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Currently all sports are allowed to start contacting recruits when they’re high school juniors, but that’s all about to change. For some reason schools no longer want the coaches of the lame sports (every sport besides men’s basketball and football) to have this luxury.

106 of the 160 DI schools have already voted to have the rules changed to where the lame sports are only allowed to contact recruits whom are high school seniors… and the change could go into effect as early as July 14. But who cares… these are the lame sports we’re talking about. [via]

The Cal Berkley Women won the swimming & diving national championship last weekend and this weekend it was the mens turn. Saturday, his team did its part to maintain it, as Cal won its first NCAA men’s swimming and diving title in 31 years. The Bears staved off a late charge by 2010 champ Texas and completed the three-day meet with 493 points. Texas claimed second with 470.5; Stanford was third with 403.

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Women’s Gymnastics: On Monday the NCAA announced the 36 schools that will be competing in the one of six regional tournament starting April 2nd, with the top two teams and all-around competitors from each region moving onto the National Championships in Cleveland on April 15-17. O, yeah and the 2011 Gymnastics All-Hot Team is coming soon.

Men’s Ice Hockey: Here’s the bracket of the 16 teams that are participating in this years tournament and the TV schedule of when and where you can watch every game of the tournament (there are six first round games taking place on Friday and four on Saturday).

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Wrestling: A congrats goes out to Penn State, the 2011 DI Men’s Wrestling Champions. But they don’t deserve all the credit because their were also 10 individual national championships handed out in the different weight classes. But since I am not a wrestling aficionado I’m going to defer to the college wrestling experts for the recap of the finals (read it here OR you can just watch the highlights from the final here).

Women’s Swim & Dive: This wasn’t a national championship competition, this was a coronation. Cal won their second title in three years by 40 points. It was a blow out.

Wrestling: Today wrestling will crown it’s 2011 National Champion and after two days of competition Penn leads the field with a total of 92.5 points…17.5 points ahead of second Cornell who has 75 points. Watch the final day of competition live on ESPN3 now!

Sidenote: And yes the guy with one leg, Arizona State’s Anthony Robles (who is a perfect 35-0 on the year by the way), will be wrestling for the 125 pound title today.

Women’s Swim & Dive: This sport will also be crowning their national champion today and its looking like that team will be Cal. The Golden Bears have commanding lead going into the final day of competition, up 21.5 points on 2nd place UGA who has 274.5 points.

Women’s Ice Hockey: Tomorrow the national championship game will take place at 2:00pm ET on NCAA.com between one seed (36-2-2) Wisconsin, who defeated Boston College 3-2 in the Frozen Four yesterday…and third seeded (27-6-4) Boston University, who upset two seed Cornell 4-1 yesterday to earn a spot in the championship.

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With all the basketball and football news this week we’ve forgot to talk about all the lame Winter sports that are in the last few weeks of their seasons. We’ll have more on them this weekend…right now I wanted to let you know that eight NCAA Championships are being streamed live today over on NCAA.com including rifle, skiing, wrestling, swimming and indoor track & field. So if you need a break from basketball head on over there.

(top row l-r) 1. Stanford  2. Florida 3. Baylor  4. Notre Dame  5. UCLA
6. UNC  7. Duke 8. Michigan 9. Northwestern 10. Cal

Tennis season is just starting, with the first tournaments of the outdoor season just getting underway last week, so we don’t have much to report this go-around…other than all the teams in the top 10 are undefeated. Stanford is ranked #1having returned most of their key members from last years national championship squad…while Florida, the team the Cardinal beat in the finals 4-3, is right behind them at number two.

Below mens rankings and latest news…