Coaches: Rutgers Mike Rice Incident Isolated
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Jim Boeheim said he could watch no more than 10 seconds of the video that cost Rutgers coach Mike Rice his job. NCAA president Mark Emmert called it "pretty appalling, to say the least."
Outside of the basketball to be played on Saturday and Monday at the Georgia Dome, the major topic of conversation at the Final Four on Thursday revolved around Rice and the tactics he used to motivate his players — including screaming obscenities and homophobic slurs, and throwing basketballs at them.
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