Category: College Basketball
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
As the conferences continue to change in major college athletics, so too are the people that run them. Big East commissioner John Marinatto resigned with the league announcing the news in a press release on Monday.
Marinatto had held the position less than three years, a tumultuous time for a basketball-heavy ...
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
It was one of the more head-turning hires in recent memory in college basketball. It was also one that probably made you scratch that head. SMU recently hired coaching great Larry Brown, who hadn't coached at the college level in more than two decades, about the same time that the ...
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Monday, April 23rd, 2012
Prior to this past season, Vontaze Burfict had dreams of a Pac-12 Championship and possibly being a first round pick in the 2012 NFL Draft. Unfortunately the Pac-12 Preseason Defensive Player of the Year had an awful season in Tempe and that poor momentum has carried over to the pre-draft ...
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Monday, April 23rd, 2012
Bo Ryan's last week could have gone better. The Wisconsin coach went under the microscope for a situation involving the transfer of his former player, Jared Uthoff. Initially it came out that Ryan was blocking all Big Ten and ACC schools, as well as Iowa State and Marquette, from Uthoff's ...
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Friday, April 20th, 2012
Wisconsin University has elected to reverse its decision regarding Jarrod Uthoff. Bo Ryan had originally told his freshman forward that Wisconsin would block him from contacting as many as 25 schools in the Big 10 and ACC. While it's not unusual to block a transfer from going to an in-conference ...
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Thursday, April 19th, 2012
After a few years as an assistant with Billy Donovan at Florida, and then working as the associate head coach with his father during Louisville’s run to the Final Four this past season, Richard Pitino is ready to step out of his father’s shadow and take over a program of ...
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Thursday, April 19th, 2012
A huge weight was lifted off John Calipari’s shoulders this past season when he finally captured his elusive National Championship. And it was probably Cal’s best coaching job. While he did have loads of talent, many of them were underclassmen and he was the man responsible for getting them to ...
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Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
It appeared there could be some questions about just where Missouri would stand on the college basketball front next year. The Tigers wrapped up a 30-win season and a No. 2 seed in the NCAA tournament, but were upset in their first game of the Big Dance. The team was ...
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Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
This relatively new term of a 'one-and-done' player has quickly become a fixture on the college basketball scene at the Division I Men's level. Every season the balance of power quickly changes with elite players leaving school only after one season to set their sights on the NBA. Underclassmen are ...
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Friday, April 13th, 2012
When we last saw Ben Howland, the UCLA coach was coming off a season where his Bruins didn't even make the postseason and they had recently been slammed by a Sports Illustrated article that shed negative light on what Howland and the program were doing. He might not have erased ...
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