It's now official: BYU has less than a year remaining as a member of the Mountain West Conference. The school and the WCC announced tonight they'll be teaming up in all sports save for football come 2011-12. The Cougars are going through with their threat of being an independent in pigskin, a move that will assuredly bring an intelligent column or five about the benefits and consequences of that move. Here's the ... Read More

Hawaii in talks to join Big West; Utah State has second go-round with Mountain West. Conference chaos continues to carry on.

UPDATE, 3:16 p.m.: The Salt Lake Tribune broke the news BYU will go independent in football and join the WAC in all other sports. Can't we all just sit tight for 10 freaking minutes? News spread far and wide, quickly, late last night as multiple reporters began writing and tweeting, quoting sources with knowledge that BYU is mulling a quick move out of the Mountain West Conference. Everyone seems to have their ... Read More

Renardo Sidney, the mystical freshman-that-never-was at Mississippi State will soon become the sophomore I'd never thought he'd be. Amid the drama that's surrounded Sidney's situation, MSU has held the 19-year-old at much more than an arm's length from the media; much of what surrounds his past 24 months remains coated with smog. Nevertheless, he'll be sitting out the first nine games or so of 2010-11, the final dose of punishment from the ... Read More

Though it's Sunday and I should be soaking up the last few weekends of summer, I have to pipe in about the ever-curious situation happening between a newspaper and a university. The Chicago Sun-Times won't back down from its reports that Anthony Davis' family put his recruitment for sale, and it was asking six figures. And now the Davis family will most definitely be trying to attain six figures, or more, ... Read More

He's doing it for family. It would've been as easy as it was hard for Dominique Sutton to ride out his eligibility in Manhattan, Kansas, next season and play for a team many consider one of the 10 best in the country. But with the emotional tug of his children, back in North Carolina, Sutton decided to leave for a program that's in its Division I infancy. North Carolina Central, official newcomers to ... Read More

If you're reading this post before 5 p.m. ET on Tuesday, you can head over to the Pac-10's official website and see the countdown clock it has on display before its re-branding process officially takes hold. The conference, which will be adding Utah and Colorado in 2011, is embarking on a new era, naturally, with that shift. Let's remember, though, that this era is considerably less than what Pac-10 brass hoped ... Read More

TMZ, the entertainment news outlet which has gained massive amounts of credibility over the course of the past 24 months, is reporting this morning that Kentucky is being investigated by the NCAA. For what? Agents. Dirty ol' agents. Tampering. Hand in the cookie jar stuff. According to TMZ, the NCAA wants to know just how chummy past and present Wildcats were/are with the professionals who earn their living off ... Read More

We've had quite a bit of encouraging news in college basketball since the season ended, haven't we? The latest bit of legislation that could be put into place is the Big East tournament eliminating its double-bye concept. Fanhouse's Brett McMurphy was the first to report on the matter, and he did so because Rick Pitino talked about it before the Big East coaches are to meet and discuss it next week in ... Read More

Though ESPN couldn't steal The Tournament away from CBS recently, it got what it considers the next most sacred thing when it comes to college basketball television rights: the ACC. John Ourand of Sports Business Journal tweeted this morning about how the Four-Letter was able to stave of Fox's heavy push to steal the broadcast rights for the ACC in basketball and football. The link to the article is here, but ... Read More

We got entirely too close to having Dick Vitale call an NCAA Tournament, a fate that was a meeting or two away from becoming a reality. And this was even before the broadcast bidding rights began. When the talks started up at CBS prior to the 2009-10 college basketball season about what it needed to do to restructure its deal with the NCAA, one idea got floated out there that was unprecedented ... Read More

Should we expect a formal announcement on teams that will join the Big Ten by the end of this summer? It's all escalating rather quickly.

And so our countdown reaches its 11th hour. Sports Business Journal had the story today in which it was revealed that, as we suspected, NCAA brass will make its decision on the fate of the greatest postseason tournament on the planet. However, while I'll get to the ominous parts in a just a second, I do want to point out the flicker of light in the darkness: Some sources have cautioned that the ... Read More

Nothing like a good sick visit to ramp up the feel-good nature of this week. Da'Sean Butler has you covered. This story didn't find its way to the newsrooms of West Virginia until last night, but it's still plenty relevant and terrific. Agnes Channel is a Mountaineers fan who went into cardiac arrest a month ago and required quadruple bypass surgery. She's watched West Virginia's Final Four march from the (dis)comfort of ... Read More

That's the big headline coming out of Indianapolis on the day of all teams' arrival into the Circle City. This is another block taken out of the 65-team jenga tower, a tower that's slowly been played with for the past four months. USA Today has the brief story that's based on that one word — probable. Here are Delany's words to Steve Wieberg. "I said from Day 1 that I would support the ... Read More

Not a lot of rest on this Sunday in terms of coaching moves (except for DePaul, which is probably hitting up gas stations for possible candidates), as most schools want to lock down guys today so they can start their week off Monday with an introductory press conference. It's all part of the mindset and the message. While four schools will be playing for a national championship, those programs that are ... Read More

That's the report based on the rumor which is sure to be confirmed by dinner time today.

If there's one thing, video-wise, I'm a sucker for in sports, it's these behind-the-scenes peeks at programs as they prepare and go through the NCAA Tournament. I know most of it is a show and we probably never get to really — truly — see what a lot of the team dynamic is, but that doesn't much matter to me. It's access and it's different. We see assistant coaches show their personalities and ... Read More