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1. At least one coach in the new Big East, filled with the Catholic 7 schools and likely Butler and Xavier, has been told to anticipate a 16-game schedule next season, according to one source with knowledge of the situation. That would force the seve...

1. The Catholic 7 plus two or three to form the old/new Big East (you following?) needs to apply for new-conference status by June 1 and the NCAA board of directors has to vote the new league in by Sept. 1 so it could get an automatic qualifying spot...

1. Marquette was aware of the pending NCAA legislation that will pin responsibility and penalties on the head coach for any violation within his or her staff. That's why Golden Eagles athletic director Larry Williams suspended head coach Buzz William...

1. Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan said he can go a variety of ways to fill senior forward Mike Bruesewitz's absence. Bruesewitz is out for a month while recovering from a severe cut on his right leg that required surgery after he crashed into the basket sta...

1. Keith Clanton will be the most coveted men's basketball transfer if he wants to leave Central Florida in time for the fall semester after the NCAA handed down a postseason ban for 2013. The senior power forward is a legit, highly-skilled power pla...

The Big East will send out its annual straw poll to its coaches to get their preseason predictions about the strength of the league's teams to help put together next season's conference schedule. The league office said Syracuse's Jim Boeheim and Pit...

1. Being on the NCAA tournament selection committee has become a bad omen for athletic directors or commissioners keeping their jobs, with a third member losing his day job while on the committee. Last year, Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe was fired an...

1.Stan Heath has had quite a run in his career. He was at Kent State for one season and went to the Elite Eight. He landed a big money job in Arkansas and when he got run out of Fayetteville, he landed on his feet at South Florida. It appeared he co...

Editor's note: Eamonn Brennan breaks down North Carolina-Duke in today's Weekend Watch. Andy Katz offers a dozen more games to keep an eye on this weekend. Saturday West Virginia at South Florida (Noon ET, ESPN3): Tell me again why West Virgini...

Quick hitters for a Monday: • South Florida coach Stan Heath coached the Bulls to their 11th Big East win, leading them over Cincinnati on Sunday. The Bulls have won five of six games, holding opponents to fewer than 52 points each time. Thei...

South Florida has eight Big East wins heading into Wednesday night's game against Villanova. At 8-4, the Bulls are in fifth place and one spot ahead of Louisville in the Big East standings. If USF stays in that position and reaches double-figure l...

For full coverage of the Kansas-Missouri matchup, check out Weekend Watch. Saturday South Florida at Georgetown (ESPNU, 11 a.m. ET): OK, let's see if South Florida is for real in the Big East. The Bulls are 6-3 and tied with Georgetown in the l...

1. Ole Miss coach Andy Kennedy has had a hard time catching breaks since he arrived in Oxford. The Rebels have dealt with injuries, defections and early-entrants and an inability to be consistent enough to be an NCAA tournament team. Whether or not O...

For the rest of the week, ESPN.com will be breaking down the nonconference schedules of each and every team in a dozen leagues. On Tuesday, we began with the ACC, SEC and C-USA. Let's begin Wednesday with the biggest league of them all (for now), the...

College basketball starts with a heavy dose of weekend games, before ESPN's 24-hour Tip-Off Marathon offers up a slew of must-see affairs Tuesday. But before looking forward, there must be some housecleaning done on a few issues. So here are my first...

While the Big East decided it won't change its tournament format for 2011, where and when its conference games will be played this season remains a long, drawn-out process. The Big East handles its 18-game conference schedule using a poll voted on b...