Roundup: USC fires men's basketball assistant Tony Bland

USC has fired men’s basketball associate head coach Tony Bland, who was placed on administrative leave after he was arrested by FBI agents as a part of the probe into corruption in college and grassroots basketball. The Los Angeles Times broke the story on Thursday.

Good news for the Cougs – Washington State linebacker Peyton Pelluer has been granted a sixth year of eligibility, the university confirmed Thursday (The Spokesman-Review). Pelluer suffered a foot fracture in the third game of the 2017 season against Oregon.

An anonymous $3 million gift is endowing the Cal men’s tennis head coaching position, the school announced Thursday morning. Per the release, the position will be named after current head coach Peter Wright once he retires.

It had been reported a while ago, but Colorado football has officially reinstated linebacker Nu’umoto Falo. He was dismissed last summer after a positive drug test.

He hasn’t played for the Sun Devils yet as he is sitting out the year due to transferring from Kansas, but Arizona State men’s basketball forward Carlton Bragg is transferring to New Mexico, he announced Thursday.

Check out the AP recap of Utah men’s basketball’s thrilling 80-77 overtime victory over Arizona State. The Utes have won three straight in conference play after a four-game skid.

Andrew Greif features Oregon women’s basketball post player Mallory McGwire, who is playing extended minutes with Lexi Bando out indefinitely with a leg injury. The first-place Ducks visit Colorado and Utah this weekend.

Here are the highlights from Arizona men’s basketball’s 80-71 victory over Colorado Thursday night at McKale Center. Allonzo Trier scored 23 to lead the way for the ‘Cats.

And here are the highlights from UCLA men’s basketball’s 70-57 win over Cal, getting 21 points from Aaron Holiday in the triumph.

Oregon State men’s basketball is counting on freshmen to be key contributors, Danny Moran writes. Ethan Thompson, Alfred Hollins and Zach Reichle have all gotten significant minutes as of late and you can expect to see more of that in the final third of the regular season.

Great feature on Washington men’s basketball freshman Jaylen Nowell, the Huskies’ leading scorer at 16.9 points per game who lost his father to cancer when he was 15. Percy Allen penning the piece.

It's about a week old now, but this is a really interesting piece from The Ringer on former Stanford men’s basketball star Josh Childress rounding out his playing career in Australia. He had a pretty gnarly elbowing incident Down Under a few years back but has made a nice home for himself down there.