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BLACKSBURG (CBB/Rivals) – Seth Greenberg was fired as the men’s basketball coach at Virginia Tech on Monday, a decision athletic director Jim Weaver said he and basketball administrator Tom Gabbard arrived at last week as they assessed the state of the program. The discussion came after a second assistant coach in two weeks, and sixth in four years, announced he was leaving Greenberg’s staff, this time to take an assistant’s job at ACC rival Clemson. Associate head coach James Johnson, a five-year member of Greenberg’s staff, was offered a salary matching the one he was to receive at Clemson, but [...]

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BLACKSBURG (CBB/Rivals) – Seth Greenberg was fired as the men’s basketball coach at Virginia Tech on Monday, a decision athletic director Jim Weaver said he and basketball administrator Tom Gabbard arrived at last week as they assessed the state of the program. The discussion came after a second assistant coach in two weeks, and sixth in four years, announced he was leaving Greenberg’s staff, this time to take an assistant’s job at ACC rival Clemson. Associate head coach James Johnson, a five-year member of Greenberg’s staff, was offered a salary matching the one he was to receive at Clemson, but [...]

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STORRS, Conn. — Connecticut center Andre Drummond has declared for the NBA Draft after a single season of college basketball. The 18-year-old freshman averaged 10 points for the Huskies this season while leading the team in rebounding at 7.6 per game. “My family and I feel that this is the right time for me to take the next step in my basketball career,” Drummond said. “It has always been a goal of mine to compete against the world’s best players and that is one of the big factors for me in making this decision.” The announcement comes days after UConn’s [...]

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Posted: 10:40 AM ET April 13, 2012 By Matt Norlander | Senior College Basketball Blogger Is he lying this time too? Motivated by Kansas’ defeat at the hands of Syracuse in 2003-s national title game — stay with me here — Zach Tomaselli decided he’d try to hurt the program by latching on lie after lie after lie after lie in the case against alleged sexual molester Bernie Fine. According to Tomaselli now — and it’s this time he’s telling the truth, just like the last time he was telling the truth — he made everything up. Everything about every [...]

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HARTFORD (CBB/Rivals) – Connecticut has confirmed that basketball players Michael Bradley and Roscoe Smith have both been released from their scholarships, a move that will allow them to transfer. The pair would become the fourth and fifth underclassmen to leave the program since the NCAA turned down a waiver request would have allowed UConn to play in the 2013 NCAA tournament despite failing to meet academic qualifications. Sophomore Jeremy Lamb and freshman center Andre Drummond announced earlier this month that they will enter this year’s NBA draft, a move both were expected to make even if UConn had been eligible [...]

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April 14, 2012 7:44 a.m. – by Chris Adamski SMU will meet with former Kansas and NBA head coach Larry Brown, sources confirmed to CBSSports.com. ESPN’s Andy Katz was the first to report the news. Brown, 71, won a national title with Kansas back in 1988 and also won an NBA title with Detroit in 2004. He has been out of coaching since 2010 — when he was fired after the Charlotte Bobcats were 9-19. ESPN also reported that Marquette associate head coach Tony Benford will interview with SMU athletic director Steve Orsini, who has been looking for a coach [...]

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DALLAS (CBB/Wire) – Larry Brown says he has serious interest in the coaching vacancy at SMU. He says he has not yet been offered the job. Brown told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he had spoken again to SMU athletic director Steve Orsini since they first met on Monday. The 71-year-old Hall of Fame coach expects his agent to have further conversations with Orsini. Brown says his desire is to get back to coaching, and that he has a lot of respect for SMU, which is moving in 2013 from Conference USA to the Big East. SMU fired Matt [...]

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LEXINGTON (CBB/Parrish) – Kentucky standouts Anthony Davis, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, Terrence Jones, Doron Lamb and Marquis Teague will announce their future plans at a Tuesday afternoon press conference. Barring a surprise, all five will declare for early entry into the 2012 NBA Draft. The five underclassmen — plus senior Darius Miller and freshman Kyle Wiltjer — comprised the core of the Kentucky team that just went 38-2 and won the national championship. Davis will be the No. 1 pick in the draft while Kidd-Gilchrist and Jones also project as lottery picks. Teague should go in the first round, too. Lamb and [...]

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