At 32 years old, Southern Illinois' Bryan Mullins is certainly on the short list of youngest head coaches in the country this season. As he enters his first season coaching SIU, his goal is to eventually get the program back to the heights he saw wearing a Saluki uniform.

The countdown is officially on for the Murray State basketball team as they're just 25 days away from their season-opening game at home against Southern.

Duke is the preseason pick to win the Atlantic Coast Conference while Louisville forward Jordan Nwora is the league's preseason player of the year.

Tennessee coach Jeremy Pruitt still has the support of athletic director Phillip Fulmer.

Tennessee linebacker Jeremy Banks has issued an apology through the school after video was released showing him cursing and saying that "where I'm from, we shoot at cops" during his arrest last month following a traffic stop.

While it's only the last of September, college basketball is officially here.

Rico Dowdle and Tavien Feaster each rushed for more than 100 yards and South Carolina snapped a five-game series losing streak to Kentucky with a 24-7 victory Saturday night.

John Bachus III threw for one touchdown and ran for another to stake Tennessee-Martin to a 24-0 first-half lead en route to a 40-7 win over Murray State in the Ohio Valley Conference opener for both schools Saturday night.

Ty Storey threw two touchdown passes, including a 7-yarder to Jahcour Pearson early in the fourth quarter, and Western Kentucky picked off four passes and held on for a 20-13 victory over Alabama-Birmingham on Saturday.

Tanner Morgan threw for 396 yards and four touchdowns, both career highs, to help Minnesota hold off Purdue 38-31 on Saturday.

The McCracken County senior will join the Racers for the 2020-21 season.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) _ Louisville says the NCAA has granted waivers to Georgia Tech transfers Elizabeth Balogun and Elizabeth Dixon, making two of the Atlantic Coast Conference's top freshmen last season immediately eligible to play for the Cardinals.

Jared and Jarad McCray make up one set of identical twins on the football team, while Isaiah and Elijah Downing complete a set of fraternal twins for the Racers.  

The University of Louisville Athletic Association and Rick Pitino have agreed to settle a federal lawsuit, with the former Cardinals men's basketball coach's changing his termination to a resignation.

After more than a year and a half of recruitment, and 17 scholarship offers to sift through, Jackson Sivills' journey to a decision is almost over.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ Jarrett Guarantano threw three touchdown passes and Tennessee rolled to a 45-0 blowout of Football Championship Subdivision program Chattanooga as the Volunteers began digging their way out of their slowest start in over three decades.

The Ohio Valley Conference has agreed to continue holding its men's and women's basketball tournaments at Evansville, Indiana, through at least 2023.

Reserve wide receiver Jordan Murphy and defensive back Terrell Bailey have left Tennessee's football team.

The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is renewing the women's basketball rivalry between UConn and Tennessee and will sponsor a two-year series.

Ian Book ran for one touchdown and threw for another, Jahmir Smith rushed for two scores and No. 9 Notre Dame beat Louisville 35-17 on Monday night.

PADUCAH, KY -- Lyon County High School graduate and University of Kentucky sophomore golfer Cullan Brown has been diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a rare type of bone cancer, Brown announced on Saturday.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) _ Terry Wilson threw two touchdown passes, Asim Rose and Kavosiey Smoke each ran for TDs and Kentucky overcame Toledo to pull away 38-24 on Saturday in the season opener for both schools.

Payton Logan rushed for 149 yards and two scores and John Bachus III threw for two more touchdowns as UT Martin woke up in the second half to run past Northwestern State 42-20 on Thursday night.

Preston Rice threw two first-half touchdown passes, Jared McCray and Rodney Castille each ran for two more scores and Quinaz Turner returned a first-quarter kickoff 95 yards for a score as Murray State routed in-state, NAIA-rival Pikeville, 59-20 in a season-opener Thursday night.

Carlos Blackman threw his only pass of the night, an 80-yard scoring strike to Lujuan Winningham, and followed it with a 1-yard rushing score as Central Arkansas rallied to score three fourth-quarter touchdowns to knock off Western Kentucky 35-28 in the opening game of the season for both schools on Thursday night.

Daniel Santacaterina ran for two touchdowns and threw for a third as Southeast Missouri State rolled past Southern Illinois, 44-26 Thursday night in the 87th meeting between the schools located just 45 miles apart.

Kentucky coach Mark Stoops will receive an annual raise of $500,000 plus incentives over the remaining six years of a restructured contract following the Wildcats' best season in 41 years.

Murray State basketball coach Matt McMahon added another commitment to his 2020 recruiting class on Wednesday when Ja'Queze Kirby announced he's headed to Murray.

Missouri will play Arkansas at Arrowhead Stadium next season as part of a two-year deal that will bring the Tigers back to Kansas City for the first time since facing BYU in 2015.

Hill started Maryland's first 10 games as a redshirt freshman last year before tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.

Kentucky freshman quarterback Nik Scalzo will undergo surgery after re-injuring his right knee during the Wildcats' second scrimmage.

A pair of OVC football teams will begin the season ranked in the 2019 FCS Coaches Top 25 poll with Jacksonville State coming in at No. 6 and Southeast Missouri beginning the year at No. 18.

Cross off another milestone for Clemson, college football's newest superpower.

Fall classes will be getting started at universities around the country in the next couple of weeks. At UT Martin, they recently had a little bit of an academic rarity.

Tennessee defensive back Baylen Buchanan has a spinal condition that makes his status for this season uncertain.

PADUCAH, KY -- The Murray State Racers put on a display in the Bahamas on Saturday night as they defeated Abaco Elite 115-61.

Tevin Brown scored 21 points to lead Murray State to a 89-85 win over the Bahamas Select team in Nassau on Friday. 

Louisville will visit rival Kentucky, host Michigan and face NCAA Tournament finalist Texas Tech in the non-conference portion of its basketball schedule.

The Murray State men's basketball team will play 16 homes as part of their 2019-20 schedule.

Tennessee's Emmit Gooden will miss the entire season with a knee injury, leaving the Volunteers without their most experienced player on a defensive line that has no returning starters.

Tennessee's 2019-20 nonconference men's basketball schedule includes dates with Kansas, Memphis, Wisconsin, Cincinnati and Florida State among others.

The Murray State basketball program welcomed home their alumni Friday night as part of the biennial RacerHoopalooza event. 

PADUCAH, KY — Last week at the Barbasol Championship, Lyon County alum Cullan Brown turned a lot of heads with a top-50 finish in his first professional tournament.

The Southern Illinois men's basketball program will play in the inaugural Sunshine Slam Tournament at Silver Spurs Arena in Kissimmee, Florida, from November 8-10, 2019. SIU will play three games in three days and will face UTSA, Delaware, and Oakland. Every game will be streamed through FloSports.