NCAA Enacts Noteworthy Rule Change: The NCAA tweaked the rules of the game a bit by endorsing a ban on timeouts called while a player is falling out of bounds or into the backcourt. The new rule will ban a controversial practice in which players leap to grab a loose […]

Capel Makes Staff Official: New Oklahoma coach Jeff Capel officially has his first staff in Norman. Capel announced the hirings of Rod Barnes and Ben Betts, adding those two to Mark Cline and Bryan Goodman. The first three will serve as assistants, and Goodman will be director of basketball operations. […]

NCAA Grants Cecil Brown Sixth Year of Eligibility: UC Santa Barbara guard Cecil Brown will be allowed one more season of eligibility. Brown missed the entire 2001-2002 and 2004-2005 seasons with knee and ankle ailments. Brown is 6-4 and averages 13.1 points per game. He is a second team All-Big […]

More Players Choose Agents: As the NBA Draft nears, more college players are deciding that they like their chances this year and are signing with agents. Once a college player signs with an agent, he becomes a professional and cannot return to school, even if no NBA team drafts him. […]

Sampson Must Recruit Vicariously: The NCAA has decided that new Indiana coach Kelvin Sampson participated in important but not earth-shattering recruiting violations while he coached at Oklahoma. Sampson and his staff made several hundred inappropriate phone calls to recruits earlier in Sampson’s tenure at Oklahoma. As a result, the NCAA […]

Tiger Williams Won’t Come Back: Memphis freshman forward Shawne Williams will remain in the NBA Draft this season and hire an agent, ending any hopes of a return to Memphis for Tigers fans. Williams has received word that he is a likely first-round pick, which would mean he’d receive a […]

Academic Challenges at Nevada: Nevada junior forward Demarshay Johnson promises to be a solid senior contributor for the Wolf Pack next season. But the team will have to wait until at least late December to find out how much Johnson can do because he is academically ineligible for the fall […]

Brey Taps ACC Assistant: Notre Dame coach Mike Brey filled the hole left by former assistant Lewis Preston, who took a similar position at Florida, with Gene Cross. Cross spent last season at Virginia and has spent 10 years as a collegiate coach. [5/24/06]

St. Peter’s Done with Coaching Search: St. Peter’s has hired John Dunne to be the Peacocks’ new coach, replacing Bob Leckie, who retired in April after six seasons at St. Peter’s. Dunne comes to St. Peter’s from nearby Seton Hall, where he had been an assistant for the past five […]

Powe Likes His Chances: California sophomore forward Leon Powe will remain in the NBA Draft and hire an agent, he announced. The decision indicates that a team or two would like to draft him in the first round. Scouts consider Powe to be a mid to late first-round prospect. Powe […]