Two more college basketball coaches were hired on Monday at Memphis and Boston University.
The Tigers turned the program that John Calipari built to one of his assistants, Josh Pastner. One person thinks its a good hire for Memphis. And it seems that Pastner didn’t think he’d be staying in town long when he joined Calipari’s [...]

Take a few days away, and a sure thing falls apart - twice.
First it was USC coach Tim Floyd that was offered the Arizona men’s basketball job. It looked like a done deal, but then it wasn’t. Floyd decided he wants to stay at USC and Arizona was back to square one.
Let’s take a moment to say [...]

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 [...]

Less than an hour until game time. I went out on the court to check out the view from my seat (it’s nice, although if anyone on the bench of whichever team I’m behind decides to stand …).
Players from both Pitt and Xavier were on the floor, looking like they were waiting for something important. [...]

Sean Miller had something to say to people that want to say programs like his and Memphis are mid-majors based on their conference.
“College basketball is not college football,” Miller said from Wednesday’s press conference at the TD Banknorth Garden. “Look at Memphis last year. No one cared what conference they were from, they just saw an excellent [...]

Pittsburgh is a No. 1 seed for the first time. Duke, off an ACC tourney win, is the No. 2 seed. Villanova is the third seed, and one of four teams to beat Pitt this year, while Xavier - the Atlantic-10 regular-season champ - is the fourth seed. Maybe the deepest region, Florida State is [...]