LOS ANGELES (AP) Jalen Hill, who played basketball at UCLA for three seasons until leaving last year for personal reasons, has died, according to his family and the university. He was 22.

His family posted on Instagram Tuesday that Hill had died after going missing in Costa Rica. No further details were provided.

"We know Jalen has played a part in the lives of so many people," Hill's family wrote in the post. "We also acknowledge the role that so many of you have played in his. As we try to navigate this devastating time in our lives, we ask that you please give us time to grieve. Keep us in your thoughts and prayers."

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LOS ANGELES (AP) Greg Lee, who helped UCLA to consecutive national championships in 1972 and '73 as a starting guard under coach John Wooden, has died. He was 70.

Lee died at a San Diego hospital on Wednesday from an infection related to an immune disorder, the university said Thursday after being informed by his wife, Lisa.

SUPERIOR TOWNSHIP, Mich (AP) Emoni Bates, a former basketball prodigy who transferred to Eastern Michigan from Memphis, was charged with two felonies Monday after police found a gun in a car during a traffic stop.

The 18-year-old Bates failed to stop at an intersection Sunday night and a search turned up the weapon, said Derrick Jackson, a spokesman for the Washtenaw County sheriff's office.

The Atlantic Coast Conference is relocating its headquarters but remaining in its home state of North Carolina.

The league announced Tuesday it would move its offices from Greensboro - the city where it was founded in 1953 - to downtown Charlotte in 2023. In a news release, the league said it will use the 2022-23 academic year as a transition period for the relocation.

STORRS, Conn. (AP) UConn announced Thursday it has agreed to pay former men's basketball coach Kevin Ollie another $3.9 million to settle discrimination claims surrounding his 2018 firing.

The money is in addition to the more than $11.1 million in back salary Ollie has already been paid after an arbitrator ruled in January that he was improperly fired under the school's agreement with its professor's union.

Craig Thompson, the only commissioner the Mountain West Conference has known, is stepping down after nearly 24 years in charge.

The league announced Wednesday that Thompson's last day will be Dec. 31. He was on board when the conference began operations in January 1999.

Former President Barack Obama told the Harvard men's basketball team on Friday that the sport taught him "it wasn't just about me" - a lesson he hoped they would carry with them to other, more consequential, endeavors.

"There is something extraordinary about hitching your wagon to something bigger than yourself," Obama said, according to a recap of the meeting that was provided to The Associated Press.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) University of Kentucky police arrested a woman Tuesday for trying to enter the property of men's basketball coach John Calipari.

University spokeswoman Blair Conner said Lexington Police were called to assist university police outside of Calipari's residence Tuesday morning. The woman, who was arrested outside the gate, was charged with trespassing and six counts of theft of credit cards from around the country.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) Setting aside the heated college basketball rivalry, recently retired Duke University coach Mike Krzyzewski was honored Thursday by Gov. Roy Cooper - a two-time graduate of the University of North Carolina - with the state's highest honor.

Eschewing his favored Tar Heel blue tie for a darker Duke hue, Cooper held a ceremony to give Krzyzewski the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, saying he's "dedicated his life to helping others be their best" both on and off the court. Coach K came to Durham in 1980 to take the job.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) Shane Burcar sits in the front row of the large auditorium as a thunderstorm rolls over Flagstaff's San Francisco Peaks onto the Northern Arizona campus.

The wall of windows on the room's north side offers a perfect view of the lightning strikes and approaching rain moving through the pine trees.