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Conference tournaments will give AP Top 25 teams a last chance this week to impact their seeding for the NCAA Tournament.

Hall of Fame coach Jay Wright is retiring after 21 seasons as men's basketball coach at Villanova, a shocking move that comes just weeks after he led the Wildcats to the Final Four.

Any hopes of UTEP leaving C-USA for the the Mountain West Conference might be on hold for awhile. San Diego State informed the Big East that they will remain in the MWC.

The UTEP Miners might be getting a new rival(s) in the near future.  UTSA has decided it want to be a player in college athletics. They started playing D-I football (FCS) in 2011, and were on the fast track to join the WAC.  That move was scheduled for July 1st, 2012...

Tonight's edition of 'On The Sidelines' is another show first. Andy is off to the UTEP vs. Tulsa mens game so... Chad is solo for the first time. Show topics include: Blenda Rodriguez of the Harlem Globetrotters in studio, Memphis to the Big East, I dislike Rick Pitino and everyone should listen to PGA Tour Radio...

UTEP and Conference USA received a huge blow yesterday when the Big East announced they would invite the University of Memphis to become a member of their conference next year.

"...SMU is Big East-bound, and it can crow to its heart's content that it has a program to match TCU's. You can read all about it on page 12 of the Dallas Morning-News sports section, right above the ads for topless bars..."

After months of “will they or won’t they” closed door negotiations, the Big East announced Wednesday that Boise State, Houston, Southern Methodist, San Diego State and Central Florida will be joining the conference in 2013. With the conference now stretching coast to coast, Big East Commissioner John Marinatto said the Big East will be the “first truly national college football conference.” Read M

Conference USA and the Mountain West had a great idea -- get together and form a nationwide football-only super-conference that was sure to get an automatic BCS bid for its champion and good TV money. Only problem was, they talked to the Big East about it.

After announcing last week that they would be joining the Big 12, West Virginia officials on Monday filed a lawsuit seeking to leave the Big East next summer. Current Big East bylaws require that member schools give 27 months notice before leaving the conference.