LaPhonso Ellis, Steve Lavin, Stacey Dales return to ESPN college basketball coverage

ESPN announced its extensive college basketball broadcasting team for the upcoming season, and some prominent faces are returning to the network. Headlining that group is LaPhonso Ellis, who was part of ESPN’s wide-ranging layoffs in the summer of 2023 but is now returning. Ellis originally joined ESPN in 2009 as a college basketball analyst, calling games and working in the studio for the network. The former Notre Dame big man was also a fixture on College GameDay for several years before leaving in 2023.