College of Charleston NCAA News

Dikembe Mutombo is joining the NBA as a global ambassador. The league announced Mutombo's hiring to the newly created position Tuesday, with commissioner David Stern calling the eight-time All-Star "one of sports' outstanding humanitarians." Besides being a four-time defensive player of the year, Mutombo is known for his charitable work.

Andrew Goudelock scored 18 points and Jeremy Simmons added 14 to help College of Charleston beat Winthrop 69-57 for its first win of the season on Monday night.

The 30,600-plus people who follow StephenCurry30 on Twitter know that the chef for the Golden State Warriors makes "some bomb waffles" and that the former Davidson star almost left his basketball shoes in his hotel room in Phoenix.

Joseph Harris scored 21 points and Coastal Carolina defeated College of Charleston 70-59 in the season opener for both teams on Friday night.

Men's college basketball gets into full swing throughout the Palmetto State tonight with all teams in action.

It's been a long road for one area basketball star back to his home state. Now he'll start his senior season against a college not too far from his hometown.

The College of Charleston men's basketball team got a little more than it wanted but emerged with a 94-92 overtime win over USC Aiken in an exhibition game played before 2,008 at Carolina First Arena.

CHARLESTON, S.C. a ' Byron Faison scored a game-high 35 points, but a Tony White, Jr.

SPARTANBURG - College of Charleston and Western Carolina are the favorites to capture the Southern Conference's divisional men's basketball titles in 2009-10, according to a vote by the leagues head coaches.

Behind eight first-place votes, College of Charleston was picked to win the South Division.

With the backcourt intact from last year's 27-win season -- led by star scorer Andrew Goudelock , the College of Charleston is poised for another 20-win season.

SCOUTING THE NEWCOMERS: The last time a Southern Conference team plucked a big name out of Charlotte Christian School, the basketball world started to pay attention to a relatively unheard of school named Davidson .

College of Charleston junior forward Antwaine Wiggins will miss the 2009-10 basketball season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament.

It wasn't long ago that Bobby Cremins wondered if he was done coaching. Now, he's agreed to stick around the College of Charleston even longer than he had planned.

It might be Charleston 's toughest ticket since the hanging of notorious pirate Stede Bonnet at White Point.

It might be Charleston's toughest ticket since the hanging of notorious pirate Stede Bonnet at White Point.

There's already one sure sellout at the Carolina First Arena for the 2009-10 basketball season.

The College of Charleston men's basketball team announced Tuesday the signing of three freshmen for the 2009-10 season, and Cougars coach Bobby Cremins said he will be looking for immediate contributions in the frontcourt.

Tony White Jr. can't wait to come home and play on the big stage this fall at Thompson-Boling Arena.

While most of their players were busy taking final exams, basketball coaches across the country were arranging their lineup of tests for the upcoming season.