Jim Calhoun is starting his 35th season as a head coach. Tony Barbee is beginning his first.

At 11, he knew he wanted to play basketball for a living. And unlike many kids who decide that, he was right. Gary Parrish says Texas freshman Kevin Durant is, as one coach says, 'silly sick,' maybe even the best in a long string of Longhorns stars.

UCLA center Lorenzo Mata will undergo an arthroscopic procedure on his right knee Thursday, a day before the Bruins open practice for the upcoming season.

Tom Riach, captain of the 1951 Southern California basketball team, has died, the school said Wednesday. He was 77.

Duquesne University forward Sam Ashaolu, one of five players shot last month following an on-campus party, has begun walking on his own as he continues to rehabilitate from head injuries caused by multiple gunshot wounds.

Niagara issued suspensions ranging from one to eight games for six men's basketball players accused of being involved in an assault of a university baseball player this summer.

Toledo center Haris Charalambous died during conditioning because a blood vessel to his heart ruptured, according to preliminary autopsy results released Tuesday.

North Carolina State's Andrew Brackman plans to sit out this basketball season to focus on baseball.

Washington's heralded freshman center Spencer Hawes will have arthroscopic knee surgery Wednesday and is expected to miss two to four weeks.