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College of Charleston men's basketball coach Chris Mack announced the signing of 2025 All-CAA First Team selection Colby Duggan to the Cougars' 2025-2026 roster. Duggan comes to Charleston from Campbell, where he led the CAA in scoring with 19.9 ppg in league play.
The forward (6-7, 220) scored in double figures in all 18 conference games. "We are thrilled to be adding one of the best players in our league from a year ago in Colby Duggan. Having coached against Colby we know firsthand how hard he plays every possession," said Mack.
"He competes on both ends of the court at all times. He's a warrior. He's a winner.
" Overall, Duggan averaged 15.7 ppg and 3.3 rpg last season, shooting 46.
1 percent from the field, 34 percent from 3-point range and 72.6 percent from the free-throw line. The rising junior scored a career-high 33 points at Delaware, dropped 32 at North Carolina and sank the game-winning overtime jumper to complete an 18-point comeback at Hofstra.
Duggan has two years of eligibility remaining. Quarterback Nico Iamaleava was not at Tennessee's Orange and White game Saturday and is no longer on the roster. It appears Iamaleava is headed toward the transfer portal that opens Wednesday.
Iamaleava spent spring practice as the quarterback expected to start for a second straight season. He helped Tennessee go 10-3 last season and earn a berth in the newly expanded College Football Playoff. According to reports, he was looking for a big hike in his NIL compensation and was not at practice Friday.
• Ohio State's national championship football team will have some extra jewelry to show off on its visit to the White House on Monday. The Buckeyes received three rings between the first and second quarter of Saturday's spring game at Ohio Stadium. Players and coaches from the 2024 championship team received a ring for making the College Football Playoff, one from the CFP for winning it and a championship ring from Ohio State.
Florida basketball coach Todd Golden and the Gators were revered in another national championship celebration, this one in front of nearly 60,000 fans at Florida Field during an extended halftime of the annual football spring game. The hoops team has one more get-together on tap: at the White House, presumably this summer. Walter Clayton Jr.
, Alijah Martin and Will Richard carried trophies into the Swamp. Gainesville Mayor Harvey Ward presented Golden with a key to the city “so you’ll always know where home is.” Nikola Jokic will average a triple-double for the season, making the Denver star the third player in NBA history to pull off such a feat.
It became statistically certain Friday night when Jokic got his fourth assist of Denver’s game against the Memphis Grizzlies. That assist was his 700th of the season, assuring him of averaging no worse than 10.0 assists for 70 games.
The other players to average a triple-double for a full season: Russell Westbrook, Jokic’s current Denver teammate, and Basketball Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson. Westbrook did it four times — 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19 for Oklahoma City, as well as in 2020-21 for Washington — and Robertson did it in the 1961-62 season for Cincinnati. “It's nice.
I didn't do that before,” Jokic said postgame when asked about averaging a triple-double. “I don't know. I don't know what to say.
It's good.” Oscar Piastri took pole in qualifying for the Bahrain Grand Prix as his McLaren teammate and Formula 1 standings leader Lando Norris could only manage sixth in Sakhir, Bahrain. George Russell was a surprisingly strong challenger and took second, .
168 of a second off Piastri's time. Charles Leclerc qualified third with Russell's 18-year-old rookie teammate Andrea Kimi Antonelli fourth..
