Tuesday Recap

A preview of the Jordan Classic with an in-studio interview of Patrick Patterson on the Hot List on ESPN News. Details at Recruiting Wars

Three transfer out of Mississippi State, the Delk twins and a forward

Right now (noon PT/3pm ET) David Stern is sitting in the studio of ESPN News on the Hot List. He already talked about the indefinite suspension of referee Joey Crawford for ejecting Tim Duncan. He is now addressing the "teams losing to get top draft picks" by not really answering the answer... Now he is commenting on Bob Knight's comments, and he is reflecting that back to the NCAA rules of eligibility... On the 19-year-old NBA draft rule: "Good for the NBA", "improves the quality of our game". "Win win for college and NBA", "If players association goes to 20yo limit, I'm all for that". Right now, on ESPN News with Josh Elliot on the Hot List.

The following stories are on ESPN.com

Brad Soderberg is fired by St Louis after failing to pull the program out of obscurity both when it was in C-USA and in the A-10. With the success in the surrounding Valley of Darkness (MVC), the pressure is on for the next St Louis coach. Actually I think this was the right decision by St Louis despite ESPN whining about 20 wins.

The coaching carousel stops at Air Force as they promote within, assistant Reynolds will take over for departing Bzdelik.

I want a raise too! Rick Barnes get a $200K raise making him the most highly paid coach in the Big12, and Sean Sutton gets an extension at Oral Roberts

South Alabama will get a hot coach, the one who turned Texas A&M Corpus-Cristi from a spring break team into a low-major powerhouse (as strange as that may sound). So both Texas A&M D1 schools lost their coaches after groundbreaking runs.

Today's OTL will have a first report on the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech. OTL airs at noonPT/3pmET on ESPN.


NBA Draft

Two stories at ESPN.com say that tiny Rice of GW and Nick Young are going to enter the NBA Draft. Rice will not sign with an agent. It is uncertain what will Nick Young do.

DJ White is coming back (Where did he think he was going? Did he actually watch the slugfests his team played last year? A 50-49 game is acceptable in the Big 10, but not in the NBA!)


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