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Patrick Reusse: Minnesota's Ellenson has the hops to play basketball and track

Richard Pitino was hired as Minnesota's basketball coach on April 3. The first order of business in that situation is to start meeting with the players scheduled to return for the next season.

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Honeymoon was short for UCLA Bruins' new coach

UCLA and Steve Alford.
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Kansas lands transfer Tarik Black from Memphis

Memphis forward Tarik Black is transferring to Kansas and will be eligible to play immediately.
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Kansas basketball team adds Memphis transfer Tarik Black

Kansas' basketball team has added another big body to a burgeoning roster overhaul.
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Willie Burton returns to Minnesota . . . to a degree

Willie Burton will walk across a stage Saturday morning to receive his University of Minnesota diploma, and it will not be difficult to distinguish him from his classmates.
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Chip Scoggins: Pitino Ball will look foreign to Minnesota Gophers fans

REDWOOD FALLS, Minn. ï¿½ Richard Pitino walked into a community center banquet room and a group of fans immediately surrounded him in search of autographs, pictures and a few words with the new Minnesota Gophers basketball coach.
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Rutgers makes Louisville's Hermann AD

Rutgers named Julie Hermann its new athletic director Wednesday, and the former No. 2 athletic administrator at Louisville promised a restart for the scandal-scarred program following the ouster of its men's basketball coach and the resignation of other officials.
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Top basketball recruit Andrew Wiggins, described by Self as an 'alpha dog,' picks Kansas

The lines of communication had been dead for weeks. Andrew Wiggins had been in his own world, processing information, school by school, guarding his secret from a curious basketball world.
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Sam Mellinger: Kansas' Bill Self gets exactly what he needed in Andrew Wiggins

Andrew Wiggins may or may not be the best high school basketball player since LeBron James. He may or may not be the guy who keeps The Streak alive, who turns Kansas from a Big 12 title contender to a national championship threat, who makes the Jayhawks must-watch TV this season and eventually becomes...
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Wiggins choose Kansas over North Carolina, Florida State and Kentucky

Andrew Wiggins, regarded as the top college basketball prospect in years, announced on Tuesday that he will play next season at Kansas. Wiggins' other three finalists were North Carolina, Florida State and Kentucky.
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Kentucky loses out on Andrew Wiggins

John Calipari spent more than two years trying to bring Andrew Wiggins to Lexington.