Downey Goes Home: Former Cincinnati freshman guard Devan Downey is going back home to South Carolina. Downey will transfer to the Gamecocks, which he verbally disrespected shortly before the Bearcats’ loss to South Carolina in the NIT. Despite his former opinions, Downey has decided to join Dave Odom’s renaissance at […]

Walters Replaces Doherty: Florida Atlantic has promoted associate coach Rex Walters to head coach to replace recently departed Matt Doherty. The former North Carolina coach left the Owls to lead SMU. He had hired Walters to the Florida Atlantic staff after taking the reins last season and leading the team […]

NCAA Handles Mascot Appeals: The NCAA proved that it is serious about enforcing its ban on hostile and abusive mascots. Illinois, North Dakota and Indiana University of Pennsylvania all lost their second appeals, in which they claimed that their mascots were not hostile and abusive to American Indians. As part […]

Balkman Hopes NIT Counts in Draft: South Carolina junior forward Renaldo Balkman has decided to enter the NBA Draft, hoping that his strong play in the NIT will catapult his stock. Balkman averaged 9.6 points and 6.3 rebounds per game for the Gamecocks, but his production increased toward the end […]

Hoosier Has High Hopes: Indiana freshman center Cem Dinc has entered the NBA Draft. Dinc played only 12 minutes this past season, scoring three points. He was injured for much of the season and did not progress enough to earn playing time under former coach Mike Davis. When he arrived […]

Gray Tests NBA’s Height Infatuation: Pittsburgh junior center Aaron Gray has entered the NBA Draft in hopes that a team will fall in love with the 7-footer. Gray was a walking double-double last season for the Panthers, averaging 13.9 points and 10.5 rebounds per game. Gray did not hire an […]

Lowry Strengthens PG Ranks: The NBA Draft had been lacking in talented point guards until the final week or two before the deadline for early entrants to declare. First, Connecticut’s Marcus Williams made his intentions official. Now Villanova’s Kyle Lowry has entered the draft. The sophomore point guard averaged 11.0 […]

Thompson’s staff: Ball State’s new head coach, Ronny Thompson, recently added Steve Flint and Troy Collier to his staff. Flint last was an assistant at junior college Southern Idaho in 2004-05. Collier spent the last four seasons as an assistant at Missouri State. Both are joining the Cardinals as assistants. […]

Three Out of Four: New Cincinnati head coach Mick Cronin has already seen shuffling in his staff. In total, four new additions were named to Cronin’s staff, but only three remain. Larry Davis, who spent the past nine years as the head coach of Furman, was named associate head coach. […]

JuCo Standout Heads to UC: Cincinnati will have another option at the point to replace the transferred Devan Downey. Tim Crowell, a 6-2 point guard from Midland, Texas, College averaged 11 points and 7.5 assists per game while becoming a first team all-conference in the Western Junior College Athletic Conference. […]