Point guard Bo Spencer is transferring to Nebraska after having been declared academically ineligible at LSU. Spencer would have been LSU's top returning scorer this season, with 14.5 points a game, but coach Trent Johnson announced in May that Spencer would be ineligible. Spencer averaged 11.4 points in 2008-09 as LSU won the Southeastern Conference championship and made the NCAA tournament.

Trevor Mbakwe's yearlong exile from basketball is finally over, which is why he couldn't stop smiling on Monday. Mbakwe returned to practice for Minnesota for the first time since he was sidelined by an assault accusation, saying he is relieved to have the case behind him and actually preparing to play in a game again.

Former Alabama standout point guard Mikhail Torrance collapsed after a workout in Bradenton, Fla. on Friday and is hospitalized in critical condition, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press. Torrance had been training at the IMG Academies when he lost consciousness, according to the person who spoke on condition of anonymity because the player's family had not authorized...

Ex-NBA player and Michigan State star Jay Vincent has been indicted for an Internet employment scam that bilked about 20,000 jobseekers out of about $2 million, the U.S. Attorney's office said Thursday. The 51-year-old Vincent and 53-year-old Anthony Portee face charges of mail fraud, and Vincent is charged with an income tax violation, authorities said.

Virginia Commonwealth University men's basketball head coach Shaka Smart has signed a two-year contract extension. The school announced the deal Wednesday. The extension comes less than 17 months on the job. In his first season, Smart led the Rams to a 27-9 record, one win shy of the school record.

University of Mississippi basketball coach Andy Kennedy on Tuesday settled a defamation lawsuit with a cab driver and a valet stemming from a dispute over a ride. Details of the settlement were kept confidential as attorneys told Judge Melba Marsh in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court that they had reached an agreement.

The attorney for the woman convicted of trying to extort University of Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino says prosecution witnesses may have lied during trial. James Earhart made the allegation in a motion filed in U.S. District Court in Louisville asking for more time to request a new trial. The motion says "a key witness or witnesses" in the case of 50-year-old Karen Cunagin Sypher...

John Wall may have departed for the riches of the NBA, but a pair of young guards appear ready to try and fill the void for the Kentucky Wildcats. Freshmen Brandon Knight and Doron Lamb each scored 25 points and junior Darius Miller added 24 for Kentucky in a 104-75 win over the University of Windsor on Tuesday -- the finale of a three-day, three-game exhibition trip to Canada for the Wildcats.

Seton Hall University has settled a wrongful termination lawsuit brought by former men's basketball coach Bobby Gonzalez. School spokeswoman Holly Wojcik (WOH'-chek) confirms a settlement has been reached but says the terms are confidential. Gonzalez is known for his brash, aggressive style and was fired March 17 after Seton Hall lost in the opening round of the NIT.

Junior center Zisis Sarikopoulos (ZIZ-iss, SAYR-uh-COHP-ul-liss) will not return to Ohio State, instead electing to remain in his native Greece and play professionally. The 7-foot Sarikopoulos played one season for the Buckeyes after transferring from Alabama-Birmingham following the 2007-08 season. He sat out in 2008-09 to satisfy NCAA transfer rules before making 14 appearances for Ohio State...

Purdue athletic director Morgan Burke fondly remembers his childhood days, when he looked forward to Indiana's basketball powers coming together during the holiday season. Thanks in part to his persuasive skills, Burke will no longer have to rely on his memory. Indiana's four top college basketball programs will come together for the new Crossroads Classic in 2011 and 2012 at Conseco...

Villanova, Tennessee, Wake Forest and UCLA will serve as the regional hosts for the 2010 NIT Season Tip-Off. The first-round pairings for the 16-team tournament were announced Monday. The first- and second-round games will be played Nov. 15-17 with the winners advancing to Madison Square Garden for the semifinals on Nov.

The athletic director at Connecticut, which faces allegations of NCAA violations in its men's basketball program, has been picked to chair the NCAA Division I men's basketball committee. Hathaway is working on the school's response to NCAA allegations of eight major rules infractions in the Huskies' men's basketball program.

Dean Smith still plays golf, still pops into his campus office and still savors watching the North Carolina program he led for more than three decades take the court under Roy Williams' direction. Yet his family also says that the Hall of Fame coach is also losing some of the remarkable memory that could recall even the smallest details of the past.

The son of former Notre Dame standout Joe Montana was among 11 Fighting Irish athletes arrested on misdemeanor charges of underage drinking at a party Friday night. A total of 44 people were arrested after city police responded to a call about a fight near a roadway and discovered the party, said St.

Former Indiana University basketball player Todd Leary has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from an ex-business partner's multimillion-dollar mortgage fraud scheme. Thirty-nine-year-old Leary of Carmel pleaded guilty in court Thursday to a felony charge of misappropriating title insurance escrow funds.

The University of Oregon hired Rob Mullens as its new athletic director Thursday as it tries to rebound from a tumultuous spring while preparing to move into a $227 million basketball arena. Mullens, 41, arrives from Kentucky, where he was the Wildcats' deputy director of athletics. Oregon had been looking for an athletic director since March, when Mike Bellotti resigned to take a job with...

A second former University of Kansas athletics official admitted in court that he knew about a massive scam that allegedly involved the theft and sale of at least $1 million worth of tickets to sporting events. Brandon Simmons, the school's former assistant athletic director for sales in marketing, pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S.

The family of the late John Wooden has agreed to continue the college basketball doubleheader named for him and played in Anaheim, Calif., for the last 16 years. The event will be Dec. 18 at Honda Center and feature UCLA against BYU and St. Mary's against Long Beach State. Jim Wooden and Nancy Muehlhausen, the coach's son and daughter, said in a statement Wednesday that they're proud the...

Mel Turpin, former NBA player an All-American Kentucky center, committed suicide Thursday, authorities said. He was 49. Police and the coroner were called to his North Lexington house Thursday afternoon on a personal injury call. They found Turpin dead. Coroner Gary Ginn says that Turpin had committed suicide, but would not say how.