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Rutgers, Rice reach settlement

By BP Wire Services: Posted on Thursday, April 18, 2013 9:28 PM
TRENTON, N.J. -- Rutgers University has reached a $475,000 settlement agreement with Mike Rice, agreeing to pay the fired men's basketball coach for the remaining two years of his contract, university officials announced Thursday night.

"Tonight's agreement is in the best interests of the university, and I am pleased this issue has been resolved," president Robert Barchi said in a statement after spending the day fielding questions from state lawmakers over the school's basketball scandal.
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NABC/Division II Men's Basketball Poll

By BP Wire Services: Posted on Tuesday, March 05, 2013 4:43 PM
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – With conference tournaments in full swing around the NCAA Division II world – and three automatic bids already accounted for – there was little change in the top one-third of the rankings as the next-to-last NABC/Division II poll was released Tuesday.

After winning the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference tournament, the Benedict College Tigers climbed three spots to No. 15.

West Liberty, who earned one of the three automatic bids last week by winning the final West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference tournament, retains the top spot in the poll for the second week in succession.
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Buzz Williams Should Move On

By Troy Sparks, BASN: Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 3:46 PM
MILWAUKEE -- For the last two years, Marquette men’s basketball coach Buzz Williams has been able to spurn offers from other Division 1 schools to be their next coach following his successes in the NCAA Tournament. 

This time, he might take the next offer out there, and here’s why.
 
Williams has been dogged by the off the court actions of his players the last two years.

In 2010, Vander Blue was ticketed for disorderly conduct.  He punched a man at a restaurant who said something that Blue didn’t like.
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Alabama Black College Wins National Basketball Championship

By BP Wire Services: Posted on Wednesday, March 14, 2012 8:04 PM
NEW YORK -- The Ambassadors men's basketball team of Oakwood University, a Seventh-day Adventist and United Negro College Fund institution, won the United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA) 2012 Division 1 Championship after defeating Rochester College 54-51, on Saturday, March 10.

They returned to their Huntsville, Alabama campus on Sunday, welcomed enthusiastically by boosters chanting, "O-U, O-U!"

Similarly the men's basketball team from Andrews University, also a Seventh-day Adventist institution, won its USCAA Division 2 championship contest, during the same tournament.
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NCAA denies UConn waiver request

Posted on Saturday, February 11, 2012 1:21 PM
NCAA denies UConn waiver request
 
By PAT EATON-ROBB, Associated Press
 
 
STORRS, Conn. (AP)—The NCAA on Friday turned down the University ofConnecticut’s request for a waiver that would allow its men’s basketball team to play in the 2013 national championship tournament.UConn doesn’t qualify for the tournament because of below-standard academic results, but it requested a waiver last month.The school proposed alternate penalties, including playing a shorter schedule next season, forfeiting the revenue awarded to the Big East for participating in the 2013 tournament, and barring coach Jim Calhoun from meeting off-campus with prospective recruits during the fall 2012 contact period.
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