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Congratulations are in store for University of Illinois Men’s Basketball Head Coach Bruce Weber, who is receiving a nice salary bump after doing wonders with his team this past season. Retroactive to May 1st, Weber will get an immediate pay raise from $1 million to $1.25 million per season. On January 15, 2010, Weber will be bumped to $1.5 million annually. Continue on to examine Weber’s salary increases and an interesting study of college basketball’s millionaire coaching salaries.

Things just keep getting better for the University of Kentucky men’s basketball team as new Head Coach John Calipari has landed the nation’s top-rated point guard John Wall this morning. With five-star freshman recruits Wall, Eric Bledsoe, DeMarcus Cousins, and Daniel Orton arriving in Lexington and center Patrick Patterson definitely returning and guard Jodie Meeks likely coming back next season, Calipari’s Wildcats could be a legitimate Final Four contender. Twenty years ago today, the news was not so good for Kentucky basketball when it was given three years probation by the NCAA for academic fraud and sending money to a recruit. Continue on to examine Kentucky’s fall from grace and rise back to prominence under Rick Pitino.

What is it with Penn State? The Illinois Fighting Illini have now dropped four of the last five against the improving Nittany Lions. For nearly 35 minutes last night, the Illini played arguably its best road game in the Big Ten season, coming out with focus and intensity, moving the ball, hitting tough shots and weathering several storms. But a late Illini scoring drought and a furious Penn State comeback in the game’s final five minutes — capped by a missed free throw by Mike Davis and a full-court layup by Talor Battle — left Illinois agonizing a tough defeat and Penn State dancing its way into the NCAA Tournament.

While the Illinois Fighting Illini have had a very surprising and satisfying season thus far, much is still at stake in tonight’s Big Ten regular season finale against Penn State. The Illini need a few more wins to ensure a four or five seed in the NCAA Tournament, but more importantly, there is the matter of making up for the debacle that took place a little more than two weeks ago when the team scored a meager 33 points in a nationally-embarrassing home loss to the Nittany Lions.

What is to be gathered from these 2008-2009 Chicago Bulls with the playoffs still attainable in the stretch run of the NBA season? While the Bulls looked terrible last night in Charlotte but better at home tonight against Golden State, this team is way too inconsistent in its mental approach to the game, from its players to its novice head coach, to make the playoffs. So let’s just kill that bird now.

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