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LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Something happened in that halftime locker room last Saturday night at Madison Square Garden. Sure, there were words of encouragement from Louisville coach Rick Pitino as well as demands to play the way Louisville was cap...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Craig Neal knew the pasta Steve Alford would like for lunch at this particular Nob Hill area restaurant a mile or so from New Mexico's campus. Alford took Neal's recommendation, and after a few bites knew it was a good call. Th...

What we know as of Monday morning is that Rick Majerus is facing a serious heart issue. He will not coach Saint Louis this season. Those close to him aren't even talking about when -- or if -- he will coach again. Just last month, Majerus told me a...

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...

Quick hitters on Tuesday: • The Atlantic 10 will have an interesting dilemma if Charlotte ends up going to Conference USA for football. The A-10 is hoping to add Butler to replace Temple, which should be done within the next two weeks unless t...

The repercussions from Norfolk State's win over Missouri and Lehigh's win over Duke -- the first 15-over-2 upsets in the NCAA tournament in over a decade -- are still being felt like tremors across both campuses, both leagues and both bank accounts f...

Florida International forward Dominique Ferguson's plan was to transfer to a school closer to his Indianapolis home. He wanted to be near his family and said he needed smaller classes and more academic attention to succeed. He said he made his trans...

Michigan coach John Beilein has his own policy on transfers. If you want to leave his program, you can't go to a school in the same conference or a team on his schedule over the next two seasons. Fine. As long as that is known to the recruit when h...

The NCAA's Tuesday deadline forced some players to make quicker decisions on whether to stay in school or enter the NBA draft. These players may not have tested the draft process under the old rules. While the NBA early-entry deadline still looms f...

Kentucky coach John Calipari isn't sweating Tuesday's NCAA deadline to declare for the NBA draft because his players won't decide if they're staying or going by then. "They're not going to make that date," Calipari said Monday. "I'm not pushing the...

Tom Crean has done his job. He's prepped Cody Zeller and Christian Watford on their decisions to declare for the NBA draft or return to Indiana for what could be a national-title-chasing season in 2012-13. And if one or both bolt, it won't crush...

Quick hitters post-Final Four: • Pitt and Syracuse representatives won't be at the Big East meetings, but they will be at the ACC meetings in May. The respective coaches will be at the ACC meetings, too. When will the two schools join the AC...

NEW ORLEANS -- The questions will stop now about whether John Calipari can win the final game, the national championship. So what's next for him? "Before I leave coaching, I would like to coach an undefeated team," Calipari told ESPN after Monday n...

The ACC coaches introduced the latest NBA draft rule in 2009 to protect themselves from being held hostage by a decision-making process that could last for months. At first, the NCAA went for a compromise date of May 8, which cut down the "testing p...

A Sweet 16 appearance elevates a program to the next level. A Final Four moves it up another notch. The matchups usually make the difference in getting this far. Talent -- and star power -- also play big roles. There is a certain level of pressur...

Maybe I was naive at times, but I never believed Rick Pitino was leaving Louisville. Not once. Not when stories surfaced that he was looking at the NBA or even another college job, especially after news of his sordid affair and subsequent extortion...