Johnny Dawkins

Stanford University has named Johnny Dawkins as head coach. Dawkins becomes the 17th head coach in the history of the men's basketball program. During Dawkins' 11 years as a coach at Duke, the Blue Devils won a national championship in 2001, six ACC regular season championships, seven ACC Tournament titles, and posted an amazing 330-60 record, 142-34 in league play. For four consecutive seasons from 1999-2002, Duke finished the regular season ranked No. 1 in both national polls, marking the first time that has happened in college basketball history. Dawkins is a 1986 graduate of Duke with a degree in political science. He and his wife, Tracy, have four children: Aubrey, Jillian, Blair and Sean.

The Stephen Gaynor School

The Stephen Gaynor School, a non profit organization, provides a unique educational experience for children ages 5-14 with learning differences in a nurturing environment where children are helped to reach their academic potential. At Stephen Gaynor the pattern of academic failure is broken and children are taught to become successful learners with unlimited potential.

Tom Crean

Tom Crean, who averaged over 20 wins a season in nine years at Marquette and led the Golden Eagles to five NCAA Tournament appearances including the 2003 Final Four, has been named the 28th head basketball coach in Indiana University history. In each of his final seven seasons, Crean's team posted at least 19 wins and earned a postseason berth. Over those seven years, he compiled an aggregate record of 160-68 (.702).

Jody Adams

Jody Adams has been named the head women’s basketball coach at Wichita State. Adams, who was a point-guard on the 1991 National Championship team at Tennessee, comes to WSU from Murray State where she coached the Racers to the NCAA Tournament as a 14-seed in her first season as a head coach. MSU, which finished the season 24-8 and 15-5 in the OVC, dropped its NCAA opener Sunday night, 78-57, against third-seeded Duke.

Travis Ford

Travis Ford replaced Sean Sutton when the two were still playing college basketball. He'll do it again in the coaching profession.

Ford agreed Wednesday to leave his job as Massachusetts' coach to take over Sutton's old position at Oklahoma State.

Ford directed the Minutemen to a 62-35 mark in three seasons, including NIT bids the past two seasons.

Ford's first head coaching job was at Campbellsville, Ky., of the NAIA, where he went 67-31 in three seasons. He then took over a losing program at Eastern Kentucky and guided the Colonels to their first NCAA tournament appearance in 26 years.

Nikki Caldwell

Nikki Caldwell, one of the top assistant coaches in the nation, has been named the head women’s basketball coach at UCLA.

Caldwell, who becomes the fifth women’s basketball coach in UCLA history, has served as an assistant coach at two-time defending NCAA champion Tennessee for the past six seasons.

Rex Walters

San Francisco lured former NBA player Rex Walters away from Florida Atlantic to take over its struggling basketball program.

Walters, who had a 31-33 record in two seasons for the Owls, was formally introduced at a news conference Monday.

Walters and his wife, Deanna, have four children: Addison (11), Drew (9), Riley (6), and Gunner (4), and are expecting their fifth child.

Susan Walvius

South Carolina women's basketball coach Susan Walvius announced her resignation Monday.

Walvius went 165-160 and 51-103 in the Southeastern Conference in 11 seasons with the Gamecocks. She made the NCAA tournament twice, advancing to the regional finals in 2002.

South Carolina went 16-16 this season and 4-10 in the SEC. The Gamecocks haven't made the NCAA tournament or had a winning record in the SEC since 2003.

Sara Evans

Sara Evans, who finalized a bitter divorce last year, is engaged to former University of Alabama quarterback Jay Barker.

The 37-year-old country singer filed for divorce from husband Craig Schelske in October 2006 after 13 years of marriage. The divorce was completed last September.

Barker, 35, led Alabama to a national championship in 1992 and hosts a morning radio show in Birmingham.

Barker, who's also divorced, has four children while Evans has three.

Heidi VanDerveer

Heidi VanDerveer, who has more than two decades of experience on both the collegiate and professional levels, has been named head women’s basketball coach at Occidental College. She began her coaching career as a graduate assistant for Pat Summitt at the University of Tennessee, when the Lady Volunteers won the 1987 national championship and advanced to the 1988 Final Four. She then spent six seasons as an assistant at the University of South Carolina, helping to coach the Gamecocks to three NCAA tournament appearances.

In 1994, she was hired as the head coach at Eastern Washington, where she led the Eagles to 12 victories in her first year and back-to-back Big Sky tournament appearances, including the school's first in five years.

VanDerveer's first stint in the WNBA came as an assistant coach with the Sacramento Monarchs in 1997, before being promoted to head coach in 1997-98. She spent four years with the Minnesota Lynx as both an assistant (1999-2002) and head coach (2002). After serving two years as a WNBA scout from 2003-05, while also working one year at the University of San Francisco as an assistant and later head coach, VanDerveer was hired as a WNBA assistant for the Seattle Storm. The Storm advanced to the WNBA playoffs in each of her two seasons in Seattle.

Cathy Inglese

Boston College basketball coach Cathy Inglese, who guided the Eagles to the most wins in their women's basketball history, is stepping down after 15 seasons.

She has 273 wins and 179 losses in her career at BC, and a career record of 393-253 in 22 years coaching NCAA women's basketball.

She had a 120-74 record from 1986-1993 at Vermont.

Ben Braun

Ben Braun, who guided the University of California at Berkley to more postseason appearances and postseason wins than any other basketball coach in school history, was introduced on Monday as the 23rd head men's basketball coach at Rice University. As a result of his success, not only at Cal, but during previous head coaching stops at Eastern Michigan and Siena Heights, Braun ranks 11th among all active Division I coaches with 552 victories. He was 219-154 in his 12 seasons at Berkley and ranked second among active Pac-10 coaches in overall wins and Pac-10 wins (110).

Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston, the Oscar winner who portrayed Moses and other heroic figures on film in the '50s and '60s and later championed conservative values as head of the National Rifle Association, has died. He was 84.

Bill Bayno

Portland Trail Blazers assistant coach Bill Bayno has been named Loyola Marymount's men's basketball coach. the 38 yeard old Bayno is a former UNLV head coach where he compiled a 94-64 record in five plus seasons.

Chris Webber

Chris Webber is ending his comeback attempt with the Golden State Warriors and will retire after 15 seasons in the NBA. Webber was a five-time All-Star, who ended his career averaging 20.7 points, 9.8 rebounds and 4.2 assists a game.

Webber broke onto the scene as a part of Michigan’s heralded recruiting class that arrived on campus in 1991. Teaming with Jalen Rose, Juwan Howard, Jimmy King and Ray Jackson, Webber helped the Wolverines make it to the NCAA championship his only two years in college.

But Michigan lost both times, to Duke in 1992 and North Carolina the following year. Webber was most remembered for calling a timeout when Michigan had none remaining in the final minute of the 1993 loss to the Tar Heels.