IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Oklahoma State (30-3) vs. Saint Joseph's (30-1), 7:05 p.m. today. TV: KDKA. Unlike Thursday vs. Pitt, Oklahoma State coach Eddie Sutton must find a way to limit Saint Joseph's outside shooting which produced 12 3-pointers for the Hawks vs. Wake Forest. ... Another good guard matchup. Delonte West and Jameer Nelson combined for 48 points vs. Wake; Oklahoma State's Tony Allen had 23 vs. Pitt.

NEWS & NOTES

Miami fired coach Perry Clark (65-54 in four seasons) after a second consecutive losing season that included a 10-game losing streak.

West Virginia freshmen Tyler Relph (5 ppg, 1.5 apg) and Jerrah Young have decided to transfer to other schools at the end of the academic year.

Navy hired Villanova assistant Billy Lange, 32, to turn around a team that went 5-23 this season and is 23-63 since 2001.

Gene Keady still has not made up his mind whether to leave Purdue and take the head coaching job at San Francisco. Keady has been at Purdue for 24 seasons -- the longest tenured coach in the Big Ten. There is some speculation Purdue wants to replace him.

BUZZER BEATER

Saint Joseph's coach Phil Martelli had a good reason for looking tired yesterday. He'd only slept an hour since the Hawks beat Wake Forest Thursday.

After the win, Martelli met with Saint Joe's director of basketball operations and AD Don DiJulia to set the schedule for the next two days before heading back to the hotel. The Hawks arrived to a lobby full of fans, then had a team meeting and a late dinner -- or is that early breakfast? -- at 2 a.m.

The players were sent to their rooms by 2:30 a.m., but Martelli stayed up, returning phone calls to various radio shows before starting film work around 3 a.m.

"I would only suggest to you that once in your life you should see the sunrise in Secaucus," Martelli joked. "I can now describe that to you."