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1. Texas lost 18 games last season. The Longhorns won seven in the Big 12 and were shut out of the NCAA tournament for the first time since head coach Rick Barnes arrived in 1998. Sheldon McClellan and Julien Lewis were third and fourth, respectively...

1. UCLA, USC and Minnesota are finding out what Oregon and others have discovered in how difficult it is to extract coaches from good situations. On the surface the jobs are perceived as better jobs than what some of these coaches currently have, but...

A source close to the situation said Friday that Brad Stevens will remain at Butler despite being the top target in UCLA's search for a new men's basketball coach.

Butler coach Brad Stevens is the top target in UCLA's search for a basketball coach, according to sources with knowledge of the situation.

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...

Andy Katz weighs in on Shaka Smart's decision to remain at Virginia Commonwealth despite interest from Minnesota and UCLA for their head-coaching vacancies....

LOS ANGELES -- Rick Pitino? Really? Billy Donovan? Phil Jackson? Why on Earth would UCLA want to hire one of those guys? OK, they are all proven winners who have shown they know how to run a program with consistent success. On that level, it...

Shaka Smart is staying at VCU, spurning overtures from UCLA and Minnesota as the top target for both schools.

LOS ANGELES--Let the coaching search begin. Ben Howland and Dan Guerrero have said their piece to each other and to the public through press conferences and now a job thought to be among the most prestigious in all of college sports is open. Ju...

John Gasaway examines whether the nation's hottest head-coaching candidate, Shaka Smart, would be able to translate his style and success from VCU to the openings at UCLA and Minnesota.

Story | Conversation | March 26, 2013

With Ben Howland out at UCLA, Andy Katz looks at where the Bruins' coaching search goes from here.

John Gasaway takes a close look at the factors that will decide who wins between VCU and Michigan. Although most point to VCU's defense as a huge key, it could be Michigan's defense that decides this. Plus, Gonzaga and the Pac-12.

Story | Conversation | March 22, 2013

The first time I spoke to the current head coach of the Akron Zips, he told me, "I'm never coaching Division I basketball again." This was in 2000, and Keith Dambrot was coaching a local high school team after years of not being able to find a basket...

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It's so easy to bash the bracket and, by extension, the NCAA tournament selection committee. But this is also a subjective process, where beauty is in the eye of the computers and still, the beholder. The country will never see eye-to-eye with the...

NEW YORK -- For years, the debate has raged over whether or not conference tournaments are really a good idea. And, sure, if you have a league that plays a home-and-away round robin -- like the Big 12, Missouri Valley or West Coast -- you'd think tha...