ACC Basketball

BLACKSBURG — New Virginia Tech men's basketball coach James Johnson has landed his first player. Johnson says guard Adam Smith is transferring from UNC Wilmington to the Hokies. Smith started 29 games for the Seahawks as a freshman and was ...  

That changed dramatically in 2009-10, when the ACC’s distributed revenue dipped 13.5 percent (the year previous, the ACC used reserves to award each school a bonus ... million to $31.3 million) and basketball television rights ($36.5 million ...  

The Atlantic Coast Conference and Big Ten announced on Tuesday the matchups for the 2012 ACC/Big Ten Women's Basketball Challenge, including a home game for North Carolina against Ohio State. This year's challenge will mark the sixth year of an event that has been extended to 2016.  

The tournament will be expanded by an additional day, so it is not clear at the outset how many byes will be awarded and how the tournament will be structured now. However, because the tournament will now be spread over five days, it can be ...  

MADISON, Wis. – The University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team will face Virginia Tech in the sixth annual Atlantic Coast Conference/Big Ten Conference Challenge this winter, the conference offices announced today. The Badgers will face the Hokies ...  

The Big Ten Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference announced the matchups for the 6th Annual ACC/Big Ten Women's Challenge today, and the Iowa Hawkeyes will travel to Florida State on Wednesday, Nov. 28. Game times and television have not yet ...  

North Carolina and Florida State have more in common than just being the two combatants in this year's ACC tournament title game. They're also the two teams in the ACC with the most work to do to get back to that level next season. By going ...  

The Atlantic Coast Conference and Big Ten announced on Tuesday the matchups for the 2012 ACC/Big Ten Women's Basketball Challenge. This year's challenge will mark the sixth year of an event that has been extended to 2016.  

Greensboro, N.C. — The Atlantic Coast Conference and Big Ten announced on Tuesday the matchups for the 2012 ACC/Big Ten Women’s Basketball Challenge. This year’s challenge will mark the sixth year of an event that has been extended to 2016.  

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska hosts national women's basketball power Maryland on Nov. 28 in the Big Ten/ACC Challenge. The Cornhuskers' matchup with the Terrapins was announced Tuesday. It is among 12 games pitting Big Ten teams against ...  

The Atlantic Coast Conference is incredibly rich in basketball tradition and has been for decades, with blue bloods Duke and North Carolina having ... championships and is coached by Hall of Famer Jim Calhoun. If fellow powerhouse Syracuse can depart ...  

So, yesterday I wrote this piece over at the mothership. It's all about the ACC and basketball excellence and the league having to recognize that the basketball excellence has not translated into financial success in the current athletic climate.  

The impending addition of two more teams to the Atlantic Coast Conference will require changes in the format of the conference basketball tournaments. The ACC said Wednesday that all 14 schools will play in both the men's and women's conference tournaments -- and they will grow to five-day events starting on Wednesdays and ending on Sundays.  

Former Wake Forest point guard Tony Chennault became the latest transfer to land at another school Tuesday. He’ll play his final two seasons of college eligibility at Villanova, after sitting out next year under NCAA transfer rules. Chennault is one of ...  

Columbus, OH, United States (AHN Sports) – The Ohio State women’s basketball team will travel to Chapel Hill to face the North Carolina Tar Heels Nov. 28 in the 2012 ACC/Big Ten Women’s Basketball Challenge. This year’s challenge will ...  

The Penn State Lady Lions will visit 2012 ACC regular-season runner-up Miami in the Sixth Annual ACC/Big Ten Challenge on Thursday, Nov. 29, it was announced by the Big Ten and ACC. The Lady Lions and Hurricanes have never squared off on the hardwood.  

Swofford’s theft of Syracuse and Pittsburgh from the Big East changed the balance of basketball power. The ACC reclaimed first place in that derby, and for as much money as football generates we cannot forget that basketball is itself an ...  

The Boston College women's basketball team will stay home for the 2012 ACC-Big Ten Basketball Challenge this season. The Eagles will host Northwestern on Wednesday, November 28 at Conte Forum. The announcement was made by both the ACC and the Big Ten this afternoon. The two conferences also announced an extension on the ACC-Big Ten Challenge until 2016.  

A rising junior, the 6-foot Stoglin led the ACC in scoring with a 21.6-point average last season and was expected to be the primary factor in a step forward by the Terps in Mark Turgeon ... Damonte Dodd, Jake Layman and Shaquille Cleare ...  

The only constant during offseason ACC basketball of late has become change. The 2012-13 league outlook changed radically again when Maryland guard Terrell Stoglin opted for the NBA draft on Sunday. The university announced Monday that Stoglin ...  

Michigan State will play at North Carolina State on Nov. 29 as the women's field for the ACC/Big Ten Challenge was announced Tuesday. The Spartans are 3-2 in the Challenge. Last year, MSU lost to No. 9 Miami, 76-60, in East Lansing. The Spartans ...  

Michigan State will play at North Carolina State on Nov. 29 as the women's field for the ACC/Big Ten Challenge was announced Tuesday. The Spartans are 3-2 in the Challenge. Last year, MSU lost to No. 9 Miami, 76-60, in East Lansing. The Spartans ...  

IOWA CITY – The University of Iowa women’s basketball team will travel to Tallahassee, Fla. to face the Florida State Seminoles as part of the sixth annual ACC/Big Ten Challenge. The game is scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 28. Start time and television ...  

As if the Atlantic Coast Conference hasn't already been a BCS punch line long enough, the Southeastern Conference and Big 12 sent an unmistakable message Friday that the basketball-driven league is now treading water in college football's survival-of-the-fittest landscape. read more  

The 2012-13 league outlook changed radically again when Maryland guard Terrell Stoglin opted for the NBA Draft ... With the exit of Stoglin, the top returning ACC scorers should be C.J. Harris (Wake Forest, 16.7 ppg), Travis McKie (Wake, 16.1 ...  

The ACC tournament will be two games, and one day, longer when Syracuse and Pittsburgh finally arrive from the Big East. The conference athletic directors and basketball coaches settled on a format for the expanded, 14-team tournament as their spring meetings at Amelia Island, Fla. concluded on Wednesday. The conference's leadership also sorted out the format for its nine-game ACC football schedule. Syracuse and Pittsburgh are expected to join...  

The University of Minnesota women's basketball team will host Virginia in the sixth annual ACC/Big Ten Women's Basketball Challenge, the conference offices announced Tuesday. The teams will meet at Williams Arena on Thursday, Nov. 29. The ...  

The ACC tournament will be two games, and one day, longer when Syracuse and Pittsburgh finally arrive from the Big East.The conference athletic directors and basketball coaches settled on a format for the expanded, 14-team tournament as their spring meetings at Amelia Island, Fla., concluded Wednesday.The conference’s leadership also sorted out the format for its nine-game ACC football schedule.Syracuse and Pittsburgh are expected to join the...  

The Terrapins men's basketball team will play at Northwestern in next season's ACC/Big Ten Challenge, according to a team release. The game will be on Nov. 27. This is the first time in the history of the Challenge that the two teams have met. The W...  

North Carolina and North Carolina State will be on the road, while Duke and Wake Forest will have rematches from a year ago in the 14th annual Atlantic Coast Conference / Big Ten Challenge. Pairings for the men’s basketball games Nov. 27-28 were...  

The nearly 60-year-old ACC men's basketball tournament is likely to have a corporate title sponsor for the first time next spring. Under a new deal between the ACC and ESPN, the network can sell the real estate, much as Dr. Pepper is attached to the conference's football championship game.  

According to a release issued Monday, CBS Sports has reached a deal with ESPN that will allow for a dozen ACC basketball games to be broadcast on the network, in addition to numerous other top-conference contests. The deal calls for 26 games per year to be ...  

ESPN and the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) have announced an extension to their exclusive agreement through 2026-27 which will now feature several new elements designed to bring added value to ESPN and ACC fans, including more title sponsorship rights, more men's regular-season and conference tournament basketball games, more conference football games, and dozens more Olympic sports competitions.  

As if the Atlantic Coast Conference hasn't already been a BCS punch line long enough, the Southeastern Conference and Big 12 sent an unmistakable message Friday that the basketball-driven league is now treading water in college football's ...  

Twenty years later, it’s come back to haunt Florida State. The decision to join the Atlantic Coast Conference was explained away at the time with reasons ranging from adding height to FSU’s basketball ceiling, to hitching a wagon to a league ...  

GoJackets.com – What was the agenda for the ACC meeting? DRad – “We didn’t formally discuss the FSU matter but there was a lot of informal discussion. We talked about assimilating 2 more teams into the basketball tournament and we talked about the ...  

Mark Turgeon’s debut as head coach at Maryland wasn’t exactly a rousing success, with the Terrapins limping to a 6-10 finish in conference play and a 17-15 record overall. With team-carrying scorer Terrell Stoglin (responsible for 31.4 percent of the ...  

Tell Mike Martin, one of the best college baseball coaches who has ever lived, that he'll end his Hall of Fame career playing road games in Ames, Iowa. Tell Leonard Hamilton, the basketball coach of the defending ACC tournament champions, that he's not ...  

Though Virginia Tech's men's basketball program has experienced more departures of late than it has arrivals, the Hokies picked up a significant addition Wednesday in the form of transferring guard Adam Smith. Smith, a 6-foot-1 guard who played ...  

ESPN and the Atlantic Coast Conference have agreed on a rights deal that extends through the 2026-27 season and will mean additional football, men's and women's basketball and Olympic sports coverage on a variety of platforms. ESPN and the Atlantic Coast ...  

ESPN and the Atlantic Coast Conference have agreed on a rights deal that extends through the 2026-27 season and will mean additional football, men's and women's basketball and Olympic sports coverage on a variety of platforms. ESPN and the Atlantic Coast ...  

The only better basketball you’ll ever see is our intramural team. (We won the championship.) All names of former ACC players and coaches will appear in bold. That’s it for today’s ACC In The NBA Playoffs, but check back tomorrow for ACC-centered ...  

ESPN announced the games for the 14th annual ACC-Big 10 Challenge taking place in November 2012. As would expected the lineup has great match-ups between likely top rank men's college basketball teams occurring. Yahoo! Sports recently projected the Big Ten ...  

For more ACC news, continue to the links below. All recent contributors to the ACC Sports ... back to the College World Series after missing it for three straight years. Caroline Price, a tennis player at UNC and the daughter of Georgia Tech basketball ...  

It's considerably less awesome than Christmas. Honestly, it's considerably less awesome than the ACC/Big Ten Challenge itself, because at least that features actual basketball, rather than the mere promise of it. But it is May. Right now ...  

The nearly 60-year-old ACC men’s basketball tournament is likely to have a corporate title sponsor for the first time next spring. Under a new deal between the ACC and ESPN, the network can sell the real estate, much as Dr. Pepper is attached to the ...  

The reprimand is the first additional penalty that the ACC has meted out in a probation case since 1990, when the league forced Maryland to repay television revenue for men's basketball games after the NCAA banned the Terps from television. North Carolina ...  

The teams will play next season in both Chapel Hill and Raleigh, according an email that Karl Hicks, the ACC’s associate commissioner for men’s basketball, sent to UNC in April. The university earlier today released that email to The News & Observer.  

The Maryland men's basketball team will travel to Northwestern for the 14th annual ACC/Big 10 Challenge. The Terps and Wildcats have met just once before, with Northwestern winning 66-62 on Dec. 6, 1958. The 2012 matchup is scheduled for Nov. 27.  

Back in February, the ACC announced how it planned to deal with the additions of Syracuse and Pittsburgh in terms of scheduling. Over an 18-game conference schedule, each ACC basketball team will have just one primary opponent that it will play ...  

After being paired with teams like Minnesota, Purdue, and Northwestern in the past, the Miami Hurricanes Men’s basketball team will finally play a marquee opponent in the Big 10/ACC Challenge. The ACC announced on Monday that the Hurricanes will welcome ...  

The ACC will adopt the current Big East model when Syracuse and Pittsburgh join the conference in regards to its conference basketball tournament. The field will expand to include all 14 conference teams and will be spread out from Wednesday ...  

ACC men's basketball is in an odd place when it comes to scheduling next season. The league has already agreed to play an 18-game conference season next year in anticipation of Syrcause and Pittsburgh coming on board, but -- before the two newest ACC ...  

When they do, though, the conference has a plan for how it will incorporate them into the ACC basketball tournaments. All 14 teams will get in, Swofford said, and the event will stretch to five days, with seeds 11-14 playing on Wednesday and the ...  

Virginia Tech men’s basketball coach James Johnson has assembled ... Finney-Smith was named to the Atlantic Coast Conference’s all-freshman team after averaging 6.3 points and seven rebounds per game last season. While Johnson must prepare ...  

For the second time in Tubby Smith's six seasons as Minnesota's basketball coach, the Gophers will play Florida State in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge, ESPN announced Monday, May 14. The Gophers, who are ranked 25th in ESPN.com's early preseason top ...  

Most of the ACC schools recruited well ... Tobey isn't necessarily going to light it up offensively, but he has a high basketball IQ and can be counted on to provide intangibles as well as defense and rebounding. He can hit the mid-range shot.  

Among the ACC powers, Duke is currently the only question mark. This, of course, will hurt FSU's chances to win the regular season, but it might ultimately be a good thing. Unlike football, basketball rewards tough schedules, and if FSU can once ...  

The deal gives ESPN title sponsorship rights beyond football to the ACC's other championships, including men's and women's basketball. Those sponsorship deals are subject to the ACC's approval. The extension comes eight months after the ACC announced it ...  

"Allow me to provide you with some of the issues we are facing:" Barron outlined four points made by those who support a move: - The ACC is more of a basketball conference than a football league. - The ACC is too North Carolina centric and the ...  

There is still no set date for when Pittsburgh and Syracuse will officially join the ACC, but earlier this year the league agreed to move to nine conference games in football and 18 conference games in men’s and women’s basketball when they do arrive.  

More than ever, Florida State fans feel they are a football school hopelessly trapped in a basketball league. The most recent bout of Seminole discontent came last year when the ACC expanded to add Pitt and Syracuse — two basketball schools ...  

... 14 ACC titles (eleven regular season crowns and three ACC Tournament championships). She joins Antonio Freeman (former Virginia Tech wide receiver), Gerald Henderson (former VCU basketball player), Billy Wagner (Virginia native with 422 career Major ...  

Previously, the network had that right only for football, which was branded the "Dr Pepper ACC Championship." The men’s basketball tournament has gone without a title sponsor for its entire 59-year history. The renegotiation was triggered by ...  

The deal gives ESPN title sponsorship rights beyond football to the ACC's other championships, including men's and women's basketball. Those sponsorship deals are subject to the ACC's approval. The extension comes eight months after the ACC ...  

The 2012 postseason left ACC men’s basketball in a State. And that’s a good thing as the conference approaches its 60th year of competition. Since its inception in 1953-54, the ACC has resisted definition as North Carolina- and basketball-centric.  

DURHAM, N.C.-- The Duke men's basketball team will host Ohio State in Cameron Indoor Stadium in a potential top-10 matchup as part of the 14th annual ACC/Big Ten Challenge Presented by Dick's Sporting Goods on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012.  

The new pact also gives ESPN permission to sell naming rights to ACC championship events such as the men’s basketball tournament. The network reaps that money, but the league has veto power over any naming sponsor. At 59 years old, the ACC ...  

and Agnus Berenato (women's basketball) were on hand at Out Door Country Club to talk about Pitt, with an eye on the future. That future includes an expected move in the summer of 2013 from the Big East to the Atlantic Coast Conference.  

The ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament, televised in its entirety on ESPN networks and its syndication partner Raycom, has never been sponsored in its 59-year history. John Skipper, president, ESPN and co-chair, Disney Media Networks, said ...  

The ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament, televised in its entirety on ESPN networks and its syndication partner Raycom, has never been sponsored in its 59-year history. John Skipper, president, ESPN and co-chair, Disney Media Networks, said ...  

The 15-year deal gives ESPN title sponsorship rights beyond football to the ACC’s other championships, including men’s and women’s basketball. Those sponsorship deals are subject to the ACC’s approval. The extension comes eight months ...  

Men’s basketball coach Tony Bennett has signed an agreement that extends his contract at Virginia by five years, according to a document obtained Wednesday by the Daily Press from U.Va.’s Office of Public Affairs. Bennett’s contract ...  

Under the new deal, ESPN will now broadcast an additional 30 ACC men’s basketball games. The increase is mainly due of the addition of Pitt and Syracuse, and the ACC’s move to an 18-game conference schedule, which begins next season.  

“(The TV deal) continues the perception that the ACC favors the North Carolina schools,” he said. Using your decoder rings, you’ll know that “North Carolina schools” translates into “basketball schools.” Duke, North ...  

“It’s mind-boggling and shocking,” said Haggard. “How can the ACC give up third tier rights for football but keep them for basketball? … “It continues the perception that the ACC favors the North Carolina schools.” Add it all ...  

Boston College is 10-0-2 against the Huskies in football, while UConn leads the basketball series, 54-35. Shortly after BC announced its plans to join the ACC, Connecticut basketball coach Jim Calhoun said he never would play the Eagles again as long as he ...  

Haggard's issue with the television deal is that the conference gave up third-tier rights to football games but kept the rights for basketball. Haggard says it "continues the perception that the ACC favors the North Carolina schools" because Duke and North ...  

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) Wake Forest has hired former star player Jen Hoover as its women's basketball coach ... as the top assistant to Joanne Boyle at California. Boyle is now at ACC rival Virginia. She replaces Mike Petersen, who spent eight years ...  

It'll be a who's who of who's that destined to confuse even serious college basketball fans over the span of six rounds. Yes, the Big East tournament could theoretically have the same amount of rounds as the main bracket of the NCAA tournament. Yippie!  

INDIANAPOLIS — Butler, Indiana, Notre Dame and Purdue have agreed to continue playing the Crossroads Classic through 2014. The schools made joint announcements Wednesday, saying they had agreed to extend the contract for two more years. Last year marked ...  

Though college basketball recruiting is amid its dead period, that doesn't mean prospects are taking any time off. Plenty of top players continue to stand out, and many should see increased attention once visits and evaluations start again on May 27.  

(AP) I can't get enough of the November and December made-for-TV events in college basketball. Anything that spices up interesting non-conferences games is good for the sport. Always. We need more interesting before February, and things like the Crossroads ...  

It'll be a who's who of who's that destined to confuse even serious college basketball fans over the span of six rounds. Yes, the Big East tournament could theoretically have the same amount of rounds as the main bracket of the NCAA tournament. Yippie!  

It was all too perfect. In the morning, the COIA is blasting UK and imploring every program to refuse a neutral-site game with Kentucky out of fear it will lead to a path that will "professionalize" college basketball. In the evening, it's learned Kentucky ...  

He may or may not be drafted into the NBA next month, yet he will always have a platform. English was a very good college basketball player, part of the most successful senior class in Missouri history, a tough, gifted spot-up shooter and willing teammate.  

We have it this year, playing in New York. So there's three right there." The ending of a series between the two border state rivals and two of college basketball's most prestigious programs has been a hot topic around the state since Indiana athletic ...  

With his trademark fade haircut, a twitter account with more than 50,000 followers and status as the best big man in high school basketball, Nerlens Noel was given the royal treatment whenever he took his unofficial visits to colleges. Now the NCAA wants ...  

The 2012 recruiting class for Duke basketball threatened to be a disappointing one. After hitting early with star shooting guard Rasheed Sulaimon, many blue-chip recruits chose to play their college basketball elsewhere. Jefferson's decision hurts most in ...  

In addition to previously announced United Township forward Tayvian Johnson, the seven-player recruiting class for the Augustana College men’s basketball program includes the only senior starter on an Iowa City West team that won the Iowa Class 4A state championship.  

That was my position on the fiscal side, and it stands. And it stands for other sports, too. Pay other college athletes -- basketball players, baseball, tennis? When pigs fly. But on the gridiron side, it dawns on me that the issue of paying players is ...  

Firestone girls basketball coach Audley McGill and his coaching staff will definitely have an eye on the college basketball scene next season. McGill said five Falcons seniors — Tayelor McCalister, Shaia Horton, Tena Johnson, Ocean Jennings and Darice ...  

Kentucky led the nation in attendance for the 16th time in 17 years (Getty Images) It should come as no surprise which teams were among the national leaders in attendance for the 2011-12 college basketball season. For the seventh straight season and 16th ...  

The Bruins under Ben Howland were used to being at the top of the polls and the recruiting rankings in his first six seasons, and then the bottom fell out. No one in the country needed to reload more than Howland and UCLA did, and they took care of that ...  

When one of them hurts, they all hurt. And right now, the college basketball officiating community is hurting big time. One of their own, one of the best on the court and one of the most well-liked off the court — Joe DeMayo — has two sons whose lives ...  

They are twin brothers who excel at football and basketball and plan to play both sports at the same college. The story of Tyrell and Tyree Robinson is a special one, a rare one, and something that is so unique it might not come around again for ...  

May 11, 2012 - The Maryland Terrapins men's basketball team got a glimpse of the 2012-13 schedule on Friday and it looks to be a rough one. The ACC is going ahead with an 18-game regular season this year in advance of the Pittsburgh Panthers and ...  

Boston College is 10-0-2 against the Huskies in football, while UConn leads the basketball series, 54-35. Shortly after BC announced its plans to join the ACC, Connecticut basketball coach Jim Calhoun said he would never play the Eagles again as ...  

An Ohio nightclub bouncer has accused members of the Cincinnati men's basketball team of assaulting him, WXIX-TV reported. Get more college basketball news and features from Scout.com or check out your favorite team. Brian McLucas filed a police ...  

Last month, all five University of Kentucky basketball starters announced they would leave Lexington to play professional basketball. The three freshmen and two sophomores declared their intent two weeks after Kentucky won the national championship.  

Two college basketball recruiting analysts, writing for ESPN RecruitingNation recently gave Wisconsin and Marquette solid grades for their 2012 classes. Dave Telep, writing for ESPN Insider, gave Marquette a "B" grade for signing forwards Steve ...  

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - A judge on Friday threw out a defamation lawsuit brought against Syracuse University and men's basketball coach Jim Boeheim by two men who said the Hall of Fame coach slandered them when he said their accusations of sexual ...  

1. Over the weekend, UNLV added top-10 recruit Anthony Bennett to a roster that already includes Mike Moser and will include Khem Birch at Christmas. Will the Rebels have the best front line in college basketball next year? The most interesting ...  

"In those days, because of the separation of people of different races, we had to go to the commu­nity center in Dothan for basketball." The transfer to all-black Carver made sense and led to a college basketball career -- first at Gardner-Webb ...  

Before we go any further, that's the basic thesis here: The COIA thinks Kentucky's modus operandi will ruin college basketball, an in turn, the NCAA. The COIA thinks Calipari will completely overturn a model that's been in use for nearly a century.  

The University of Minnesota women's basketball team will host Virginia in the sixth annual ACC/Big Ten Women's Basketball Challenge, the conference offices announced Tuesday. The Golden Gophers and the Cavaliers will face off at Williams Arena ...  

"It's mind-boggling and shocking," said Haggard. "How can the ACC give up third tier rights for football but keep them for basketball?" Haggard is referring to the fact that the ACC surrendered all third tier television rights for football to ...  

The Tar Heels and Wolfpack indeed will play once in Chapel Hill and once in Raleigh next season, according to an email Karl Hicks, the ACC associate commissioner for men’s basketball, sent to North Carolina last month. The university released ...  

The Michigan Wolverines will host NC State on Tuesday, November 27th as part of the 14th annual Big Ten/ACC Challenge. This will be the third time the Wolverines have faced the Wolfpack in the Challenge, Michigan won in 2003 and NC State in 2006.  

At issue: The ACC surrendered its schools' third-tier rights for football games - ESPN will control those - but allowed the schools to maintain those rights for basketball. Schools that hold third-tier rights can negotiate their own deals for ...  

You only go through this (playing college basketball) once, and you need to be happy." Gabbard added that Tech will grant Finney-Smith his release to a school "not in direct competition" with the Hokies, meaning an ACC rival. Finney-Smith and ...  

George Mason is staying in the Colonial Athletic Association. Get more college basketball news and features from Scout.com or check out your favorite team. Athletic director Tom O'Connor says a committee of senior officials assessed the goals ...  

But he doesn't. That's because he and his mom fell in love with a college basketball coach, not a school. And because he's barely 18 and doesn't grasp the priorities of his choice. And because I suspect everyone around him is emphasizing his ...  

College basketball has long been dominated by African-Americans on the court. The same can't be said for the sidelines. And the numbers of minority coaches aren't getting much better -- they're stagnant or even declining at the Division I level.  

Don’t be surprised to see Zach Price and Angel Nunez play bigger roles in the Cardinals’ rotation as sophomores next season. Price, a 6-foot-10 center, appeared in 19 games and Nunez, a 6-7 forward, just 12 as freshmen. But coach Rick Pitino ...  

The ACC basketball schedule has not been particularly pleasing to the eye for some time now. It’s no different than in any other mega-league caught up in expansion fever over the past several years – the addition of new teams ruined the old ...  

After a strong spring of AAU basketball, Harrell may now be garnering interest ... a month and a half after Tech finished 16-17 overall and 4-12 in the ACC in his ninth season as the Hokies' coach. Johnson was hired a week after Greenberg's ...  

FLETCHER — This time last year N.C. State basketball supporters hoped Mark Gottfried could revive a once proud program that won two national championships in 10 seasons and included the best team in the history of the ACC. Now, they have faith.  

AUBURN, Alabama -- Auburn basketball's revolving door has opened for another player Tuesday with the addition of Sharief Adamu, a junior college forward from Georgia Perimeter College in Alpharetta who began his college career at Alabama State.  

Georgia Tech will begin its sale of men’s basketball season tickets Monday for the first ... Courtside and club seats are $5,000 and $2,000, respectively. Tech’s ACC home schedule will feature Clemson, Florida State, Maryland, Miami, North ...  

"I don't think there's any question football's important here, but so is basketball." But the numbers don't lie. A review of how much ACC schools spend on football and basketball quickly reveals where they place their priorities. Football ...  

Belleville West seniors Diamond Enlow, Samantha Voegtle and Emily Becker have announced their plans to play college basketball. Becker, a 6-foot forward, will attend William Woods University in Fulton, (Mo.) where she will compete in both ...  

Especially in service of writing college basketball articles in the offseason ... He later drilled a season-high 32 against another ACC team, Wake Forest. Of course, the Seahawks lost both of those games, and 19 more last season, and the ...  

A former Elmhurst Collegestudent was found guilty of a hate crime today for carving racial epithets into the window sill of a fellow student’s dorm room last December. Myles G. Burton, 21, faces up to five years in prison for carving the ...  

FLINT, MI – Two important people were missing at Montana Gooch's college signing day on April 27. His mother and father had died a week apart several years earlier. The 18-year-old smiled in the library at Flint Beecher High School and ...  

Boston College and Connecticut haven’t met in either football (2004) or men’s basketball (2005) since BC’s move, and Connecticut governor Dannel P. Malloy would like to see that change. Malloy has a vested interest in this as he’s a ...  

We could have given you a preseason top 25 for the next college basketball season on the day after the Final Four ended. The Kentucky Wildcats had five starters scheduled to return. They’d have looked like a pretty fair pick to repeat.  

CBS Sports, college basketball's leading network broadcaster, has acquired the rights to broadcast men’s college basketball games from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), Big 12 and Pac-12 Conferences through an agreement with ESPN.  

It will be relevant if/when they find something punishable. Rob Dauster is the editor of the college basketball website Ballin’ is a Habit. You can find him on twitter @robdauster.