College Basketball

The Kentucky Wildcats’ trip to Baton Rouge was supposed to be an opportunity. An opportunity to find their rhythm again, to build their team chemistry better, especially after the loss they suffered recently. Instead, what fans saw was a team struggling to keep up with a much lower-ranked team. And while they escaped with a narrow win thanks to Malachi …

Duke basketball has the best resume in the ACC, but Clemson, Miami and Virginia are surging right behind the Blue Devils at the top of the conference standings. According to Bracket Matrix, a site that pulls together preeminent bracketology projections from across the nation and averages them out to create a composite 68-team field, there are nine ACC teams in …

LAWRENCE — Coming into Tuesday’s home game against Iowa State, an overtime win was the only thing standing between Kansas basketball and a winless start to Big 12 Conference play. No. 25 KU’s win earlier this month at home against TCU was sandwiched in between losses on the road against UCF and West Virginia. Neither defeat inspired much confidence in the …

Geno Auriemma isn’t letting talk of an undefeated season or a national title seep into UConn’s daily mindset.“If I told them that we’re playing for an undefeated season, a national championship, I think they would s*** themselves. So, we don’t talk about that,” He said ahead of the Villanova game. For Auriemma, it’s an incremental improvement in every game. “My …

They say the sign of a good team is the ability to pull out wins when everything is going wrong and it just doesn’t appear to be that team’s night. Such was the case late Wednesday night at the sold-out Marriott Center, as No. 11 BYU turned it around in the second half with a ferocious display of offensive rebounding …

BYU got a bit more battle-tested Wednesday night. The Cougars bounced back from another slow start to survive a feisty TCU squad 76-70 at the Marriott Center, moving to 16-1 on the season and remaining unbeaten at 4-0 in Big 12 play. 3 takeaways Stop me if you think that you’ve heard this one before: BYU had to dig out …

PROVO, Utah (AP) — AJ Dybantsa scored 17 of his 25 points in the second half as No. 11 BYU surged past TCU for a 76-70 victory Wednesday night. Richie Saunders had 18 points and Robert Wright III added 15 points, six rebounds and six assists to help the Cougars (16-1, 4-0 Big 12) win their 13th consecutive game. Advertisement …

BYU overcame a 6-point halftime deficit and opened up its offense in the second half to beat TCU 76-70 Wednesday night in Provo. BYU looked sluggish in the first half and TCU was disciplined defensively to go into halftime up 36-30. AJ Dybantsa came alive in the second half, scoring 25 points on the game and showing his scoring talent …

SEATTLE (AP) — Aday Mara scored a season-high 20 points and No. 4 Michigan bounced back from its first loss of the season with an 82-72 victory over Washington on Wednesday night. The 7-foot-3 Mara finished 10 of 11 from the field and added three blocks, two rebounds and two assists. Morez Johnson Jr. had 16 points and a career-best …

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – The UCLA Bruins (12-5, 4-2) have grabbed their second straight win with a 71-60 victory on the road against the Penn State Nittany Lions (9-9, 0-6) after a low scoring first half for both sides gave way to a second half shootout where the Bruins reigned supreme. Sophomore guard Trent Perry had the start for the …

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Kiki Rice had 25 points on 8-for-9 shooting and Lauren Betts posted her third straight double-double, leading No. 3 UCLA past Minnesota 76-58 on Wednesday night. Betts staved off early foul trouble to finish with 17 points and 10 rebounds as the Bruins (16-1, 6-0) stayed unbeaten in Big Ten play and pushed their winning streak to …

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — JT Toppin had 31 points and 13 rebounds for his sixth consecutive double-double and Christian Anderson had his own with 26 points and 10 assists as No. 15 Texas Tech beat Utah 88-74 on Wednesday night. It was Toppin’s 11th double-double this season, his 30th in 49 games over two seasons with Tech since transferring from …

Whether it was knocking down open 3 pointers and finding open teammates, or swatting shots and picking pockets, Miles Byrd’s effort on both ends mirrored the dominance by the San Diego State Aztecs in a 74-57 win over the Wyoming Cowboys on Wednesday night at Arena-Auditorium. SDSU (12-4, 6-0 Mountain West) held a Wyoming (11-6, 2-4) team that had been …

That shot may have saved the season. Malachi Moreno is becoming a star, and someone Kentucky Basketball can go to in crunch time. Moreno’s buzzer-beater on a long inbounds pass from Collin Chandler gave Kentucky a 75-74 win, after being down by as many as 18 points. Advertisement Kentucky scored 53 points in the second half and held LSU to …

Texas A&M (13-4, 3-1 SEC) lost its first SEC game of the year on the road vs. No. 24 Tennessee, falling to the Vols in double overtime 87-82 in a game where the Aggies led until the final five minutes. Due to Tennessee’s size advantage, which has been the case throughout SEC play, Texas A&M was outrebounded 60-35, including 24 …

The NCAA Division I Cabinet approved new transfer portal windows for multiple sports on Wednesday. That includes men’s and women’s basketball. Following a recommendation from both the men’s and women’s basketball oversight committees, the NCAA transfer portal will now open for 15 days after their respective national championships. That will take effect immediately. Advertisement With Wednesday’s announcement, the women’s basketball …

LINCOLN, Neb. — It’s too early to tell where the Nebraska men’s basketball team will end up, but Fred Hoiberg and two of his sons sure are enjoying the ride. The Cornhuskers are 17-0, have the nation’s longest winning streak at 21 games and, at No. 8, the program’s highest ranking in 60 years. Advertisement Talk about family fun. Hoiberg’s …

John Blackwell’s thrilling buzzer-beater to give the Wisconsin Badgers men’s basketball team a 78-75 win at Minnesota evokes many recent memories of game-winning magic from the cardinal and white. Let’s go back in time and remember as many Wisconsin men’s buzzer-beaters as we can. Though they aren’t all “true” buzzer-beaters, we’ll put the cap at five seconds before a buzzer, …

While we have all been hyper-focused on football for the past several months, college basketball is in full swing and getting into the meat of conference play. Ohio State is 11-5 overall and 3-3 in Big Ten play, but is coming off a loss to Washington this past Sunday. It’s shaping up to be another season where the Buckeyes are …

Major news involving the St. John’s men’s basketball staff dropped right before tip-off of Tuesday night’s game against Marquette. First reported by Newsday’s Roger Rubin, the St. John’s men’s basketball program has fired men’s basketball general manager Matt Abdelmassih. Athletic director Ed Kull confirmed Abdelmassih’s dismissal to Zach Braziller of the New York Post. Advertisement In Rubin’s original report, the …

Villanova (14-3) just keeps winning on the road, moving to 5-1 in true away games this year (with the only loss coming at Michigan). The win similarly makes the Wildcats 5-1 in conference play thus far. It was the best bench performance of the season for Villanova, getting 32 combined points from Devin Askew, Malachi Palmer and Braden Pierce. The …

Things are beginning to level out. For the past few weeks Purdue has been slightly behind a few other schools in the pursuit for a No. 1 seed. With Michigan and Iowa State getting their first losses that gap has narrowed. UConn has also had a few narrow escapes of late, making the top 10 very compact. Currently, the top …

How to Watch (and bet) Date: Wednesday, 1/14/26 Tip-Off Time: 7:30 pm PT TV: Big Ten Network Radio: Huskies Gameday App, Sports Radio KJR Location: Seattle, Washington Betting Line: Washington Huskies +12 Advertisement Michigan Wolverines 2025-26 Statistics: Record: 14-1 (4-1) Points For per Game: 94.6 (2nd) Points Against per Game: 68.5 (48th) Adjusted Offensive Efficiency: 125.4 (7th) Adjusted Defensive Efficiency: 89.4 (1st) Strength of Schedule: 4th …

BYU Basketball is back at the Marriott Center late Wednesday night to take on the TCU Horned Frogs. The BYU Cougars traveled up the road to Salt Lake City to play the University of Utah in its last game on Saturday night. BYU edged out the rival Utes by a score of 89-84. That win brought BYU to 15-1 overall …

#5 Purdue 15-1 (5-0) will host Iowa 12-4 (2-3) on Wednesday night. Purdue is off to a clean start in the Big Ten. Ben McCollum’s first year at Iowa has hit a recent speed bump after a hot start to the season. Iowa has lost its last two games, dropping a game at Minnesota and then at home against Illinois. …