Erin Andrews will once again grace the Rutgers campus with her presence when she appears on the sideline for Thursday night’s ESPN game against Louisville. Read my story about Senior Night here. When Andrews last appeared at RU for the season opening loss to North Carolina, a couple of young Rutgers employees ran out onto [...]

North Carolina remains the top team in the new Associated Press Top 25 men’s basketball poll. The Tar Heels (7-0) top Connecticut, Pittsburgh, Duke and Gonzaga in this week’s poll.
A record eight schools were chosen from the Big East: No. 2 UConn, No. 3 Pitt, No. 7 Notre Dame, No. 11 Louisville, No. 16 Syracuse, [...]

Jim Boeheim says he made a mistake and his players covered for him.
Three days after beating defending national champion Kansas and 2006 and ‘07 champ Florida in back-to-back nights for the CBE Classic title in Kansas City, the weary Orange came home and played Virginia.
Syracuse downed the Cavaliers, 73-70, Friday night behind 15 points apiece [...]

After 5 hours of watching college hoops tonight, I feel like I’ve just seen a couple of games in March Madness.
How good were those Notre Dame-Texas and Syracuse-Kansas games? Incredible action for November.
And a couple of impressive victories by the Big East.
Syracuse came from 13 points down in the second half to defeat defending national [...]

Lots of holiday week action on the hardwood…
**No. 2 UConn beat No. 19 Wisconsin, 76-57, to win the Paradise Jam in the first ever meeting between the schools. Jerome Dyson led the Huskies with 21 points and 3 steals, former Rice standout Kemba Walker continued to excel by notching 12 points, 8 rebounds and 4 [...]

NEW YORK – When the 2008 O’Reilly Auto Parts CBE Classic tips off Monday in Kansas City, Mo., four of the last six national champions will be on display.
Syracuse, the 2003 NCAA champion, meets No. 18 Florida (’06, ‘07) at 7:30 p.m. ET, followed by No. 24 Kansas, the defending national champion, against Washington at [...]

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Syracuse coach Greg Robinson was fired Sunday with the Orange nearing the end of a fourth straight dismal season under his leadership.
Robinson, who will coach the final two games of this season, is 9-36 overall and 3-25 in the Big East. He had another year left on a contract that pays [...]

With the college season set to officially tip off with two games at Duke on Monday night, here’s a roundup of Big East exhibition games from the weekend.
** Lazar Hayward scored 23 points and Jerel McNeal added 22, making new coach Buzz Williams a winner in No. 16 Marquette’s 94-73 victory over Division II Colorado [...]

PISCATAWAY, N.J. — If Greg Robinson is a dead man coaching, then Rutgers helped drive another nail into his coffin on Saturday.
On a rainy, dreary day at Rutgers Stadium, the Scarlet Knights overcame a 14-0 first-quarter deficit to win their third straight Big East game against lowly Syracuse, 35-17, before 42,172.
Read the full story here.
Elsewhere, [...]

Taran Buie, a 6-foot-1 junior combo guard from Bishop Maginn (N.Y.), could decide on a school during the spring of his junior year.
According to Jim Hart, Buie’s coach with the Albany City Rocks, “Maryland, Notre Dame and Georgia Tech are the leaders.”
“He loved his recent visits to Notre Dame and Maryland and will visit Georgia [...]