Bob Knight joins ESPN Ronald Martinez / Getty Images A quick roundup of the headlines as we prepare for the weekend... Anyone watching the Georgia Tech/Duke game on Thursday night had a pretty ... Read More

It appears that Tennessee's reign on top of the college basketball world will be a bit short-lived; just two days after taking over the top spot in the polls, the ... Read More

Had to share a little video that is making the rounds through all the sports blogs -- I'm not ashamed to jump on a bandwagon. This link from AOL's Fanhouse blog ... Read More

The Hoosiers had a complete roster on hand for last night's game at Northwestern, but Indiana barely beat the Wildcats, 85-82 in Dan Dakich's debut as interim head coach. The ... Read More

Last week we brought you the story of the religious high school in Kansas that refused to allow a woman referee to call a boy's basketball game. On Friday, ESPN.com ... Read More

Not anymore, anyway. Bruce Pearl's second-ranked Tennessee Volunteers took care of that last night, knocking off top-ranked Memphis 66-62. The most impressive part of Tennessee's win: they prevailed even though ... Read More

Ordinarily, there'd be no good reason to watch a top-ten caliber team like Indiana face cellar-dwelling Northwestern. But tomorrow's game is an exception. As expected, Indiana parted ways with coach Kelvin ... Read More

Big-time college ballplayers have remarkably little control over their fates. They choose schools -- often on the basis of a personal connection with a coach or assistant -- only to ... Read More

The temperature in the inferno is a brisk 18 degrees this morning. How do we know? Miami beat Duke last night. Miami's win was the Hurricanes' first over the Blue Devils ... Read More

The list of participants for the 2008 McDonald's All American game were announced yesterday. As usual, recruits from college basketball's elite programs will be well-represented. North Carolina is tops with ... Read More

If Kelvin Sampson is to be fired at week's end, at least he's leaving Indiana on a high note. The Hoosiers beat #14 Purdue, 77-68 in Bloomington last night. Eric ... Read More

Holiday? What holiday? Your intrepid guide is on the case, recapping this weekend's big stories. Grant Wahl's columns for Sports Illustrated are always a great read. This week's is no ... Read More

The president of Indiana University announced Friday that the school will launch its own formal investigation into the alleged NCAA violations committed by coach Kelvin Sampson. The Chicago Tribune reports ... Read More

Does it make you feel old to see your childhood heroes nominated for the Hall of Fame? Yeah, me too. Congratulations to Chris Mullin, Patrick Ewing, Hakeem Olajuwon and the rest of ... Read More

We extend our deepest sympathies to the families impacted by yesterday's shootings at Northern Illinois. Any reader wishing to extend thoughts, prayers, condolences or messages of support for NIU students, ... Read More

The Kelvin Sampson controversy keeps building... here's the latest: Andy Katz of ESPN.com is reporting that Sampson's status is being decided on a game-by-game basis. According to the report, discussions ... Read More

Team sports are generally regarded as an important means of teaching kids important values in life. Teamwork. Cooperation. Respect for authority figures. Discipline. Yadda yadda yadda. There are even groups ... Read More

Coach Kelvin Sampson arrived at Indiana University with a cloud of NCAA violations hanging over him for making illegal phone calls to recruits. He was hit with similar accusations earlier this ... Read More

So I'm flipping through the channels last night... on channel 503 -- one of the various flavors of HBO -- is an Ashley Judd movie called Normal Life. The most ... Read More

For most of this season, Kansas has been considered an odds-on favorite to take a top seed in the NCAA Tournament. But today, the number one spot in the Big ... Read More

The "Mr. Monday" column in The Oklahoman is kind enough to offer several job search suggestions for the newly-unemployed Bob Knight. Our favorite: new "rules enforcement officer" for the NCAA. Kidding ... Read More

Don't bother adjusting the color on your television while watching tonight's rematch of the 2007 NCAA Women's Basketball Championship game (7:02 p.m. Eastern on ESPN2). Pat Summit's second-ranked Lady Volunteers ... Read More

Note to all college hoops coaches... there's coach behavior, and there's fan behavior, and never the twain shall meet. That means no Tennessee-orange body paint, and no toilet-papering trees to ... Read More

Some notes from the road today, as I wonder how we ever lived in the dark ages before free wireless Internet in hotel rooms... The bad blood between Tyler Hansbrough ... Read More

Duke vs. UNC is always a big story. They are the marquee rivalry in college hoops -- like the Yankees and Red Sox, if Yankee Stadium and Fenway Park were ... Read More

Texas Tech coach Bob Knight has submitted his resignation, effective immediately. He will be succeeded by his son, Red Raider assistant coach Pat Knight, who was designated as his father's eventual ... Read More

ESPN's Dick Vitale will make his comeback on Wednesday night and call the Duke/North Carolina game from Chapel Hill. I was about to write something snarky about ol' Dickie V... but ... Read More