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Boston College Announces Plans for New Hoag Basketball Pavilion
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="499"] Photo: Boston College Athletics[/caption] Boston College Athletics has received a $15 million-dollar lead gift to name the Hoag Basketball Pavilion, the future practice home of BC's men's and women's b...
NCAA Approves Use of In-Game Tech, Other Rule Changes
Changes are coming to the rules for NCAA men's basketball games for the 2021-23 season. The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved allowing the transmission of live statistics to the bench area for coaching purposes in men’s basketball, amo...
New Videoboard Highlights Xavier Cintas Center Upgrades
Xavier University Athletics announced a $3.0-million dollar technology upgrade to Cintas Center that will take the in-game fan and visitor experience and Xavier's streaming capabilities to a significantly higher level. The tech improvement project in...
Coach K To Retire From Duke; Jon Scheyer Named Replacement
Duke men's basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski, who has won more Division I men's college basketball games than any coach in history, announced Wednesday that the 2021-22 season will be his final year of coaching. In 46 years as a head coach at ...
Florida Basketball Players Leave HS for Pro League
High school sophomore twins, Matt and Ryan Bewley, have foregone their junior and senior seasons at West Oaks Academy in Florida to play for the newly-formed Overtime Elite professional league. The 6-foot-9 forwards are not only bypassing their fi...
Detroit Mercy AD Denies WBB Team Forced Players to Play Through Injuries
Last week, the University of Detroit Mercy athletic director Robert Vowels shared details into the school's internal investigation against women's basketball head coach AnnMarie Gilbert for allegations that her program disregarded COVID-19 protocol a...
Former Louisville Basketball Coach Charged with Extortion
Former University of Louisville assistant men's basketball coach has been federally charged with an attempt to extort money from the Cardinals program, according to court documents and various media reports. After the Cardinals missed out on this ...
Texas Tech Celebrates Opening of Womble Center
Texas Tech hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony this week to officially open the Dustin R. Womble Basketball Center, a state-of-the-art $32.2 million facility that will be the new home to the university's men's and women's basketball programs. The Wom...
Shot Clock Adoption Approved for High Schools in 2022-23
Beginning with the 2022-23 season, a 35-second shot clock will be permitted in high school basketball games by state association adoption. A proposal for a national rule mandating a shot clock was not approved. A shot clock was among the topics d...
10 Observations of a Successful Coach
What makes a successful coach? While the answers may differ depending on who you ask, they will all undoubtedly agree there is no single way to be successful. Through my years of working within athletics, I have made many observations about what i...