Wednesday, April 4. 2001
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Knight challenges NCAA
LUBBOCK, Texas - Fourdaysafter dismissing three players for undisclosed vollels, Texas Tech coach Bob Knight said yesterday he would challenge an NCAA rule preventing him from replacing those scholarship players on the squad. Knight refused to discuss why he
The Associated Press
Knight: dismissed three Tech players
kicked the players off the team a week after taking the Red Raiders' job.
"They just needed to be dismissed, period. That's all," he said at his first full news conference at the school. Knight said the rule that limited schools to recruiting eight scholarship players within a two-year period was unfair and did not exist when Texas Tech was placed under NCAA
"This rule doesn't exist in girls' basketball, which means the girls are a hell of a lot smarter than whoever put it in place for the guys," he said.
sanctions in 1997.
A representative with the NCAA did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment.
On Friday, one week after being hired, Knight kicked three players off the team for violating team rules. It wasn't made clear to starter Jamal Brown, who averaged 10.6 points last season, or freshman reserves Brannon Hayes and Rodney Bass what rules they had broken. A fourth player, Ronald Hobbs, asked to be released from his scholarship.
Athletics director Gerald Myers said Brown, Hayes and Bass had the right to retain their scholarships for another year, but they probably would transfer.
If that happens, Tech's roster shrinks to four scholarship players entering next season. Depth could become a problem because NCAA rules permit Knight to sign only five more scholarship players, giving him a total of nine. The NCAA allows
a maximum of 13
Violations, including recruiting and unethical conduct, led to NCAA sanctions that held Tech to no more than nine scholarship players for each of the past four years. Next season would have been the first that the team could have the full 13 on its roster.
Knight said he was fighting the rule because it was not in place when Tech was placed on probation, not because it put his program in a bind.
"I don't think anything other than that comes into the equation — a kid quits, or a kid gets dismissed, or a kid transfers or you have a new coach," he said.
On Monday, Knight received an oral commitment from Ermal Kuqo, a sophomore at Seminole State College in Oklahoma. Kuqo said he would sign a national letter of intent to attend Tech on Wednesday, April 11.
"I made my decision to sign with Texas Tech because of coach Knight," Kuqo said. "His name says it all. He's a proven winner who develops players and good people."
Season reaches emotional end
The Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS — With an opening round before the first round and a final that pitched the preseason Nos.
1 and 2, the NCAA Tournament provided an upset-filled end to an emotional, eventful season.
Duke's 82-72 victory against Arizona on Monday night kept the preseason No. 2s unbeaten in four such championship meetings. The Blue Devils entered and left the tournament No.1.
"At the end of each year, there's always a part of me that wants the year to be over," said Duke's Mike Krzyzewski, who became just the fourth coach to win three titles. "I
can tell you, even though we won the national championship. I wish I could coach these kids longer."
The championship game capped an emotional season for Arizona. Early season suspensions got the Wildcats off to a tough start, then the death of Bobbi Olson, the wife of coach Lute Olson, on Jan. 1, deeply affected the players.
"All of us have things happen to us that we have to be willing to accept that it's happened," Olson said. "I don't know how many people I've heard from that have lost life partners."
Still, Arizona beat No. 1 seeds Illinois and Michigan State to get to Duke before falling short of winning a second title for Olson.
said. "And like I've said, thank goodness for family and great friends."
"It's a fact of life. It's there." he
The 2001 tournament was the first with a 65-team field, provided a record weekend of early upsets, had regionals with all the top seeds making the finals, some great story lines and a Final Four with three No. 1s and a rookie.
Maryland made its first Final Four, and it was the first time for Gary Williams, a head coach for 23 years.
There was even plenty of off-the-courtnews in its three weeks, including a slew of coaches leaving, either through resignation or firing.
Next year's Final Four will be in Atlanta for just the second time. In 1977, Marquette won its only national championship there.
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