college basketball

I have seen the future of Memphis basketball and I would like to reach out and pinch its cheeks.
Josh Pastner is 31. That's not much older than some Memphis players under John Calipari.
Memphis wanted to make a "wow" hire. This is more of a "coochie coochie coo."
Looks like Memphis has itself a Diaper Dandy.

After North Carolina dashed past Michigan State and everyone else to the national basketball championship, the best description of the 2008-09 Tar Heels' superiority remained the words spoken by Brad Greenberg way back on March 18.

Regardless of North Carolina's Final Four fate, the busiest guy in Chapel Hill during the next few months may be a Tar Heel you won't see if you blink long Saturday and perhaps Monday.
As the team's third-string point guard, freshman Larry Drew II understands better than anyone that he's far from center stage.

Working on a tip, I walked across campus Wednesday afternoon and stepped into an elevator at the University of Arizona administration building. I punched a button for the seventh floor and was soon at the compound of school president Robert Shelton.

Match-up capsule previews of Saturday's NCAA Final Four games in Detroit. All times Eastern, seeds are indicated and all stats through Monday.

No. 2 MICHIGAN STATE (30-6) vs. No. 1 CONNECTICUT (31-4), 6:07 p.m., CBS.
COACHES: Tom Izzo (335-136 in 16th year at Michigan State) and Jim Calhoun (555-202 in 23rd year at UConn).

The Southeastern Conference knows how to make a splash. The splash comes with cash.
Alabama did it in football two years ago when it made Nick Saban the highest-paid college football coach in the country. Kentucky did it Tuesday when it made John Calipari the highest-paid coach in college basketball.
Who says this is just a football league?

They assembled outside John Calipari's big house on Tuesday, the TV trucks and the gawkers and the collection of never-say-die fans.
"S-T-A-Y," they chanted.
It was sweet, really. And mournful, too.
A white van arrived with flowers. Someone stuck a "Not For Sale By Owner" sign on Calipari's lawn.

The biggest cheer from North Carolina's bench on Sunday didn't come after Danny Green's rim bouncing 3-pointer, Ty Lawson's run-stopping pair of free throws or Larry Drew's key put-back.

What a thriller, Memphis sports fans!
And you thought we were done with buzzer beaters for the year!
Not when Memphis basketball coach John Calipari is involved, evidently.
Somewhere in the late afternoon or early evening Monday, Memphis vs. Kentucky turned into one for the ages.

It's pretty safe to assume that North Carolina basketball coach Roy Williams doesn't have Metallica's "Kill 'em All" album on his iPod and that 5-foot-7 drummer Lars Ulrich and his bandmates don't throw down monster jams -- the basketball kind -- between tour dates.