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USA Today
2 hours ago
- Sport
- USA Today
Maui Invitational 2025: NC State, Texas highlight 8-team men's college basketball field
One of the most iconic multi-team events in men's college basketball now has its field set for the upcoming 2025-26 season. Arizona State, Boise State, NC State, Seton Hall, Texas, USC, Washington State and Chaminade will compete in the 2025 Maui Invitational, the event announced on July 29. The tournament will take place at the Lahaina Civic Center in Lahaina, Hawaii from November 24-26, ending at its usual time right before Thanksgiving. REQUIRED READING: Charlie Baker doubts NCAA basketball tournament expansion can happen for 2025-26 season Only one of the seven Division I teams in the event, Texas, made the NCAA tournament last season (Chaminade, a Honolulu school that takes part in the tournament in odd-numbered years, competes at the Division II level). Several of the participants could be significantly better in 2025-26. NC State will be entering its first season under coach Will Wade, who restocked the Wolfpack's roster with one of the top-rated transfer classes in the sport. After two underwhelming seasons under Rodney Terry, Texas hired Sean Miller away from Xavier. USC will be entering its second season under coach Eric Musselman, who signed a top-10 transfer class and a five-star freshman in Alijah Arenas (who will be out six to eight months with a knee injury). Boise State has won 99 games and made three NCAA tournaments over the past four seasons. While the Maui Invitational has long been one of the most popular and prestigious early season tournaments in college basketball, there's an open question of how long it can remain that in the rapidly evolving landscape of college athletics. Last year marked the debut of the Players Era Festival, a Thanksgiving week tournament in Las Vegas that gives each participating team $1 million in name, image and likeness opportunities. This year's field for the 18-team event includes Houston, Kansas, Alabama, Auburn, St. John's, Michigan, Iowa State, Gonzaga and Creighton, among others, all of which are widely projected as top-25 teams entering the season. After his team surprisingly went winless in its three games in the Maui Invitational last year, UConn coach Dan Hurley voiced his frustrations with the event. "I'm not doing another three-game MTE again," Hurley said. "Moving forward, we will only play home-and-homes and single-game events in big-time arenas. I don't think I'll ever do a three-game MTE again." Maui Invitational teams 2025 Here's a look at the eight teams that will be taking part in the 2025 Maui Invitational: REQUIRED READING: College sports bill moving to House floor in Congress after passing committee votes Maui Invitational schedule 2025 Here are the matchups for the 2025 Maui Invitational: All times Eastern
USA Today
21 hours ago
- Sport
- USA Today
Jeremiyah Love added to Maxwell Award watch list
The Fighting Irish running back could get a major award this season. Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love may be a long shot for the Heisman, and now he's on another awards' watch list. He's on the watch list for the Maxwell Award. The award is given out to the most outstanding college football player in the U.S., with sports writers, sports broadcasters, and head coaches making up the field of judges. Boise State's Ashton Jeanty won the award in 2024. It's no surprise Love would be on this list, since he helped lead the Irish to the national title game last season -- and had he been healthier, the team might have prevailed over Ohio State. Maybe Love should be more of a Heisman favorite, after all. Contact/Follow us @IrishWireND on X (Formerly Twitter), and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Notre Dame news, notes, and opinions. Follow Tim on X: @tehealey
NBC Sports
a day ago
- Sport
- NBC Sports
Football season looms with no clear guidance in athlete battles to win more eligibility from NCAA
The stream of lawsuits across the country from college athletes trying to grab another season of eligibility appears ready to fizzle out for a bit. With fall football practice cranking up, players still hoping for a judge allowing them to take the field may be left waiting for a ruling that likely won't help them compete again. 'We're at a point in the summer where I think any athlete out there is going to know that it's probably too late to file a case and be able to get relief on it,' said Sam Ehrlich, a professor of legal studies at Boise State studying the 2021 Alston ruling's affect on college athletics. Relief on a larger question surrounding eligibility may be a while coming, too: In cases from California to Wisconsin, judges have provided inconsistent results for players seeking legal help for another season and it may very well be a topic settled for good by a higher court. Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia is perhaps the highest-profile athlete to win his court fight. The New Mexico State transfer sued the NCAA last fall, arguing that his junior college years should not count against his eligibility, citing the potential losses in earnings from name, image and likeness deals. U.S. District Judge William Campbell Jr. in Tennessee granted a preliminary injunction, ordering the NCAA to allow Pavia to play. The NCAA is appealing Campbell's decision but granted a blanket waiver that will allow Pavia and other athletes who played at non-NCAA Division I schools prior to enrollment an extra year of eligibility if they were going to exhaust their eligibility this year. Pavia won. Others, such as Wisconsin cornerback Nyzier Fourqurean, have lost or are in limbo. Practice starts for Southeastern Conference members Vanderbilt and Tennessee. Chris Bellamy and Targhee Lambson are among four football players waiting on the same federal judge who gave Pavia another season of football last December. Some schools have helped by filing waivers. Others wait and hold a spot, letting the athlete fight the legal battle. 'They're just kind of in limbo in the transfer portal because schools don't really know whether they're going to have eligibility,' Ehrlich said. 'It's a really weird situation right now.' The NCAA would like Congress to grant limited liability protection to help address all the lawsuits over eligibility. NCAA President Charlie Baker noted in June that athletes had five years to play four seasons for about a century, a situation that changed recently. Baker told The Associated Press then that the NCAA has won more of these cases than the association lost. 'But the uncertainty it creates, the consequences of this for the next generation of young people if you play this thing out, are enormous,' Baker said. 'Moving away from an academic calendar to sort of no calendar for college sports is hugely problematic.' Duke coach Manny Diaz thought such eligibility issues would be addressed after the House settlement, which took effect July 1. 'All I have been told is once they got House out of the way they are going to be double back on a lot of these oddities and make sure eligibility is tied into a college career,' Diaz said at ACC media days. 'We don't want nine-year guys playing the sport.' Thanks to the extra season added to careers for the coronavirus pandemic, the college eligibility calendar has been scrambled a bit. Pavia will be playing his sixth season after starting with two at New Mexico Military Institute, a junior college, then two more at New Mexico State. Fullback Hayden Large played three NAIA seasons at Dordt before transferring to Iowa, where he will be playing his sixth season this fall after being granted another year. Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz sees a simple solution in giving players five years to play five seasons. He's also in favor of players who start in junior college having an extra year, even as he sees the need for a limit even if he doesn't know what that should be. 'If a guy during his first year ends up being able to play five or six games, why not let him play?' Ferentz said. 'It's all about creating opportunity, in my mind. I've never understood the rationale for not doing that.' Ehrlich is attempting to track all lawsuits against the NCAA, ranging from the House settlement; name, image and likeness litigation; college athletes as employees; and Title IX lawsuits, along with other cases. Ehrlich has tracked more than a dozen lawsuits involving eligibility and common factors are hard to come by. He saw three very different rulings from judges appointed by President Donald Trump. Standards of evidence for a preliminary injunction also have varied from judge to judge. Three cases have been appealed with other motions helping delay some waiver requests. Ehrlich said there remains the chance a case lands before the U.S. Supreme Court. 'I don't see these cases drying up anytime soon,' Ehrlich said.
San Francisco Chronicle
a day ago
- Sport
- San Francisco Chronicle
Football season looms with no clear guidance in athlete battles to win more eligibility from NCAA
The stream of lawsuits across the country from college athletes trying to grab another season of eligibility appears ready to fizzle out for a bit. With fall football practice cranking up this week, players still hoping for a judge allowing them to take the field may be left waiting for a ruling that likely won't help them compete again. "We're at a point in the summer where I think any athlete out there is going to know that it's probably too late to file a case and be able to get relief on it,' said Sam Ehrlich, a professor of legal studies at Boise State studying the 2021 Alston ruling's affect on college athletics. Relief on a larger question surrounding eligibility may be a while coming, too: In cases from California to Wisconsin, judges have provided inconsistent results for players seeking legal help for another season and it may very well be a topic settled for good by a higher court. Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia is perhaps the highest-profile athlete to win his court fight. The New Mexico State transfer sued the NCAA last fall, arguing that his junior college years should not count against his eligibility, citing the potential losses in earnings from name, image and likeness deals. U.S. District Judge William Campbell Jr. in Tennessee granted a preliminary injunction, ordering the NCAA to allow Pavia to play. The NCAA is appealing Campbell's decision but granted a blanket waiver that will allow Pavia and other athletes who played at non-NCAA Division I schools prior to enrollment an extra year of eligibility if they were going to exhaust their eligibility this year. Pavia won. Others, such as Wisconsin cornerback Nyzier Fourqurean, have lost or are in limbo. Practice starts Wednesday for Southeastern Conference members Vanderbilt and Tennessee. Chris Bellamy and Targhee Lambson are among four football players waiting on the same federal judge who gave Pavia another season of football last December. Some schools have helped by filing waivers. Others wait and hold a spot, letting the athlete fight the legal battle. 'They're just kind of in limbo in the transfer portal because schools don't really know whether they're going to have eligibility," Ehrlich said. "It's a really weird situation right now.' The NCAA would like Congress to grant limited liability protection to help address all the lawsuits over eligibility. NCAA President Charlie Baker noted in June that athletes had five years to play four seasons for about a century, a situation that changed recently. Baker told The Associated Press then that the NCAA has won more of these cases than the association lost. 'But the uncertainty it creates, the consequences of this for the next generation of young people if you play this thing out, are enormous,' Baker said. "Moving away from an academic calendar to sort of no calendar for college sports is hugely problematic.' Duke coach Manny Diaz thought such eligibility issues would be addressed after the House settlement, which took effect July 1. 'All I have been told is once they got House out of the way they are going to be double back on a lot of these oddities and make sure eligibility is tied into a college career," Diaz said at ACC media days. "We don't want nine-year guys playing the sport.' Thanks to the extra season added to careers for the coronavirus pandemic, the college eligibility calendar has been scrambled a bit. Pavia will be playing his sixth season after starting with two at New Mexico Military Institute, a junior college, then two more at New Mexico State. Fullback Hayden Large played three NAIA seasons at Dordt before transferring to Iowa, where he will be playing his sixth season this fall after being granted another year. Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz sees a simple solution in giving players five years to play five seasons. He's also in favor of players who start in junior college having an extra year, even as he sees the need for a limit even if he doesn't know what that should be. 'If a guy during his first year ends up being able to play five or six games, why not let him play?' Ferentz said. 'It's all about creating opportunity, in my mind. I've never understood the rationale for not doing that.' Ehrlich is attempting to track all lawsuits against the NCAA, ranging from the House settlement;name, image and likeness litigation; college athletes as employees; and Title IX lawsuits, along with other cases. Ehrlich has tracked more than a dozen lawsuits involving eligibility and common factors are hard to come by. He saw three very different rulings from judges appointed by President Donald Trump. Standards of evidence for a preliminary injunction also have varied from judge to judge. Three cases have been appealed with other motions helping delay some waiver requests. Ehrlich said there remains the chance a case lands before the U.S. Supreme Court. 'I don't see these cases drying up anytime soon,' Ehrlich said. ___
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
American Conference deserves fair shot at College Football Playoff, commissioner says
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Commissioner Tim Pernetti wants to be sure the newly rebranded American Conference isn't left out of the College Football Playoff conversation. His solution for that — a playoff that includes a large number of at-large teams in a format preferred by the Southeastern Conference but not the Big Ten. Pernetti said Friday he believes his conference has teams capable of competing in the 12-team playoff — which could get expanded to 16 — and winning the national championship. 'We believe in a format without anything being guaranteed to any conference," Pernetti said at the conference's media days at the Charlotte Convention Center. "The five highest-ranked conference champions (regardless of conference) should continue to receive an automatic bid plus a significant number of at-large opportunities, giving anyone the opportunity to earn a spot. Winning on the field, a true merit-based system.' The current format calls for the top five conference champions to receive automatic bids, which presumably means the Power Four conferences all get one and then another goes to a Group of Five league such as the American. Last season, that automatic bid went to Boise State of the Mountain West. The American had Army and Tulane hanging on the fringes of the playoff conversation last season but they needed lots of things to happen that didn't. The SEC and Big Ten will decide what format comes after this season. If they can't agree, they have both said there's a chance they could just leave things as they are with 12 teams. The Big Ten has won the last two national championships. If the playoff expands to 16 teams, it favors giving four automatic bids to the SEC and Big Ten and awarding the ACC and Big 12 two bids apiece with one more to the next highest-ranked conference champ. The SEC favors five conference champions and 11 at-large bids, which would presumably favor the top conferences most seasons. Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark doubled down on his preference to stay with only five automatic qualifiers if the CFP expands from 12 to 16 teams as many expect after this season, instead of each of the four power conferences being guaranteed multiple bids. Pernetti was adamant his conference have an opportunity to earn it on the field. He said giving away predetermined playoff spots to larger conferences would not send the right message to players around the country. 'Line up and play the game. Let's see where the chips fall at the end of the year,' Pernetti said. "Let's not send a terrible message to student athletes that for some, their opportunity is not as important as others. They have the same goal. These guys sitting in this room, they want to play for the national championship just like every student-athlete in America.' Pernetti cautioned that the Bowl Championship Series fell apart under the weight of 'confusion, favoritism and protecting certain programs over others.' 'Have we learned nothing from history?' Pernetti said. ___ AP college football: Steve Reed, The Associated Press
