If you believe every crazy rumor you read on the old Interweb, Bob Knight will be the next head coach at Rutgers and Kevin Boyle will come in as an assistant and the coach-in-waiting.
It never ceases to amaze me how something that starts as a post on a messageboard can graduate into a blog post by [...]

DePaul University announced Monday that Jerry Wainwright is no longer the men’s basketball coach and assistant coach Tracy Webster will serve as interim head coach for the remainder of the season.
“At this time a change needed to be made in the direction of the men’s basketball program at DePaul University,” DePaul AD Jean Lenti Ponsetto [...]

Maryland is the latest team to express interest in former Fordham point guard Jio Fontan, according to those close to the player.
Todd Washington, an advisor to Fontan, said the Maryland staff reached out about the 6-foot-1 Fontan, who received a conditional release from Fordham that prevents him from playing in the Atlantic 10 or the tri-state [...]

Wow, talk about some strange timing.
With Brian Kelly’s Cincinnati team trailing Pittsburgh in the fourth quarter of a game that determined the Big East winner, ABC plugged an ESPN.com story that says Kelly would “entertain” the idea of talking next week with Notre Dame officials.
Apparently the timing of this didn’t impact the Bearcat players, who overcame a 31-10 deficit [...]

One of Jared Grasso’s first orders of business after taking over as the interim basketball coach at Fordham University Thursday was to meet with disgruntled point guard Jio Fontan.
Grasso, 29, met with Fontan for about an hour Friday afternoon to discuss his future and hopes the former St. Anthony star returns to practice Friday afternoon. The [...]

Fordham coach Dereck Whittenburg was fired Thursday afternoon and assistant Jared Grasso will replace him on an interim basis.
“We have great respect for Dereck as a coach and person, and appreciate his contribution to Fordham, his integrity and his dedication to the student athletes,” said Fordham AD Frank McLaughlin. “We wish him and his family [...]

Army AD Kevin Anderson announced Thursday morning that he was officially firing head  coach Jim Crews.
“There was a series of events that led me down the path to determine that I needed to make a change in leadership of the men’s basketball program and terminate coach Crews’ contract,” Anderson stated. “I am very [...]

Former Lehigh and East Stroudsburg coach Sal Mentesana will join Fred Hill’s staff at Rutgers as an assistant, while Craig Carter will shift to recruiting coordinator.
“Sal Mentesana possesses a wealth of experience and we are very excited to welcome him into the Rutgers basketball family,” Rutgers head coach Fred Hill said in a statement. “Sal [...]

This interview with Arizona Coach Sean Miller at the Reebok All-American Camp is the second in a series of interviews with Division 1 head coaches conducted at camps this summer.
PHILLY –Just a couple of months ago, Sean Miller was the head coach of a Xavier team that had become a perennial NCAA Tournament fixture.
But in [...]

Jessica Simpson is back on the market after Cowboys QB Tony Romo dumped her on the eve of her 29th b-day. Harsh.
In hoops news, Knicks guard Nate Robinson could be headed to Greece. Newsday reports that Olympiakos, the Athens-based team that last summer lured Josh Childress away from the NBA, has offered Robinson a two-year [...]