ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) -- Michigan forward Max Bielfeldt has had hip surgery and is expected to miss much of the summer. More...

Virginia wants to keep men's basketball coach Tony Bennett in Charlottesville for many more years. Coming off the program's best season in decades, the school announced Tuesday that Bennett has signed a new seven-year contract that will keep him courtside with the Cavaliers through the 2020-21 season. The new deal is affirmation for Bennett, who is 106-60 in five years as Virginia's coach.[ Read More... ]

NEW YORK (AP) -- Villanova will play Illinois and Indiana will meet Louisville in the Jimmy V Classic on Dec. 9 at Madison Square Garden. More...

As Don Meyer's coaching career progressed, he eventually realized coaching kids was more important than coaching basketball. Before he left Lipscomb University in 1999 after 24 seasons he had led the Bisons to 12 seasons with 30 or more wins. In 1986, his team won the NAIA national championship. He produced the top two scorers in the history of college basketball, three national players of the[ Read More... ]

Former Montana point guard Travis DeCuire returned to the Grizzlies on Saturday as basketball coach. ''I am excited to have Travis return to the University of Montana and lead the Griz men's basketball program,'' athletic director Kent Haslam said in a news release. The more time I spent with him understanding his vision not only for our program, but for the student-athletes he will mentor, the[ Read More... ]

A $40 million settlement has been completed that will pay college football and basketball players dating to 2003 for the use of their likenesses in NCAA-branded videogames. The payouts could go to more than 100,000 athletes, including some current players, who were either on college rosters or had their images used in videogames made by Electronic Arts featuring college teams. Depending on[ Read More... ]

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) -- Former Montana point guard Travis DeCuire returned to the Grizzlies on Saturday as basketball coach. More...

Plaintiffs in the upcoming NCAA antitrust trial will not be able to introduce as evidence the recent decision that allowed Northwestern football players to vote on whether they wanted to join a union. U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken ruled Friday that lawyers for former UCLA basketball star Ed O'Bannon and 19 others may cite the decision by a regional director of the National Labor Relations[ Read More... ]

The Southeastern Conference sent a strong message to the NCAA on Friday: provide the Big Five some autonomy or they'll form their own division. SEC Commissioner Mike Slive said if the Big Five conferences - which also include the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Big 12, the Big Ten and the Pac-12 - don't get the flexibility needed to create their own bylaws, the next step would be to move to[ Read More... ]

The Southern Conference is increasing exit fees for schools jumping to other leagues. SoCon presidents and chancellors from its 10 member schools agreed to up the fee from $300,000 to $1 million for colleges that give at least a year's notice of leaving. Those schools that give less notice will owe the Southern Conference $1.25 million, up from $600,000. The SoCon has been hit hard by[ Read More... ]

DESTIN, Fla. (AP) -- The Southeastern Conference will distribute a record $309.6 million in revenue to its 14 member institutions, which equates to $20.9 million per school. More...

Big 12 Conference schools will share record revenue of just more than $220 million for the 2013-14 school year. Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said Friday at the end of the league's spring meetings that the eight continuing members of the Big 12 will get about $23 million each. Those schools are Baylor, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas and Texas Tech. More...

Nearly two months to the day since being introduced as the new coach at Marquette, Steve Wojciechowski has yet to conduct a formal practice or prepare a game plan. For now, Wojciechowski is still getting acclimated to his new job and, more importantly, his new team. NCAA rules allow coaches eight weeks of contact with their players during the summer and Wojciechowski plans to make the most of[ Read More... ]

New Auburn coach Bruce Pearl has some ideas about raising the profile of men's basketball in the Southeastern Conference. Most of them involve the SEC Network. ''Bring the SEC Network to my home, let them see a barbecue and let them see what a barbecue looks like,'' Pearl said. ''Let them see me cooking.'' The suggestion drew laughs since the former Tennessee coach was fired after he invited[ Read More... ]

Oklahoma basketball coach Lon Kruger says guard Isaiah Cousins is expected to recover after he was struck by a stray bullet in his hometown of Mount Vernon, New York. Mount Vernon Police Deputy Commissioner Richard Burke says Cousins was walking with friends Tuesday when he was hit by a bullet from an exchange of gunfire a street away. Kruger says Cousins was struck in the back of the[ Read More... ]

Bob Houbregs, the Hall of Fame basketball player who starred at Washington and played in the NBA, has died. He led Washington to its only Final Four appearance in 1953, capping his stellar college career. He was the national player of the year and an All-American in 1953, and also was an all-Pacific Coast Conference selection from 1951-53. Houbregs was Washington's leading scorer from the end[ Read More... ]

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) -- Northern Arizona has agreed to a two-year contract extension with coach Jack Murphy. More...

Arizona and coach Sean Miller have agreed on a one-year contract extension that will raise his base salary to $1.6 million for the final year of the deal. The extension must be approved by the Arizona Board of Regents at its meetings June 5-6. Miller has helped resurrect Arizona's program, leading the Wildcats to the NCAA tournament four times, including two trips to the Elite Eight. More...

Notre Dame pitcher Pat Connaughton is telling major league teams interested in drafting him that he plans to return to campus to play basketball and earn his business degree. The 6-foot-5 swingman who was third on the basketball team in scoring last season at 13.8 points a game said the ideal scenario for him would be to be drafted high, play baseball in the minors in June and July, and then[ Read More... ]

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -- Wide receiver DaVaris Daniels and Jerian Grant, the basketball team's leading scorer, have been readmitted to Notre Dame after being suspended for the spring semester for undisclosed academic violations. More...

Florida coach Billy Donovan won't guarantee he will be back next season. Donovan reiterated at the Southeastern Conference's annual spring meetings Tuesday that he's committed to the Gators, but left open the possibility of jumping to the NBA. Donovan said last week he has been in contact with ''several'' NBA teams about head-coaching jobs. He declined again to say which teams, but reports[ Read More... ]

Michigan basketball player Jordan Morgan says on Twitter he was humbled and inspired to receive a congratulatory letter from President Barack Obama. The letter included Obama's signature at the bottom. Morgan offered ''a big thank you'' to the president on Twitter. Morgan became a fan favorite at Michigan this season. More...

The Southeastern Conference has selected St. Louis and Tampa to host its men's basketball tournament. St. Louis will get the postseason event in 2018, and Tampa will have it in 2022. The SEC tournament will be played in Nashville, Tennessee, in the nine other years between 2015 and 2025. The league made a long-term committee to Nashville last year, calling it the ''primary site'' for its[ Read More... ]

ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) -- As many as 6,000 people are expected to attend coach Don Meyer's memorial service in South Dakota, which will also be streamed on the Internet. More...

Clemson plans to keep basketball coach Brad Brownell around a while. The school announced Friday that it had agreed to a six-year deal with Brownell worth $10.6 million. The agreement will bring Brownell a $350,000 raise for next season to $1.55 million and will eventually grow to $2 million in the contract's final year of 2019-20. But Brownell turned things around behind high-flying forward[ Read More... ]