Virginia Commonwealth Rams

As Old Dominion begins planning for the move to Conference USA, Garmins might become standard issue during the transition, as the Monarchs figure how to get where they’re going in their new league. Unfamiliarity aside, travel might not be as...

As Colonial Athletic Association honchos and members prepare for conference meetings next week, I went fishing for the athletic directors at Towson, Delaware and Hofstra to get their perspectives on what the suddenly-depleted league needs to do. A couple...

It seems a simple question: Can schools on their way out the Colonial Athletic Association door compete for conference championships? Yes or no. Thumbs up or down. Apparently not. League presidents decided last Tuesday whether Old Dominion and Georgia...

Coaches love a cause, especially an us-against-the-world cause. Old Dominion’s teams have just that in 2012-13. The Monarchs’ foil will be anyone and everyone associated with the Colonial Athletic Association, which Tuesday affirmed that...

For a guy who just lived through a 1-31 season in his first year as a Division I head coach, Pat Skerry seems oddly optimistic. But for the second-year Towson men's basketball coach, staying positive is a surprisingly easy thing to do. Just steps away...

One week after Virginia Tech’s firing of basketball coach Seth Greenberg, we know little about the search for his successor. We’ve discovered some of the dozens of names recommended to athletic director Jim Weaver but have identified none...

The Colonial Athletic Association apparently will be spared, at least for a year, the splintering that many believed would occur this spring. Multiple sources directly involved with realignment discussions said Saturday afternoon that VCU athletic...

The Brittany Huback File Family: Parents, Frank and Leanne Huback; sisters, Jennifer (32), Christina (29) and Brenna (20). Age: 22. High school: Huback graduated from Woodbury, Minn., where she played softball and volleyball for the Royals. She was a...

The last time Virginia Tech searched for a basketball coach, no media outlet reported Seth Greenberg as a possible candidate until the day before he was hired. Tony Bennett’s name didn’t surface at Virginia three years ago until the very day...

Both of the Colonial Athletic Association’s improbable Final Four appearances – George Mason in 2006 and VCU in 2011 – were authored by teams that received at-large tournament bids. So with Selection Sunday less than a month away, it&...

Based on Twitter feedback, some fans of George Mason, the Colonial Athletic Association and mid-major basketball are/were none too pleased with the tone of Miami coach Jim Larranaga’s remarks Monday about NCAA tournament worthiness. Larranaga was...

VCU was 90th on the Rating Percentage Index on Feb. 1. Translation: Zero NCAA tournament at-large chance. The Rams were 80th on Feb. 15. From zero to marginal in two weeks. Progress but not about to trend on Twitter. This morning, per CollegeRPI.com,...