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Louisville, Michigan look to create lasting bond
Rick Pitino knows how lasting one more win would be. It would give everyone a reason to stay connected. It would create a lifetime bond. To drive that ...
Louisville, Michigan escape shadows at Final Four
The hoops teams at Louisville and Michigan are used to being overlooked. The Cardinals may be a national powerhouse, but they're still considered ...
Rutgers scandal grows, even as AD Pernetti resigns
The burgeoning basketball scandal has cost Rutgers more than a popular, young athletic director, an interim general counsel, two coaches and a lot of ...
As Rutgers sets to repair image, AD's job in limbo
It seemed a perfect fit when Tim Pernetti was hired as athletic director at Rutgers in April 2009. A New Jersey native who played tight end for the ...
Big East to become American Athletic Conference
The current Big East will be called the American Athletic Conference starting next season. The conference announced the decision Wednesday after ...
Column: Farewell to the greatest hoops league ever
Thanks for nothing, greedy college administrators. Because of you, we're bidding farewell to the greatest basketball conference there ever was — and ...
AP source: Butler, Creighton, Xavier to Big East
The two conferences growing out of the old Big East are moving forward. Butler, Creighton and Xavier will join the so-called Catholic 7 schools in the ...
The bracket lives before the games
Drop the pen. Everybody knows no ink makes contact with a bracket sheet until Monday night at the earliest. Until it's deadline time, pencils are ...
No. 5 Georgetown pulls away from Cincy at Big East
After coughing up a big lead in the middle of the game, Otto Porter Jr. and his Georgetown teammates showed off all the attributes that make them a ...
Georgetown has Big East coach, player of the year
John Thompson, the first of the Georgetown coaches with that name, was sitting on a raised area just feet from where John Thompson III was accepting ...
Notre Dame to join ACC next season
Goodbye Madison Square Garden, Georgetown and Villanova. Hello Greensboro Coliseum, North Carolina and Duke. A year from now, Notre Dame men's ...
No. 5 Georgetown beats No. 17 Syracuse 61-39
Georgetown coach John Thompson III was noting all the ways — and there were many — in which his team's lopsided, Big East-closing victory over ...
Big East completes football-basketball breakup
When the Big East divorce was complete, the basketball schools got the early separation they wanted, the name of the conference many of them founded ...
AP Source: Big East football keeps $100m in split
Big East football schools will get almost all of a $110 million pot in a deal that will allow seven departing basketball schools to keep the name Big ...
Big East breakup picks up speed
The breakup of the Big East's football and basketball schools appears to be on the fast track. The major college football members will meet in Atlanta ...
AP source: Big East moving on NBC Sports Net deal
The Big East is moving past damage control and toward finally finishing some important business. Two people familiar with the deal say the Big East ...
San Diego State jilts Big East, staying in MWC
San Diego State is staying in the Mountain West and backing out on the Big East — just as Boise State did last month. University President Elliot ...
It's official: Shafer takes over at Syracuse
As he addressed the media at his first press conference as coach, Syracuse's Scott Shafer briefly fumbled for words as he looked over at his wife and ...
AP Sources: Shafer to take over at Syracuse
Four years ago, Scott Shafer's football sojourn almost seemed at a dead end. Fired after only one year as defensive coordinator at Michigan under Rich ...
Notre Dame women shock No. 1 UConn 73-72
Skylar Diggins and Notre Dame just seem to have Connecticut's number. The Irish have turned one of the best rivalries in women's basketball into a ...
Ole Miss crushes Pitt 38-17 in BBVA Compass Bowl
Hugh Freeze needed only one year to make a winner out of a Mississippi team that was woeful in 2011. The coach noted with satisfaction that most ...
Louisville upsets Florida 33-23 in Sugar Bowl
Terell Floyd and the Louisville Cardinals gave the embattled Big East Conference at least one more triumphant night in a major bowl — and at the ...
Syracuse plows through WVU and snow, 38-14
The weather made passing at the Pinstripe Bowl perilous, so Syracuse sent Prince-Tyson Gulley and Jerome Smith dashing through West Virginia and the ...
Va. Tech ends tough season with Russell Bowl win
Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer was candid this week in acknowledging that a lackluster 6-6 regular season was not the standard that the Hokies had ...