ESPN expands Knight's role

More appearances for former coach

Bob Knight will be putting a full-court press on college basketball fans this season, thanks to an expanded role as an ESPN analyst.

The Hall of Fame coach joined ESPN last year as a studio analyst for the postseason and will be a key player for the 2008-09 season. Knight, who often treated the media with disdain before joining it, will work Thursday night game telecasts, appear on SportsCenter, provide postseason studio analysis and be on ESPN radio.

The network said Tuesday he'll also be an analyst for select nonconference game telecasts other than Thursday and make onsite appearances on College GameDay.

Knight's first ESPN appearance will be on College GameDay from Chapel Hill Nov. 18 when Kentucky visits No. 1 North Carolina.

BIG EAST GETS NEW COMMISIONER: The Big East will promote senior associate commissioner John Marinatto to replace Mike Tranghese, who is retiring after 19 years leading the conference.

MEN'S BASKETBALL

CHARLOTTE COACH RECEIVES REPRIMAND: Charlotte has publicly reprimanded coach Bobby Lutz for going through Pfeiffer's huddle and yelling at coach Dave Davis during an exhibition game Thursday.

Lutz was upset after Charlotte point guard DiJuan Harris hit the floor hard, but no foul was called. Lutz came on the floor to check on Harris, argued with an official and received a technical foul. Lutz then stormed to the Pfeiffer bench and shouted at Davis.

Lutz apologized for his behavior, saying "my passion for one of my players got the best of me."

FIELD HOCKEY

NCAA TOURNAMENT: For the fourth consecutive season, five ACC teams have received bids to the tournament. ACC Champion Maryland is the No. 1 overall seed and will open the tournament Saturday hosting Albany. ACC runner-up Wake Forest, took the No. 2 seed and will host American on Saturday.

Defending national champion North Carolina visits Michigan State. Virginia will take on James Madison in Winston-Salem. Duke will travel to College Park, Md., to face Connecticut.

MEN'S SOCCER

ACC HONORS: Duke senior Mike Grella headlined the 2008 ACC Men's Soccer All-Conference Teams as the league's Offensive Player of the Year. Wake Forest's Ike Opara was named ACC Defensive Player of the Year and Wake Forest Head coach Jay Vidovich earned ACC Coach of the Year honors for the fourth time in his career.

Seven players from Wake Forest were honored, three from Duke, three from North Carolina and two from N.C. State.

A-SUN HONORS: Campbell placed seven players on the Atlantic Sun all-conference men's soccer teams.

For the second time in four seasons, Camels coach Doug Hess was named A-Sun Coach of the Year. The Camels' Richard Jata was selected as the A-Sun Player of the Year and Campbell goalkeeper Aaron Johnson received Defensive Player of the Year.

They were joined by teammates Stephen Oyuga, Vince Petrasso and Josue Soto on the all-conference first team. Jason Keever was a second-team all-league choice, while Kevin Orozco was named to the A-Sun all-freshman unit.

SWIMMING AND DIVING

ACC HONORS: North Carolina's Joe Kinderwater and Rebecca Kane as well as Virginia Tech's Megan Newell have been selected the Atlantic Coast Conference Performers of the Week.

TUESDAY'S RESULTS

MEN'S GOLF

SAVANNAH STATE TIGER INVITATIONAL: N.C. Central shaved 11 strokes off of its first-day score to move to a tie for second place with Florida A&M (627) at Savannah, Ga., marking the best team finish for the Eagles during the fall campaign.

NCCU's second-round score of 308 was the best among the 10 schools competing.

The Eagles were led by Josue Garza, who shot 153 to finish in a tie for third place individually and claim All-Tournament Team honors.