Georgia Southern coach Jeff Price announced that he would resign as the Eagles’ coach after leading the team to an 8-22 record. In 10 years with Georgia Southern, Price compiled a 165-133 record.

Virginia’s next coach will be Tony Bennett, who informed Washington State administrators and players that he has accepted the Cavaliers’ job offer. Bennett’s teams play a slow-paced, defensive-minded brand of basketball that is atypical for most ACC teams. All but 10 ACC teams rank in the top half of the NCAA for tempo while the Cougars were the fifth slowest of 344 Division I teams this season.

Alabama looked to one of the most successful mid-major programs in VCU and Rams coach Anthony Grant for a successor to Mark Gottfried. Grant informed the Rams Friday that he would leave the university for Alabama.

Elon looked across North Carolina and within the Southern Conference to pick Davidson associate coach Matt Matheny as the Phoenix’s next coach. Matheny will be taking on his first head coaching job after working as an assistant to Davidson coach Bob McKillop for 16 seasons.

Tennessee State has hired Auburn assistant John Cooper to become the Tigers’ next coach. Cooper has been an assistant coach at Auburn for the past six years and also has experience at Oregon and Fayetteville State.

High Point has hired Scott Cherry to be the Panthers’ next coach, which will be his first Division I head coaching job. Cherry arrives in High Point after working at South Carolina for one season as an assistant coach.

Kentucky fired coach Billy Gillispie after only two seasons with the Wildcats. Since his first season as a head coach at UTEP, Gillispie is 134-51, a 72.4 percent winning percentage. However, university administrators indicated that Gillispie had a “philosophical discrepancy” about the job requirements of Kentucky’s coaching position.

North Carolina Central promoted assistant coach LeVelle Moton to be the Eagles’ next coach, replacing Henry Dickerson. The university did not extend Dickerson a new contract after the Eagles finished the season 4-27.

Connecticut could be facing an NCAA investigation after Yahoo releases a report that details numerous violations committed by team officials and representatives in the recruitment of former Husky Nate Miles.

Tennessee lost a heart-breaking 77-75 first-round NCAA Tournament game to Oklahoma State, but don’t blame junior forward Wayne Chism for failing to give his best effort. Chism finished with 11 points and six rebounds despite playing with a broken thumb he suffered in practice.