CoC's Wojcik Caught Screaming At Staffer, Investigation Over For Now...

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Now, all we need is the decision from The College, but this new piece if information surfaced the other day.

Charleston TV station WCIV has the below video sent to them (NSFW) where current head coach Doug Wojcik was caught being a little more than loud to a college staff member about travel plans.
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The investigation, according to Channel 4, is all verbal with Wojcik- nothing of a physical nature. Wojcik's attorney, Scott Tompsett, says his client isn't quitting and wants to fulfill his deal.

Obviously, the guy isn't just going to leave money on the table just because...

"Coach Wojcik cooperated with the College’s investigation and he accepted the College’s sanctions. As far as he’s concerned, the investigation is over. And Coach Wojcik has started making amends and working on correcting his actions, as set forth in President Benson’s decision. We’re hopeful the team will move forward with him toward a successful season in the Colonial Athletic Association.

"I’m speaking for myself when I say this; everyone deserves a chance to correct their mistakes. This is the first time the College received complaints, and it did the right thing by conducting a thorough investigation and bringing it to Coach Wojcik’s attention. He’s taken this very seriously, as he should. And since the investigation began right through to President Benson’s decision, he’s been cooperative and compliant. And like anyone else, Coach Wojcik deserves a chance to make things right."

College president Glenn McConnell came out with a very short statement early on in the process:

“The College of Charleston treats all personnel matters with the utmost seriousness. The College is committed to acting appropriately and responsibly to address any issues involving College personnel and students.”

College of Charleston MBB Coach Under Investigation For Verbal Abuse

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The College of Charleston is currently investigating head men's hoops coach Doug Wojcik for alleged verbal abuse of his players.

The investigation is focused on the day-to-day treatment of players as well as specific instances between Wojcik and his players who, apparently, met with school officials already.

Wojcik is two years into his five-year contract and, if it gets to this point, a possible buy-out could cost more than $1 million.

here's the breaker from Charleston
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Louisville Affiliate Goes Old School To Show Highlights

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The Fox affiliate in Louisville knew they couldn't show CBS highlights before a certain window opened up of UConn and Florida going off the air... there's a lot of television speak that the HQ could go into but it would take entirely too long to describe...

So, as an awesome way to show something but not...

They went all Double Dribble on us...
WDRB 41 Louisville News

How 'bout that...???

Kelvin Sampson Resurfaces: Hired By The University of Houston

Alrighty then. Maybe you can still get a job as a college coach after getting in trouble with the NCAA.

First Bruce Pearl returns from purgatory to take over at Auburn and now, Kelvin Sampson, formerly ex-communicated from Indiana, is returning to his NCAA roots and is taking over the University of Houston.

You'll recall Sampson got in a heap of trouble with the NCAA for making impermissible phone calls to recruits (at a time he wasn't supposed to)...over and over again. That got hims 5-year "Show/Cause" penalty and he's been an assistant coach for 2 different NBA teams since 2008. (He's served his 5-years)

Sampson is taking over the job from James Dickey. Dickey had some success with the Cougars, reaching the NCAA tournament two years ago and going 17-16 this season.

Bad Night To Be A Miller... Florida And Wisconsin Advance

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Two Millers had a chance to get to the last four teams to play this season in men's college basketball...

And neither will get to North Dallas...

Archie Miller and his Dayton Flyers lost by ten to Florida, 62-52, so Billy Donovan and the Gators go...
In the last game of the night, Sean Miller had a chance to get there- first surviving regulation with Wisconsin and playing another five minutes. But, the extra five ended really goofy...

An offensive foul call down one led to an inbounds pass that had a 37-minute review before a reversal that gave Arizona another chance at getting the game-winner...


Actually, in all fairness, the review wasn't 37 minutes... but it seemed that long...

But they did get it right...

But, more interestingly, the offensive foul call was the more debatable of the two calls by officials late-late-late in the free hoops portion of the program...

Props to Bo Ryan and to the B1G- the conference has a team in the last three games of the year for the 11th time in last 16 years - but Michigan State in 2000 is the only team to get a title...

If You Had Louisville And 62, You Lose...

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It was just one of those days...

A day where Louisville put the hammer down and Rutgers was in the middle of the lane when the Cardinals car was late for an appointment in the American semi-finals...

92-31...

And that's not a misprint, either...

Here's the less painful version of the highlights...


Rutgers (now 12-21) actually led at 7-6 as the Scarlet Knights hit their first three shots. But they wound up with more turnovers (17) than made shots (seven) in the first half. Rutgers shot 18-percent from the floor in the second half and 24-percent overall. Louisville's bench scored 32 points on their own...

The Cardinals will play Houston, which upset No. 25 SMU 68-64, in the semifinals

FSU With The Game Winning Dunk vs Maryland

Nothing like a dunk to win a game.

That's what happened Thursday afternoon as Boris Bojanovsky of Florida State flushed home the game winner leading the Seminoles to a 67-65 win over Maryland in their ACC Tournament opener.

The Terrapins had tied the game after trailing by as many as 11 with 2 minutes to go, but the entire defense collapsed around FSU's Okaro White as he drove the lane in the waning seconds.

White dumped the ball to Bojanovsky and the rest makes Maryland's term in the ACC a part of its history.

Your highlights from ESPN.com:

ICYMI: Creighton's Doug McDermott Becomes Mr. 3000

Believe it or not, there are only 8 people in NCAA basketball history who've scored over 3,000 points in their College Basketball careers.

Before Saturday, it was only 7.

Number 8 became Doug McDermott of Creighton University. McDermott got his 3,000th point on a 3-pointer midway through the second half of his teams 88-73 win over Providence on the Blue Jays Senior Night.

We might add that McDermott, a senior, dropped a 45 point game on the Friars to celebrate.

Here's video of the milestone 3-pointer--

Buzzer Beater: Illinois Jon Ekey for Three and The Win vs Iowa

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Nothing says March Madness better than a buzzer beater. And while Illinois pulling out a last second win vs. Iowa wasn't in an NCAA Tournament game, it still was pretty impressive.

Jon Ekey of Illinois was the guy with the clincher, dropping the 3 from the top left side of the 3-point line giving the Illini the 66-63 win over #24 ranked Iowa.

Mick Cronin Goes Nuts on TV Ted Valentine

Wow!

College Basketball coaches--and coaches in general can be somewhat testy when they don't like calls in ball games.

But rarely do they get so mad that they have to be restrained...and then start pushing away the people restraining them.

Yet that's what happened today to the University of Cincinnati's Mick Cronin after he disagreed with a call by everyone's least favorite basketball ref, TV Teddy Valentine.

Cronin flys off the bench, but gets intercepted by his players and an assistant coach who tries to pull him away. Cronin shoves the coach and walks away.

By the way, Cincinnati lost a potential conference American Athletic Conference title clinching game vs. UConn 51-45.

Wichita State Runs the Regular Season Table

Hey, 31-0 ain't nothing to sneeze at. And sure football may all be about the "High and Mighty" big schools, but NCAA basketball is not.

The Wichita State Shockers completed a 31-straight regular season win streak by taking down Missouri State 68-45 Saturday afternoon. Which gave them a 31-0 record on the season.

Coach Gregg Marshall's charges head to the Missouri Valley Conference next week with no losses and credit from even the naysayers of small schools for being the real deal.

Cleanthony Early dropped 19 points and Ron Baker chipped in 13 to lead the Shockers to the win. Missouri State had taken them to overtime at their gym back in January.

Surprisingly to at least us, Wichita State is still ranked only #2 in the NCAA polling behind 25-2 Florida who also has a pretty good team but plays in a "Name" conference which in reality might be worse than the MVC.

And duly noted that the Shockers were a Final Four team in 2013, most of that team returned with more experience.

Expect them to be a #1 seed in a couple of weeks when March Madness begins and it would not be a surprise to see them playing yet again in the Final Four.

Your highlights from ESPN.com: (okay, all they've posted is postgame with Marshall--so that will have to do for now)

DEVELOPING: Southern U. Setting Record As We Speak (UPDATED W/Final Stats)

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Southern University's men's hoops squad thought it would be a good idea to schedule Champion Baptist College for a home game this evening...

This was a bad idea for CBC...

Rivals and Yahoo!Sports Jeff Eisenberg, who has been monitoring the game, sees that CBC is 0-16 from the floor and has 10 turnovers, no offensive rebounds, and was down 41-0 with 7:34 to go in the first half.

This would be an NCAA record for futility...

And, somewhere in this run, Southern even called a timeout...

Here's Champion Baptist's mid-night madness video from this season... where, presumably, they scored more points...


Champion Baptist finally scored, but Southern led 44-0 at the time for the biggest recorded run to start a game...

Congrats to you...

2145 UPDATE: The final was 116-12, so at least Southern didn't get the record for winning margin...

Some preliminary notes...

Southern scored 57 in the first half and 59 in the second, Champion Baptist scored 6 in each...
Here's your proof, thanks to hbcugameday.com

CBC went 3-for-44 from the floor and went only 5-for-17 from the foul line...
Their leading scorer was point guard Zach Hendricks- who had 4 points...
They were outrebounded 71-21
Southern had 23 assists, CBC had 1
Southern had 20 steals, CBC had 3
CBC had 27 turnovers, Southern had 8

Bottom line: Much like in college football, this game should never have been scheduled...

Bomani Jones even tweeted that CBC is in Hot Springs, Arkansas (his home town) and he never even heard of the school...

Here’s how obscure Champion Baptist College is: It’s in the town where I grew up (Hot Springs) and I’ve never heard of it.

The Sporting News' Kami Mattioli has some details on CBC:

A private, Baptist school with a total full-time undergraduate enrollment of 250 students, the Tigers are an independent school that competes in the Association of Christian College Athletics.

As members of the ACCA, they've won three National Championships in 2007, 2009 and 2010.

In the four games they've played, Champion Baptist averaged 38.0 points per game, while allowing their opponents to score an average of 108.3 points per game.

Southern, by the way, improved to 4-9

St. Louis Hoops Team Wins With This Vine Video

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Nicely done.

Check out your best Vine Video post of the day courtesy of Austin McBroom and the St. Louis Billikins. (University of St. Louis)

It's 5 guys from the team, combining for the ultimate mouse trap/alley oop play.

Without going into the play by play, behold the goodness...

Pesky Belmont Continues Being Pesky

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Belmont is always one of those teams that, in the post-season tournament, you can pick in one of those 5-12 games and be fairly confident in picking the Bruins as a 12...

Sunday in Chapel Hill was one of those reasons you can be confident in picking them in March...

Belmont goes into UNC and knocks off the Tarheels, 83-80...

The key highlight at the end of the reel is the JJ Mann three that gave the visitors the win...

Welcome Back, Jack! Taylor Nets 109 For Grinnell...

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Grinnell College's Jack Taylor scored 109 points going 24-for-48 from 3 in a 173-123 win over Crossroads College. he went 35-for-70 overall in 29 minutes...

29 MINUTES!!!!!!

Taylor has the NCAA record for any level scoring 138 points last November 20th in a 179-104 win over Faith Baptist Bible College.

The only other player to score more than 109 in an NCAA game was Rio Grande's "Bevo" Francis, who had 113 against Hillsdale in 1954.

"Just like last year, I couldn't have done this without my teammates," Taylor told Ted Schultz of Grinnell's sports Information Department postgame. "I give so much credit to them. This truly was a team effort. I'm thankful for the program and the people I have playing with me."

Here's your evidence...


For the season opener this year against the juggernaut Finlandia, Taylor scored 71 points the other night.

Tom Izzo In a Cannon? Or Is He?

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Okay, this was pretty good. And the deception may have worked had Michigan State coach Tom Izzo not given it away at the end.

Check out the kickoff to Michigan State's "Midnight Madness", 1st "official" basketball practice of the upcoming season.

The video shows the legendary MSU coach beginning his day of preparations before building up to the beginning of Friday night/Saturday mornings event.

That's when Izzo appears to crawl into a cannon before being shot and launched into a net set up on the court. The "person" dressed as Izzo then does a neat front flip off the net before being surrounded by the cheerleaders....then Izzo emerges.

He thanks everyone for coming and then introduces the raucous crowd and proceeds to give away the gag. It happens at about the 4 minute mark.

Bravo for the creativity, though we wish they stayed with the joke at least until the next day.

Kim Mulkey Gets A Suspension

Okay...

How many of you remember this from the Final Four weekend...???
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The HQ didn't, but the folks in Indianapolis did...

So, as a result... the Baylor head coach has been given a one-game suspension for the March post-season tournament. The folks who run the college game also are holding the Bears championship per diem for the regional round...

Which, probably hurts more than the suspension does...

Mulkey, in the eyes of the NCAA, is a repeat offender. She was reprimanded in 2011 for criticizing the NCAA when they put texas A&M in her bracket- a team it had faced three times that season. Texas A&M won the game in the tourney and the national title.

"The committee unanimously felt that the behavior of Coach Mulkey was unacceptable and has no place in the women's basketball championship," said Carolayne Henry, committee chair and senior associate commissioner for the Mountain West Conference.

And there you go...

The New Look ACC: Coach K Gives Boeheim Lay of the Land

If you are an ACC basketball fan, you'll probably find this amusing.

If you are a college basketball fan, you may find this a bit insightful.

Check out the interview with Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski and Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim from our partners at the ACC Digital Network.

It's a good look and learn from two old friends who for the 1st time will be competing against each other in the upcoming season.

Next Year's NCAA Hoop Semi's Move to TBS

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So basketball fan, did you hear the one about the NCAA Basketball Semi's moving from CBS to TBS?

It's a move that's been in the works since the last NCAA/CBS TV deal that allowed Turner Sports the opportunity to broadcast all the tournament games CBS, the long-time rights holder, didn't.

The deal was to initially move the semi's to TBS, but not for a couple of years.

The timetable was moved up.

Beginning next year, the weekend's Final Four games will be broadcast on TBS. Should that be surprising. No. It's part of Sports move away from Network TV.

Read more on the move from the NCAA their ownselves RIGHT HERE

Beginning in 2016, the Finals will alternate between both networks.

What this means to you: Well, it depends on whether you have cable/satellite programming or not. If you do, it doesn't mean much, it just means you'll find more games on cable, where most NCAA sports have migrated (ESPN has the Football championships).

However, if you don't have cable/satellite, well, you probably weren't watching many Sports anyway.

But, just keep this in mind. The days of Network TV being the go-to are changing. Yes, the NFL is there, and will continue to be, but they are a huge drain on the Network bottom line (not very profitable). And unlike cable, they can't increase the subscriber fee the same way.

The morale of the story is this: TV is getting close to exponential change. The model will eventually eat the cable companies as well. Subscribers are currently footing the bill for Sports (all of them) whether they are watched, or not.

And that model includes major Sports moving away from the places you've always seen them while growing up. And into a place that will cost you a lot of money.

ICYMI: Tubby Smith Resurfaces at Texas Tech

According to multiple reports from numerous outlets, deposed former Minnesota Basketball Head Coach Tubby Smith will return to the court next season at Texas Tech.

The Red Raiders have been a troubled program that over the past few years have employed, Bob Knight, Knight's son Pat, Billy Gillispie and interim coach Chris Walker over the past 4-years.

Smith dismissal at Minnesota caught many by surprise as he had some success, winning 20 games or more the past 5-seasons. But many point to a losing record in the Big 10 as the reason for his ouster.

He's yet to be "announced" as the guy in Lubbock, but it is expected to be just a formality.