- Jim Phelan, who spent 49 years as the head menās basketball coach at Mount St. Maryās and is one of the all-time winningest coaches in NCAA history, has died, the school announced Wednesday. He was 92.
- Martin won 554 games over 37 seasons as the Green Terrorās coach, and took her team to 15 Centennial Conference tournaments. McDaniel won four conference titles and made six NCAA Division III postseason appearances, most recently in 2015.
- Poly sophomore forward Kwame Evans Jr., a five-star recruit ranked No. 9 in the Class of 2023 by ESPN, announced he is transferring to the Florida-based national power for the upcoming school year.
- It marks the return of a more traditional start to the college basketball season after the 2020-21 campaign, which included a condensed schedule, began in late November as a response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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- The 6-foot-9, 205-pound redshirt freshman is a spot of good news in what had been a tumultuous April for the Retrievers, who bade farewell to coach Ryan Odom, junior shooting guard R.J. Eytle-Rock and senior power forward Brandon Horvath.
- Carmelo Anthony, a former Towson Catholic star, now has 27,318 points in his NBA career, surpassing Elvin Hayes to move into the top 10.
- The 54-year-old fills the vacated spot left by DeAndre Haynes, who joined Shaka Smartās staff at Marquette as an assistant Apr. 16.
- Danielle OāBanion, who was most recently an assistant coach at Minnesota, was announced Friday as Loyola Maryland's 12th women's basketball head coach.
- Guard Montez Mathis, a John Carroll graduate from Baltimore, has transferred to St. Johnās after three seasons at Rutgers.
- Chris Kuzemka, the 2021 Virginia Class 6 Player of the Year, has signed a National Letter of Intent and will join the Loyola Maryland menās basketball program for the 2021-2022 season.
- Maryland women's basketball's Ashley Owusu and Diamond Miller have a shot to represent the Terps among the best of the nation's best.
- The 6-foot-2 point guard recently completed his redshirt senior season as only the second player in Eagles history to compile 1,500 points and 400 assists in his career.
- The 6-foot-3 guard recently wrapped up his junior season leading the Retrievers in points and assists per game.
- A native of Heredia, Costa Rica who played high school basketball in San Juan Capistrano, California, Martinez becomes the third transfer to join coach Mark Turgeon and the Terps, along with former Georgetown center Qudus Wahab and former Rhode Island point guard Fatts Russell.
- WNBA star Angel McCoughtry has been vocal about women receiving fair and equitable treatment in sports. Sheās an investor in PlayersTV as the Head of Culture, working to empower women by helping create, produce and distribute content.
- The shooting guard wrapped up her career with the Tigers ranking third in program history in points and three-pointers and fourth in steals.
- Itās the first time in league history that a team had picks No. 1 and 2.
- The NCAA made it official Thursday, announcing the Division I Council had voted to approve a plan that will allow all college athletes to transfer one time as an undergraduate without having to sit out a season.
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- Louisville has announced that former Florida guard Noah Locke, a McDonogh graduate, has transferred to the program after an impressive perimeter shooting career with the Gators.
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Bob āSlickā Leonard, Hall of Fame coach who got his start with the Baltimore Bullets, dies at 88
Bob Leonard became one of the crown princes of Indiana basketball. But while he was embraced for his Hoosier roots and ABA genius, Leonard honed his skills as the Baltimore Bulletsā coach in 1963-64. - A men's basketball head coach for 20 years at five schools, Ferry replaces Ryan Odom, who left on April 5 to fill the vacancy at Utah State.
- Smart, a three-star recruit from the Class of 2020, averaged 1.4 points and 7.3 minutes per game but was fazed out of Marylandās rotation by February.
- Maryland menās basketball coach Mark Turgeon has signed a three-year contract extension through the 2025-26 season, the school announced Wednesday night.
- 32-year-old Antoine White talked comparisons to predecessor Maria Marchesano, his reasons for coaching women versus men, and his timetable for another trip to the NCAA tournament.
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Ryan Odom, who led UMBC menās basketball to historic NCAA tournament upset, leaving for Utah State
In five seasons under Odom, the Retrievers went 97-60 overall, captured one America East regular-season title and one tournament championship and became the first No. 16 seed to defeat a No. 1 seed in the NCAA men's tournament.