college basketball

The jokes abound regarding randy University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino. There's the one about him calling a restaurant and asking for a table for two. At which point, the maitre d' inquires: "Would you like silverware with that?"

As well as: Rick Pitino never orders the table d'hote; only the table that's hot.

Now we know why Rick Pitino owned a restaurant when he was coaching Kentucky.

It wasn't the food. It was the social life.

Maybe you think Pitino's recently reported sexual encounter with a woman in a Louisville restaurant was an isolated incident. Then, you might want to drop by later today when I put on a dunking exhibition.

Maryland basketball coach Gary Williams is proud of former player Chris Wilcox for signing a new NBA contract. Virginia Tech coach Seth Greenberg is excited that furniture is being moved into his team's new practice facility. Clemson coach Oliver Purnell recently met with a prospective new strength coach.

How do I know? The same way recruits do: Twitter.

For a guy whose North Carolina basketball team just ran away with the NCAA championship and cranked out enough NBA draft picks to qualify for expansion franchise consideration, Roy Williams is getting zero respect these days.

The latest blow landed Wednesday, when The Sporting News revealed its 50 all-time greatest coaches and Ol' Roy was no more on the list than Patrick Roy.

Jeff Teague's exit hurts the Wake Forest basketball team, but it doesn't condemn the Deacons to bottom feeding.
The doomsday scenario, evident in media reports and alumni chatter, hardly squares with proven theories of ACC relativity. For Wake Forest to sink from the league's third rung to the bottom third, a whole lot of teams must rise.

Go Tigers? Really?
That's what the University of Memphis has to say about Saturday's date with the NCAA in Indianapolis?
"To all Tiger fans, please know that we will represent you well on June 6," wrote the university's lawyer, Sheri Lipman, in a letter to the Board of Visitors and the Board of Trustees. "And go Tigers!"

John Calipari is one of a handful of college basketball coaches to take two different schools to the Final Four.
Before long, he may be the only one to have both of those appearances vacated from the NCAA record books.

There's a long line of basketball coaches who didn't think Kevin Laue could play for a Division I college. They're all wrong.
Laue, a 6-foot-11 center from Pleasanton, Calif. who was born without a left forearm, has accepted a full scholarship to play for Manhattan College. He is believed to be the first disabled person ever to receive a Division I basketball scholarship.

When Kentucky hired John Calipari as its new basketball coach, the rest of the SEC probably responded with a collective "uh-oh."

One thing to remember next year while you're filling out your NCAA tournament bracket, trying to trade your first-born child for a Final Four ticket, hearing Dickie V nominate another coach for sainthood, and waiting for CBS to cue up "One Shining Moment." College basketball at the highest level is a cesspool.