Bruce Pearl to be suspended for 8 league games

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I know it doesn't have anything to do with us but still it's pretty big news.

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The SEC is expected to soon announce that Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl will be suspended for this season's first eight league games as punishment for admitted NCAA rules violations, multiple sources with knowledge of the situation told CBSSports.com on Friday.

An attempt to reach Pearl for comment wasn't immediately successful.

His first SEC game is now expected to be Feb. 8 at Kentucky.

Pearl's future has been uncertain since athletic director Mike Hamilton held a press conference in September to tell reporters that the school's men's basketball program is being investigated by the NCAA. Pearl has since confirmed a CBSSports.com report that detailed how he illegally hosted recruits at his house in 2008 and subsequently misled investigators about it. His contract has been voided, but he's expected to sign a new agreement with Tennessee in the coming months, if not weeks. The school will likely get a notice of allegations from the NCAA sometime in 2011.

The 24th-ranked Vols are off to a 3-0 start this season.

They play Virginia Commonwealth next Wednesday at Madison Square Garden.
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Bruce Pearl: one of the best at recruiting talented, but undisciplined basketball players and putting them on the court and saying, "Go".

I will never again get burned by picking a Bruce Pearl coached team to go deep in the dance.
 


"I will never again get burned by picking a Bruce Pearl coached team to go deep in the dance."

They went deep last year (Elite 8), the farthest a Tennessee team has ever advanced. He also took mid-major Milwaukee to the Sweet 16 in 2005.
 

SelectionSunday said:
"I will never again get burned by picking a Bruce Pearl coached team to go deep in the dance."

They went deep last year (Elite 8), the farthest a Tennessee team has ever advanced.
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Reminds me of my old adage in NCAA pools. "Always pick whoever is playing Arizona." It worked nicely until they squeaked through the first round against a Musslman coached Southern Alabama (?) team, and went to the Final Four and won it as a five seed. Rigidity based on history in these things will get you burned eventually.
 

BYU

For years & years I'd pick BYU to win its first-round game. Finally I recognized the Cougars' pattern of 1st-round losses and last year I finally picked against 'em (vs. Florida). Naturally, BYU beat the Gators.
 

Holy Man said:
Reminds me of my old adage in NCAA pools. "Always pick whoever is playing Arizona." It worked nicely until they squeaked through the first round against a Musslman coached Southern Alabama (?) team, and went to the Final Four and won it as a five seed. Rigidity based on history in these things will get you burned eventually.
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They were a 4-seed, but you're right, it was Musselman and South Alabama. Arizona won 65-57.
 




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