New York Times: College Basketball

A prospective agent and a former shoe company consultant were convicted of conspiring to funnel money to coaches in exchange for help signing players to their agency.

The former Arkansas coach, taking over for Chris Mullin, said he wanted the Red Storm to be a team that opponents “don’t know what we’re going to do.”

The head basketball coach, Will Wade, “answered all questions and denied any wrongdoing,” the university said.

Mullin, 55, the greatest basketball player in the university’s history, held the coaching job for four years and had just completed his first winning season. He had two years left on his contract.

The Cavaliers completed a yearlong march to redemption after ending the 2018 season as the first No. 1 seed to lose to a No. 16 in the men’s tournament.

The Lady Bears, despite losing a top player and then having the Irish’s best player at the line in the final seconds, beat Notre Dame with the title at stake for the second time in eight years.

The Cavaliers have pulled off two consecutive narrow victories. Who is to say they don’t have one more in them?

DiDi Richards, Baylor’s 6-foot-1 defensive specialist, has been called a gnat and a fly in the postseason. But she really wants to be called a champion.

The coach’s checkered N.C.A.A. past has followed him to the Final Four, but his all-in persona leads colleges to keep hiring him, and players to keep winning for him.

Sylvia Hatchell was placed on leave after players’ families complained to university officials, according to two people with direct knowledge of the accusations.