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Basketball coach Homer Drew, who led Valparaiso on an NCAA Tournament run that caught the imagination of the country, has signed a contract extension through 2005-06, school officials said. … Schea Cotton, one of the nation’s top basketball recruits and the brother of Seattle SuperSonics rookie James Cotton, has been denied NCAA eligibility to attend North Carolina State, the university said. Cotton had appealed an earlier NCAA decision invalidating a SAT score that would have qualified him to play.