The Associated Press is reporting that Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma will be announced Wednesday as the new USA women's basketball coach.

Auriemma would succeed Anne Donovan, who led Team USA to a gold medal in 2008. Donovan, who once coached at East Carolina, won two medals as an athlete in 1984 and 1988. She also was an assistant on 2004 gold-medal winning squad.

Auriemma is coming off of his sixth national championship. He would lead Team USA in the London Games in 2012.

And I thought UNC Chapel Hill's last chancellor was the keyboard guru.

Last night at the women's basketball game between UNC Chapel Hill and the University of Connecticut, Carolina Chancellor Holden Thorp provided the musical accompaniment for the National Anthem. He played the keyboards in support of Terri Houston, the university's director of recruitment and multicultural programs, who belted out a powerful rendition of the anthem that drew raves as it crescendoed to its conclusion.

Thorp became chancellor last summer, succeeding James Moeser, an accomplished organist. I was curious about how Thorp and Houston put their act together; turns out they perform from time to time, as you can see in this photo of the two of them from a campus event from last year called Fallfest.

I e-mailed the chancellor late last night and he was gracious enough to fire back some answers. 

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