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Michael Scotto: Creighton Bluejays point guard and All-Big East Team selection Steven Ashworth has agreed to a deal with the Indiana Pacers, league sources told @hoopshype . Ashworth led the Big East with 6.8 assists per game last season.
Michael Scotto: Creighton Bluejays point guard and All-Big East Team selection Steven Ashworth has agreed to a deal with the Indiana Pacers, league sources told @hoopshype. Ashworth led the Big East with 6.8 assists per game last season. pic.x.com/hRYrBV4IOO
Jeff Goodman: BREAKING: RJ Luis' father, Reggie, tells @TheFieldOf68 that his son is definitely remaining in the NBA Draft. "There will be no change of heart," Reggie Luis told @TheFieldOf68 . "RJ's excited about the future. He's appreciative of St. John's, Coach Pitino and the fans. He wants to leave college as Johnnie." Luis averaged 18.2 points and 7.2 boards for St. John's this past season and helped lead the Red Storm to its first outright Big East title since 1985. "We understand the situation, we were offered a lot of money to go back to college. But we have a plan and we're going to stick with the plan."
While the NBA is leaving TNT Sports after this season, Grant Hill is staying behind to remain on the company’s college basketball coverage. Hill has struck a “long-term” contract extension with TNT Sports to remain as the company’s lead college basketball analyst, it was announced Thursday. He will continue to serve on the lead broadcast team for the NCAA men’s basketball tournament — which TNT shares with CBS — and add new roles on TNT’s upcoming BIG EAST and Big 12 basketball games.
Lottery pick candidate Liam McNeeley declares for draft
UConn Huskies star Liam McNeeley, the Big East's Freshman of the Year, is declaring for the 2025 NBA draft, he told ESPN's Jonathan Givony. McNeeley, who spent just one season at UConn, averaged 14.5 points, 6.0 rebounds and 2.3 assists on 38.1% shooting in 27 games this season.
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A 1950 graduate of St. John’s, Carnesecca also coached the ABA Nets for three seasons from 1970-73 before returning to his alma mater. His teams, then known as the Redmen, reached the postseason every year he was in charge, including a Final Four appearance in 1985 when three Big East schools — Villanova and Georgetown were the others — reached the semifinals of the NCAA Tournament.
Dan Hurley talked to Billy Donovan about Lakers' offer
With so many similarities with Dan Hurley (not the least of which, a couple of New York-area Irish kids who were former Big East point guards), Billy Donovan was a perfect sounding board for Hurley while he considered the NBA last spring. "We didn't get into the Lakers' situation or their personnel," recalled Donovan, who is entering his fifth season as Chicago Bulls' head coach. "I think Danny needed to go through whatever he went through. He was going to be able to find out the inner workings of the Lakers. I don't know anything about that ... Danny had to go through that on his own."
Those sources said WBD — even though it has recently landed media rights deals for the French Open, College Football Playoffs, Big East and Mountain West — has made it clear it still has money in its budget to match Amazon’s package or carve out a smaller fourth package with the NBA, something NBA Commissioner Adam Silver remains generally against, according to sources.
Oso Ighodaro said before Marquette's season that he was unlikely to use his fifth season of eligibility. The 6-foot-11 big man made that official Tuesday when he announced on social media that he will be entering the NBA draft. Ighodaro was named to the all-Big East second team this season. He averaged 13.4 points and 6.9 rebounds per game.
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Adam Zagoria: Ray Allen III will join @RhodyMBB as a preferred walk-on, source confirms. Ray Allen played against Rhody asst Duane Woodward during their Big East days. '40' played at BC 1994-98 First by @CDiSano44 pic.twitter.com/Os7LKPZaqd
Olivier-Maxence Prosper, who measured just short of 6-foot-7 in socks with a 7-foot-1 wingspan, was one of the biggest standouts at the 2023 NBA Draft Combine in Chicago. We have Prosper as a projected top-20 pick in our latest 2023 NBA Mock Draft. When he meets with NBA teams during the pre-draft process, he told For The Win during a recent video interview that there is one thing that he wants to make clear. “I want them to know that I’m going to leave everything on the floor to win. I’m a competitor. I’m a hard worker,” explained Prosper, who played a crucial role in leading Marquette to win its first-ever Big East Conference title. Prosper, who attended the NBA Academy and speaks four languages, knows what he wants to see come next in his journey.
Marquette’s Big East championship team is losing a key player, it appears. Olivier-Maxence Prosper announced on Instagram that he is making himself eligible for the NBA draft. “Playing in the NBA has always been a dream of mine,” he wrote in the post, “and I’m excited for what comes next.” Prosper, a junior, did not indicate whether he’d retain his collegiate eligibility.
Providence hired former Detroit Pistons second round draft pick Kim English on Thursday as its next basketball coach, quickly moving to fill the opening left after Ed Cooley left to take the job at Big East rival Georgetown.
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