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AP Sports WriterNCAA title game top scorer Booth returns healthy for NovaBy DAN GELSTONVILLANOVA, Pa. (AP) Villanova guard Phil Booth is healthy and ready to play after missing almost all of last season with a knee injury.Booth was the leading scorer in Villanova's national championship victory over North...

AP Basketball WriterGrand Canyon University opens museum to honor ColangeloBy JOHN MARSHALLPHOENIX (AP) Jerry Colangelo has been an owner of the NBA's Phoenix Suns, Major League Baseball's Arizona Diamondbacks and the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA. He's been an owner of indoor soccer and football teams, was executive...

AP Sports ColumnistColumn: Pay scale for top basketball recruits set. Now what?By TIM DAHLBERGRick Pitino accomplished at least one thing before being unceremoniously dumped by the University of Louisville.He set the going market rate for five-star prospects in college basketball.Turns out it's a cool $100,000, doled out through your...

AP Sports WriterLouisville tabs Padgett as interim replacement for PitinoBy GARY B. GRAVESLOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) David Padgett understands replacing Louisville coach Rick Pitino would be difficult under any circumstance.So when Padgett arrived Friday for his introductory news conference as the Cardinals interim men's basketball coach, after ambling his...

Associated PressAdidas exec, 4 coaches charged in college bribery schemeBy LARRY NEUMEISTER and TOM HAYSNEW YORK (AP) In one of the biggest crackdowns on the corrupting role of money in college basketball, 10 men - including a top Adidas executive and four assistant coaches - were charged Tuesday...

AP Sports WriterDave Collette leads new-look Utah after winding roadBy KAREEM COPELANDSALT LAKE CITY (AP) David Collette doesn't often look back at the strange, twisting road of college basketball that he's navigated the last four years. The Utah senior power forward is more focused on finishing out his...

NCAA punishes Pacific men's basketball for violationsSTOCKTON, Calif. (AP) The men's basketball team at Pacific has been punished by the NCAA for academic and recruiting violations under former coach Ron Verlin.The NCAA said Wednesday that Verlin failed to promote an atmosphere of compliance when he violated academic misconduct...

AP Sports WriterAuburn's Bruce Pearl deflects questions on corruption caseBy JOHN ZENORAUBURN, Ala. (AP) Auburn men's basketball coach Bruce Pearl didn't say much Friday when repeatedly asked about the nationwide federal investigation that has engulfed the sport.Pearl would only say the behavior that led to the arrest of...

The Latest: Auburn launches review of basketball programLOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) The Latest on a federal fraud and bribery scandal in college basketball (all times local):2:20 p.m.Auburn has hired a Birmingham law firm to conduct a review of the basketball program after the arrest of assistant coach Chuck Person...

The Latest: Auburn coach says behavior behind arrest wrongLOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) The Latest on the corruption scandal in college basketball (all times Eastern):3:45 p.m.Auburn coach Bruce Pearl says the behavior behind the arrest of his top assistant ''is unacceptable.''Pearl deflected questions beyond that on Friday as he spoke...

Louisville places Rick Pitino, AD on administrative leaveLOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) Louisville has placed coach Rick Pitino and athletic director Tom Jurich on administrative leave amid a federal bribery investigation.Interim university President Greg Postel said at a news conference Wednesday that Jurich is on paid leave, while Pitino is...

Charges dismissed against suspended South Carolina guardCOLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) Assault charges against suspended South Carolina guard Rykym Felder have been dismissed.Columbia Police Department spokeswoman Jennifer Timmons said Felder's charges were dropped by the city prosecutor. Felder had been charged with third-degree assault and battery stemming from a bar...