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A University of New Mexico official says former Lobos basketball coach Steve Alford is willing to pay a $200,000 buyout for leaving the Albuquerque school to take a job at UCLA but he won't pay the $1 million payment that New Mexico wants.
New Mexico didn't have to look far to find its next head coach.
Steve Alford walked into Pauley Pavilion on Tuesday for the first time since the 1984 Summer Olympics, took his place under the 11 national championship banners and called his new job as UCLA basketball coach "a challenge."
Steve Alford loves New Mexico and New Mexico loves Steve Alford.
Patrick Stevens breaks down the field of 68
A lot of nicknames garner instant attention in college basketball. There's Coach K. Magic was in college before the NBA. Don't forget The General, the Vs, Dickie and Jimmy, and Pistol Pete.
The bus chugged along main arteries and back roads, crisscrossing western Pennsylvania deep into the winter.
For years, Tom Crean has wanted to bring Calbert Cheaney back to Indiana.
New Mexico head coach Steve Alford says he was disappointed to learn that former star guard Dairese Gary was arrested over the weekend on suspicion of driving drunk.
Welcome to Jimmer Time, the March Madness edition.
Zero is the number 6-foot-9 forward Brandon Davies wore before being booted off BYU's team this week for breaking the school's honor code.
The armchair general managers of the NBA have trotted out in numbing detail the relevance of each player eligible to be drafted this week.
"That was an instance that happened years ago," he said. "I followed everything that the University of Iowa, the administration, the lawyers that were hired ... I followed everything that I was told to do."
"Please know I'm leaving somewhere I have an awful lot of love and admiration for in UNM," he said. "That's a difficult thing to leave."
