Police arrested Gillispie at about 3 a.m. while he drove a white Mercedes. Police observed former Kentucky coach Billy Gillispie going 63 mph in a 45 mph speed limit zone. He also sat motionless at a green light for more than a minute.

Isiah Thomas-led Florida International wants to avoid playing defending champion North Carolina in the season-opening 2K Sports Classic.

Matt Pilgrim will be able to join his Oklahoma State teammates for the 2009-10 season after the NCAA granted him a waiver Aug. 21.

Grambling State junior Henry White passed away on Wednesday at the LSU Health Sciences Center in Shreveport. White had been hospitalized since Aug. 14 after a workout at Grambling.

Kentucky senior Michael Krebs finally got a scholarship, the 13th and last available one for the 2009-10 Wildcats.

The Eagles have a late addition to the team: guard Sherwood Brown, an A-student who averaged 11.4 points and 5.6 rebounds per game at Olympia High School in Orlando.

A federal appeals court rejected the state of Delaware’s plan to initiate single- and multi-game bets on sports, including NCAA basketball.

Texas received word that freshman guard J’Covan Brown is clear to play.

Hawaii has two new Rainbow Warriors in Arizona’s Zane Johnson and Duquesne’s Aleksandar Milovic.

Former Odessa College assistant coach Mike Scutero has been named Middle Tennessee State’s new director of basketball operations.