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If two teams play at Madison Square Garden and no one is there to witness it, did the games actually occur? That will be the quandary the Big East faces in 2014 if the league listens to the pleas of its basketball coaches and allows everyone into ...

We have been told for nearly a year now that university presidents and chancellors, conference commissioners and athletic directors are altruistic do-gooders and that their every decision is for the "betterment of the student-athlete." Asking a cr...

Conference raiding is only nasty business when you are being raided, not when you're doing the raiding. This is where we are today: The mid-majors are now players. For better. And for worse.

Realignment remains football-centric, but now we're seeing an inevitable trickle down of the shifting landscape to second-tier basketball conferences. How are these leagues responding to the latest wave of realignment talk?

A few years ago, I took a road trip with the Alcorn State basketball team to see how the other half of Division I lives. It wasn't pretty. Old shoes, team meals in mall food courts and student athletic trainers who weren't even CPR certified, the ...

Friendships and mentoring aren't dead in the coaching profession. Not by a long shot. But thanks to a win-at-all-costs mentality, it's not so easy to be friendly with other coaches anymore. There's just too much at stake.

It was a longshot all along. Everyone knew that -- from Mike Brey to Tim Abromaitis himself. The Notre Dame forward rolled the dice anyway, hoping that the NCAA would reward him with a sixth year of eligibility, restoring the season an ACL injury den...

The most telling statement of Virginia Tech's unexpected press conference on Monday was also the most disingenuous. Asked what a new coach could do to better foster the family environment Seth Greenberg's staff apparently lacked, athletic director...

For more on Missouri's four incoming transfers, click here. In the meantime, a look at some other transfers set to begin play at their new schools in 2012-13. Malcolm Armstead, Wichita State (from Oregon): The point guard will be a huge boost to a...

He's still trying to work out the logistics, knowing full well it will be about as popular as a summertime homework assignment. But if Frank Haith has his way, when Missouri travels to Europe this summer, his players will leave their cell phones b...

Why does Larry Brown want back in? Why does a 71-year-old man want to deal with everything a modern college coach has to deal with? Howard Schnellenberger knows a thing or two about the subject.

One by one they said thank you, making like Oscar or Emmy winners during the award season -- acknowledging the directors (their parents), the producers (their coaches), the co-stars (their teammates) and ticket buyers (the fans) -- before walking off...

Editor's Note: The beefing up of eligibility standards for junior college transfers is part of a larger academic reform the NCAA is putting in place over the next few years. For more on the changes to freshmen eligibility, click here. A year ago, ...

By proposing much stricter eligibility standards, the NCAA is once again trying to tackle academic reform. But plenty of Division I college basketball coaches have some questions first.

Two years after "The Decision," we have arrived at another anticipated television announcement crossroads. On Wednesday night, Shabazz Muhammad and Nerlens Noel will decree their college intentions, setting off a wave of euphoria among the winners...

The NCAA removed Greg Shaheen Tuesday from his position of interim executive vice president for championships and alliances, replacing him with former Jet Set Sports president Mark Lewis. Most people couldn't pick Shaheen out of a lineup or begin ...