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Chattanooga hired VCU assistant Will Wade as the Mocs' new men's basketball coach on Monday, hoping his experience helping the VCU Rams develop into an NCAA tournament team can get that program back on track.

This week's Friday notebook includes a look at Roy Williams visiting a top-10 junior in Minnesota, Kentucky visiting No. 1 prospect Andrew Wiggins, UNLV's Baltimore pipeline and much more basketball recruiting news. Strike with the guard down ...

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....

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

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- Visions of Mitch McGary's past came bubbling up Saturday afternoon as he stood waiting to set a screen for his point guard, Trey Burke. The Michigan freshman forward stood firmly, and Briante Weber had no chance. He ran rig...

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- Quick thoughts from fourth-seeded Michigan's 78-53 win over No. 5 seed VCU on Saturday from the Palace of Auburn Hills. Overview: Havoc? The only havoc caused in this game Saturday was from Michigan. The Wolverine...

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- VCU has spent much of this season flustering opposing point guards, sending them into various states of disarray and their "Havoc" defense wreaked, well, havoc on the plans of opponents all season long. The Rams, th...

1. Harvard won an NCAA tournament game for the first time in program history. The Crimson defeated No. 3-seed New Mexico. Harvard is the first 14-seed or lower from the Ivy League to win an NCAA tournament game. 2. Since seeding began in 1979, the...

Michael Rothstein talks with VCU guard Darius Theus after the Rams beat Akron 88-42....

The VCU Rams enter the 2013 NCAA tournament as the 5-seed in the South Region, their highest seed since 1985. Many statistics show that this year's VCU team is better than the 2011 team that made it to the Final Four as an 11-seed. So why is VCU p...

It is officially the time of year when my friends and family ask me for bracket advice. And why not? They know someone who follows this stuff year-round, and could possibly give them an advantage in the office pool, and I am happy to provide whatever...

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...

Kwamain Mitchell scored 19 points to lead the Saint Louis Billikens past the VCU Rams 62-56....

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...

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