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Talking about falling upward. When Kelvin Sampson resigned his prestigious coaching position at Indiana amid a phone call scandal that crippled the Hoosiers and earned him a five year show-cause penalty -- just about the harshest individual penalt...

Hey, remember Tom Izzo? Who almost left his hero-for-life gig at Michigan State for a potential opportunity to coach LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers? Izzo's decision already looked like the smart one. After all, he never received any assu...

This year's big college-to-NBA coaching possibilities have centered on John Calipari and then, much more seriously, Tom Izzo. Calipari's connection to the Chicago Bulls (or anywhere LeBron James was going) was always just a rumor, while Izzo's potent...

Tom Izzo news has lived side-by-side with conference realignment -- at least in this blogger's brain -- for the past two weeks. But as conference realignment skids to a halt with minimal damage done to the hoops landscape, the news out of East Lansin...

You already know the latest news: Tom Izzo is leaning more toward leaving Michigan State and taking the Cleveland Cavaliers job than ever before. That's what a source told our own Andy Katz today: That source discussed Izzo's future with a close con...

Other than DePaul's egregious decision to not allow recruit Walter Pitchford out of his letter of intent -- sorry, but I'm probably going to keep harping on this one for a while -- the other main hoops news story that came across the wires late Wedne...