College Basketball

The Big Ten is once again proving to be the home to some of the top teams in the country as the men’s college basketball season hits the midpoint of January. Soon enough, the focus will shift to the Big Ten men’s basketball tournament in Chicago and the NCAA tournament after that. The race for the top spot in the …

EUGENE, OR − Selection Sunday for March Madness is less than two months away and with that it’s time to check in on where Michigan basketball stands. The short version: It’s in fantastic shape. The Wolverines (16-1, 6-1 Big Ten) have just one blemish on the year – a surprising home loss to Wisconsin earlier in January. Only three of …

Before this past week, Kentucky was known as the $22 million basketball team that could not beat a respectable opponent. It just wasn’t working. However, two identical comeback wins over LSU and Tennessee have Mark Pope breathing a sigh of relief. While Pope is riding high at the moment, things can quickly slip back to early-season form, quickly putting him …

Coming into the season, this Kentucky Wildcats team had talent. This is a roster that came into the season with expectations of being more athletic and versatile than last year’s team. The one concern was this team’s ability to shoot the ball. Saturday in Knoxville, this team showed that it can shoot. Kentucky made 11/24 3-pointers and shot 47.5% from …

HOUSTON — The Arizona State Sun Devils were looking to build on a strong performance against No. 1 Arizona five days earlier. While Bobby Hurley’s team didn’t win that game, it was a one-possession game with a minute to go. ASU traveled to face the No. 7 team in the country, the Houston Cougars. The Sun Devils were never in …

The USC women’s basketball team ended a four-game losing streak by dominating Purdue 83-57 at Galen Center on Sunday. USC guard Kennedy Smith returned to the court after missing three games while recovering from a lower leg injury. Advertisement The Trojans (11-7, 3-4 Big Ten) built early offensive momentum and opened up an 11-point lead against Purdue (10-8, 2-5), setting …

If you’ve been following college basketball, watched any NCAA Tournament shows, or just flat-out filled out a bracket over the past two decades, you’ve probably heard of the KenPom rankings. Ken Pomeroy uses a wide range of advanced statistics to calculate rankings based on analytics as opposed to the naked eye. Advertisement Now, this is no guarantee when it comes …

Marquette Golden Eagles (6-13, 1-7 Big East) vs Providence Friars (9-9, 2-5 Big East) Date: Monday, January 19, 2026Time: 5pm CentralLocation: Fiserv Forum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Marquette Stats Leaders Points: Chase Ross, 15.6 ppgRebounds: Ben Gold, 6.1 rpgAssists: Nigel James, 4.2 apg Advertisement Marquette Injury Note: Sean Jones has missed the last five games with a foot issue. If he was out …

STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Kharyssa Richardson scored a career-high 23 points, Favour Nwaedozi had 21 rebounds and Mississippi State took advantage of No. 7 Kentucky’s shooting woes to beat the Wildcats 71-59 on Sunday. Kentucky shot 32% from the field, making only 5 of 29 3-point tries. Advertisement Down 33-30 at the half, the Bulldogs (15-5, 2-4 Southeastern Conference) outscored …

Despite clawing back from a 15-point deficit, Northwestern (8-11, 2-6 B1G) could not pull through in the final seconds against in-state rival No. 25 Illinois (15-4, 5-3 B1G), falling 74-71 at the State Farm Center in Champaign, Ill. on Sunday afternoon. The Wildcats were paced by 21 points and nine rebounds from Grace Sullivan, who shot 10-of-22 from the field …

18. Boston College: The Eagles rank at the bottom of the ACC in KenPom at 160th, but after a weekday road loss at Clemson, they pulled off an overtime upset win over Syracuse. That’s a Quad 2 win for the Eagles. They were 0-5 in Quad 1 + Quad 2 games. 17. Florida State: With losses to Syracuse and Wake …

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – If you surveyed everybody around the MAAC in the preseason on who the best shooter in the conference was, you’d be sure to get a lot of “Brendan Coyle” responses. This season hasn’t been extremely kind to him, though; he is shooting just 28% from deep heading into Saturday’s matchup with Manhattan. But inside Draddy Gym, we …

Before Sunday, Diggy Coit had shown flashes of a scoring ability that rival anyone in the country. His 41-point explosion against Mount St. Mary’s in November was tied for the third-most points in a game in Maryland men’s basketball history. But even to that standard, Coit’s showing Sunday afternoon against Penn State was a completely new gear. Advertisement The graduate …

Texas A&M (14-4, 4-1 SEC) is tied with Florida atop the SEC basketball standings after defeating rival Texas 74-70 on the road, with the first leg of the annual Lone Star Showdown, while earning its second Quad 1 win before heading back to Reed Arena to host Mississippi State on Wednesday night. After shooting 42% from the field in the …

Hubert Davis issues urgent challenge to North Carolina basketball after ugly loss to Cal appeared first on ClutchPoints. Add ClutchPoints as a Preferred Source by clicking here. The start of the 2025-26 season was a promising one for Hubert Davis and North Carolina basketball, but the Tar Heels are falling on some hard times in ACC play. That continued on …

Big Ten basketball delivered many games featuring the best of the best in the conference on Saturday. Nebraska further proved it is the team to beat in the conference, while other top teams in the league kept pace. The USC Trojans, however, still have some work to do to feel safe about an NCAA Tournament bid. Here are the scores …

North Carolina’s season is unraveling before the heart of ACC play even arrives, and Hubert Davis is suddenly facing the most scrutiny of his tenure in Chapel Hill. Although North Carolina is 14-4 on the season, which isn’t terrible, the Tar Heels have lost three of their last four games, including an 84-78 loss to Cal that saw the Bears …

Wisconsin basketball improved to 13-5 (5-2 Big Ten) with a 96-87 home win over Rutgers on Saturday afternoon. Nick Boyd led the way for the Badgers, finishing with 32 points and nine assists, while shooting 8-of-16 from the floor and 14-of-15 from the free-throw line. Starters John Blackwell and Nolan Winter also contributed 19 and 18 points, respectively, as Wisconsin …

STORRS, Conn. — The images of the UConn men’s and women’s basketball teams walking off the court for the final time last season couldn’t have been more different. There was joy as Paige Bueckers led the women’s squad to a record 12th national title. The men’s basketball team’s dreams of winning a third consecutive championship ended with a two-point loss …

On Saturday, the USC men’s basketball team fell 69-64 to Purdue at Galen Center. With the loss the Trojans dropped to 14-4 on the season and 3-4 in Big Ten play. What did we learn from the game? Here are a few key takeaways: Advertisement So close The Trojans had plenty of opportunities to upset the No. 5 team in …

The Kentucky Wildcats went on the road yesterday and picked up another win in Knoxville, despite most people thinking they were going to get run off the court in the first half. The Cats fell behind 41-24, trailing by 17 with about 3 minutes remaining in the first half. The Cats cut it to 11 by halftime, and outscored the …

In the midst of a three-game losing streak, No. 23 Iowa basketball (13-5, 3-4 Big Ten) was in dire need of a response. The Hawkeyes got that in emphatic fashion, rolling past Indiana (12-6, 3-4 Big Ten), 74-57, in a game that Iowa never trailed in. In the process, Iowa won its sixth game over the Hoosiers in the two …

Kind of a quiet day on the ol’ college basketball front, at least in terms of national television. This is mostly because of the NFL Playoffs, as ESPN is broadcasting one of the games and so obviously that means that the network is occupied from 11am Central through 5:30pm. We can ask why Fox is going with mostly affiliate programming …

PHILADELPHIA — The root of this St. John’s statement, here in a packed Xfinity Mobile Arena on Saturday night against a revived Villanova team, took shape two weeks ago, when the Johnnies left the Garden with what Bryce Hopkins described as a “bad taste in all our mouths” and a type of pain they never wanted to feel again. Access …

If there was any lingering doubt that the Red Storm were a serious Big East contender, that was laid to rest on Saturday night. St. John’s bested Villanova on the road by a score of 86-79 to claim their fourth straight victory and sole possession of second place in the conference. After a back-and-forth first half in which St. John’s …