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When people rail against the inequities of the NCAA, they're typically talking about money. A college basketball coach can make $10 million in a year because he generates that much value for his university, but also because that money has to go somew...

1. Syracuse will have quite an entrance into the ACC next season. The Orange will have an epic home schedule at the Carrier Dome with ACC headline games against Duke and North Carolina, an inaugural ACC-Big Ten Challenge game against Indiana in a rem...

The Atlantic 10 will add Davidson for the 2014-15 season, conference commissioner Bernadette McGlade has confirmed.

Youth has reigned in the one-and-done era. Tim Duncan and other former collegiate veterans were praised as mature prospects when they turned pro nearly 20 years ago. In the 2012 NBA draft, however, five of the first 10 picks were selected follo...

Andy Katz discusses the news that Rhode Island coach Danny Hurley was offered the head coaching job at Rutgers and, in the wake of the Mike Rice scandal, turned it down....

LOS ANGELES -- A few years ago, Carl Hall told his mother that he was willing to risk his life to play basketball. Jackie Fields was understandably disturbed by the idea, because her son's heart condition, which prompted fainting spells, had disru...

Marquette has one of its best days Marquette will make its second Elite Eight appearance since winning the national championship in 1977, and its first since 2003, after beating Miami handily. Marquette shot 54 percent, its highest field-goal per...

LOS ANGELES -- A quick look at Wichita State's 72-58 victory over La Salle in the Sweet 16 at Staples Center on Thursday night: Overview: Wichita State reached Los Angeles after uprooting No. 1 seed Gonzaga last weekend. The Shockers lost ...

Before the Sweet 16 gets under way, our experts offer their predictions for all four regions: EAST REGION (Washington, D.C.) Eamonn Brennan: Indiana over Marquette Fran Fraschilla: Indiana over Miami John Gasaway: Indiana over Miami Seth...

1. Minnesota coveted VCU's Shaka Smart, but his former boss, current Golden Gophers athletic director Norwood Teague, couldn't convince Smart to come to the Twin Cities (he should know Smart is loyal to VCU) for the head-coaching job from which Tubby...

LOS ANGELES -- Wichita State took the difficult route to the Staples Center. The Shockers' Sweet 16 run has been littered with drama. First, they lost their top five scorers from last season. Then they suffered a variety of injuries throughout 201...

Andy Katz weighs in on Shaka Smart's decision to remain at Virginia Commonwealth despite interest from Minnesota and UCLA for their head-coaching vacancies....

Let's try this again. The last time I offered a bunch of bold predictions, this happened. I tried to explain my reasoning in this follow-up. Maybe it helped. Maybe it just made things worse. But I'm back again for another round of bold predi...

1. Wichita State's Gregg Marshall doesn't have to move since he has a stable, lucrative deal. He now heads the dominant team in the Missouri Valley Conference, and if he wants to leave, he can stay until the right, plumb job comes along. But La Salle...

Think Syracuse in the Big East. Or Maryland in the Atlantic Coast Conference. That's the sort of emotional tie George Mason had with the Colonial Athletic Association, helping launch the mid-major conference in the 1980s and making it part of basketball l

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Ramon Galloway would like to send a message to the fans, media members and anyone else who might spend the next few days buzzing about the La Salle basketball team. "We're not Cinderella," Galloway said. "We didn't get lucky. T...