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As CBS Sports announced Monday that it has hired Clark Kellogg to replace Billy Packer as lead analyst for its college basketball broadcasts, Packer cast an unemotional eye on his three decades as one of the network's signature voices and said he is eager to work on other projects.

WASHINGTON, June 3, 2008 – The University of Kansas national champion men's basketball team began their victory lap in the nation’s capital yesterday by visiting wounded warriors and signing autographs at Walter Reed Army Medical Center here. The University of Kansas national champion men's basketball team poses for a picture with injured soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC. The team and coaching staff kicked off their two-day tour of the nation's capital by visiting wounded warriors June 2, 2008. Defense Department photo by John J. Kruzel  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Towering players in...

Now recovered, hoops star says treatment affected his game - University of Tennessee men's basketball star Chris Lofton didn't want to make any excuses for his slump the first half of this past season. But cancer isn't an excuse - it's a reason. The senior All-American guard told the News Sentinel on Thursday that he underwent four weeks of radiation treatment after being diagnosed with testicular cancer last March. Tears came to his eyes when discussing his battle with cancer. Lofton said he has made a full recovery, but he acknowledged that last spring's treatment affected his offseason training regimen...

WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) — More than 100 college presidents and athletic directors are urging NCAA President Myles Brand to re-examine the presence of alcohol ads on broadcasts of games, suggesting that college sports and beer advertising are a “bad mix.” The Center for Science in the Public Interest has said some of CBS’s game telecasts may have exceeded the amount of beer advertising allowed. In a letter sent yesterday, the presidents cited the amount of beer advertising during CBS’s broadcast of the “March Madness” college basketball tournament. “Beer advertising during the games continues to undermine the many positive attributes of college...

4/6/2008 - SAN ANTONIO (AFPN) -- College basketball officials recognized the contributions of American servicemembers throughout the world during the men's NCAA Final Four weekend April 4 through 7 in San Antonio. Military members were present during college basketball's biggest weekend while singing the national anthem, presenting the colors, sitting in the stands and watching live from bases directly fighting the war on terrorism. The military was saluted throughout the weekend as officials of the NCAA saluted American warriors at festivities throughout the weekend. NCAA coaches and the public talked to and thanked troops serving on the front lines in...

Anybody watching this game? I am in 'shock and awe'tm at what Kansas is doing to UNC.

For Kelly Costa, the NCAA Women's Final Four Tournament in Tampa is about parties and socializing. "I don't care about sports," said Costa, who lives in St. Petersburg. "I can't wait to check out all the parties and the great lesbian scene and being around a lot of great girls." The Final Four games Sunday and Tuesday will showcase the nation's best women's basketball match-ups. But the tournament will also usher in what is widely believed to be the largest lesbian gathering in the history of the Tampa Bay area. Other than the Dinah Shore golf weekend in Palm Springs,...

CBS-TV 6:05pm EDT San Antonio Memphis at UCLA pickum O/U 133 1/2 8:47pm EDT San Antonio Kansas at UNC -2 1/2 O/U 157

FINAL: (7)WEST VIRGINIA 73 (2)DUKE 67 Somehow the sun seems to be just a bit brighter once Duke is eliminated. Congrats and thanks to West Virginia.

Former NCAA tournament selection committee chair Gary Walters once called the too-good-to-be-true pairings that the bracket produces the "serendipity of the tournament." Roy Williams might use another word in three weeks. Roy Williams could face his former team in San Antonio. The dadgum fan might reach into his adjective repertoire from his interview with Bonnie Bernstein circa 2003 to describe the path his top-seeded Tar Heels are on thanks to serendipity. If the seeds hold, the national semifinal would pit No. 1 overall seed North Carolina against Midwest Region No. 1 seed Kansas, the team Williams had just led to...

North Carolina beat Clemson 86-81 for a record 17th Atlantic Coast Conference title.

Montell Watson had 15 points and Brett James 13 to lead seventh-seed Elon into its first Southern Conference tournament championship game with a 75-61 victory Sunday over the College of Charleston. The Phoenix (14-18) came into the tournament 11-18, but knocked off their second league heavyweight in as many days following a 60-57 defeat of second-seed Chattanooga on Saturday. . .

UNC wins the ACC regular season with a 76-68 victory over Dook.

For one week at least, there's Nos. 1 and 2 in the ESPN/USA Today coaches' poll, and then there's everyone else. It's not a stretch to make that argument when No. 1 is 25-0 Memphis and the week's new No. 2 is 23-2 Tennessee -- and the fact the two square off Saturday (9 p.m. ET, ESPN) on the Tigers' FedExForum home court. Memphis and Tennessee, their campuses separated by 383 miles, will be the first 1-vs.-2 matchup in the coaches' poll since last Feb. 25, when No. 1 Ohio State beat No. 2 Wisconsin 49-48 in Columbus. The two...

Bob Knight embraced all the proper things in college basketball: discipline, dedication, loyalty, smarts and toughness. His teams always had a high graduation rate, and there never was a whiff of rule-breaking associated with his programs. And yet, instead of being serenaded to a chorus of hallelujahs as he exits Texas Tech in midseason, Knight is being reminded yet anew of his legendary imperfections and combustible nature. Knight never was as disciplined as he demanded his players to be, which was the enigmatic dimension of his larger-than-life personality. His ideals were impeccable. He just could not live up to all...

Bob Knight, the winningest NCAA men's division I basketball coach in history, has retired as Texas Tech's coach effective immediately. Knight, 67, won his 902nd game Saturday when the Red Raiders downed Oklahoma State. He will be replaced by his son, Pat. Knight informed athletic director Gerald Myers of his decision Monday morning. Knight won three national titles at Indiana, in 1976, '81 and '87. In all, he took the Hoosiers to 24 NCAA tournament appearances and reached the Final Four two other times. During his tenure at Texas Tech, Knight was 138-82, and he led the Red Raiders to...

LUBBOCK, Texas -- A spokesman for Texas Tech athletic director Gerald Myers says men's basketball coach Bob Knight has resigned, effective immediately.

St. Louis basketball coach Rick Majerus had no intention of creating such a firestorm when he made an appearance at a Hillary Clinton rally last Saturday night in St. Louis and answered questions regarding his pro-choice, pro-embryonic stem-cell research beliefs for a local TV affiliate. Three days later, Archbishop Raymond Burke of the St. Louis diocese, who is very active in the pro-life movement and recently attended the March for Life conference in Washington, D.C., drew a line in the sand in response. Burke said St. Louis University, which is a university operated by the Jesuit fathers, should discipline Majerus...

Memphis replaced North Carolina as the No. 1 team in college basketball Monday, the Tigers' first appearance in 25 years at the top of The Associated Press poll. Kansas, the nation's only other undefeated Division I men's team, moved up to No. 2 while the Tar Heels dropped to fifth after their loss to Maryland. Drake and Baylor were two new entries to the rankings, joining the Top 25 for the first time in a long time. Memphis' only other appearance at No. 1 was as short as possible - a one-week stint in 1983. "We've got one extra day...

• Lew Alcindor, UCLA, 1966-67 -- This was as dominant a season as you'll find. In a win over Washington State, Alcindor scored 61 points and made 26 baskets. He scored 870 points (29 per game) and made 346 field goals and 274 free throws that season, helping the Bruins to a 30-0 record. • Larry Bird, Indiana State, 1978-79 -- He led the Sycamores to an unprecedented 33-1 record and an epic title game against Michigan State that ultimately changed the sport. Bird was the national college player of the year and essentially carried ISU to the title...

After two seasons in which Danny Green made only modest contributions, North Carolina Coach Roy Williams figured Green was capable of more. So he challenged Green and told him it was time for him to become a key figure for the Tar Heels. “I told him in the spring and every time I saw him this summer that he had a chance to be extra important to our team and that I hoped he was working hard to make that realistic,” Williams said recently. It appears that Green was listening.

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Texas Tech basketball coach Bob Knight, whose Red Raiders lost to Oklahoma on a controversial call three years ago, said he knows how fans feel about wanting a forfeit after OU's loss to Oregon on Saturday. Knight called for Oklahoma to forfeit its basketball game with Tech on Jan. 20, 2003, when the Sooners won 69-64 in overtime at Norman after two clock controversies in the final seconds of regulation. Video replay later showed the game clock started late after OU in-bounded the ball on the game-tying drive. "Maybe now those people at Oklahoma understand what I...

INDIANAPOLIS -- The NCAA on Wednesday added 16 nontraditional high schools, seven of them in Santa Ana, Calif., to a list of those whose transcripts will no longer be accepted because of questionable academic credentials. Five schools, including Martinez Adult Education in Martinez, Calif., were removed from an original list of 15 released last month after a review by the NCAA. Other schools are still being investigated and could face similar sanctions in the association's attempt to crack down on so-called "diploma mills" whose graduates seek athletic scholarships to college. --snip-- In April, the NCAA board of directors gave the...

George Mason University's basketball team broke into national prominence, going all the way to the NCAA Final Four matchup but losing to the red hot University of Florida Gators. The Patriots' stellar performance this season is emblematic of the entrepreneurship and risk taking that long has been a feature of the University. In 1980, when I left Temple University to join George Mason University's Economics Department, it was a little known school in northern Virginia. Dr. George Johnson, also from Temple University, was president. In an early meeting, to settle my dispute with one of the deans, I learned that...

Florida beat UCLA 73-57

Online video has arrived in a big way. CBS' March Madness on Demand offering, live streams of games from the NCAA college basketball tournament, has proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that people are willing to go on to the Web to view live entertainment. CBS streamed more than 15 million live broadcasts of NCAA tournament games during this year's March Madness, numbers that exceeded the network's expectations. CBS streamed more than 15 million live broadcasts of NCAA tournament games during this year's March Madness, numbers that exceeded the network's expectations. According to figures from CBS SportsLine, the online...

By Pat Forde ESPN.com 1. Find the weakness in Florida. Go ahead. I'll wait 2. Billy Donovan has been here before. Ben Howland has not. 3. Banners don't win championships, players do Tradition is a valuable thing to have on your side in the banter between fans. But UCLA's 11 national championships won't help the Bruins one iota come tipoff Monday. 4. Florida has had the stronger tournament run 5. UCLA used up all its good karma escaping Gonzaga The Bruins' desperate scramble to score the final 11 points of the game and extricate themselves from near-certain defeat was the...

INDIANAPOLIS, April 1 — The George Mason band played "All I Need Is a Miracle" before its national semifinal game against Florida on Saturday, a plea to make the Patriots' charmed run through the N.C.A.A. tournament last two more days. But it turned out that the Patriots had exhausted their miracles, and will have to settle for the most improbable postseason run ever in college basketball.

George Mason's Sammy Hernandez (50) and Tony Skinn celebrate their overtime victory over Connecticut during the fourth round of the NCAA basketball tournament in Washington, Sunday, March 26, 2006. George Mason defeated Connecticut, 86-84 to advance to the Final Four. (Gerald Herbert/AP Photo) Virginia athletic director Craig Littlepage, the much-maligned NCAA Tournament selection committee chair, stood up to observe George Mason's on-court celebration Sunday afternoon and said, "Maybe we seeded them too low." He was kidding. But even if George Mason was a single-digit seed instead of a No. 11, that probably wouldn't matter for historical purposes. This was...

ok..this year is the year of "messed up brackets"

NCAA Tournament Games TIME (ET) 12:10 PM ET No. 13 Bradley at No. 5 Pittsburgh 2:15 PM ET No. 9 Bucknell at No. 1 Memphis 2:20 PM ET No. 11 George Mason at No. 3 UNC 2:30 PM ET No. 8 Kentucky at No. 1 Connecticut 2:40 PM ET No. 14 Northwestern St. at No. 6 WV 4:45 PM ET No. 10 N.C. State at No. 2 Texas 4:50 PM ET No. 7 Georgetown at No. 2 Ohio State 5:00 PM ET No. 8 Arizona at No. 1 Villanova

Two #5 seeds go down in the same day. Gonzaga fighting back in the last minute to pull off the win. That GREAT GW-UNC finish last night. Tennessee needing a late 3 to beat Winthrop. Embrace the Madness!

Today's schedule: 12:15 PM ET (15)Davidson (2)Ohio State 12:25 PM ET (14)Northwestern St. (3)Iowa 12:30 PM ET (9)Bucknell (8)Arkansas 12:30 PM ET (9)Wisconsin (8)Arizona 2:35 PM ET (10)Northern Iowa (7)Georgetown 2:45 PM ET (11)Southern Illinois (6)West Virginia 2:50 PM ET (16)Oral Roberts (1)Memphis 2:50 PM ET (16)Monmouth (N.J.) (1)Villanova 7:10 PM ET (12)Kent State (5)Pittsburgh 7:10 PM ET (11)George Mason (6)Michigan State 7:20 PM ET (10)N.C. State (7)California 7:25 PM ET (16)Albany (1)Connecticut 9:30 PM ET (13)Bradley (4)Kansas 9:30 PM ET (14)Murray State (3)North Carolina 9:40 PM ET (15)Pennsylvania (2)Texas 9:45 PM ET (9)UAB (8)Kentucky

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- CBS Inc. (CBS) kicked off its first-ever free live showing online of the men's NCAA tournament, with more than 100,000 people either watching the video of the Seton Hall vs. Wichita game, or in a virtual waiting room, trying to get in. The live video streams were running 365 kilobits per second. Larry Kramer, head of CBS's digital operations, said he's prepared for at least 200,000 simultaneous viewers, placing the tournament Webcasts squarely among the top live online draws of all time.

Police evacuated a San Diego college arena on Thursday, hours before a first-round NCAA championship basketball game, after a bomb-sniffing dog signaled a potential problem at a hot dog stand. Cox Arena at San Diego State University was cleared while police tried to determine if there was an explosive device in the hot dog stand, college spokesman Jack Beresford said. He said it was not immediately clear how many people were inside the building at the time but that the teams had not yet arrived. "A bomb-sniffing dog noticed something in a hot dog cart," Beresford said. "They got a...

San Diego NCAA arena evacuated on bomb scare 14 minutes ago LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Police evacuated a San Diego college arena on Thursday, hours before a first-round NCAA championship basketball game, after a bomb-sniffing dog signaled a potential problem at a hot dog stand. ADVERTISEMENT Cox Arena at San Diego State University was cleared while police tried to determine if there was an explosive device in the hot dog stand, college spokesman Jack Beresford said. He said it was not immediately clear how many people were inside the building at the time but that the teams had not yet...

Penn State (-3) hosts Rutgers in a first-round NIT match The NIT begins play Tuesday night, getting in two days of action before it really falls into the shadow of the Big Dance. The invitations went out far and wide to fill the field this year with Delaware State of the Mid-Eastern Conference and Lipscomb of the Atlantic Sun among the invitees. Both will begin play Tuesday night, visiting Northern Arizona (-7.5) and UTEP (-11.5) respectively. In matchups between well-known teams Butler (-3.5) will host Miami, Ohio, Akron (+7.5) will visit Temple, Penn State (-3) will host Rutgers and Virginia...

NCAA MEN’S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT PREDICTIONS 65 teams make “the Dance.” 31 spots are reserved for conference champions, 34 go to “at-large” teams chosen by the NCAA committee. Since about a dozen of the top teams will also be conference champions, the best 45-47 teams should go to the tournament. The “at-large” teams are selected on the basis of their winning records and, even more-so, the toughness of their opponents; since the quality of conferences vary greatly, winning percentage alone is not considered a reliable measure of a team’s excellence. A formula is used to rank teams, called the “RPI”; This...

Many Methods to March Madness BY CHUCK McCUTCHEON And DRU SEFTON For most people, filling out an NCAA tournament pool entry means checking the college basketball teams' records and bracket seedings. But for some, it involves complex computer modeling or determining which school has the toughest mascot. Rivaling the Super Bowl in wagering popularity, the tournament's March Madness has spawned a host of unusual ways to pick winners, from the mathematical to the whimsical. Academics employ statistical modeling systems and publish papers with titles like "A Logistic Regression/Markov Chain Model for NCAA Basketball." They are in demand this time of...

© 2006 The Associated Press DURHAM, N.C. — North Carolina's precocious freshmen earned another victory on the road, in perhaps the toughest setting. They ruined Senior Night at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Tyler Hansbrough scored 27 points, fellow rookie Danny Green came up with the key defensive stop and the 13th-ranked Tar Heels held off No. 1 Duke 83-76 Saturday night in the final home game for J.J. Redick and Shelden Williams.

GO HEELS! BEAT DOOK!

Today is Ash Wednesday, and if recent history is any guide, once again Roman Catholic colleges will be giving up the NCAA basketball championship for Lent. It's been 21 years since a Catholic school last won the title, and since then only three Catholic colleges have even made the Final Four. But before then, Catholic schools enjoyed great success beyond their relatively small numbers and resources. Holy Cross, La Salle, San Francisco, Loyola of Chicago, Marquette, Georgetown and Villanova all won championships, and during the heyday of the National Invitational Tournament, when it was a valid rival to the NCAA,...

Officials at Texas A&M University-Commerce want Walt Disney Co. and the makers of ''Glory Road'' to apologize for inaccurately linking their school to some of the film's most racially charged scenes. The movie chronicles the Texas Western Miners, who won the 1966 NCAA title with the first all-black starting lineup in a championship game. It includes a ''completely false'' depiction of a game against East Texas State University, the name of Texas A&M-Commerce at the time, spokeswoman Lorraine Pace said Friday. In the movie, East Texas fans are shown throwing drinks and popcorn and yelling racial slurs at Texas Western,...

BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - Virginia Tech suspended forward Deron Washington for one game Friday, one day after he appeared to drive his foot into the face of a Duke player when both were laying on the floor. Washington, a starting forward and the Hokies' third-leading scorer with an 11-point average, will miss Saturday's game at Wake Forest. He was ejected from Thursday night's 80-67 loss to No. 2 Duke for a flagrant foul, which came with 1:30 left after he was fouled by Lee Melchionni. Washington said afterward that he kicked Melchionni unintentionally as he was trying to hurry to...

Pat gets 900th win By TERESA M. WALKER, AP Sports Writer January 19, 2006 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee coach Pat Summitt didn't have to wait long to get her 900th career victory. Shanna Zolman led five Lady Vols in double figures with 16 points, and top-ranked Tennessee rallied from its biggest deficit this season in beating No. 19 Vanderbilt 80-68 Thursday night, giving Summitt her 900th win in her first shot at the milestone. Tennessee (18-0, 4-0 Southeastern Conference) had never gone through a first half without leading at least once until this game, and the Lady Vols...

The intensity was nowhere near what Mike Krzyzewski or Roy Williams would demand in a Duke-North Carolina matchup. There are no aggressive defensive traps. The offense is anything but up-tempo. There are a few fast breaks, but mostly ball handlers walk it up while defenders allow plenty of room to breathe. The players are keeping a closer eye on the clock than the score. The teams - made up of 12 students from the Atlantic Coast Conference's fiercest rivals and neighbors - are trying to set a world record for the longest basketball game by playing for nearly 2 1/2...

CBS will stream the majority of NCAA Division I basketball playoff games (otherwise known as "March Madness") through a new deal with the NCAA and cable channel College Sports Television, (CSTV) which CBS plans to acquire for $325 million effective January 2006. CBS, which has the broadcast rights to the games, will Webcast for free out-of-market contests via ncaapsorts.com, which is overseen by CBS SportsLine.com. While the CBS affiliate in each market will get the exclusive coverage of the game of greatest regional interest (a Duke game in Durham, N.C., for example), simultaneous games between other teams will be available...

Graduation will take place on Wednesday for "Knight School," but commencement won't occur for another couple of months for the reality show that is wrapping up taping this week at Texas Tech. Six film crews have followed around 16 candidates for the past several weeks, and show officials said they couldn't be happier with what's progressed thus far. "Unequivocally, we're thrilled with what's gone on," said Rob Lundgren, chief operating officer of RIVR Media and one of the executive producers of the show. "Coach (Bob) Knight and his coaches have done an extraordinary job. We've got some good kids and...

"Knight School" will be in session beginning today as the reality show centered on the Texas Tech men's basketball team and head coach Bob Knight begins filming. Rob Lundgren, one of the executive producers of the show, arrived in Lubbock on Friday and said the pre-production process has gone smoother than anticipated. "This has been a fabulous collaboration," Lundgren said. "The people at Texas Tech have been wonderful, everyone at the university. There are a lot of elements that are involved, and we've been in television for a long time and everyone in our crew has said that they've never...