College Basketball
Cardinals’ castaway Behanan will transfer to CSU
FORT COLLINS – Forward Chane Behanan, a key member of Louisville’s national championship squad who was dismissed from the team last month for a violation of university policy, has enrolled at Colorado State and will play for the Rams next season.
Before being dismissed, Behanan averaged 8.3 points, 6.2 rebounds and shot 67 percent from the field in 11 games this season for the Cardinals.
Louisville head coach Rick Pitino did not specify last month what rule was broken but expressed disappointment that the 6-6 forward had another setback just a month after being reinstated from a 26-day suspension for violating school policy.
Behanan will be eligible to play for the Rams after the end of the fall term next December.
Arizona and Syracuse go 1-2 for the 8th week in a row
Arizona and Syracuse are 1-2 in The Associated Press college basketball poll for the eighth consecutive week.
The Wildcats (20-0) again are a runaway No. 1, receiving 63 first-place votes Monday from the 65-member national media panel. The Orange (19-0) got the other No. 1 votes.
Florida jumped from sixth to third, while Wichita State (21-0), the other undefeated Division I team, moved up one spot to fourth.
San Diego State and Kansas both moved up two places to fifth and sixth. They were followed by Michigan State, which dropped from third, Oklahoma State, Villanova and Michigan. The Wolverines jumped from 21st to 10th after beating Michigan State.
No. 20 Creighton moved back into the rankings after being out for one week. No. 25 Texas moves into the poll for the first time since 2010-11. The Longhorns have beaten three consecutive ranked opponents for the first time in school history.
UConn remains No. 1, while Middle Tennessee checks in
Connecticut remains No. 1 in The Associated Press poll after two easy victories, while Middle Tennessee makes its first appearance in the poll since 2009.
The Huskies routed both Memphis and South Florida to improve to 21-0 this season. UConn will visit Temple and Cincinnati this week where Geno Auriemma will coach against two of his former assistants.
Notre Dame, Duke, Stanford and Louisville followed the Huskies, with the first five teams unchanged in Monday’s vote. The second-ranked Irish also are unbeaten and played No. 8 Maryland on Monday night.
North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, Baylor and Tennessee rounded out the first 10.
Olympics
NHL won’t commit to the Olympics beyond Sochi
The NHL has not decided whether to let its players participate in the Olympics beyond this year, casting doubt on who will be competing for hockey gold in four years.
With the league set to push pause on its season for next month’s Sochi Olympics, Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly also is allowing for the possibility of a security issue that could keep the players from traveling to Russia at all.
Russian security has been looking for three potential female suicide bombers, one of whom is believed to be in Sochi. The country has assembled what is believed to be the biggest security operation ever for an Olympics with more than 50,000 police and soldiers.
Surgery in a sanitorium will keep Reichelt from Sochi
SCHLADMING, Austria – Hannes Reichelt was ruled out of the Olympics because of a back injury, leaving the Austrian Alpine speed team without its main medal hope in Sochi.
The Austrian ski federation said Monday that Reichelt had to undergo surgery in a sanatorium in Innsbruck for a herniated disk, only two days after winning a World Cup downhill in Kitzbuehel, and therefore he has to end his season prematurely.
The 33-year-old Reichelt had been complaining about persistent back problems for weeks.
Associated Press
