CHARLOTTESVILLE—The University of Virginia has its next men’s basketball coach, and he’s not Minnesota’s Tubby Smith or Oklahoma’s Jeff Capel or Texas’ Rick Barnes or LSU’s Trent Johnson.

It’s a long way from Orem to Newark. Just ask the Wolverines of Utah Valley University. Utah Valley is a member of the Great West Conference, one of those geograghy-gone-nuts NCAA Division I leagues with two California schools at one end and the New Jersey Institute of Technology at the other. Every road conference game for Utah Valley Athletic Director Mike Jacobsen’s teams involves a long plane flight, and this year his travel costs are up 10 to 12 percent due of the twists of turns of the slumping economy.