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Kansas basketball lands the No. 1 player in the country for 2026-27. Tyran Stokes, who is favorite to be the No. 1 pick in the 2027 NBA draft, will play for Bill Self in Lawrence.

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Sources: The NCAA has initiated the final steps to expand the men’s and women’s NCAA basketball tournaments to 76 teams. The expansion is on track to be formalized in the upcoming weeks, with mid-May as the target. The expanded tournaments would begin in the upcoming 2026-27 season. The NCAA is in the final steps with the men's basketball tournament media partners, and the expansion would then need approval of various committees. “They have what they need to move forward," per a source.

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Sources: NCAA basketball tournaments set to move to 76 teams

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Sources: Baylor is finalizing a multi-year deal to hire Jerome Tang as the school’s new associate head coach. Tang was a long-time Baylor assistant under Scott Drew before taking the Kansas State head job in 2022. He worked at Baylor as an assistant coach from 2003 through 2022, including as associate head coach starting in 2017. He was associate head coach on Baylor’s 2021 national title team.

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Optimistic Baker: New NCAA eligibility rules not retroactive

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NEWS: NCAA President Charlie Baker told ESPN today that he’s “pretty optimistic” that the new aged-based eligibility proposal will happen. The DI Board of Directors met today and will recommend to not implement this rule retroactively for graduates/exhausted eligibility. “If you’ve used up your eligibility, you’ve used it up,” Baker told ESPN of the tenor of the discussion. Next full DI Cabinet meeting is May 22, where this could potential – but not certainly – be voted on.

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What's next for Texas Tech and Brendan Sorsby?

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Pete Thamel: There's no timetable for Brendan Sorsby's return

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Texas Tech transfer quarterback Brendan Sorsby, one of college football's top returning players, is checking into a residential treatment program for a gambling addiction, sources told ESPN’s Pete Thamel.

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Sources: Texas Tech transfer quarterback Brendan Sorsby is checking into a residential treatment program for a gambling addiction. He’s under NCAA investigation in the wake of the discovery of Sorsby making thousands of on-line bets on a variety of sports via a gambling app. Sorsby bet on Indiana football while redshirting for IU as a true freshman in 2022, a season in which he played in a single game as a reserve. The bets in 2022 were on Indiana to win and none came in a game he played.
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