UNDATED (AP) — Vanderbilt coach Mark Byington has landed a second portal transfer in as many days, this time forward Jaylen Carey following him from James Madison to his new job. Byington was hired by Vanderbilt after coaching James Madison to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. He added guard MJ Collins from Virginia Tech on Tuesday. Carey is a 6-foot-8 forward who played every game as a freshman for James Madison. That includes both NCAA Tournament games. Byington says he knows Carey can play in the Southeastern Conference as a physical presence who can play inside and also shoot 3s.
UNDATED (AP) — Oklahoma begins its quest for an unprecedented fourth consecutive national softball title on Friday. The Sooners open regional play against Cleveland State. The Sooners appear to have a shot. They have claimed the No. 2 overall seed and beat No. 1 seed Texas for the Big 12 Tournament title. Texas won the Big 12 regular season title and claimed the top overall seed for the first time. Reese Atwood was Big 12 Player of the Year after racking up a nation’s best 83 RBIs. She headlines a Texas squad that leads the nation with a .379 batting average.
MERCED, Calif. (AP) — UCLA could pay the University of California at Berkeley $10 million a year for three years instead of six as a result of the Bruins’ upcoming move to the Big Ten and the demise of the Pac-12. The University of California Board of Regents special committee on athletics voted 7-1 during a meeting at UC Merced on Tuesday to cut down the length of the payments. UC president Michael Drake recommended six years in a report going into the meeting. The matter will come up again on Thursday for a vote by the full Board of Regents. If there is a significant change in revenues and/or expenses for either school, exceeding 10% over 2024-25 projections, UCLA’s contribution can be reevaluated by the regents.
UNDATED (AP) — The first full week of the upcoming college football season will feature a Saturday tripleheader on ABC, including Texas A&M hosting Notre Dame in prime time. ESPN announced its major matchups for Week 0 and Week 1 on Tuesday as part of its presentation to advertisers in New York. The Aug. 31 matchup also marks Mike Elko’s first game as Texas A&M’s head coach. College GameDay will also originate from College Station, Texas, that day for the first time since 2018. ABC’s other Saturday Week 1 games include Clemson facing Georgia in Atlanta at 12 p.m. ET and Florida hosting Miami at 3:30 p.m.
LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — North Carolina State, Baylor and Texas will be among the eight teams in the field for the 2025 Maui Invitational. The tournament field also will include Oregon, Seton Hall, Southern California, UNLV and host Chaminade. The tournament returns to the Lahaina Civic Center this November after being played in Honolulu last year following a series of fires that killed 101 people and decimated the town of Lahaina. The 2025 bracket will be played Nov. 24-26. N.C. State is coming off the program’s fourth trip to the Final Four following an unexpected run through the ACC Tournament. Baylor is one of four teams to win at least one game in the NCAA Tournament the last five years, including a run to the 2021 national championship.
UNDATED (AP) — One of the lead attorneys in a class-action antitrust lawsuit against the NCAA says settlement talks are progressing well. A deadline looms next week for the NCAA and major conferences to agree to a deal that could cost billions in damages and set up a groundbreaking revenue-sharing system with college athletes. Steve Berman, a Seattle-based attorney for the plaintiffs, would not confirm details of the possible agreement but told AP a settlement could create a new framework for paying college athletes that he believes could withstand other antitrust challenges.
UNDATED (AP) — Former Duke center Christian Reeves has signed to play at Clemson, one of the Blue Devils’ Atlantic Coast Conference rivals, while Washington landed one of the best remaining players available in forward Great Osobor. Osobor was the Mountain West Conference player of the year last season at Utah State and announced his intention to follow coach Danny Sprinkle after he was hired as the new coach at Washington. Reeves played in 13 games as a freshman and was expected to play a bigger role this past season. But Reeves injured his right ankle early in the year and needed surgery. He played in only three games.
UNDATED (AP) — NBA teams have been told that Bronny James, the son of the Los Angeles Lakers’ LeBron James, has been medically cleared to play in the league and is expected to participate in the draft combine this week, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Teams were told of the clearance in a memo sent out Monday morning, according to the person who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the league did not publicly release any details. All players at the draft combine in Chicago undergo medical examinations. Bronny James suffered cardiac arrest during practice in July 2023 and needed a procedure to fix what was diagnosed as a congenital heart defect.
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