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CBS Bounces Packer From NCAA Team
CBS Bounces Packer From NCAA Team
Jul 14, 2008 11:57 AM CDT

CBS Bounces Packer From NCAA Team

After 34 years of Final Fours, controversial broadcaster is out

(Newser) - For the first time in 34 years, Billy Packer won’t be calling the Final Four, the Miami Herald reports. CBS won’t renew the 68-year-old’s year-to-year contract, an exec confirmed, but will replace Packer with veteran announcer Clark Kellogg. Packer has been a controversy magnet, most famously for...

Ariz. Coach Swears Off 1-Year Wonders

Olson calls NBA rule "farce," plans to push for changes benefiting college basketball

(Newser) - Lute Olson is sick of an NBA rule that results in top basketball prospects spending just one year in college, the Los Angeles Times reports, and says he'll no longer recruit such players for his University of Arizona program. Olson, who's seen the rule cost Arizona two top players this...

OJ Mayo, Agent Calvin Andrews Cut Ties

Relationship ends amid allegations of NCAA policy abuse

(Newser) - Former USC guard OJ Mayo has cut ties with agent Calvin Andrews. The decision comes less than two weeks after allegations he violated NCAA rules by accepting cash donations while in high school and college. "Due to the overwhelming intensity of recent allegations regarding the recruitment of OJ Mayo,...

NCAA Penalizes Teams for Classroom Performance

Programs with poor graduation rates face sanctions

(Newser) - The NCAA has handed out sanctions to more than 200 college teams for poor academic performance, USA Today reports. More than a third of the 329 Division I schools had teams with subpar Academic Progress Rates, which means their players' graduation rate was lower than 60%. Twenty-six teams deemed chronic...

Stanford Hires Duke's Dawkins as Coach

Longtime Blue Devils assistant takes over after Johnson leaves

(Newser) - Johnny Dawkins, a longtime assistant coach at Duke, has been hired as Stanford's new men's basketball coach. Dawkins replaces Pac-10 Coach of the Year Trent Johnson, who left for LSU earlier this month, two people close to the situation said today. Both people requested anonymity because Stanford had not made...

100,000 at Parade for KU
100,000 at Parade for KU
march madness
Apr 13, 2008 9:37 PM CDT

100,000 at Parade for KU

Fans implore NBA prospects to return during largest fete in Lawrence history

(Newser) - In possibly the biggest celebration in the city's history, a crowd estimated at more than 100,000 lined Lawrence's streets Sunday to honor the national basketball champion Kansas Jayhawks. Fans from as far away as Colorado and Minnesota, some in trees and on rooftops, came to get a glimpse of...

Hansbrough Wins Wooden Award
  Hansbrough Wins
  Wooden Award
Apr 12, 2008 8:06 PM CDT

Hansbrough Wins Wooden Award

North Carolina junior sweeps MVP awards; Parker takes women's honor

(Newser) - He already earned an armful, but Tyler Hansbrough took one last bit of brass Friday night. The North Carolina junior won the John R. Wooden Award as college basketball's top player, giving him essentially a sweep of the season's individual honors, including The Associated Press college basketball player of the...

Why Won't Self Nix OSU Offer?
 Why Won't Self Nix OSU Offer?
Apr 9, 2008 1:18 PM CDT

Why Won't Self Nix OSU Offer?

Jayhawks coach is happy where he is... right?

(Newser) - Kansas Jayhawks coach Bill Self has a lot of leverage now that he's taken his team to the national championship, but he's being uncharacteristically vague in answering rumors of an obscenely generous job offer from his alma mater Oklahoma State. Joe Posnanski speculates in the Kansas City Star as to...

Lady Vols Win Back-to-Back Championships
Lady Vols Win Back-to-Back Championships
March Madness
Apr 8, 2008 11:56 PM CDT

Lady Vols Win Back-to-Back Championships

Tennessee downs Stanford 64-48 to win school's eighth title

(Newser) - Tennessee’s 64-48 victory over Stanford in the national championship game was won in an unusual way for the Lady Vols: they did it with defense. Coach Pat Summit employed a press to slow down the Cardinal’s potent offense and bring back-to-back titles to Tennessee, according to the Tennessean....

Feuding Coaches Won't Face Off in Finals
 Feuding Coaches
 Won't Face Off in Finals
March Madness
Apr 8, 2008 12:38 PM CDT

Feuding Coaches Won't Face Off in Finals

With Auriemma out, Summitt is focused on game

(Newser) - Pat Summitt's feud with Geno Auriemma won't be settled on the basketball court this year, now that his Huskies are out of the NCAA Women's Tournament. And unless both UConn and Summitt's Lady Vols make it to the Final Four next year, the quarrelling coaches won't be meeting any time...

The Blues Ring Out in Memphis
 The Blues Ring Out in Memphis 
March Madness
Apr 8, 2008 12:36 PM CDT

The Blues Ring Out in Memphis

The Tigers had only just begun to believe they could make it

(Newser) - Memphis coach John Calipari had told his team's fans to "Expect good things to happen," and they did. Chris Douglas-Roberts and Derrick Rose knew their Tigers had the chance to snatch the NCAA crown away from Kansas, and for a while it looked like they would. Instead, the...

Ewing, Olajuwon Head Hoops Hall Class

Riley, Vitale, Dantley among others honored

(Newser) - Dick Vitale cried when he heard he was selected to basketball’s Hall of Fame. The former NBA coach turned college basketball analyst joins Hakeem Olajuwon, Patrick Ewing and Pat Riley, among others, in the Class of 2008. "I can't run, can't jump, can't shoot, but just have had...

Tennessee Ready to Defend Title
Tennessee Ready to Defend Title
March Madness
Apr 7, 2008 12:31 AM CDT

Tennessee Ready to Defend Title

Lady Vols squeak by LSU Lady Tigers

(Newser) - The Tennessee Lady Vols are on their way to yet another NCAA national championship game, this time as defending champions. Alexis Hornbuckle made just one basket the entire game, but it couldn’t have come at a better time as she hit the game-winner with 0.7 seconds left on...

Memphis Sails Over UCLA
 Memphis Sails
 Over UCLA 
March Madness
Apr 5, 2008 9:50 PM CDT

Memphis Sails Over UCLA

Tigers take control in the second half to advance to title game

(Newser) - Thanks to Joey Dorsey’s domination of the boards and of UCLA’s Kevin Love, Memphis is headed to the NCAA championship game for the first time since 1973, reports the Commercial Appeal. Dorsey had 15 rebounds and held Love to 12 points and nine rebounds as the Tigers beat...

Buckeyes Capture NIT Championship

Ohio State tops Massachusetts, 92-85, after missing out on NCAA title last year

(Newser) - A year removed from a loss in the national title game, Ohio State has a championship trophy to carry home. Never mind that it's from the NIT. Jamar Butler and his buddies couldn't care less. Butler had 19 points and eight assists in his final college game, leading the Buckeyes...

UConn Beats Rutgers, Advances to Final Four
UConn Beats Rutgers, Advances to Final Four
MARCH MADNESS
Apr 2, 2008 2:45 AM CDT

UConn Beats Rutgers, Advances to Final Four

Stanford up next for Husky women

(Newser) - The Connecticut Huskies battled back from a 14-point deficit to beat Rutgers 66-56 and advance to the Final Four. It is their first trip to the national semifinals since 2004 and the first for the four seniors on the roster, which is odd for a program that has won five...

Indiana Hires Crean Away From Marquette

Also, OK State head coach Sean Sutton resigns after 2nd year

(Newser) - Tom Crean has agreed to leave his head coaching post at Marquette to take over Indiana University’s basketball team. The formal announcement is expected today. “I think he's a great choice for Indiana University,” said an IU trustee of the hire. In 2003 Crean coached the Golden...

Wiggins, Stanford Top Maryland, Head to Final Four
Wiggins, Stanford Top Maryland, Head to Final Four
march madness
Apr 1, 2008 12:11 AM CDT

Wiggins, Stanford Top Maryland, Head to Final Four

Senior's 41 points lead Cardinal to first Final Four in 11 years

(Newser) - Candice Wiggins scored 41 points as the Stanford Cardinal beat the top-seeded Maryland Terrapins 98-87 to advance to the Women's Final Four for the first time in 11 years. The three-time Pac-10 player of the year went 10-for-22 from the field, including 5-of-11 on 3-pointers, and made 16-of-19 free throw...

Even Without Gant, A&amp;M Handles Duke
Even Without Gant, A&M Handles Duke
March Madness
Mar 31, 2008 3:30 AM CDT

Even Without Gant, A&M Handles Duke

Aggies next meet Lady Vols, who cruised past Notre Dame 74-64

(Newser) - Texas A&M is headed to its first regional finals after a 77-63 defeat of Duke, despite losing its star after the first half, AP reports. Danielle Gant scored eight points before dehydration sidelined her, and Patrice Reado took up her mantle, scoring 17 in the second half. The Blue...

Kansas Says 'So Long, Cinderella'
 Kansas Says
 'So Long, Cinderella' 
MARCH MADNESS
Mar 30, 2008 8:00 PM CDT

Kansas Says 'So Long, Cinderella'

Kansas barely avoids upset at the hands of Davidson

(Newser) - Davidson battled Goliath again and this time Goliath won, as Kansas' big men controlled the middle in a 59-57 victory to advance to Final Four for the first time ever under coach Bill Self. It marked it a clean sweep for the No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament, another...

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