Louisville sells Ware shirts: Louisville is selling a T-shirt to honor Kevin Ware, the former Rockdale County High School standout who suffered a horrific broken leg on national TV on Sunday.
The Adidas T-shirt says “Ri5e to the Occasion” and has Ware’s No. 5 on the back. It sells for $24.99 on the school’s official team website.
A few minutes after the T-shirt was revealed, Louisville caught some criticism on Twitter for trying to profit from Ware’s injury. “The sick part is, if fans sent Kevin Ware $25 checks instead of shipping it to Louisville and Adidas, it would be a (NCAA) violation,” tweeted USA Today’s Dan Wolken.
Also, the Louisville team will wear different shirts that say “all in for #5” across the front during Saturday’s warm-ups in Atlanta.
Marshall rebuffed UCLA: If you're the coach of a Cinderella team in the Final Four, you usually can expect a few job offers from bigger schools.
That happened quietly last week with Wichita State’s Gregg Marshall, according to Kansas.com
“I’m coaching a team in the Final Four,” Marshall told a radio station. “We are still playing. There were overtures made to a representative of mine from UCLA, and they wanted to talk. And I totally refused to do that while in L.A., while we were still playing. And I would never do that.”
UCLA later hired Steve Alford.
Clarifying a tweet: Andrew Wiggins is the nation's No. 1 overall college basketball prospect and uncommitted. His older brother is Wichita State junior guard Nick Wiggins.
Big brother created a stir this week when he tweeted, “The WORLD is going to SHOCKED when my brother makes his decision in the next couple weeks lol just saying ! #SHOCKTHEWORLD BRO”
With Wichita State’s nickname being the Shockers, was that a hint that Andrew might bypass Kentucky, North Carolina, Kansas and Florida State for Wichita State? Yes, that would be a true shocker, even more that Wichita State making the semifinals.
Nick Wiggins clarified his tweet to Kansas.com and insisted he wasn’t saying his brother was even considering Wichita State. “I didn’t mean it to get anybody out of their seats or try to tease anybody. I just wrote the tweet to say ‘People, don’t get your hopes up. He’s going to make the best decision for him.’”
Andrew is a 6-foot-7 forward from Huntington, W.Va.
Friendly rivals: When Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim looks over at his coaching adversary Saturday, he'll know he had a lot to do with putting Michigan's John Beilein in that position.
On two occasions, Boeheim gave strong recommendations to schools to hire Beilein. When West Virginia’s athletic director called Boeheim in 2001, “I told him to hang up the phone and call (John) and hire him without waiting another minute,” according to AnnArbor.com.
The two coaches are longtime friends, but a few people have joked this week that maybe Boeheim wanted schools to hire a coach he knew he could beat. Beilein is 0-9 against the longtime Syracuse coach.
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