college basketball

DeCock: Coach K must get creative

By LUKE DeCOCK, Raleigh News and Observer

Mike Krzyzewski was talking about the Atlantic Coast Conference on Tuesday when he best expressed the challenges he faces with his own men's basketball team this season.

"One of the great things about college basketball is the creativity that is brought about because of necessity," the Duke coach said.

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Kantowski: NCAA stubbornness a sure bet

By RON KANTOWSKI, Las Vegas Sun

Now that it has been officially announced that the Western Athletic Conference will join the West Coast Conference in holding its men's and women's postseason basketball tournaments at the Orleans Arena, I figure it's only a matter of time until the Big Sky Conference announces that it, too, will move its hoops shindig to Las Vegas.

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Pickeral: Which ACC players are next to be NBA bound?

By ROBBI PICKERAL, Raleigh News and Observer

Wake Forest guard Jeff Teague (stayed in NBA Draft), Maryland guard Greivis Vasquez (returned to school) and Georgia Tech forward Gani Lawal (returned) waited until last Monday's deadline to decide their NBA futures.

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Wake Forest won't fall too far in ACC basketball race

By LENOX RAWLINGS, Winston-Salem Journal

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.

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Calkins: Memphis pays the price for hiring Calipari

By GEOFF CALKINS, Scripps Howard News Service

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!"

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Calkins: NCAA allegations usually follow Calipari

By GEOFF CALKINS, Scripps Howard News Service

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.

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With one arm, Laue earns D-I scholarship

By TOM FITZGERALD, San Francisco Chronicle

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.

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Adams: Calipari good for the SEC

By JOHN ADAMS, Scripps Howard News Service

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

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Hackenberg: NCAA turns blind eye to recruiting mess

By DAVE HACKENBERG, Toledo Blade

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.

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Senkiw: The curious case of John Wall

By BRAD SENKIW, Scripps Howard News Service

John Wall isn't your typical high school recruit. That's been made apparent by a young man that hasn't even played a second of college basketball.

In case you don't know, the Raleigh, N.C. native is one of the most talented players in the nation, and he's yet to make a choice were he'll be attending school in the fall.

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