Northern State basketball coach Don Meyer was diagnosed with cancer on Friday. According to a report from the Sioux Falls Argus Leader. Meyer has 891 career wins as a coach over 36 seasons, trailing only Bobby Knight on the all-time list by 11. The 63-year-old Meyer was seriously injured in a car accident last Friday, [...]
The loss of four-year starter Cliff Hammonds leaves the Tigers without their offensive catalyst. The Tigers ran a good bit of their plays through Hammonds, who was the best decision-maker and passer on the team. Much of that responsibility now will fall on promising sophomore Demontez Stitt. A speedy point guard whose strength is attacking [...]
A Seton Hall basketball recruit who was declared ineligible to play has sued the Big East Conference and the NCAA. Michael Glover enrolled at Seton Hall in 2007, but was ruled ineligible that fall after the NCAA invalidated his entire senior year transcript from American Christian Academy in Pennsylvania. Glover, a 6-foot-6 forward from the [...]
After hitting rock bottom, Colorado State is counting on Tim Miles to bring the program back to respectability. Miles had one year added on to his original five-year contract, the school announced on Wednesday. Financial terms were not disclosed for the extension, which pushes Miles contract through the 2012-13 season. Miles, 42, inherited a tough [...]
Veteran shooting guard A D Vassallo quietly emerged as one of the top players in the ACC last season. A good 3-point shooter who also likes to take a lot of mid-range jumpers, Vassallo scored in double-figures in all but two games. Vassallo will be expected to carry much of the scoring load again, and [...]
This could be the season of the junior college transfer. Two of the biggest and most tradition-rich programs in college basketball, Kansas and Kentucky, are welcoming recruiting classes that feature two junior college transfers apiece. So is talent-laden Oklahoma, which will be among the favorites in the Big 12. Tennessee, which will be favored in [...]
UCF Basketball will definitely be tested early in Conference USA. Kirk Speraw and the Knights will open their league schedule with a visit from NCAA Championship runner-up Memphis on Saturday, January 10, 2009. It will be the first time UCF hosts Memphis in the new UCF Arena. The Tigers first and last visit to Orlando [...]
New Mexico State forward Herb Pope is as troubled as he is talented. Popes saga has been well-documented. He grew up hard. Pope was abandoned by his parents and was in and out of foster care in Aliquippa, Pa. He has had his share of run-ins with the law. He was in an altercation at [...]
With five guards who averaged at least 8 points per game returning. It safe to say the Golden Eagles will remain a perimeter-oriented team. Jeremy Wise is the go-to guy, and he has become one of the premier players in Conference USA. Hes a slasher/scorer who has an excellent mid-range game and draws a lot [...]
Mike Krzyzewski always maintained that leading the U S Olympic basketball team would make him a changed coach. Sure enough, Coach K was there on the sideline in Beijing and he stopped himself from saying something he otherwise might have. “Most of the time I was there,” Krzyzewski said, “I was mic’ed.” That’s not all [...]