Memphis Roar is claiming Calipari is fleeing the state of Tennessee and heading west. Somebody staked out his house by a golf course. ESPN is also reporting it's official, but no link is up yet. UPDATE: ESPN's got it. ESPN.com's Andy Katz reported on Monday that the deal would be for eight years and approximately $35 million dollars, making Calipari the highest-paid coach in the college ranks. UK has got its man. ... Read More

Despite some duds, ratings are up across the board for The Tournament this year. That figures to continue this weekend. {Awful Announcing via Sports Business Daily} ... Read More

1) Because Roy Williams loses this more than he wins it. The peanut-butter-cup-eatin' coach is 1-5 at the Final Four. Last year, if you recall, Billy Packer declared the game over in the first half. UNC went on a run, but Kansas' lead was too big. 2) Because Tyler Hansbrough doesn't deserve it. Hasn't this kid already received enough praise? If he wins the national title, it'll be the biggest collective ... Read More

Bob Smizik of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette writes that just about anyone and everyone is liable to leave nearly any job; it's just where the sport has gone. So, Jamie Dixon could leave any day now! {Post-Gazette} ... Read More

WKYT in Kentucky is reporting the university is prepping for a press conference later today to introduce John Calipari as head coach. There is still no official word if JC has accepted the job, but at this point, it'd be the shocker of the year. {WKYT} ... Read More

Kevin Duffy is the sports editor for the UConn newspaper, The Daily Campus. Duffy has been traveling with the team all season, so CHJ asked him about the team, its chances to win it all, how bad it was out in Glendale and if Jim Calhoun is debating retirement after this season. He also mentions how he was too inhibited to talk to Rick Reilly. C'mon! What was Glendale like? Specifically, ... Read More

Not to be one-upped by that slick man John Calipari, Tony Bennett has gone from ... Washington State to ... Virginia? The Charlottesville Daily Progress has broken the story and indulged in a bit of hyperbole. According to sources, he has been described as “a young Mike Krzyzewski” and has previously turned down offers from LSU, Marquette and Indiana. Yeah. Not quite. The offers thing is true, but that's because Indiana was going ... Read More

Three of the five members from the presason All-America team made it through to the end; Luke Harangody and Darren Collison were such underachievers. So here are the top five players in the country, according to the Associated Press' voters. Blake Griffin. No-brainer. Griffin was the only unanimous selection, which speaks to both just how damn good he is and the evenness of play beneath him. Griffing easily averaged a double-double ... Read More

Shocking: In a down economy, the women's basketball tournament is having epic lows in attendance. Mike Wise argues these games shouldn't be played on neutral courts because of that. {Washington Post} ... Read More

Update: 6:35 p.m. ET: WHAS has reported that Calipari has accepted the job at Kentucky. WLEX has confirmed that report. It's all over but the press conference. Update, 3:43 p.m. ET: News is now starting to permeate that Memphis has asked permission to speak with Missouri's Mike Anderson. That's as much of a surrender outside of a direct quote from anyone that you could ask for right now. A source from ... Read More

Here's what may or may not be beaten into your head by the time Saturday comes. —UConn Cheats. And yes, most everyone else does, too, but they're not on display and they're not the ones who got caught. Is the NCAA happy about the Huskies winning four to get to Detroit? Tough to tell. UConn has turned into a national program, and the Huskies are always good for CBS' ratings. Remember, ... Read More

John Calipari has reportedly met and talked with Memphis' players. "While Calipari did not say explicitly what he planned to do, players left the meeting convinced that Calipari would take the job. According to the source, Calipari told the team that Kentucky was the Notre Dame of basketball." {Commercial Appeal} ... Read More

If baseball nerd Bill James is to be believed, then Villanova got to the Final Four despite beating the odds. James claims Villanova's chances at the start of the Sweet 16 to win two games were squarely at 13 percent. Always-enjoyable Joe Posnanski digs deeper. {SI.com} ... Read More

But Coach K is no Heidi Klum. This video will be linked plenty today, and with good reason. It's always good to see Bobby Knight willing to cash in on his object-throwing ways of the past. If I were the director I would've asked for a little more from Roy Williams. We know how intense he can get on the sidelines when he crouches down low. Lars Ulrich and Bobby Knight in ... Read More

The rumors are swirling. The photoshopping connoisseurs have put together this terrific photo. Larry Vaught is the reporter who seems to have the only quasi-answers right now, and he addresses the possibilities of Cal to UK here, but you need a membership to Scout.com to read it. Vaught also went on Kentucky Sports Radio and declared a meeting with Calipari and Kentucky has or will be happening soon. Matt Jones of Kentucky ... Read More

That's because Seth Curry, as you may have heard by now, will be transferring to Duke. In an effort to ... not ... really ... address its big-man defencies ... Duke offered Lil' Curr (my nickname; feel free to run with it) a scholly this weekend. What in the name of J.J. Redick allowed this to happen? How will we view Duke now? Well, for the next 18 months, your disdain can ... Read More

You're sick of it, I'm sick of it and it doesn't translate well to television. Hell, it doesn't translate if you're there. Numerous people have spoken about how bad the experience last season it was for the regionals in Detroit. Hopefully the Final Four won't have the same open, chasm-like aura to it. Not only did the regionals in Glendale, Ariz., look like they were being played during the middle of the night ... Read More

HoopTube: Elite Eight Sunday Set to broadcast nationally on CBS ... »MIDWEST: No. 1 Louisville vs. No. 2 Michigan State; 2:20 ET. »SOUTH: No. 1 North Carolina vs. No. 2 Oklahoma; 5:05 ET. ... Read More