BRIEFLY : KNIGHT HAS REFORM PLAN.

Byline: Daily News Wire Services

Speaking at a preseason meeting of Big Ten coaches and players, Indiana coach Bob Knight said he knows how college basketball can clean up recruiting.

``What the NCAA should do - and probably never will because it's simple and too good of a solution - would be to say, `OK. College coaches in basketball can only evaluate kids in that kid's own high school gym under the supervision of that kid's high school coach or in regularly scheduled high school games home and away or in the state tournament,' '' Knight said. ``That eliminates everything that all these people talk about are problems for college basketball.''

Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany last summer offered a package of reform ideas for Division I college basketball, and last month the NCAA named a 27-member group to study the sport and its problems.

Delany's package proposes eliminating freshman eligibility but allowing players four years eligibility after their freshman season; increasing scholarships from 13 to 15 with no more than four in any given year or no more seven in a two-year period; and eliminating recruitment or evaluation during summer camps.

After a three-hour sitdown Saturday between David Stern, Billy Hunter and others, Sunday passed without the opposing sides in the NBA lockout resuming collective bargaining talks.

Hunter and deputy commissioner Russ Granik planned to speak by telephone this morning to make plans for the next meeting, and a source close to the talks said it was likely the sides would resume face-to-face discussions this afternoon.

The league has already canceled the first two weeks of the season, and barring a quick settlement, the rest of the November schedule - and perhaps some December games - will be canceled this week after the league's Board of Governors meets.

BOXING: Junior middleweight David Reid, the 1996 Olympic gold medalist who has won all 11 of his pro fights, survived a severe cut over his right eye and two late-round knockdowns to post a unanimous decision over previoulsy unbeaten James ``Cowboy'' Coker late Saturday night in Atlantic City, N.J.

SKIING: Hermann Maier, who dominated the World Cup circuit last year, led a 1-2-3 Austrian sweep in the season-opening giant slalom in Soelden, Austria.