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1. Creighton's Doug McDermott is nowhere near close to making a decision on whether to declare for the NBA or return to the Bluejays, his father and coach Greg McDermott said. Greg McDermott said Doug will take this call down to the NBA's April 28 de...

Joe Mihalich is leaving behind 15 successful seasons at Niagara to take over Hofstra's troubled men's basketball program.

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...

Hofstra has fired men's basketball coach Mo Cassara, the school announced Friday.

Kansas coach Bill Self was in the postgame handshake line after his team's 72-66 loss to Oklahoma when he looked up and saw hundreds of students rushing the Lloyd Noble Center court. His lips didn't move, but as he tilted back his head and rolled ...

1. Hofstra coach Mo Cassara said Sunday he was still "heartbroken" and was finding it "really hard," to deal with the aftermath of four players being arrested for thefts on campus. The Pride then went out and got smoked by SMU. Hofstra has had a toug...

Hofstra men's basketball coach Mo Cassara is "heartbroken" over the arrests of four of his players on burglary charges earlier this week.

Four Hofstra men's basketball players have been arrested and charged with "various counts of burglary," the university announced Friday.

1. Expect the NCAA tournament selection committee to change its bracketing principles for the first two rounds that protects teams in the same conference. Xavier athletic director Mike Bobinski, who is the 2013 chair, said that the latest round of co...

Hofstra did not have a conventional October, and November was bound to be strange. In early October, preparations for the Hofstra-hosted second presidential debate uprooted the Pride for two weeks before, and one week after, the actual debate itse...

Hofstra Pride sophomore guard Shaquille Stokes has been granted a hardship waiver by the NCAA and will be eligible to play this season.

Hofstra has had no sense of normalcy to start this season. The Pride desperately needed to have a productive preseason after finishing 3-15 in the CAA, 10-22 overall last season. The team also has six new faces this season. But the second president...

Before we get to team-by-team previews for the Colonial Athletic Association, here is Dana O'Neil's team-by-team analysis of the nonconference schedules in the CAA. For in-depth previews of all 11 CAA teams, check out Blue Ribbon's breakdowns: De...

Blue Ribbon Yearbook previews the 2012-13 college basketball season, exclusively on Insider.

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This week, ESPN.com is breaking down the nonconference schedules of each and every team in a dozen of nation's top leagues. On Monday, we began with the ACC, SEC and C-USA. We started Tuesday with the A-10 and Big East and now it's off to the Coloni...

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...