Louisville gets win despite Rick Pitino’s lingering shadow

The NCAA announced Monday it plans to hold the entire 2021 men’s college basketball tournament in one geographic location to mitigate the risks of COVID-19 and is in talks with Indianapolis to be the host city. The Final Four is already set to be held in Indianapolis next April and the NCAA has its headquarters in the Indiana capital. No decision on how to handle the women’s NCAA Tournament has been decided yet.

In a bizarre — and wholly disturbing — development, one Michigan football player appears to have threatened violence against his head coach. A series of tweets from Elysee Mbem-Bosse Monday night indicated that he was having some type of unspecified family crisis and “was suspended for going to take care of my family.� One of the tweets mentioned @CoachJim4UM, the Twitter account of U-M head football coach Jim Harbaugh; another tweet stated that “Michigan is open carry. Let’s not forget.� “Let’s not have a murder case On your hands,� the Wolverines linebacker ominously wrote. While Mbem-Bosse subsequently deleted all of the tweets — and made his account private — one Reddit user saved the aforementioned

Bob Knight will reportedly set foot in Assembly Hall for the first time since he was fired in 2000 to honor his 1979-1980 team.