Latest Ncaa Basketball Police Blotter Stories
Posted: May 28th 2009 10:08AM ET by Chas Rich (RSS feed)
Filed under: Kentucky, Memphis, Conference USA, SEC, Campus, Coaches, Police Blotter

It is a coincidence.
Besides nothing ever was proven or even suggested by the NCAA that
John Calipari even knew what
Marcus Camby was up to at UMass. Just like there is nothing at this point to indicate that Calipari was aware of the things
the NCAA is now accusing Memphis.
The NCAA is accusing the
Memphis Tigers with failure to monitor with regards to actions relating to the 2007-08 season in which the Tigers went to the Final Four. While the name of the key player has been redacted the letter from the NCAA indicates that the player, "subsequently competed during the 2007-08 season and specifically the 2008 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship." In other words,
Derrick Rose.
Posted: May 14th 2009 4:14PM ET by Chas Rich (RSS feed)
Filed under: Mid-Majors, Police Blotter
There are things people do to lose a job, then there actions that completely obliterate any chance at continuing a career in their chosen field. For Mike Burden, the now former associate head basketball coach at the Maine Black Bears, he allegedly took an action that should necessitate leaving coaching -- and likely anything involving students -- forever.
Burden resigned after being
charged with unlawful sexual contact against one woman and assault against another woman who tried to assist the victim. Both women were students at Maine.
Posted: May 5th 2009 1:44PM ET by Chas Rich (RSS feed)
Filed under: Duke, Florida, Kentucky, NC State, ACC, SEC, Media Watch, Police Blotter, Recruiting, North Carolina
John Wall, the nation's top point guard recruit and possible No. 1 pick of the 2010 NBA draft, was charged with misdemeanor breaking and entering yesterday.
Contrary to
what my colleague wrote, this will likely have minimal impact on the teams recruiting him.
Posted: Apr 24th 2009 11:00PM ET by FanHouse Newswire (RSS feed)
Filed under: Louisville, Coaches, Police Blotter

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- The estranged wife of a longtime aide to Louisville men's basketball coach
Rick Pitino faces charges that she tried to extort the coach, at first demanding cars and tuition for her children, then later asking for $10 million, according to a federal complaint filed Friday.
Posted: Feb 2nd 2009 4:00PM ET by Will Brinson (RSS feed)
Filed under: NC State, ACC, Coaches, Fans, Media Watch, Police Blotter
Kay Yow's recent passing struck an emotional chord, not just in Raleigh and North Carolina, but across the sports world as a whole. The level of respect that Coach Yow received from fans, friends, family and colleagues cannot be understated.
Which makes it that much more difficult to comprehend why vandals would
deface a memorial created to honor Coach Yow with a "blue mustache" and the phrase, "Cancer Rules."
Posted: Jan 28th 2009 10:17PM ET by Chas Rich (RSS feed)
Filed under: ACC, Police Blotter, University of Miami

Miami's
Edwin Rios was supposed to be one of the team's building blocks. The sophomore was a
top-20 point guard in the
recruiting rankings when he signed with Miami. Instead, he has underachieved and been a problem child. He was first suspended for one game in December, then
suspended indefinitely in January. Why? The ever popular "violating team rules."
That is now the least of his concerns as he has been
arrested and charged with "two counts of burglarizing an unoccupied dwelling, and two counts of grand theft." So far Miami and the athletic department has no comment.
Miami, has a "zero-tolerance" policy concerning the behavior of its athletes on-the-field after the FIU-Miami football brawl a couple years ago; that has
not really been enforced in the realm of basketball. It is a good bet, as the athletic department still tries to overcome the reputation of lawlessness earned by the football program, that Rios is likely done as a Hurricane.
Posted: Jan 28th 2009 12:15PM ET by Will Brinson (RSS feed)
Filed under: Marquette, Big East, Fans, Media Watch, Police Blotter, Rumors
Jonathan Xavier just wanted to defend his brother,
Jeff, a guard for the Providence Friars. No, honestly -- that's the only reason
he stormed onto the court during Providence's game against Marquette last week.
The bigger problem isn't that he was arrested, though. It's that he was already on probation, and that by storming the floor, he may have violated said probation. And now he's
still in jail while a judge determines that very issue.