Category — College Basketball

Stacey Augmon, the former UNLV great, returned to the Vegas campus as an assistant coach this season under Dave Rice. The Rebels are off to an 18-3 start, including a win over North Carolina.
Augmon, who had been an assistant to George Karl with the Nuggets, had been divorced from the program for 20 years before returning. The current crop of Rebels are benefitting from his knowledge.
N.Y. Times

Notre Dame knocking off top-ranked Syracuse on Saturday was huge, but Florida State upending No. 4 Duke and snapping its 45-game home streak on Michael Snaer’s game-winning 3-point bucket at the buzzer was a bigger deal.
And we see you Missouri. Going into Baylor and winnng, to take a page from Les Miles, is definitely big boy basketball.
SI.com

Though much of the sports world will revolve around the NFL playoff this weekend, college hoop fanatics will have a field day on Saturday, when several intriguing matchups will headline the schedule. Among them: Syracuse-Notre Dame; Alabama-Kentucky; Baylor-Missouri; Stanford-Washington; New Mexico-UNLV; and Xavier-Dayton.
Some predictions courtesy of Seth Davis.
SI.com

Not sure what’s up with that right hand.
Forty years ago, the Lakers won 33 in a row. It’s 1 of the greatest streaks of all time and another reason why Wilt also was the greatest of all time.
NBA.com

Despite his success as a basketball coach, Bartow was best known as the 1 who replaced John Wooden at UCLA. Bartow passed today as his home in Birmingham, Ala. He was 81.
L.A. Times

Mark Titus gives us his top 12 college basketball teams with a few riffs on Dick Vitale.
Grantland.com

Is there any way UCLA can get Lorenzo Romar back in Westwood?
Speaking of Romar, we watched his Washington club, which looks like the best 1 in the 12 Pac to us, battle a tough Marquette team until a late 3-pointer killed them last night. And unlike Ben Howland’s teams, Romar’s play hard.
That’s are only complaint with Gus Johnson’s top 25. U-Dub should be in there somewhere.
Fox Sports

A day after assuring T.J. Simers “we’ll fix this,” UCLA Coach Ben Howland suspends misfit Reeves Nelson indefinitely.
ESPN LA

Sadly, Jim Boeheim doesn’t have a clue regarding the serious nature of the sexual abuse allegations surrounding former assistant coach Bernie Fine. It all seems like an inconvenience to Boeheim and the Syracuse program.
Yahoo Sports

UNLV 90, North Carolina 80.
I guess we can put to rest the theory about the Tar Heels running the table.
Las Vegas Sun