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Michigan is more than just five fabulous players.

Playing hunches does not get a coach into the Hall of Fame. It certainly didn't get Rick Pitino to the threshold.

Gregg Marshall called Saturday night's game against Louisville the most important he'd ever coached, and quite possibly the most important game Wichita State had ever played.

Russ Smith looked at the scoreboard, then at the clock, then over at the bench.

Top overall seed Louisville began like it was trying a little too hard to win one for Kevin Ware.

Enough with the talk. The Final Four is under way at the Georgia Dome.

Kevin Ware couldn't stay seated for this one.

Brittney Griner has had no equal in her stellar career at Baylor. Now she's part of a very select group.

Notre Dame's Muffet McGraw is The Associated Press' women's college basketball Coach of the Year.

Brittney Griner of Baylor is The Associated Press' women's college basketball Player of the Year for the second straight season.

Just a few months ago, things could not have been more promising for Rutgers as it looked to bolster its place in college sports.

Tip-off time is nearing. Time to see if Louisville can live up to the hype or one of those other guys can turn the Final Four into their party.

Auburn is once again on the defensive amid allegations of wrongdoing going back to the 2010 national championship season.

Rodney McGruder stepped to the line in the cavernous Georgia Dome, took a couple of quick breaths, and knocked down four straight foul shots to finish off his career a winner.

After slicing through downtown traffic in the type of motorcade a head of state might expect, Geno Auriemma stepped out of Connecticut's bus, bowed his head to receive a Mardi Gras-style beaded necklace with a Final Four medallion on it and entered the team hotel to the music of a live brass band.

If you tuned into the start of the 1963 NCAA championship between little Loyola of Chicago and mighty Cincinnati, it looked like few, if any, of the college basketball games you'd ever watched before.

Rutgers University's athletics director and another top administrator resigned Friday in the scandal over basketball coach Mike Rice's abusive treatment of players, including the spewing of gay slurs. The administration had chosen to discipline the coach last December and try to "rehabilitate" him. But he was fired this week after video of his conduct was aired.

Rutgers University's athletics director and another top administrator resigned Friday in the scandal over basketball coach Mike Rice's abusive treatment of players, including the spewing of gay slurs. The administration had chosen to discipline the coach last December and try to "rehabilitate" him. But he was fired this week after video of his conduct was aired.

Louisville already had the bigger names, the better team and some unfinished business after coming up short in last year's Final Four.

Muffet McGraw and Geno Auriemma have been crossing paths for a long, long time.

Michigan brushes off any comparisons to the Fab Five.

A former Rutgers University employee who made public the video that led to the basketball coach's dismissal and the athletic director's resignation has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the university.

Richard Pitino might not have been the first choice by Minnesota to replace Tubby Smith, and questions about favoritism could follow him the rest of his career.

Christian Laettner will occasionally see a replay of his famous buzzer beater against Kentucky - and he tries not to look too excited about it.

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

The burgeoning basketball scandal has cost Rutgers more than a popular, young athletic director, an interim general counsel, two coaches and a lot of embarrassment.

Kevin Ware might have a future as a comedian.

Pierre Jackson made the National Invitation Tournament his own.

The Spokane police department is recommending second-degree assault charges against two Southern California basketball players after a series of fights last month.

Former Pac-12 Conference coordinator of officials Ed Rush says he was just trying to "lighten the mood" in a tense locker room when he "jokingly" made offers of $5,000 or a trip to Mexico for any referee who disciplined Arizona coach Sean Miller during the league tournament.

Ignore all those headlines about botched investigations, questionable leadership, allegations of grade-changing and athletes loading up on "soft" courses to stay eligible.

Auburn is once again on the defensive amid allegations of wrongdoing going back to the 2010 national championship season.

His full-leg cast and crutches aside, Kevin Ware is no different than the rest of his Louisville teammates this week. He's at team meetings. He's going to practice. He's riding the bus. He even put on his jersey to pose for the stock images that will be used during the Final Four telecast.

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.