Arizona State’s Evans Won’t Return

Rob Evans won’t return for a ninth season as Arizona State’s coach.

The school made the announcement Friday, a few hours after Evans, 59, had an hour-long meeting with Athletic Director Lisa Love.

Love didn’t say whether Evans had been fired or quit. She said the university would pay Evans for the final year of his contract.

Evans had a record of 119-120.

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Ohio State was put on three years’ probation and must erase all references to its 1999 Final Four trip and three other tournament appearances under former coach Jim O’Brien.

The decision by the NCAA does not affect this season’s team.

The banner hanging in the Value City Arena will be altered to erase any mention of the team’s trip to the 1999 semifinals, and record books will be changed to delete pictures and statistics for the four tournament teams that included ineligible player Boban Savovic. The university must also repay about $800,000 in tournament revenues from 1999 to 2002.

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Virginia Commonwealth and Coach Jeff Capel have reached an agreement on a two-year contract extension through 2012.... University of Wyoming officials are denying reports that Coach Steve McClain will be fired Monday, despite a newspaper report in which McClain himself seemed to confirm it.