| NCAA Basketball: |
| Indiana's Crean inks 10-yr., $23.6M deal (AP) |
| New Indiana basketball coach Tom Crean got the job security he wanted, signing a 10-year contract worth at least $23.6 million. The deal includes an annual base salary of $600,000 and additional payments for promotional work, school officials said Tuesday. He will receive $1.4 million this season from outside income, a total that will increase slightly each year of the contract. |
| UNC's Lawson guilty of underage drinking (AP) |
| North Carolina basketball player Ty Lawson has pleaded guilty to underage drinking and driving. The 20-year-old Lawson appeared in court Tuesday after completing community service and other terms of his plea agreement. Prosecutors agreed to drop charges of violating a noise ordinance and driving with a suspended or revoked license. |
| Pitt F Cook denied extra year by NCAA (AP) |
| The NCAA rejected Pittsburgh forward Mike Cook's request for an extra year of eligibility on Wednesday. His senior season was cut short by a knee injury. Cook played 11 games before injuring his knee Dec. 20 during overtime of a 65-64 win over Duke. Under NCAA rules, an extra year of eligibility is possible if the athlete plays 30 percent or fewer of the team's games. |
| Davidson leads NIT Season Tip-Off field (AP) |
| Stephen Curry will lead Davidson against James Madison in the opening round of the NIT Season Tip-Off. The Wildcats are one of seven teams from last season's NCAA tournament in the field of 16, which was announced Tuesday by the NIT Selection Committee. Purdue and Oklahoma both reached the second round of the NCAA last season while Cornell, Arizona, Mississippi Valley State and Georgia all lost... |
| American U. gives Jones extension (AP) |
| American University basketball coach Jeff Jones, who last season led the Eagles to the first NCAA Division I men's tournament berth in school history, has been rewarded with a contract extension, The Associated Press has learned. The extension will be announced at a news conference Thursday, according to a university official. |
| Incoming Jayhawk faces battery charge (AP) |
| Markieff Morris, an incoming freshman basketball player at Kansas, is facing a battery charge after allegedly firing a BB gun from his dorm window. The 18-year-old, a member of coach Bill Self's 2008 recruiting class along with his twin brother, Marcus, has been ordered to appear Sept. 10 in Lawrence Municipal Court, the Lawrence Journal-World reported Wednesday on its Web site. |
| Virginia dismisses Mikalauskas (AP) |
| Laurynas Mikalauskas, one of the more popular players at the University of Virginia, was dismissed from the team by coach Dave Leitao on Monday, while he announced that Tunji Soroye will return next season. Leitao said that Mikalauskas, a 6-foot-8 native of Lithuania, is no longer a member of the team because he has not lived up to the standards set by the program. |
|
