He opens his head coaching career with games at Georgia and Kansas State. 

The nonconference schedule alone will test Bellarmine early and often. 

The narrative is that men's college basketball has gone 1000% Darwinian. The strong are getting stronger — and they don't care how many necks they step on to get where they want to be.

It's too early for my Preakness picks, so let's pivot to a topic that is always in the starting gate — college basketball.

The Bellarmine managers are currently 6-0 and ranked fourth nationally in the manager game rankings that are put together by some former Michigan State managers. 

Doug Davenport, an assistant men's basketball coach at Bellarmine University, was named coach in waiting Thursday whenever his father, Scott Davenport, retires.

Fortunately, Doug Davenport and Beau Braden get along well.

Now in week two of the three scheduled weeks, it seems to be a big success with the kids. 

There hadn't been much of a history of success for men's basketball at Bellarmine before they hired Scott Davenport in 2005.