Indiana's Crean inks 10-yr., $23.6M deal (AP)New Indiana basketball coach Tom Crean got the job security he wanted, signing a 10-year contract worth at least $23.6 million. The deal includes an annual base salary of $600,000 and additional payments for promotional work, school officials said Tuesday. He will receive $1.4 million this season from outside income, a total that will increase slightly each year of the contract.
UNC's Lawson guilty of underage drinking (AP)North Carolina basketball player Ty Lawson has pleaded guilty to underage drinking and driving. The 20-year-old Lawson appeared in court Tuesday after completing community service and other terms of his plea agreement. Prosecutors agreed to drop charges of violating a noise ordinance and driving with a suspended or revoked license.
Virginia dismisses Mikalauskas (AP)Laurynas Mikalauskas, one of the more popular players at the University of Virginia, was dismissed from the team by coach Dave Leitao on Monday, while he announced that Tunji Soroye will return next season. Leitao said that Mikalauskas, a 6-foot-8 native of Lithuania, is no longer a member of the team because he has not lived up to the standards set by the program.
Ex-Iowa State coach Anderson dies at 79 (AP)Former Iowa State basketball coach Glen Anderson, the third-winningest coach in school history, has died. He was 79. Iowa State officials said Anderson died Friday at his home in Hot Springs, Ark. Anderson coached the Cyclones from 1959 to 1971, finishing 142-161 in those 12 seasons. He led the Cyclones to six upper-division finishes in the Big 8.
Indiana names Roshown McLeod assistant (AP)Former NBA player Roshown McLeod has been hired as an assistant coach at Indiana. New coach Tom Crean said Thursday that McLeod will work with the Hoosiers' inside players. The 6-foot-8 McLeod played at St. John's and Duke and was a first-round pick by Atlanta in the 1998 NBA draft. He later played for Philadelphia and Boston and averaged 7.2 points and 2.7 rebounds in 113 career games.
Calhoun spends summer fighting cancer (AP)
It wasn't the way Jim Calhoun wanted to spend his summer. Thirty-three times over seven weeks, Connecticut's Hall of Fame basketball coach left his eastern Connecticut home by 5:30 a.m. to make a 45-minute trip to the University of Connecticut Health Center for a dose of radiation. The skin cancer treatment left him thinner, weaker, temporarily unable to taste food -- and ready to get back to work.
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