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From naked free throws to going AWOL for a Hall of Fame induction to berating a baseball umpire, it’s always something beyond the annual pile of losses that brings down the men’s basketball coach at Rutgers.
From Kevin Bannon to Gary Waters to Fred Hill Jr. ... and now, after a promising start, to Mike Rice. The current coach will get a chance to save his career, but barring a postseason run that changes the narrative around his program, he won’t survive long term from this damning suspension and enormous fine.
Recruits already have a litany of reasons not to pick the Scarlet Knights, from the lousy facilities to a tournament drought that began years before they were born. AD Tim Pernetti just gave them one more, and it’s a whopper.
Tuesday night’s 88-56 rout of Samford will look in the box score like a get-well game for the University of Kentucky basketball team after arguably the worst week in four seasons under coach John Calipari. In reality, it was... more »
One night every December, students at tiny Taylor University pack the school's gymnasium and participate in a phenomenon that's completely out of place in modern sports: silence. The fans in the standing-room-only crowd are... more »
College basketball fans are sick of seeing great conferences torn apart in the name of big-time football. The Big East used to be hoops heaven. By next season, with SMU, Houston and other GPS-defying programs coming aboard, it... more »
Last week, we spent a few words lamenting the UCLA Bruins, whose mediocre start, punctuated by a dramatic come-from-ahead home loss to Cal Poly, caused them to rightly free-fall out of the Associated Press Top 25. (The coaches... more »
If you're a college basketball reporter of a certain age, you almost certainly have a go-to Rick Majerus story. Here's mine. It was the fall of 1996, barely a year after I got hired by Sports Illustrated. The magazine assigned... more »
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