Johnny Dawkins, who guided Stanford to the N.C.A.A. tournament’s round of 16 in 2014 and to N.I.T. championships in 2012 and 2015, was fired after eight seasons as the Cardinal’s coach. Also fired were Trent Johnson of Texas Christian, Ed Conroy of Tulane and Matt Brady of James Madison.
u25a0 An assistant coach at California became at least the fourth campus employee in the last year to be found to have violated the university’s sexual harassment policy, drawing swift discipline after complaints that punishment was too lenient in previous cases. Coach Cuonzo Martin moved to fire the assistant, Yann Hufnagel, and to bar him from traveling with the team during the N.