Add Kansas City to the list of schools interested in hiring Bob Huggins as head coach. Andy Lyons/Getty Images

Kansas State is considering hiring Bob Huggins as coach because that's just how desperate K-State's administration and fan base are to make the Big Dance.
-- Kansas City Star

UW-Milwaukee's athletic director Bud Haidet knows that interest in his young head coach, Rob Jeter, will undoubtedly increase. Haidet knows several upper-Division I schools with current or impending head coaching openings will now be looking much closer at Jeter.
-- Journal-Times

Another subpar season by Kentucky standards could have Tubby Smith leaning toward taking the first decent NBA job available, because in the past, a number of general managers spoke highly of Smith and saw the NBA in his future. A legion of doubters are swelling and the length of Smith's trips through the NCAA tourney is shrinking.
-- Newsday

Another name that has floated into the pool of candidates for coaching searches at Kansas State and Missouri: LSU's John Brady. Brady said he was surprised he was being linked to either position. But apparently LSU athletic director Skip Bertman isn't taking the rumors lightly. Bertman is busy trying to come up with an extension of Brady's contract, though Brady has indicated he isn't ready to discuss his contract situation yet.
-- Kansas City Star

Rutgers' Quincy Douby that he will return for his senior year. But other variables -- especially on the recruiting front -- may determine whether one of the best offensive players in Rutgers history will actually resist the lure of early entry in the NBA draft.
-- Newark Star-Ledger

Outgoing Rutgers coach Gary Waters confirmed that Wright State is one of the schools that has expressed an interest in him, although he said he was still too caught up in the aftermath of the game and the season to think about that yet.
-- Newark Star-Ledger

Saint Mary's coach Randy Bennett is rumored to be the front-runner at Arizona State, where the Sun Devils are searching for a replacement for Rob Evans.
-- Mobile Register

Vanderbilt coach Kevin Stallings was reportedly spotted on the Cincinnati campus Friday. Stallings, who watched his team lose to Notre Dame in the first round of the NIT Wednesday, has been rumored to be looking for a way out of Vanderbilt for the past several seasons.
-- Mobile Register

Rumors have not connected UAB's Mike Anderson to the University of Cincinnati, and there are serious questions as to whether that job, notwithstanding the UC tradition and the Big East profile, would be better for him than the one he has in the reassembled Conference USA.
-- Cincinnati Post

South Alabama athletic director Joe Gottfried said Ole Miss asked for and was granted permission to speak to coach John Pelphrey on Tuesday night. But Gottfried requested Ole Miss wait until South Alabama's season ended before contacting Pelphrey.
-- Clarion Ledger

The Florida men's basketball team received some words from one of sports' master motivators, New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, on Tuesday. Belichick's message: Don't dwell on past accomplishments, or future ones won't happen.
-- Florida Times-Union

Pitt's Keith Benjamin, who spent Wednesday in a Pittsburgh hospital with an unknown illness, flew to Detroit yesterday morning but did not accompany the team to practice yesterday afternoon. He stayed back at the team hotel to continue with his recovery.
-- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

It appears as if West Virginia standout Mike Gansey is healthy and will be ready today when the No. 6 seed Mountaineers face No. 11 seed Southern Illinois in an NCAA tournament first-round game in the Atlanta Region in Michigan.
-- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Georgia Tech football coach Chan Gailey hasn't beaten Georgia, but his new contract shows how badly he wants to do it. The five-year contract Gailey, 54, has signed includes a $5,000 bonus for each of his assistant coaches for every victory over the Bulldogs. Gailey picked up the idea from LSU coach Les Miles, who had a similar clause in his contract when he was at Oklahoma State.
-- Atlanta Journal-Constitution