Despite missing the NCAA tournament in 2011-12, Northwestern athletic director Jim Phillips reaffirmed that coach Bill Carmody will be back next season with the Wildcats.
Shabazz Muhammad was primed to be the biggest story of the spring signing period but, while being courted by some of the nation’s top programs, got the carpet of attention swept out from under him.
In the face of impending NCAA sanctions against the program, center Alex Oriakhi will transfer from Connecticut, reports Kevin Duffy of the Connecticut Post.
They may not have been the prettiest basketball team to watch in 2011-12, but South Florida went a lot farther than the 14-seed in the Big East that they were projected to be in the preseason media poll.
The hero’s welcome that coach Mark Gottfried and his NC State Wolfpack received as they returned to campus Sunday night was much different than the response that greeted him upon his hiring.
If British Prime Minister David Cameron reflects back on his time at the First Four games in Dayton, Ohio, then glances at the 2012 NCAA bracket, he will have thought that he took a trip to the country’s most fertile basketball grounds.
