On the heels of what was a pretty big undressing in the New York Times last week, Bobby Gonzalez has been let go from Seton Hall. Gonzalez's Pirates lost convincingly at home last night in the first round of the NIT, 87-69 to middling Texas Tech. Seton Hall was (shockingly) still in the bubble conversation a week ago today. In last night's game he picked up his seventh technical foul of ... Read More

The fact he's even participating in this annual endorsement parade lets you know, someone in his cockles, that he's got doubts yet again about his team's chances.

With a new building set to open next season, the Tigers have made it clear they want to baptize the place with a new head coach.

You know, I'm not saying we have to fine coaches every time or make them sit out a game, but now we're starting to see a bit of an unwanted pattern with coaches being "punished" by way of a short-but-sweet press release put out via said coach's conference Web site.

According to the Oregonian, Ernie Kent gathered the troops around his lap yesterday and told the team he'd be leaving at season's end.

The D-grade, 16-team postseason tournament won't be having Michigan as a participant so long as John Beilein is coaching the team.

You almost never see a coach send his starters to the locker room before the end of the game. But Fran McCaffery did that last night. It's the second time he's done it, in fact. Siena defeated Manhattan 78-61 in the quarterfinals of the MAAC tournament yesterday, and the Saints head coach wanted to avoid any incidents in the post-game handshake line (perhaps the Steve Alford-Jonathan Tavernari incident was in the back ... Read More

Kent and Oregon AD Mike Bellotti aren't commenting on Kent's future. Isn't that reason enough to believe he doesn't have one in Eugene?

And he had front-row seats. Duke fans come through with one of the better stories from Saturday, and another clever twist to the rivalry.

What's in the water in Utah right now? First we had Steve Alford going after Jonathan Tavernari, and now Utes head coach Jim Boylen has had enough with the local media. Hey, at least he's going after guys in his own demographic. To be fair to Boylen, his team is 14-15 and a sideshow compared to BYU and Utah State, both of whom will be participating in postseason play this March. The ... Read More

Steve Alford doesn't see anything wrong — just unfortunate — about what happened Saturday afternoon between him and BYU senior Jonathan Tavernari. During the weekly Mountain West conference call with the media, Alford told reporters that he began to go up to Tavernari, who had been in a chippy mood as the game wound down, in an effort to congratulate him on four years of success. Tavernari has won more games ... Read More

(UPDATE: The exchange is now being looked at by Mountain West officials. We could hear word by later today about what punishment Alford and Tavernari are looking at.) The rumors, they were true: Steve Alford did in fact call BYU player Jonathan Tavernari an asshole. There's just no excuse for this from Alford. Sorry, you can't do it. I don't care if the kid unloaded a double-barrel of middle fingers on ... Read More

In response to sports radio talk, maybe the occasional column or the general pressure around his job and his program, Hewitt started preaching on Twitter this week. It's the wrong battle to fight. His message: leave my team alone.

Like it or not, we have to get used to the fact that Tournament-expansion conversation is going to be had for the foreseeable future. It'll die down once the season ends, but until 68, 80 or 96 teams are decided upon — or a definitive, long-term decision is made that it won't happen — coaches are going to be approached about the subject on a consistent basis. This is the ... Read More

And CHJ exclusive (!) videos of what it's like to sit through a Bob Huggins press conference in a loss, as well as a one-on-one interview with Stanley Robinson.

Matt Doherty. This guy is fiery. You remember his tiff with Chris Collins that helped keep the Duke-UNC rivalry on the frontal lobe of every college basketball fan's mind, right? It was the almost-fight that got everyone riled up — until Gerald Henderson bloodied Tyler Hansbrough's beak in 2005. Well, Doherty doesn't seem to have changed much after landing back in Division I at Southern Methodist. Or, if he has, his verbally ... Read More

Looks like enough people got to Roy Williams that he issued an apology for his narrow-minded comments about Haiti.

It's gotten to this? Let's just throw out any high-profile name and connect it with the Nets job? Given all the success Duke has had this season, this will all breeze past us by the weekend. Still, it's a funny little story. Small-time newspaper gets a source to talk about how the New Jersey Nets would love college basketball's future all-time wins leader in their offices. Yeah, right. “He’s the Nets’ first choice,” said ... Read More