Here’s the news for December 22, 2008 from the Double-A Zone, the official blog of the NCAA:

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Indiana Basketball Extravaganza, Day 4 - Dec 22, 2008 | 7:54:46

posted by: Ryan Powell

7:55 a.m. -- On the road to Milan, Indiana. Hoosiers, the greatest sports movie of all time, is based on the Milan boy's high school basketball team. Milan won the Indiana state basketball championship in 1954 against Muncie Central High School, a school ten times its size.

Click here for an interactive Indiana state map that takes you through our travels. (Thank you Marcia Stubbeman for putting this together)

Click here for the live blog from Day 1.

Click here for the live blog from Day 2.

Click here for the live blog from Day 3.

More Day 4 action.

IOC falls for Ponzi scheme - Dec 22, 2008 | 15:56:27

It seems the world of sports hasn't been immune from the $50 billion con job perpetrated by corrupt investor Bernard Madoff. USA Today reports that the IOC could lose $5 million thanks to Madoff's chicanery.

English hired at Eastern Michigan - Dec 22, 2008 | 14:13:08

USA Today reports, "Eastern Michigan has introduced Ron English as football coach, making him the fifth black head coach in major college football." College football has lagged in hiring black head coaches. Why do you think there are so few minority and women in college athletics?

Welcome back coach - Dec 22, 2008 | 13:37:00

Legendary swim coach Rick Curl will return to the United States after a brief coaching stint in Australia. Curl and former protégé Olympic gold champion Tom Dolan will team up to teach swimming to promising young athletes. According to the Washington Post ,"Dolan and Curl hope to revolutionize the teaching of early childhood swimming in the United States while continuing to foster the relationship established with Australia's swim community."

Perfection - Dec 22, 2008 | 13:06:04

How about those Nittany Lions! Not only did they notch another national championship, the women's volleyball team became just the fourth Division I women's program to go undefeated for an entire season. Long Beach State (1998) and Nebraska (2000) and Southern California (2003) are also in the club. What's the best women's volleyball team of all-time?

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