Basketball

Here are some of the top scorers in Southeastern Pennsylvania basketball. Statistics are through Tuesday. Boys Player   School   Gms.   Pts.   Avg.    Nadir Matthews   Bodine   17   494   29.1    Savon Goodman   Constitution   23   601   26.1    Jordan Reed   Wissahickon   22   568   25.8    Larry Webster   Parkway West   20   484   24.2    ...

Through Saturday. Player   School   G   Pts   Avg.    Stefano Okoro   Gloucester   15   434   28.9 Myles Powell   Medford Tech    16    365    22.8 Rashaan Holloway Schalick   15    337    22.4 Christian Mortellite Hammonton    17    377    22.1 Tim Delaney    Pitman    16    349    21.8 Elijah Cain    Medford Tech    16    334    20.9 ...

Villanova assistant basketball coach Doug West is leaving the school for a business opportunity, according to a source. West, a 1989 Villanova graduate, spent 3 years on Jay Wright's staff. He will be replaced by Keith Urgo, who is being promoted from manager of basketball operations. Baker Dunleavy, who played at Villanova from 2002 to '06, will replace Urgo. Dunleavy is the son of former Sixers player and NBA head coach Mike Dunleavy. An official announcement is expected today.

The sacking of Indiana University's head basketball coach, Bob Knight, has been a little like evicting the Pope from the Vatican. His three-decade pontificate has included three national championships, 11 conference titles, an Olympic victory and the fourth best all-time record in college basketball. For decades this record was enough for the university to excuse his fatal flaw, an uncontrollable temper abetted by an almost superhuman arrogance. . .For all his thuggishness, Mr. Knight ran a squeaky-clean program, and he made sure that his athletes graduated, but . . . he plainly thought he was above the law. Whatever his effect on college sport, his passing will reverberate through a state where . . . the fondest dream of every lanky teenager had been to play for Bobby Knight.