Jase Richardson is entering the NBA draft, a year or two sooner than his father expected.

The Michigan State freshman announced his decision on social media Tuesday.

“I’m forever grateful to the Spartan community for all their support throughout the season and honored to be a Spartan Dawg,” Richardson wrote in a post.

His father, Jason Richardson, a former Spartans star and NBA standout with the Warriors, helped his son gather feedback from the league to assist in the decision-making process.

“I have a lot of ties in the NBA — know a lot of GMs and scouts — and heard he would probably be a late, lottery pick,” Jason Richardson said. “He’s pursuing the dream he’s had since he was a kid.

“I’m surprised it happened this fast. I knew he was a really good basketball player, but I didn’t think he would be one and done. I thought he would take two years, maybe three, but he did some amazing things and helped his team accomplish some great things.”

The 6-foot-3 guard averaged 12.5 points, making 48.5% of his shots overall and 41.1% of 3-pointers. He helped Michigan State win the Big Ten title by three games and advance to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament.

For Michigan State’s national championship team in 2000, Jason Richardson averaged five points in 15 minutes as a freshman for coach Tom Izzo. He stayed for his sophomore season and nearly tripled his scoring production.

Texas’ Johnson will enter NBA draft >> Southeastern Conference freshman of the year Tre Johnson says he’s one-and-done at Texas and will enter the NBA draft.

Johnson, who made his announcement on ESPN, averaged 19.7 points per game to lead the SEC and broke Kevin Durant’s school freshman record with 39 against Arkansas late in the regular season.

The 6-foot-6 guard shot 39.7% on 3-pointers, 42.7% overall and 87.1% on free throws to rank among the SEC leaders. He’s projected as a consensus top-10 draft pick.

Florida ends season on top >> Florida is No. 1 in the final AP Top 25 men’s poll of the 2024-25 season after winning the national championship.

The Gators (36-4) received all 61 first-place votes, the second year the AP has released its last poll after the completion of the NCAA Tournament. Todd Golden’s team beat Houston 65-63 on Monday night to clinch the program’s third national title and first since Billy Donovan’s repeat titles in 2006 and 2007.

The win also lifted Florida to the top spot in the poll for the first time since the last four polls of the 2013-14 season.

Houston (35-5) remained at No. 2 after its first title-game appearance since 1984, capping a season that saw Kelvin Sampson’s Cougars reach the Final Four for the second time in five.

The Blue Devils — who were No. 1 in the last two polls before March Madness — were third in what amounted to a swap with the Gators as the only change to the top quartet. Auburn (32-6) stayed at No. 4 after falling to Florida in the Alamodome. Tennessee was fifth and Alabama sixth.

Saint Mary’s (29-6) wound up ranked No. 24.

Women’s basketball

Scoring champ Latson heads to South Carolina >> Ta’Niya Latson, the leading scorer in Division I, has decided to transfer to South Carolina, where she will join a high school teammate and try to help the Gamecocks win another national championship.

The Florida State guard already had announced her intention to transfer for her final college season after scoring 25.2 points a game this season.

Gamecocks Guard Raven Johnson celebrated the pending reunion with her high school teammate on social media with several posts making clear she’s returning to South Carolina, which won national titles in 2017, 2022 and 2024, and not entering the upcoming WNBA draft. Johnson included photos of her with Latson in high school.

Miles transfers from Notre Dame to TCU >> Olivia Miles is transferring from Notre Dame to finish her college career at TCU. Miles announced her decision on “NBA on TNT” and was talking to Candace Parker when she received a box from Shaquille O’Neal with a TCU jersey in it.

The 5-foot-10 guard had spent her entire college career at Notre Dame and was a projected lottery pick in the draft, which takes place in New York on April 14.

She decided last week to not enter the draft and instead pursue one final year of college. She entered her name in the transfer portal and was one of 1,200 women’s basketball players to have done so since the portal opened two weeks ago.

Her time at Notre Dame ended when the Irish lost to TCU in the Sweet 16 of the women’s NCAA Tournament.

College football

Intimate images found in investigation of ex-Michigan coach >> Investigators have seized thousands of intimate photos and videos from a former Baltimore Ravens and University of Michigan assistant football coach who is charged with hacking into the computer accounts of college athletes, the U.S. Justice Department told victims.

The disclosure came in a court filing in a lawsuit against Matt Weiss and the university. Lawyers for victims included an email that was sent by the government after he was indicted in March.

Weiss got access to the social media, email and cloud storage accounts of more than 2,000 athletes, as well as more than 1,300 students or alumni from schools across the U.S., in an effort to find private images, primarily of women, according to the indictment.

The email further describes and quantifies what was found by investigators.

“Thousands of candid, intimate photographs and videos have been seized from the defendant’s electronic devices and from his cloud storage accounts. Many show victims naked. Some show victims engaged in explicit sexual acts,” the Justice Department’s Mega Victim Case Assistance Program said.

Weiss has pleaded not guilty to identity theft and unauthorized computer access, from 2015 to 2023. He and his lawyer have refused to comment about the case.

Tennis

Zverez falls at Monte Carlo Masters >> Second-ranked Alexander Zverev lost 2-6, 6-3, 7-5 to fellow big-hitter Matteo Berrettini in the second round of the Monte Carlo Masters in Monaco.

The unseeded Berrettini secured victory when serving for the match for the second time and on his first match point against the top-seeded German.

In other second-round matches, three-time champion Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece began his title defense by beating Australian Jordan Thompson 4-6, 6-4, 6-2, and U.S. Open semifinalist Jack Draper routed Marcos Giron 6-1, 6-1.