College Basketball News

At 1-4, Fordham fires Whittenburg (AP) (sports.yahoo.com)

Dereck Whittenburg has been fired in his seventh season as the basketball coach at Fordham after the Rams' 1-4 start. Athletic director Frank McLaughlin announced the move Thursday and said assistant coach Jared Grasso will take over on an interim basis. Whittenburg, the player who took the long shot that led to the winning basket for North Carolina State and Jim Valvano in the 1983...