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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) Wake Forest guard Codi Miller-McIntyre will miss 4-6 weeks with a broken foot.Coach Danny Manning said Monday that Miller-McIntyre had surgery on his foot during the weekend, but did not specify which foot.Miller-McIntyre averaged a team-best 14.5 points last season while starting all 32 games....

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) The lights were dimmed, the stage was lit and the fans were on their feet as Maryland unveiled its highly touted men's basketball team Saturday night.Beginning with prized recruit Diamond Stone, the players waved to the crowd, dribbled the length of the court and...

CHICAGO (AP) If Michigan State coach Tom Izzo had his way, college basketball would take a few more pages from the NBA rulebook.''If I was the czar for the day, I'd try to get every rule like the NBA, personally,'' he said Thursday. ''I just think that we'd...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) Kentucky coach John Calipari took longer than usual to assemble another top-flight recruiting class good enough to raise national championship expectations.Of course, those lofty projections don't ever change in Lexington.But expecting these Wildcats to duplicate last year's school-record 38-0 start is probably unrealistic, especially with...

DALLAS (AP) SMU athletic director Rick Hart has reiterated the school's decision to accept a one-year postseason ban in men's basketball after players released a statement on their own expressing their disappointment over NCAA sanctions.Hart said Wednesday that he shares that disappointment but that the severity of violations...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino remains defiant that his program will survive the allegations in a book by an escort claiming that former Cardinals staffer Andre McGee hired her and other dancers to strip and have sex with recruits and players.Pitino said Tuesday that the...

LOS ANGELES (AP) Texas Tech's Tubby Smith will receive the John R. Wooden Award's Legends of Coaching honor in April.The annual award recognizes coaches who exemplify Wooden's standards of coaching success and personal integrity.Smith will receive the award at the ESPN College Basketball Awards show in Los Angeles...

SEATTLE (AP) An argument is brewing in the University of Washington team room. It started with bickering, and voices are now rising, college basketball players going back and forth.Except this disagreement had nothing to do with anything on the basketball court. Think pronunciation, not passing or shooting.''I said...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) Brice Johnson can chuckle about it now.North Carolina's lean 6-foot-10 senior has come out of so many games feeling good about how he snagged rebounds in traffic, ran the floor and showed off that oh-so-soft shooting touch in the paint - only to have...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) Kentucky forward Derek Willis miss two weeks after injuring a finger on his left hand during Saturday's practice, the second injury to a Wildcats reserve this week.On Tuesday, junior guard Dominique Hawkins underwent surgery for a broken right hand that will sideline him for four...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) Illinois coach John Groce knows he wants juniors Malcolm Hill and Kendrick Nunn to become the leaders and top performers on a young, relatively inexperienced team.But even as he detailed the list of what he'd like those two to do, Groce had bad news.Sophomore Leron...

SMITHFIELD, R.I. (AP) Division I men's basketball has its first openly gay coach.Bryant University assistant coach Chris Burns came out publicly in a personal essay posted Wednesday on Outsports.com (http://bit.ly/1jcvTD0 ).Burns says that the Supreme Court decision in June legalizing same-sex marriage was so powerful that it made...