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1. Ohio State and Marquette are in negotiations to play on a naval ship in Charleston, S.C., on or around Veteran's Day, according to multiple sources familiar with their scheduling. The game would be organized by Morale Entertainment, the same group...

All that's left for Bob Thomason to craft the perfect exit is for Pacific to win the Big West conference tournament and earn the league's automatic berth in 2012-13. Few coaches have been able, regardless of conference, league or level, to put toget...

1. The Atlantic 10 will discuss and then likely decide Thursday on how it will schedule with 15 teams next season, according to commissioner Bernadette McGlade. The A-10, which will wrap up spring meetings Thursday, will have 15 schools in the league...

If you live outside of the "big six" conferences, scheduling can be an often-frustrating game. But not at UNLV. The Runnin' Rebels, much like Xavier, Temple, Memphis, Gonzaga and Butler, can get quality nonconference matchups. Last season, UNLV had...

Needless to say, by the time the news was announced Tuesday afternoon, this was not exactly the shock of the century. Early Tuesday morning, Mike Brey told our own Andy Katz that Notre Dame had agreed to extend its commitment to the Crossroads Cla...

1. The Big East and SEC are expected to finalize the pairings for their challenge sometime in the next two weeks. Any speculation (as I did last week) on the pairings is now moot as the conferences try to figure out arena openings and home/road setup...

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.Notre Dame coach Mike Brey said the Irish have extended their commitment to the Crossroads Classic for another two seasons. Brey expects the event to continue and be a fixture on the Irish's schedule. Notre Dame lost badly to Indiana last season w...

1. Conference USA's board will vote in a few weeks on whether to move the conference tournament from Memphis to Tulsa. The consensus among C-USA members is that it will be moved out of Memphis and that includes those at Memphis. The difference betwee...

Colonial Athletic Association commissioner Tom Yeager called Southern Conference commissioner John Iamarino on Thursday to give him the professional courtesy of knowing that he would be contacting a few of Iamarino's member schools, widely believed t...

New Jersey is hosting a draft combine Saturday and Sunday for mostly second-round and some possible first-round picks. Minnesota will host a similar event May 30-31 before the NBA takes over for the annual draft camp in Chicago June 6-8. Here are s...

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...

Andy Katz on Old Dominion moving to Conference USA and the future of the Colonial Athletic Association....

Oregon State put the full-court press on Victor Robbins as soon as Jared Cunningham declared for the NBA draft by the NCAA's April 10 deadline. The Beavers nabbed the 6-foot-6 forward from Compton, Calif., to give them a much-needed body up front wh...

1. Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said Wednesday that he was in full support of the rules committee decision to have one finished, flat surface on the court instead of temporary decals or logos. "I just wish they would get rid of them," Krzyzewski said. ...

The Atlantic 10 and Colonial Athletic Association will have major scheduling decisions at their respective conference meetings in two weeks, brought about by VCU's sudden move to join the A-10 for this fall rather than waiting a year. The Rams felt ...