College Basketball News

5 years after ban, UDC has women's hoops in NCAAs (AP) (sports.yahoo.com)

The red and gold mascot who pranced around at the send-off for the University of the District of Columbia women's basketball team is called the Firebird. Given the circumstances, a phoenix would have been more appropriate. Five years after the university president shut down every UDC sports team because of rampant cheating -- or, as the NCAA put it, "the most egregious lack of institutional control...