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Two Rutgers basketball players on Mike Rice's team say the fired coach wasn't the abusive tyrant he appears to be on a widely viewed video that ultimately cost him his job.

Some get paid millions to try and solve the riddle facing the Michigan coaching staff at the Final Four this weekend.

Jim Larranaga made his mark as a basketball coach years ago at places like Bowling Green and George Mason. This season, with his Miami Hurricanes enjoying unprecedented success, Larranaga showed he has impressive footwork.

A Rutgers assistant men's basketball coach has resigned amid a scandal over the way his former boss treated players.

Trey Burke, the sophomore point guard who led Michigan to the Final Four, has been selected The Associated Press' college basketball player of the year.

Jim Larranaga, who led Miami to the Atlantic Coast Conference regular season and tournament titles and a No. 2 ranking, has been selected The Associated Press' coach of the year.

He sparred with reporters. He defended his record. He brushed off criticism as part of the job.

More than 30 years ago, Cliff Levingston was part of a team at Wichita State loaded with future NBA talent that he believes underachieved, falling just short of the Final Four.

Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma saw a switch turn on inside freshman Breanna Stewart just before the Big East tournament.

It doesn't matter what the final vote totals say, there will be more than one greatest moment and one greatest team. There will even be more than the 15 greatest players.

Syracuse's Jim Boeheim has led Syracuse to four Final Fours, once in each of the past four decades since taking over as head coach at his alma mater in 1976.

Pittsburgh Steelers nose tackle Alameda Ta'amu was sentenced Thursday to 18 months of probation after pleading guilty to reckless endangerment, resisting arrest and drunken driving stemming from a series of crashes and a police chase last fall.

Rutgers University's fired basketball coach is due a $100,000 bonus for lasting through the season.

Wichita State is going from surprising Final Four contender to tournament headliner.

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Jamie Dixon hired Mike Rice as an assistant at Pittsburgh in 2006, drawn by Rice's passion and ability to get into the living room of a prized recruit and close the deal.

The call from faculty members and politicians to oust top Rutgers University administrators grew louder Thursday, a day after men's basketball coach Mike Rice was fired for mistreating players, shoving them and berating them with gay slurs.

The easy part was getting rid of Mike Rice, something Rutgers had little choice in doing once the governor of New Jersey and the king of basketball weighed in on his videotaped transgressions.

Pierre Jackson is one win away from capping his stellar Baylor career with the Bears' first NIT championship.

Once the video went viral, Mike Rice's coaching days at Rutgers were over.

Jim Calhoun witnessed basketball practices all over the country in nearly half a century of coaching - including Bob Knight's sessions - and said he never saw the likes of the video that emerged this week of Rutgers' Mike Rice.

Jude Schimmel used to tell her older sister, Shoni, she didn't want to play basketball at the same college as her.

Gregg Marshall sat in his office on the campus of Wichita State on a cold January morning, his familiar eye glasses set aside, and gazed at the championship nets nailed to the wall.

Richard Pitino was regarded as one of the nation's up-and-coming young coaches at Florida International and comes with a last name that draws immediate respect in all corners of college basketball.

Just seeing a picture of Kevin Ware up and moving around again inspired the Louisville Cardinals.

Jeff Walz sees no reason to pile on with all the pressure that naturally comes with the NCAA women's tournament.

Skylar Diggins and the Notre Dame women's team have a whole week to talk about playing Connecticut again.

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When the final buzzer sounded and Tennessee's rousing comeback had fallen short, senior Taber Spani dropped to her knees and started sobbing.

Her voice hoarse after another disappointment in a regional final, Duke coach Joanne P. McCallie was in no rush to put a positive spin on a season in which the Blue Devils overcame a series of obstacles.

Get ready for Connecticut vs. Notre Dame round four.

Sponging up tales of Jim Valvano and Muhammad Ali, the Louisville Cardinals are embracing the role of the underdog in the most fearless of fashions.

New Mexico didn't have to look far to find its next head coach.

Skylar Diggins and Notre Dame are headed back to the Final Four for another rematch with Connecticut.

Pierre Jackson has saved some of the best basketball of his career for the end of it.

Former Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer is returning to college football to help restart the program at East Tennessee State.

For Michigan coach John Beilein, the Wolverines' trip to the Final Four really hit him when he woke up Tuesday morning.

Former Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer is returning to college football to help revive the program at East Tennessee State.

Attention on the red-brick campus of Wichita State this time of year has usually shifted from round ball to hardball - as in, to the Shockers' venerable baseball program.

Fueled by outrage from even the governor when the video went public, Rutgers fired basketball coach Mike Rice on Wednesday after deciding it didn't go far enough by suspending and fining him for shoving, kicking and throwing balls at players along with spewing gay slurs.

Steve Alford walked into Pauley Pavilion on Tuesday for the first time since the 1984 Summer Olympics, took his place under the 11 national championship banners and called his new job as UCLA basketball coach "a challenge."

The entire basketball program at Wichita State runs on what Louisville coach Rick Pitino makes in a single year, with money left over to purchase plenty of trophy cases for Final Four hardware.

Louisville's Kevin Ware has taken what he said would be the hardest step in his recovery - the first one.

Brittney Griner has been in a class by herself all season. Now she's part of a select group.

California coach Lindsay Gottlieb was in elementary school the last time a West Coast women's basketball program not named Stanford reached the Final Four.

Getting to the Final Four never gets old for Geno Auriemma and his Connecticut women's team.

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Georgia's already surprising run in the NCAA tournament was 7 minutes away from adding one more stop: New Orleans.

Southern California hired Andy Enfield as men's basketball coach on Monday night after he took Florida Gulf Coast to the round of 16 of the NCAA tournament.