Traylor Unhitching?

Robert Traylor plans to pass up his senior season at Michigan and declare himself eligible for the NBA draft, a newspaper reported.

The 6-foot-8, 300-pound center scheduled a news conference for today.

According to The Ann Arbor News, Ellerbe said “it’s pretty safe to say” that the player intends to jump to the NBA.”

Tom Penders’ wife said she would be shocked if Texas asked her husband to step down as basketball coach and he isn’t considering a television job.

A high-ranking university source told The Associated Press that Penders has been mulling a broadcasting job or being reassigned, following the release by an assistant coach of a player’s grade report to a radio station.

Penders won’t be back as coach at Texas next year, the source said, adding that if he doesn’t decide to leave voluntarily, he’ll be reassigned.