CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Two years ago, Kansas State coach Bruce Weber asked his players who was going to be his stopper on defense.

Danny Hurley doesn’t want to make it about himself. And yet Hurley has been around the game all his life. He knows how these things go.

Danny Hurley has done a masterful job coaching Rhode Island basketball. The former Seton Hall star guard took over the Rams in 2012 after guiding Wagner for two seasons.

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — The basketball was still high in the air — flung to start the celebration — when the buzzer sounded and the Bonnies’ long-awaited March celebration commenced. Players chest-bumped on court. Coach Mark Schmidt jumped and waved his arms.

UConn fired basketball coach Kevin Ollie on Saturday, with the team under NCAA investigation and the Huskies having completed their second straight losing season.

In a Thursday interview on NBC Sports radio’s “The Dan Patrick Show,” NBA Hall of Fame’s Charles Barkley doubled down on the importance of the NCAA providing free education, saying he hates when white people act like getting a free

Before filling in the March Madness bracket stuck in front of you next Monday, check www.valueaddbasketball.com, which dominated President Obama’s last March Madness bracket, and last year picked the Gonzaga-UNC final and that Sindarius Thornwell was the nation’s best player before he shocked the basketball world by leading South Carolina to the Final Four.

Friday, ESPN college basketball analyst Jay Williams discussed University of Arizona Wildcats men’s basketball coach Sean Miller reportedly being overheard in an FBI wiretap discussing a $100,000 payment to land a recruit. Arizona suspended Miller while they conducted their own investigation

Amid reports of major recruiting scandals, NBA Hall of Fame’s Charles Barkley dismissed the notion that the NCAA is corrupt, and instead praised the organization for being a way for so many “young black kids” to get a free education.

In the wake of the reported college basketball scandal with premier teams accused of paying athletes for play, Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James accused the NCAA of being a “corrupt” organization. The outspoken forward, who skipped college and went straight to

With controversy swirling around the NCAA as a result of an ongoing FBI corruption probe, former President Barack Obama offered a possible solution to the structural problems associated with college basketball.

The Virginia Tech Hokies hosted the Duke Blue Devils in basketball Monday night, winning 64-63 over the fifth-ranked team in the nation. Hokies head coach Buzz Williams heard fans using foul language at Duke, so with three minutes left in

Monday on Fox Sports 1’s “Undisputed,” NFL Hall of Famer and Fox Sports 1 analyst Eric Dickerson took aim at the NCAA amid reports that prominent college basketball teams have been paying players. Dickerson, who was part of Southern Methodist

In the wake of the FBI investigation into college basketball teams reportedly paying players, Detroit Pistons head coach Stan Van Gundy ripped into the NCAA ahead of his team’s Sunday game with the Charlotte Hornets. Van Gundy said the rule

ESPN reports FBI wiretaps recorded Arizona coach Sean Miller discussing an $100,000 payment to secure Deandre Ayton, now the fourth most valuable player in the country according to Value Add Basketball.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) Louisville must vacate its 2013 men’s basketball title following an NCAA appeals panel’s decision to uphold sanctions against the men’s program in the sex scandal case.

NEW YORK – (AP) — Four assistant basketball coaches from Arizona, Auburn, the University of Southern California and Oklahoma State were among those arrested on federal corruption charges Tuesday after they were caught taking thousands of dollars in bribes to steer NBA-destined college stars toward certain sports agents and financial advisers, authorities said.

It doesn’t take long to look around and see that America has become no country for old Confederates. Now, apparently, it has become no place for old Confederate horses either.

The liberal sports media establishment is ramping up its pressure on the organization that governs college sports to punish the state of Texas as its gets ready to pass its own version of the North Carolina transgender bathroom bill.

The NAACP, the nation’s largest African American activist organization, is pressuring the governing body for college sports to cancel its tournaments in Mississippi because a portion of the state’s flag contains the emblem associated with the long dead Confederate States of America.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is engaged in blatant hypocrisy when it comes to racial and gender hiring practices in college athletics, According to a recent report.

Much to the chagrin of LBGTQ groups, the National Collegiate Athletic Association removed its boycott of North Carolina as a venue for hosting championship games.

Nancy Armour, USA Today’s extremely liberal sports columnist, is not satisfied that the State of North Carolina bent to the will of militant gay activists and began a repeal of its bathroom law meant to protect vulnerable women and children from predators. For her tastes, the repeal effort doesn’t go far enough, and she has now written a piece demanding that the NCAA continue to punish the Tar Heel State despite the fact that its legislature bent to liberal pressure to address the law.

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Their star guard was outstanding. Their big men dominated inside. Still, it came down to some last-second strategy for Gonzaga to move on to the NCAA Tournament championship game for the first time.

North Carolina will repeal its HB2 law, in response to threats from the NCAA to remove championship and sporting events from the state.

NCAA referee John Higgins was concerned enough over the death threats he received from upset Wildcats fans that he reported it all to the police, according to reports.

CBS/Turner sportscaster Ernie Johnson thinks he knows why his network’s coverage of NCAA March Madness is such a hit: the left-wing politics have been left outside the broadcast booth door.

The subject of police brutality has frequently found itself in the national discourse, whereas the subject of police Twitter brutality has not rated nearly as controversial. After this weekend though, that might need to change.

About 40,000 college football and basketball players will not need to submit a claim to receive a portion of the $208.7 million the NCAA will pay to settle a federal class-action lawsuit that claimed the value of their athletic scholarships was illegally capped.

Despite the complete financial failure of the boycott against the state, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is once again warning the State of North Carolina that if it doesn’t repeal its year-old bathroom law, the league will cancel all tournament games. And this time the NCAA says it will boycott the Tar Heel State until the year 2022.