Southern California’s hopes for a bounce-back season were struck a significant blow Saturday, as it was announced that junior guard Maurice Jones would be missing the Trojans’ 2012-13 campaign for academic reasons, the school said in a statement.
According to a report from the Los Angeles Times, a man at the center of a corruption case within the LA County assessor’s office says he provided former USC forward Davon Jefferson with cash benefits, which would be in violation of NCAA rules.
Ed O’Bannon’s lawsuit against the NCAA is not new, having been filed in 2009, but Friday brought an expansion of the scope of the lawsuit to include current players.
As coach Shaka Smart and VCU make the move to the Atlantic-10 for the 2012-13 season, the Rams have now secured a commitment from a major player in the Class of 2013.
The second annual Brayden Carr Clinic is set to take place Sept. 21 at Rutgers’ home court, the RAC, in New Jersey and sports a cast of high-major coaches that would rival any similar event.
Missouri has extended the contract of athletic director Mike Alden for two additional years, now locking him in through the 2019 school year, the school announced Thursday.
Michigan State transfer Dwaun Anderson has been granted a waiver by the NCAA and will be eligible to play right away at his new school, Wagner, Cormac Gordon of the Staten Island Advance is reporting.
Kentucky has committed a secondary infraction, one that the school self-reported to the NCAA, according to Kyle Tucker of the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Midnight Madness, or some similarly named event to kick off a school’s college basketball season, is set to take place on campuses across the country this fall.
Loyola University (Md.) has accepted the Patriot League’s invitation to join the conference for the start of the 2013-14 season, the school announced Wednesday.
Granted, UL-Lafayette may have finished .500 overall last season, but there is a reason to be excited in Louisiana and it’s not necessarily because of the basketball team itself.
The Big 12, months removed from speculation about the strength of its future as a conference, is bringing together the final details on large television deals, according to the Associated Press.
Top-100 prospect Kris Jenkins of Gonzaga College High School (D.C.) has committed to Villanova, he announced on the In and Out of Sports radio show Sunday afternoon.
Former Memphis and University of New Orleans guard Charles Carmouche has enrolled at LSU and will be eligible to play with the Tigers at the start of the 2012-13 season, the school announced Saturday.
Granted, Fab Melo might be in the NBA now, but before he plays his first game in the league, we here at CBT figured we could pass along one more piece of golden video from the NBA Rookie Photo Shoot.
UCLA might be without star freshman Shabazz Muhammad on its trip to China, but the Bruins were still dominating in their victory over Tsinghua University in an exhibition Saturday in Beijing.
