have kicked it with the fam and took my time, definitely. I don't need to have $10 million in college, though, honestly. I didn't I didn't need that. I don't know what I would have done with millions of dollars in college. It was a blessing in disguise. We didn't have I don't know, I mean, I I don't I don't think we were the people to have have that money in college and be locked in, so I think also, too, you know, you're seeing guys stay a little bit longer in college because maybe they're not lottery in in you all situations or on the cusp of lottery, but, you know, who fall into that maybe that 20 to 40 range, go back to school."
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Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., accused former special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday of committing perjury when he denied having attended a specific Atlanta Hawks basketball game in 2024 — to Smith’s apparent confusion. The attempted trick play happened during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Smith’s now-scuttled investigations into President Donald Trump. But it soon emerged that Schmitt had the wrong team.
She also chided Schmitt for appearing to mix up the Hawks and the Hawkeyes. “I would just say for a U.S. senator to have false information and imply based on a confusion about the name of a team, which I knew, knowing my Midwestern sports, and imply that you were in another city, that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia and then call you a dirtbag is something that deserves an apology,” Klobuchar said. Schmitt didn’t apologize.
Andre Champagne: New Orleans Pelicans Jeremiah Fears, Trendon Watford and and Derik Queen are in Tiger Stadium tonight to catch Lane Kiffin and Co.
