Random notes:
u25aa After Kentucky, Florida and South Carolina advanced to the Sweet 16, Southeastern Conference basketball kept the momentum going into the early part of the week.
LSU hired Will Wade as its new head basketball coach. In two years at VCU, Wade took the Rams to back-to-back NCAA Tournaments and reached the second round last year. The energetic 34-year-old should breathe new life into the moribund Tiger program.
The addition of Wade to 40-year-old Mike White at Florida and 42-year-old Bryce Drew at Vanderbilt gives the SEC three of the brightest young coaches in the business.