Michigan State men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo earned his 300th win February 23, the same day Kansas State freshman Michael Beasley broke the double-double record for Division I freshmen.

Izzo’s Spartans beat Iowa, 66-52. “What I’m proudest of is not the 300 wins- I was tickled to death that all those guys came back, they’re all going to come over to the house, and a lot of the parents from the last 10 years are going to come over. It’s going to be a great, great night for me,” Izzo said.  

Beasley earned his 23^rd double-double with 44 points (a Big 12 Conference record) and 13 rebounds in a loss to Baylor February 23. He broke former Syracuse freshman Carmelo Anthony’s Division I freshman record of 22 double-doubles set during the 2002-03 season.

Sport sponsorship: The students at Texas State voted to increase their athletics fee to help pay for moving its football team from the Football Championship Subdivision to the Football Bowl Subdivision. The fee would increase a total of $10 per semester credit hour and would be implemented incrementally, $2 per year over five years. The school wants to be ready to make the move when the Division I membership moratorium expires in four years. Additional funds will be raised through ticket sales, marketing, sponsorships, community support, suite leases and capital gifts. Alumnus Darren Casey also recently made a $1 million donation.

Conferences: The Ohio Valley Conference signed a deal with IMG to manage the league’s multimedia rights and sponsorship sales. IMG’s college division will represent the conference through radio broadcast production and distribution for championship events. The company will also control printing and publishing rights for the men’s and women’s basketball conference championship programs. The company will also use and sublicense sponsorship space and signage at conference championship locations … The Southeastern Conference will honor former student-athletes and administrators during the conference’s women’s basketball tournament March 6-9. Honored in the 2008 class of SEC greats will be Carol Smith, basketball, Alabama; Shelley Wallace, basketball, Arkansas; Sharon Stewart, basketball, Auburn; Carol Ross, basketball coach, Florida; Lisa O’Connor, basketball, Georgia; Nancy Napolski Johnson, rifle, Kentucky; D’Andre Hill, track and field, LSU; Clara Jackson, basketball, Mississippi; Jennifer Fambrough, basketball, Mississippi State; Charlotte Hamilton Giese, swimming, South Carolina; Sheila Collins, basketball, Tennessee; and Karen Booker, basketball, Vanderbilt … ESPN will continue to televise regular-season Big 12 Conference football games through a new two-year agreement with Fox Sports Net. As part of the new agreement, seven Big-12 contests will be televised on ESPN or ESPN2 each year. The televised games will be played on either Thursdays or Saturdays.

Miscellaneous: Bucknell ended Lafayette’s near-record-breaking overtime-win streak February 20, 77-75. Lafayette had won 10 consecutive overtime games, one shy of the Division I record. The Leopards do hold the Division I road-overtime victories record, having won five such games this season.