Joe Paterno says the Big Ten should expand.
Again.
His comments about conference expansion not being his call should be coming soon.
The month of May opened with Paterno, who has been coaching football at Penn State since about the time the sport was invented, suggesting that the Big Ten Conference should add one more school to get [...]

For the last week, most of the news not relating to the Final Four has been about coaches going here and there or nowhere.
Now it’s about what players are doing - whether they are staying in school or going to the NBA. And if they’re going to the NBA, are they going all-in and hiring [...]

So John Calipari is now the head coach at Kentucky, and a few people are saying this was a good move. I’m not going to agree or disagree with that, because I’m not as familiar with the situation as they are.
What I am familiar with is this line:
Calipari told Memphis athletic director R.C. Johnson, the [...]

Oklahoma’s Blake Griffin was one of five players named to the Associated Press All-American team on Monday and the lone unanimous selection. Tyler Hansbrough, whose North Carolina team defeated Oklahoma in the Elite Eight on Sunday, was also named to the first team, making it two years in a row for the senior.
The other three [...]

Just a few more things about the NCAA East Regional final between Villanova and Pittsburgh

Villanova is making its first Final Four appearance since 1985, when the Wildcats upset Georgetown to win the national championship. That year, Villanova became the lowest seed to ever win a title (eighth).
The win over Pitt was Villanova’s NCAA-record 15th as [...]

Jamie Dixon played just as much defense as his team during their stay in Boston.
He’s spent his time in front of the media, defending the things he and his Pittsburgh program have achieved during the last eight seasons.
During that time, the first two seasons of which Dixon was an assistant under Ben Howland, Pitt has [...]

As we get closer to the start of today’s regional finals (Connecticut-Missouri at 4:40, Pittsburgh-Villanova at 7:05), ESPN’s Andy Katz takes a look at the two Big East coaches who will go head-to-head for a chance at the Final Four.
There was a lot of talk during Friday’s press conferences about how the Big East has [...]

If you’ve watched any Pittsburgh basketball for the last two years, chances are you’ve probably seen the best shot fake in the history of shot fakes.
The move belongs to Sam Young. It consists of Young pulling up like he is going to shoot and getting both feet of the floor, except for the front of his [...]

Just a few notes from the NCAA East Regional semifinals:

Thursday’s loss was the first for Xavier when holding a lead at halftime (22-1).
By scoring 19 points, Pitt’s Sam Young moved into fourth place on the school’s all-time scoring list. Young’s 1,856 points passes Don Hennon (1,841) and trails only Larry Harris (1,914), Clyde Vaughan (2,033) [...]

It wasn’t hard for Xavier coach Sean Miller to find why his team was on the short end of a 60-55 loss to Pittsburgh in the NCAA East Regional Semifinal on Thursday.
“We just missed some point-blank layups and inside shots that you have to make in any game, but in particular in this tournament,” Miller [...]