STORRS, Conn. (AP) The NCAA on Friday turned down the University of Connecticut's request for a waiver that would allow its men's basketball team to play in the 2013 national championship tournament.

UConn doesn't qualify for the tournament because of below-standard academic results, but it requested a waiver last month.

The school proposed alternate penalties, including playing a shorter schedule next season, forfeiting the revenue awarded to the Big East for participating in the 2013 tournament, and barring coach Jim Calhoun from meeting off-campus with prospective recruits during the fall 2012 contact period.

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) This is one exhilarating stretch for Harvard basketball. Jeremy Lin is an overnight sensation in the NBA, and Corbin Miller and company are working on an undefeated Ivy League schedule.

Miller and Kyle Casey scored 17 points apiece, Keith Wright grabbed 13 rebounds and No. 25 Harvard edged Penn 56-50 on Friday night. Read More...

NEW YORK (AP) Salacious claims about the wife of an assistant Syracuse University basketball coach who was fired after claims that he molested boys have no bearing in a slander lawsuit two of the men brought against the team's head coach, Jim Boeheim, a judge ruled Friday.

The hearing in Manhattan was about whether two former ball boys who accuse Boeheim of defamation could get names and addresses of former players on the team, among other information. The two men say some players may have had sex with Laurie Fine, the wife of fired assistant coach Bernie Fine. The request was part of a broader clash over the university's and Boeheim's request to move the case to Syracuse. Read More...

MURRAY, Ky. (AP) The 1975-76 Indiana team will remain the last Division I program to go undefeated.

For the last 36 seasons the team that gave Bob Knight the first of his three national championships has had to wait for the day the last unbeaten lost. This season it finally came Thursday night when No. 9 Murray State lost its first game of the season, 72-68 to Tennessee State, leaving no unbeatens in Division I. Read More...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) Gonzaga was blown out last month in its first game against No. 16 Saint Mary's, and center Rob Sacre said the Bulldogs did not want that to happen again.

"We played our game, our tempo," Sacre said Thursday night after Gonzaga beat Saint Marys' 73-59 night to avenge the earlier loss to the West Coast Conference leader. Read More...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Jordan Taylor and the Wisconsin Badgers watched their shooting touch abandon them during a frantic rally by border-state rival Minnesota.

The frustration didn't linger into overtime, though. It didn't even last past half court. That's the way Bo Ryan coaches them to think on defense. Read More...

STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) Dee Bost is Mississippi State's career assists leader, so he knows the art of throwing a good alley-oop pass.

The senior admits his form gets a little sloppy when throwing them to Arnett Moultrie. That's because the 6-foot-11 forward is so athletic he can put nearly anything near the rim into the hoop. Read More...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) Indiana coach Tom Crean challenged his team to be tougher than Illinois on Thursday night.

When it mattered most, they were. Read More...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) North Carolina junior Dexter Strickland has had surgery to repair a knee injury that will sideline him the rest of the season.

Strickland had reconstructive surgery Thursday on his torn right anterior cruciate ligament as well as damaged meniscus. Strickland was hurt on a drive to the basket in the Tar Heels' win at Virginia Tech on Jan. 19. Read More...

WASHINGTON (AP) Georgetown assistant men's basketball coach Kenya Hunter has been released from the hospital after becoming ill following a practice.

Head coach John Thompson III said Thursday in a statement that Hunter passed out after Tuesday's practice and was undergoing tests. Read More...