A lot of people will tell you a lot of things about former Duke A.D. Tom Butters, but what no one denies is that the man knew how to spot talent.

Everyone understands that David Cutcliffe has changed Duke football. But this much? Wow.

There’s a big hysteria building about John Calipari possibly taking the Kentucky job, but there are also some people who are trying to warn UK what’s likely to happen if they do hire Calipari.

Here are today’s tournament links. Enjoy!

Virginia has hired Tony Bennett of Washington State as their new head coach. He is the son of Dick Bennett, widely regarded as a defensive master but a total offensive snore.  We haven’t followed young Bennett closely enough to see if he takes after his dad, but if he does, sales of Nyquil in [...]

We were sorry to see that Rick Wagoner, who played basketball at Duke briefly in the ’70s, has stepped down as CEO of G.M. In the current environment, he was really up against it, needless to say, and it’s a tough job for anyone.
We never wanted to make a big deal out of it, [...]

Pretty cool news here – Seth Curry has decided to transfer to Duke. As you know, he’s Stephen’s younger brother, and he had a bang-up freshman year at Liberty.

The fight for the Final Four has really been pretty impressive: only UNC ran away from their opponent, beating Oklahoma easily, 72-60.

You didn’t have to read much about Duke to understand that John Hope Franklin was one of the most extraordinary faculty members the school had.

Michigan State was incredibly impressive in their 64-52 win.  How did Maryland thump this team?  Both the Spartans and Villanova are very, very worthy contenders.  More to come.