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The news is officially official: Butler is waving farewell to the Horizon League once and for all, and moving all of its sports to the Atlantic 10 starting in 2013, as Andy Katz reported Tuesday night and Butler formally confirmed Wednesday morning. ...

James Johnson must be one heck of an exit interview. Just two weeks ago, Johnson was a departing assistant under former coach Seth Greenberg at Virginia Tech. Now, per the reporting of ESPN's Andy Katz, he's the Hokies' new head man, and the best ...

As ESPN.com's Andy Katz reported this afternoon, the wide-ranging rumors of Illinois's impending hire of Ohio coach John Groce, no deal is yet completed, and no press conference has yet been scheduled. From Andy: Ohio coach John Groce continues to b...

On Monday's ESPNU College Basketball Podcast (we're just full of podcast references today), our own Andy Katz listed the country's remaining unbeaten teams. In doing so, he made the point that Murray State -- which just won its toughest game of the s...

As Andy Katz noted in the run up to Kentucky's thorough drubbing of Kansas Tuesday night, John Calipari has attempted to downplay expectations for his team as much as possible in the last week. The only problem: There's no downplaying what we see on ...

On Wednesday, UConn announced that freshman Ryan Boatright's eligibility was under review for reasons "not related to academics." On Friday, Andy Katz passed along a quick tidbit on the ongoing investigation, noting that the "angst isn't as palpable"...

On Sunday, ACC commissioner John Swofford had a conference call. On this conference call, he was asked by ESPN's Andy Katz whether the ACC had considered hosting its conference tournament in Madison Square Garden. After all, Syracuse and Pittsburgh a...

On Sunday, after Pittsburgh and Syracuse officially put the Big East into conference realignment DEFCON 1, our own Andy Katz and Joe Schad reported that Connecticut was the latest school to pursue ACC membership. The Huskies were making an "aggressiv...

ESPN.com's Andy Katz has the story: Former Tennessee men's basketball coach Bruce Pearl will receive a multiple-year show-cause penalty from the NCAA's committee on infractions, and his three former assistants -- Tony Jones, Steve Forbes and Jason S...

When the brilliant investigative bombshell by Yahoo! Sports landed on the University of Miami's collective head Tuesday, the impact was felt most acutely by the football program. But as Andy Katz discussed this morning, the implication of former Miam...

The SEC's long national nightmare is over. OK, that may be overstating the case just a bit, but still, the news filed by ESPN's Andy Katz Wednesday night was nothing but positive for the Southeastern Conference and its basketball denizens. In 2011...

In today's Daily Word, ESPN.com's Andy Katz examined last season's most disappointing team, the Michigan State Spartans. Can a beleaguered Tom Izzo lead his team back from one of his most frustrating seasons as a coach? Are the letdowns of the immedi...

On April 26, ESPN's Andy Katz touched base with recently hired Wyoming coach Larry Shyatt. Shyatt had just taken the job in frigid Laramie, Wyo., after seven years as Billy Donovan's top assistant at Florida, one of the most high-profile programs in ...

And, no, it's not a player. New Maryland coach Mark Turgeon's first big recruit is in fact Kansas State assistant coach Dalonte Hill. As reported by various outlets (including the Washington Post) and confirmed by Turgeon to ESPN.com's Andy Katz t...

By now, it's generally assumed that Kentucky guard Brandon Knight will keep his name in the 2011 NBA draft. Kentucky coach John Calipari essentially confirmed as much to our own Andy Katz after Knight interviewed with NBA executives at the first-ever...

On Saturday, George Mason filled its vacant coaching position with as big a name as George Mason was ever going to land: former Georgia Tech head coach Paul Hewitt. The hire has sprouted plenty of reaction, most notably that of our own Andy Katz, ...