Loyola New Orleans Wolfpack

— Kobe Julien had 19 points, Themus Fulks scored 18 and Louisiana rolled to a 78-54 victory over NAIA member Loyola New Orleans on Monday night.

Ahsante Shivers scored 18 points and Southern defeated NAIA opponent Loyola New Orleans 87-70 in the Jaguars' season opener on Wednesday night.

Jalen Johnson had 22 points as Louisiana-Lafayette easily beat Loyola New Orleans 95-67 on Tuesday night, giving head coach Bob Marlin his 400th victory as a Division I head coach.

As students flood back to campuses across America, it is a giddy time in college sports. At 6 p.m. ET Thursday, North Carolina-South Carolina and Liberty-Kent State share the distinctive honor of kicking off the college football season.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- It’s easily evident to those not inside the Florida locker room every day that Jeff Driskel has changed.He’s still focused and driven, but he comes across as much more confident and definitely more relaxed, which was obvious when he hammed it up with a significantly shorter member of the media just before doing a video shoot.

INDIANAPOLIS -- The adidas Invitational is in its fifth year of competition and boasts a notable list of alums, headlined by recent NBA first-round picks Andre Drummond, Cody Zeller and Shabazz Muhammad.

This week’s Friday recruiting notebook is chock full of updates on ESPN 100 prospects, including commitments for Florida and Louisville, a visitor for Michigan State, what’s next for North Carolina, who NC State is targeting and why No.

No college basketball conference in the country is currently as well-represented in the NBA as the ACC -- especially when it comes to elite talent. All 10 of the ACC's top NBA players in the modern draft era were on a pro roster in 2012-13.

We have followed the Trevor Lacey's transfer process relatively closely; his loss was a big blow to the steady rebuilding process coach Anthony Grant had hoped to achieve at Alabama, and not only because he was one of the few members of the squad who could score off the bounce (Lacey was the first significant in-state recruit to sign to the Grant-led squad).

The No. 1 player in the Class of 2015, PF Ivan Rabb (Oakland, Ca./Bishop O'Dowd), does not seem to be leaning towards any one particular school at the moment.