University of Houston head coach Tom Penders will retire after the season, a source close to the program said.
Houston gained an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament on Saturday with its 81-73 victory over UTEP.
“Tom wanted to be one of 8 college coaches to take 4 different teams to the NCAA Tournament,” the source [...]

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PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Ronald Roberts, a 6-foot-8 forward from Jersey City (N.J.) St. Peter’s Prep who has committed to St. John’s, said he was uncertain of his plans now that head coach Norm Roberts’ future is in doubt.
The New York Post on Thursday reported that Roberts would be let go at [...]

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In the wake of Rutgers’ season-ending loss to Cincinnati Tuesday in the Big East tournament,the future of head coach Fred Hill hangs in the balance.
Tim Pernetti, the first-year Rutgers athletic director, said Wednesday he plans to evaluate Hill’s status going forward.
“As I do with all of our head coaches, Fred and I will sit down [...]

Lance Brown and three of his Fordham teammates spent Monday morning asking athletic director Frank McLaughlin to make Jared Grasso the school’s full-time basketball coach.
Brown, Chris Gaston, Alberto Estwick and Brenton Butler have put their full support behind Grasso, the school’s interim coach.
“We’ve been responding well even though we haven’t been winning,” Brown, a 6-foot-3 [...]

Indiana coach Tom Crean fired assistant coach Roshown McLeod and McLeod will not be with the team for this week’s Big Ten tournament.
“There is never a good time for something like this, but it is a decision that had to be made moving forward,” Crean said in a statement.
Crean sent McLeod recruiting on Saturday so [...]

Tom Barrise has not yet been named head coach at Fairleigh Dickinson University, but all signs point to him being named the head coach as early as next week.
Barrise spent Wednesday night scouting Wayne (N.J.) Valley senior point guard Jason Rosenberg put up 18 points and 9 assists when Passaic Valley beat Wayne Valley, 68-60, [...]

Wagner athletic director Walt Hameline said the school is in the process of taking resumes for the men’s basketball coaching vacancy created by Monday’s firing of Mike Deane and that he hoped to have a decision made “toward the end of the month.”
“We’re taking resumes,” Hameline said Wednesday morning by phone. “Obviously, we’ll see who’s [...]

Wagner College fired head coach Mike Deane on Monday following a 5-26 season and will replace him with former Wagner coach Dereck Whittenburg, a source with knowledge said.
In seven seasons as head coach of the Seahawks, Deane compiled an overall record of 94-114. This past season, the Green & White finished 3-15 [...]

Tom Barrise is one of five candidates for the Fairleigh Dickinson men’s basketball job and has already interviewed for the position, multiple sources said.
A Paterson, N.J. native and former two-sport star at Fairleigh Dickinson, Barrise was most recently interim head coach of the Nets for two games after Lawrence Frank was fired.
Yahoo! Sports recently reported that [...]