It turns out that familiarity played a big part in Kramer Soderberg, the son of former SLU coach Brad Soderberg, choosing to go to Miami (Ohio).

 The town of Oxford, Ohio, reminded Soderberg of Madison, Wisc., where he grew up…

Dustin Maguire, one of the four SLU players released by the school, is transferring to Division II Northern Kentucky. Since he’s going from Division I to Division II, he’ll be eligible to play right away. (Even though he redshirted last…

UMass point guard Chris Lowe on UMass hiring Derek Kellogg:

“I was concerned they were going to bring in a coach that wanted us to pass
the ball 10 times before we shoot. Nothing against Rick Majerus. He’s one of
the…

Assistant coach Angres Thorpe is leaving to take a job as an assistant coach at Wisconsin-Green Bay. This isn’t a surprise. Thorpe was the one holdover from Brad Soderberg’s staff, who was initially kept around to make sure the players…

Apparently there will be a coaching vacancy in the A-10 this season. UMass’ Travis Ford appears to be bound for Stillwater, Okla., to take the Oklahoma State job that Bill Self passed on. Last week, Ford passed on the Providence…

Among the interested observers at the Riverwar high school all-star game at Chaifetz Arena on Saturday was Josh Harrellson. He’s the 6-9 center/forward from St. Charles who played last season at Southwestern Illinois College and has finally gotten a release…

The move that has been suspected for months has finally come to fruition as Adam Knollmeyer, Marcus Relphorde, Dustin Maguire and Anthony Mitchell have all been given their release from SLU to play somewhere else.

The writing was on the…

I was riding down in the elevator from the suite level with Dr. Chaifetz on Thursday. “How do you like it” he asked. “You got your money’s worth,” I told him.

The general public got its first up close look…

Bernie Miklasz writes about Majerus and Marquette over on his blog. Majerus reiterates there that he’s not interested in the Marquette job.

The Indiana coaching job will likely start a domino effect within the coaching industry. It won’t hit St.  Louis directly — Rick Majerus said he isn’t interested and there’s no indication that he’s what Marquette is looking for. When the…