NCAA Basketball

High schools to high majors: Final Four includes 3 coaches with roots in high school

Alabama Men's Basketball

Alabama coach Nate Oats had become comfortable coaching at Romulus High School outside of Detroit. His desire to take any Division I college coaching job waned through the years before he got an opportunity on Bobby Hurley’s staff at Buffalo. Now, Oats has the Crimson Tide in the Final Four with two other coaches who have high school coaching roots.

Auburn coach Bruce Peal questions officials over ejection of Chad Baker-Mazara in loss to Yale

Auburn Men's Basketball

Auburn’s Chad Baker-Mazara was ejected for a flagrant 2 foul less than four minutes into the fourth-seeded Tigers’ first-round NCAA Tournament game against No. 13 seed Yale. Replays showed that Baker-Mazara appeared to throw an elbow toward Yale’s August Mahoney as the pair ran downcourt. Auburn coach Bruce Pearl questioned why officials decided the foul merited an ejection.