Eddie Sutton may have been caught urinating on middle school grounds. Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty

A security camera at a middle school in Stillwater, Okla., caught Oklahoma State basketball coach Eddie Sutton holding an unidentifiable bottle and urinating on school grounds 14 months ago. Authorities said Sutton could be charged with outraging public decency if anyone steps forward to say they witnessed him urinating on the grounds of the school near Sutton's home.
--The Oklahoman

As good as the Big East is -- it could have a record eight teams in the NCAA Tournament -- 16 teams are too many and the consensus around the conference is that within five years, the league will have to split between the football-playing members and the non-football-playing members, forging two eight-team conferences. That would allow for a round-robin schedule that includes all teams in the league's postseason tournament.
-- Boston Globe

A Duke University economics major was testing the law of supply and demand when he thought about accepting $3,000 for a courtside ticket to Saturday night's Duke-Carolina men's basketball game. But instead, Tristan Patterson, a freshman from Raleigh, got a lesson in the value of tradition. Fellow students evicted him from Krzyzewskiville, the tent village that sprouts every year outside Cameron Indoor Stadium as students wait for tickets to The Game.
-- News Observer

Five years after John Thompson Jr. resigned as the men's basketball coach at Georgetown, he remained the university's second-highest-paid employee, behind only the president. Thompson, who coached the Hoyas from 1972 to 1999, received more than $400,000 in salary and benefits in each of the most recent two years covered in Georgetown's tax returns.
-- New York Times

Max Williams, a former SMU player, whose grandson, Matt, currently plays on the team, said he saw something he didn't like within the program and that he instigated the NCAA investigation into the men's basketball program. Sources said coach Jimmy Tubbs used his own money to buy hamburgers for freshmen Bamba Fall and Brian Morris. The month-long investigation hasn't found any major rules violations, according to sources.
-- Dallas Morning News

One postseason change will affect the NIT, which was taken over by the NCAA last fall. In the past, NIT brackets were backroom affairs with teams that had marquee value getting breaks. Not anymore. A few hours after the NCAA releases its brackets March 12, the NIT's 40-team bracket will be announced. Regular-season champions that lose in conference tournaments will be guaranteed spots in the NIT, which will have eight first-round games before folding into a 32-team bracket.
-- Boston Globe

Texas offensive tackle Justin Blalock, who decided against jumping to the NFL to return for his senior season said despite losing Vince Young there's too much talent on the Longhorns team not to be successful at the highest level in 2006.
-- Dallas Morning News

Since Robert Mulcahy took over as athletic director at Rutgers in 1998, he has extended the contracts of and then fired three coaches in the university's most high-profile sports. The extensions and costly subsequent buyouts have cost the school nearly $2 million. They also have caught the attention of the members of the university's Board of Governors. Yesterday, George Zoffinger, chairman of the board's audit committee, said the university should change its policy of allowing the athletic director nearly carte blanche authority over the contracts of employees who earn some of the highest salaries on the state's payroll.
-- Newark Star-Ledger

This is Gonzaga's first time hosting the West Coast Conference's basketball tournament that began in 1987. Its old facility -- the original "Kennel" -- seated only about 3,200 fans, and the Spokane Arena is always taken this week with the Class B state high-school tournament. The second-year, 6,000-seat McCarthey Athletic Center changed all that, and it's sold out.
-- Seattle Times

Texas running back Jamaal Charles had an excellent track premiere at last week's Big 12 Conference Indoor Championships. He placed fourth in the 60-meter dash and was a surprising third in the 200 meters, an event he just picked up. Charles said this week that he'll run the sprints and the sprint relays when the outdoor season starts this month. Two other Longhorn football players helped the track team claim the Big 12 championship. Defensive end Brian Robison was second in the shotput and punter Trevor Gerland was eighth in the 60-meter hurdles.
-- Austin American-Statesman

Duane Akina, the Texas secondary coach and co-coordinator of the Texas defense, is using spring to test the versatililty of some of his starters. He tried starting cornerback Tarell Brown at safety and is looking to do the same with Aaron Ross, who rotated with Brown last season. Akina is trying to find replacements for departed seniors Michael Huff and Cedric Griffin.
-- Austin American-Statesman

Former Kansas State offensive line coach Bob Stanley took the same job with the New Mexico Lobos., coach Rocky Long said. Stanley's 30 years of coaching experience include stops at Texas A&M, TCU, Vanderbilt, Texas, Akron, Temple and SMU.
-- Dallas Morning News