An Oklahoma basketball player stabbed at a Norman nightclub has been released from the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery, Sooners coach Jeff Capel said Thursday. Freshman guard Ray Willis was released from hospital care on Wednesday. "He sustained multiple wounds, one of which resulted in a partially collapsed lung," Capel said.

Twin freshmen Markieff and Marcus Morris have been cleared by the NCAA Eligibility Center to enroll in classes at Kansas and join the defending NCAA champion Jayhawks. Classes at Kansas began Aug. 21. With the certification of their academic eligibility, the two 18-year-old recruits from Philadelphia were preparing to enroll and begin classes Friday.

It's a slam dunk for the Horizon League. The conference announced all 10 of its members will play in the annual ESPNU BracketBusters on Feb. 20-21. Pairings will be set Feb. 2. Loyola of Chicago, Valparaiso, Wright State, Youngstown State, Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Illinois-Chicago will host games, while Butler, Cleveland State, Detroit and Wisconsin-Green Bay will play on the road.

Former Newark high school basketball standout Keon Lawrence has transferred from Missouri to play at Seton Hall. Lawrence can practice with the Pirates this season, but cannot play in games until the 2009-10 season. "Keon is an incredible recruit for us," coach Bobby Gonzalez said Tuesday. "He has a huge name in the state of New Jersey and he's coming back home to Newark.

Mike Krzyzewski always maintained that leading the U.S. Olympic basketball team would make him a changed coach. Sure enough, Coach K was there on the sideline in Beijing and he stopped himself from saying something he otherwise might have. "Most of the time I was there," Krzyzewski said, "I was mic'ed." That's not all that's different about the post-Olympic Krzyzewski, who's settling in back at Duke...

The unpredictable path of Gustav, the storm that has killed dozens, forced St. John's officials to cancel the basketball team's Labor Day weekend trip to Cancun, Mexico. The school said Thursday the five-day trip that would have featured two games against international teams will not be rescheduled, but the program will consider options for international travel before the 2009-10 season.

The NCAA men's Final Four and some related events generated more than $47 million in economic benefits to the San Antonio metropolitan area. An NCAA survey showed almost 57,000 people visited the host city because for the three games played on Saturday and Monday. The average stay was 3.7 days, and visitors spent an average of $223 per day.