49ers Grab Seasoned Assistant: The apprentice has become the teacher at Long Beach State as 49er coach Larry Reynolds has hired his former boss, John Masi, as an assistant coach. Reynolds and Masi worked together for 16 years at UC – Riverside when Masi led the program and Reynolds worked […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

Colonials Learn Their Lesson: George Washington coach Karl Hobbs apparently got the message from the NCAA selection committee: Play tougher non-conference games. The Colonials, who received a No. 8 seed in the NCAA Tournament despite having one of the best records in the regular season, will be part of the […]

Murray State Dismisses Three: Murray State will enter next season without Trey Pearson, Mike McCoy or Marqis Wright, all of whom the team dismissed recently. Pearson violated team rules and is off the team. He averaged 10 points and 3.2 rebounds per game last season for the Racers’ NCAA Tournament […]