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Steve Masiello, the former Manhattan coach, will not be headed to the University of South Florida, according to a report from ESPN. The report says Masiello did not earn his degree from the University of Kentucky during his four years there. Masiello did not graduate from Kentucky, UK spokeswoman Ashley Caressen told ESPN. Masiello attended UK from the fall of 1996 to the summer of 2000 but never earned his degree, Caressen said.

His bio on the Manhattan website says Masiello earned a communications degree from Kentucky. His agent declined comment to ESPN.

Rick Pitino, who coached Masiello in Kentucky and then faced him in the tournament, said he was surprised by ESPN's report.

"If it's accurate, I'm shocked by it," Pitino said. "I had no idea. I left the previous year and he was on track to graduate."

This not only takes him out of running for the South Florida job, but also calls into question his future with Manhattan. The Jaspers went to the NCAA tournament this year after winning the MAAC, where they lost to Louisville in the first round.

The University of South Florida released the following statement Wednesday on the search for a men's basketball coach:

During the search for a new men's basketball coach, an agreement in principle was reached by USF and candidate Steve Masiello. The agreement was pending a verification of credentials. Through the verification process it was determined the candidate's credentials could not be substantiated and therefore he did not meet the requirements for the position. The national search continues and USF looks forward to introducing a new coach at the appropriate time.


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Coming off Connecticut's most lopsided loss of its season, coach Kevin Ollie was looking for a spark earlier this month.

It was a down time, Ollie thought, and when your team is down, you get your players to bond as brothers. So he showed them tape from the Huskies' 65-64 win over Florida back on Dec. 2.

"I just wanted to show them, you know, Florida was No. 1 and we can beat No. 1," Ollie said then. "We have already proved it. I wanted to show them their intensity on the defensive end. The offensive end, we were sharing the ball." It worked. Connecticut won its next two games, fell again to Louisville in the conference tournament final, and won its next four games to reach a surprising Final Four.

That same Florida team awaits the Huskies in Dallas this weekend at the Final Four. Florida vs. Connecticut will be the first national semifinal, tipping off at 6:09 p.m. ET Saturday, followed by Wisconsin vs. Kentucky. Florida is the lone No. 1 seed to reach the Final Four.

"We're going to see what happens against them (again)," Ollie said Sunday. "I love Billy Donovan, what he does with his program, and he's just an amazing coach. And their team is amazing and it's going to take 40 full (minutes) again."

When he says a full 40 minutes, he means every last second. Connecticut won the Dec. 2 game on a Shabazz Napier buzzer-beater, and it is the last game Florida lost. The Gators were without their best perimeter defender, senior Scottie Wilbekin, for the game's final minutes due to an injury. This time around, the Wilbekin vs. Napier matchup — hopefully, 40 minutes of it — will be the most compelling individual matchup of the Final Four. Florida, the top overall seed in the NCAA tournament, will likely be favored in each of its remaining games. The Gators do have a rather interesting path to the championship, however.

In order to win the title — which would be Donovan's third — they'll have to go through the last team to beat them (Connecticut), and either the only other team to beat them this season (Wisconsin) or a team they've beaten three times this season (Kentucky). The Wildcats are the most surprising team in the group, a No. 8 seed from the Midwest Region that entered the postseason after a disappointing stretch that included losses to the likes of South Carolina and Arkansas.

But the Wildcats boast a collection of freshman talent that many analysts compare to that of Michigan's Fab Five, which meant a deep NCAA tournament run was never out of the question — if the individual talent turned into a team.

The kids grew up just in time, as Kentucky reeled off wins against Kansas State and three of last year's Final Four teams — Wichita State, Louisville and Michigan — to reach its second Final Four in three years. And, more importantly, this Kentucky team is living up to its wild expectations. "It's great," Kentucky sophomore Alex Poythress said. "That's what we came to do and what we wanted to do. Everybody has aspirations and dreams of coming to the Final Four, and now we are here. Now we are trying to get to the national title game."

The Wildcats' opponent, Wisconsin, reached the Final Four for the first time under coach Bo Ryan.​

Seven-footer Frank Kaminsky was the main reason why, as the big man scored 28 points against Arizona. He's a threat along the perimeter as well as in the paint, which should create a fascinating matchup when he goes up against Kentucky's big, bruising frontcourt.

"We're going in a little bit blind," Kentucky coach John Calipari said. "But I'm going to tell you, we've got good skill. We've got good size. We've got good toughness. We've got tougher through football practices.

"Now they're playing a little bit different. We're able to make tougher shots when we're getting bumped and grabbed a little bit."




Breaking down the Final Four matchups
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Moments after UCLA won the Pacific-12 Conference men's basketball tournament in March, coach Steve Alford and his players climbed a ladder, cut down the nets and took a piece of the nylon string as part of their respective, and very different, rewards.

The players got hats and T-shirts. Alford got a hat and a T-shirt — and notched $40,000 in bonuses. It added to a lucrative year for the new coach — $2.6 million in annual compensation from UCLA, along with an $845,000 signing bonus last spring to cover his buyout and taxes when he left the University of New Mexico.

Alford's players, by contrast, attend UCLA on scholarships that pay tuition, room and board but fail to cover more than $4,000 a year in living and other expenses, according to the school's most recent financial report to the NCAA.

The financial divide between Alford and his players reflects a national trend: College scholarship athletes face thousands in out-of-pocket costs while coaches' salaries — and revenue from college sports — continue to rise dramatically, a USA TODAY Sports analysis shows. The players in this year's Final Four attend schools where the gap between their scholarships and the total cost of attendance is about $2,300 to $5,400 a year, according to the schools' financial reports. Yet the coaches — Kentucky's John Calipari, Florida's Billy Donovan, Wisconsin's Bo Ryan and Connecticut's Kevin Ollie — are collecting an average of $3.1 million from their schools for this season.

The same four coaches also have racked up a combined $850,000 in bonuses this year, enough money to cover a $4,000 cost-of-attendance gap for 212 scholarship athletes.

Meanwhile, college athletes, who compete as amateurs and cannot be paid under NCAA rules, helped Division I schools generate nearly $11 billion in revenue in 2012-13, research by USA TODAY Sports shows, with more than $4.8 billion going to the 55 wholly public schools among the six power conferences (Big Ten, Pac-12, Southeastern, Big 12, Atlantic Coast and Big East, as constituted at the time). Those schools comprised 16% of the Division I membership but claimed 45% of the revenue, the analysis shows.

But the current construction of college sports — where amateurism and commercialism meet — is headed for an overhaul. How to close the "cost-of-attendance" gap is one of a host of issues advocates for student-athletes — and some federal lawmakers — say should be addressed to bring economic fairness to the system.

"I think it is out of balance right now," said U.S. Rep. Tony Cárdenas, D-Calif., who last year introduced a bill that would require colleges with high-revenue sports to provide a package of benefits to student-athletes. "In state after state in this country you see the highest-paid state employee is actually a coach. So the bottom line is that always brings in the question: Can these schools do more? I believe that they can. Should the schools do more? I believe that they should."

This week, the NCAA will bask in glow of the Final Four, the association's annual showcase. In two months, it is scheduled to be in federal court fighting litigation that seeks to strike down its ban against athletes sharing in the wealth — a case brought by another UCLA figure, Ed O'Bannon, star of the Bruins' last national championship basketball team in 1995.

The case, along with other litigation and potential legislation, poses the strongest challenge yet to the NCAA's decades-long financial hold over athletes. The plaintiffs' argument centers on the assertion that the only remnants of amateurism in college sports are the economic limitations on student-athletes. But for schools and coaches, it's a highly lucrative business, with 21 coaches in this year's 68-team NCAA field making at least $2 million this season and the average pay at nearly $1.8 million for the 58 coaches for whom USA TODAY Sports could obtain compensation figures.

Alford's move to UCLA from New Mexico last year netted him the largest pay increase — more than $1.4 million — of any public university basketball coach who appeared in the tournament both years. Yet it leaves him well short of the richest coaches. Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski pulled in nearly $10 million in compensation in 2011, according to the university's most recently available tax return, making him one of the highest-paid coaches in all of sports. Louisville coach Rick Pitino is making nearly $5.8 million this season, as much as some of the top-paid NBA coaches earn.

Robert Carey, an attorney with Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro who is involved in several lawsuits against the NCAA, says Alford's deal is another example of "the problem in collegiate sport."

"On the one hand you've got a coach out there in a hyper-competitive market being paid enormous sums because what he's bringing to the enterprise is valuable, but the more valuable component, the student-athletes — the ones who in any other context of sports are paid the most — can't even get enough to get their school completed. And that's just not right," Carey says.

EDUCATION OR BUSINESS?

Sitting in front of his locker during the Pac-12 tournament in Las Vegas, UCLA forward Tony Parker considered the current limits on student-athletes.

"It'd be cool for them to give a little back to the players," he said. "But whatever the NCAA does, you have to support them because those are our bosses."

UCLA athletics director Dan Guerrero declined an interview request, as did school Chancellor Gene Block.

The NCAA has in general withstood court challenges to its power because the association has successfully argued that athletics is subservient to its primary mission of education. Regulations concerning athletes' eligibility, therefore, are part of the NCAA's mandate to protect the academic integrity — and non-profit, tax-exempt status — of its members.

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Joe Mihalich, who has overseen a two-year turnaround of the basketball program at Hofstra, has signed a contract extension.

Director of Athletics Jeffrey Hathaway announced the extension Monday. No other details were given.

Mihalich inherited a program that won seven games the previous season and the Pride won 10 games the first season and were 20-14 last season, losing to William & Mary in the Colonial Athletic Association tournament semifinals. They lost to Vermont in the first round of the College Basketball Invitational.

The men's basketball program achieved a perfect score of 1000 for the 2013-14 year, Mihalich's first, in the latest Academic Progress Rate released last week.


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Former North Dakota State University men's basketball standout Lawrence Alexander has signed a professional contract with a team in Germany.

The 6-foot-3 native of Peoria, Illinois, was named The Summit League player of the year and tournament MVP last season. He also was an Associated Press honorable mention All-American as a senior.

Alexander ranked fifth in the nation in minutes per game and eighth nationally in 3-point percentage last season. He led The Summit League in scoring and set a school single-season record with 104 3-pointers.


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Manne wrote: Former North Dakota State University men's basketball standout Lawrence Alexander has signed a professional contract with a team in Germany.

The 6-foot-3 native of Peoria, Illinois, was named The Summit League player of the year and tournament MVP last season. He also was an Associated Press honorable mention All-American as a senior.

Alexander ranked fifth in the nation in minutes per game and eighth nationally in 3-point percentage last season. He led The Summit League in scoring and set a school single-season record with 104 3-pointers.


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Manne wrote: Moments after UCLA won the Pacific-12 Conference men's basketball tournament in March, coach Steve Alford and his players climbed a ladder, cut down the nets and took a piece of the nylon string as part of their respective, and very different, rewards.

The players got hats and T-shirts. Alford got a hat and a T-shirt — and notched $40,000 in bonuses. It added to a lucrative year for the new coach — $2.6 million in annual compensation from UCLA, along with an $845,000 signing bonus last spring to cover his buyout and taxes when he left the University of New Mexico.

Alford's players, by contrast, attend UCLA on scholarships that pay tuition, room and board but fail to cover more than $4,000 a year in living and other expenses, according to the school's most recent financial report to the NCAA.

The financial divide between Alford and his players reflects a national trend: College scholarship athletes face thousands in out-of-pocket costs while coaches' salaries — and revenue from college sports — continue to rise dramatically, a USA TODAY Sports analysis shows. The players in this year's Final Four attend schools where the gap between their scholarships and the total cost of attendance is about $2,300 to $5,400 a year, according to the schools' financial reports. Yet the coaches — Kentucky's John Calipari, Florida's Billy Donovan, Wisconsin's Bo Ryan and Connecticut's Kevin Ollie — are collecting an average of $3.1 million from their schools for this season.

The same four coaches also have racked up a combined $850,000 in bonuses this year, enough money to cover a $4,000 cost-of-attendance gap for 212 scholarship athletes.

Meanwhile, college athletes, who compete as amateurs and cannot be paid under NCAA rules, helped Division I schools generate nearly $11 billion in revenue in 2012-13, research by USA TODAY Sports shows, with more than $4.8 billion going to the 55 wholly public schools among the six power conferences (Big Ten, Pac-12, Southeastern, Big 12, Atlantic Coast and Big East, as constituted at the time). Those schools comprised 16% of the Division I membership but claimed 45% of the revenue, the analysis shows.

But the current construction of college sports — where amateurism and commercialism meet — is headed for an overhaul. How to close the "cost-of-attendance" gap is one of a host of issues advocates for student-athletes — and some federal lawmakers — say should be addressed to bring economic fairness to the system.

"I think it is out of balance right now," said U.S. Rep. Tony Cárdenas, D-Calif., who last year introduced a bill that would require colleges with high-revenue sports to provide a package of benefits to student-athletes. "In state after state in this country you see the highest-paid state employee is actually a coach. So the bottom line is that always brings in the question: Can these schools do more? I believe that they can. Should the schools do more? I believe that they should."

This week, the NCAA will bask in glow of the Final Four, the association's annual showcase. In two months, it is scheduled to be in federal court fighting litigation that seeks to strike down its ban against athletes sharing in the wealth — a case brought by another UCLA figure, Ed O'Bannon, star of the Bruins' last national championship basketball team in 1995.

The case, along with other litigation and potential legislation, poses the strongest challenge yet to the NCAA's decades-long financial hold over athletes. The plaintiffs' argument centers on the assertion that the only remnants of amateurism in college sports are the economic limitations on student-athletes. But for schools and coaches, it's a highly lucrative business, with 21 coaches in this year's 68-team NCAA field making at least $2 million this season and the average pay at nearly $1.8 million for the 58 coaches for whom USA TODAY Sports could obtain compensation figures.

Alford's move to UCLA from New Mexico last year netted him the largest pay increase — more than $1.4 million — of any public university basketball coach who appeared in the tournament both years. Yet it leaves him well short of the richest coaches. Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski pulled in nearly $10 million in compensation in 2011, according to the university's most recently available tax return, making him one of the highest-paid coaches in all of sports. Louisville coach Rick Pitino is making nearly $5.8 million this season, as much as some of the top-paid NBA coaches earn.

Robert Carey, an attorney with Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro who is involved in several lawsuits against the NCAA, says Alford's deal is another example of "the problem in collegiate sport."

"On the one hand you've got a coach out there in a hyper-competitive market being paid enormous sums because what he's bringing to the enterprise is valuable, but the more valuable component, the student-athletes — the ones who in any other context of sports are paid the most — can't even get enough to get their school completed. And that's just not right," Carey says.

EDUCATION OR BUSINESS?

Sitting in front of his locker during the Pac-12 tournament in Las Vegas, UCLA forward Tony Parker considered the current limits on student-athletes.

"It'd be cool for them to give a little back to the players," he said. "But whatever the NCAA does, you have to support them because those are our bosses."

UCLA athletics director Dan Guerrero declined an interview request, as did school Chancellor Gene Block.

The NCAA has in general withstood court challenges to its power because the association has successfully argued that athletics is subservient to its primary mission of education. Regulations concerning athletes' eligibility, therefore, are part of the NCAA's mandate to protect the academic integrity — and non-profit, tax-exempt status — of its members.

If sports is the NCAA's secondary mission, it is a booming sideline, sparking billions in spending not only
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