KU assistant Dougherty hired as new TCU coach

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Neil Dougherty, an assistant coach at Kansas, was hired as TCU's basketball coach on Monday.

Dougherty, who replaces Billy Tubbs, begins his new job next week after Kansas completes its season in the Final Four this weekend. The Jayhawks play Maryland in one of Saturday's NCAA semifinal games.

Dougherty, 40, moves into his first head coaching job. He formally accepted the position Sunday night after Kansas returned home from its 104-86 win over Oregon in the Midwest Regional final.

After a quick stop at TCU for a news conference Monday, Dougherty returned to Kansas.

Dougherty has been an assistant under Roy Williams for seven seasons. Before that, he was an assistant for Eddie Fogler at Vanderbilt (1989-92) and South Carolina (1993-94), and also coached at Cameron (1985-87) and Drake (1988).

CINCINNATI: Coach Bob Huggins is staying put, turning down alma mater West Virginia.

"After careful deliberation, I have determined that we still have much to do here at the University of Cincinnati," Huggins said after a series of meetings with Cincinnati athletic director Bob Goin, the latest on Monday afternoon.

Cincinnati finished 31-4 this year, upset by UCLA 105-101 in double overtime in the second round of the NCAA tournament.

Huggins built a perennial Top 25 program at Cincinnati. His teams won or shared the Conference USA regular season title in each of the league's seven years.

INDIANA: While starting point guard Tom Coverdale hobbled around campus on crutches, Indiana practiced with Coverdale's likely replacement, freshman Donald Perry.

Coverdale, the Hoosiers' second-leading scorer and the player most responsible for getting his teammates into the right spots, sprained his left ankle Saturday during Indiana's 81-69 regional final victory over Kent State.

Two days after being wheeled off the court, Coverdale wore a boot over the injured ankle but still could not put any weight on the leg.

TV RATINGS: The NCAA tournament heads to the Final Four with its highest overnight ratings since 1994.

Through eight days of coverage, CBS Sports' average overnight rating of 6.4 is 10 percent higher than the 5.8 in 2001, and a 7 percent improvement on each of the previous two years.

In 1994, the average rating to this point was 6.6.

-- From wire reports