• Reports say top recruit Mitchell Robinson has left Western Kentucky. Is he SEC bound?
    kentucky28 seconds ago

    Reports say top recruit Mitchell Robinson has left Western Kentucky. Is he SEC bound?

    The odd recruitment of high school basketball star Mitchell Robinson continued with another twist Friday. Robinson — a 7-footer from Chalmette, La. — has left Western Kentucky's campus after less than a month at the school, according to the WKU student newspaper, Scout.com, CBS Sports and other reports

  • Purdue basketball freshman Nojel Eastern building toward big things
    Indianapolis Star24 minutes ago

    Purdue basketball freshman Nojel Eastern building toward big things

    WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — In each of the past three seasons, Purdue's P.J. Thompson learned from the graduate transfer point guards who shuffled through the basketball program. Thompson knew he'd one day be asked to pass that knowledge on to an understudy. When Nojel Eastern arrived this summer,

  • Butler culture, not just coach, attracted incoming freshmen
    Indianapolis Star58 minutes ago

    Butler culture, not just coach, attracted incoming freshmen

    INDIANAPOLIS – LaVall Jordan retained four-fifths of Butler's basketball recruiting class after a coaching change. For at least two of those freshmen, Christian David and Aaron Thompson, a hard sell was not required. David, a 6-7 forward, conceded it was “pretty rough at first” when he learned coach