College Basketball

HARTFORD, Conn. — Solo Ball scored a career-high 26 points and Tarris Reed Jr. added 16 as No. 5 UConn began Big East play Tuesday night with a 79-60 victory over Butler. Jayden Ross had 13 points and eight rebounds off the bench and Braylon Mullins scored 12. The tenacious Huskies (11-1, 1-0) held Butler 30 points below its season …

The Red Storm’s Big East title defense didn’t begin in style at Carnesecca Arena on Tuesday night, but they took care of business in a 79-66 victory over the DePaul Blue Demons to begin conference play with a win for the fifth consecutive season. DePaul hung around for the first nine minutes, something they couldn’t accomplish in their two uncompetitive …

How to Watch Braggin’ Rights 2025 (Illinois vs. Missouri) Game Time: 7 p.m. Monday TV Channel: FS1 Online Streaming: FoxSportsGO Odds: N/A (Illinois 68% Chance To Win – ESPN Matchup Predictor) Advertisement Quick Hits: Illinois Fighting Illini (8-3, 1-1 Big Ten) Head Coach: Brad Underwood (9th season) Last Game: Nebraska 83, Illinois 80 Gameday Reading: The one defensive stat Illinois basketball must fix Illinois …

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Trevon Brazile scored a career-high 26 points on 9-of-11 shooting from the field to lead No. 14 Arkansas to a 108-80 victory over Queens on Tuesday night. Arkansas (9-2) was never in trouble, taking a 24-point lead into halftime behind 60% shooting from the floor. Brazile had 18 points in the opening 20 minutes. Darius Acuff …

BYU gets its 10th win of the year. In their first meeting with a former WCC foe since moving to the Big 12, the Cougars defeated Pacific 93-57 Tuesday night at the Marriott Center to move to 10-1 on the season and 59-22 in their current conference. 3 takeaways BYU played far from its best game and still scored a …

Facing two games in four days, the Wildcats took care of business at home before another big test ahead on the road. On Tuesday night at Welsh-Ryan Arena, Northwestern (7-4, 0-2 B1G) beat Valparaiso (6-5, 0-0 MVC) 86-70, collecting two successive wins after a previous three-game skid. Despite encountering a series of rallies from the Beacons, the Wildcats avoided having …

As we get deeper into the Holidays, UNC continues playing basketball. The Tar Heels return to the basketball court Tuesday night, hosting the ETSU Buccaneers for an 8 p.m. tip-off. North Carolina survived an early scare from USC Upstate on Saturday, winning 80-62 behind a 17-point outing from West Virginia transfer Jonathan Powell. The Tar Heels (9-1) trailed by one …

The Syracuse Orange announced its ACC conference opponents for the 2026 football season. The conference joins the other Power Four conferences to play nine conference opponents, but with a twist. Because there are 17 teams in the conference, it is impossible for all ACC schools to play nine conference games in a season. Syracuse is one of the 12 teams …

CLEMSON — Twelve ACC teams will play nine conference opponents starting in 2026, but Clemson football will not be one of them. The Tigers are among five teams in the ACC that will play eight conference games next season “due to contractual obligations and scheduling balance,” according to the league. Advertisement Clemson will face Georgia Tech, Miami, North Carolina and …

Welcome to the thread for Tuesday’s St. John’s men’s basketball matchup versus DePaul. Please be respectful in the comment section and do not share any illegal streams of today’s game. If you haven’t already, check out our game preview here. You can follow updates of Tuesday’s game on Rumble in the Garden’s official X account (formerly Twitter) at @rumbleSBN or …

Yes, this game was on Sunday. And yes, we didn’t finish any sort of preview to be published before tipoff, but the Gopher men’s basketball team decimated the Texas Southern Tigers 89-53. Cade Tyson scored a career-high 38 points, shooting 8/12 from three and grabbing six rebounds. It was a lights-out shooting performance for the Gophers and this game was …

Florida State men’s basketball (5-5, 0-0) will try to stop a four-game losing streak tonight, hitting the road to take on the Dayton Flyers (8-3, 0-0). After an exciting start to the season featuring plenty of points, the growing pains for first-year head coach Luke Loucks and his squad hit a high after an upset loss to UMass on Saturday …

Welcome to Finals Week, where the staff of Hammer & Rails works to create content while no games are actually happening. It’s not quite the desert of mid-June, but as the players work fervently on cashing in more NIL deals and increasing their brand Finals this week there is not a lot of actual sports action to talk about. That …

Louisville Cardinals (9-1) at Tennessee Volunteers (7-3) Game Time: 7 p.m. Location: Thompson-Boling Arena at Food City Center: Knoxville, Tenn. Television: ESPN Announcers: Karl Ravech (play-by-play) and Jimmy Dykes (analysis) Advertisement Favorite: Tennessee by 2.5 Series: Louisville leads, 12-9 Last Meeting: Tennessee won 77-55 on Nov. 9, 2024 in Louisville Series History: Projected Starting Lineups: Louisville G Mikel Brown Jr. (6-5, 190, Fr.) G Isaac McKneely (6-4, …

Sitting at 9-2 on the young season, the Iowa Hawkeyes look as though they may be making a return to the NCAA Tournament, a goal of theirs that is just the tip of the iceberg under head coach Ben McCollum. While the season is very young, and there is still more than enough work to do for the Hawkeyes to …

When: Wednesday December 17 – 7:00 PM Where: James T Valvano Arena at William Neal Reynolds Coliseum TV: ACC Network Extra Opponent: Texas Southern Tigers (Southwest Atlantic Conference (SWAC) ) Advertisement Prediction – KenPom (KP) / Bart Torvik (BT): NC State 94-65 / NC State 97-67 Wolfpack Snapshot: NET Ranking: NET 36, 7th in ACC Conf NET rankings NET performance: Q1 (1-3), Q2 (1-1), …

Tennessee is recruiting toward its 2026 basketball signing class. Five-star point guard Deron Rippey Jr. will announce his college commitment between Tennessee, Duke, Texas, Miami and North Carolina State on Dec. 30, according to Joe Tipton of On3. Advertisement The 6-foot-2, 175-pound prospect is from Blair Academy in Blairstown, New Jersey. 247Sports ranks him as the No. 1 point guard …

The no. 5 UConn men’s basketball team came out of its historical non-conference gauntlet with an impressive 9-1 record. Now, a new challenge awaits; avoid landmines in the graveyard that is the Big East. First up on the conference slate is 8-2 (1-0) Butler, one of the few Big East teams that has exceeded expectations so far. The Bulldogs rank …

The North Carolina Tar Heels continued their winning ways on the basketball court Saturday afternoon, beating USC Upstate in a tougher-than-expected, 80-62 win. UNC (9-1) trailed by one with nearly six minutes left in the opening half, only for hot shooting and strong defense to take over. North Carolina shot the ball particularly well from deep, going 10-of-23 (43 percent), …

Another week of college basketball action saw significant movement in the Big 12 Conference. Iowa State and Arizona appear to be the top two teams in the conference, taking over the reins from Houston and BYU. Kansas is back where it belongs in the Big 12’s upper tier. With four teams ranked in the top 10 and two more in …

What channel is UConn vs. Butler on? Time, TV schedule, live stream to watch men’s college basketball game originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. Men’s college basketball continues this week with a Big East matchup between No. 5 UConn and Butler Tuesday. Advertisement UConn has proven its dominance early …

Central Indiana will get a closer look at the progress 2025 Mr. Basketball Braylon Mullins has made since leaving Greenfield-Central. The 6-6 sharpshooter who scored 2,158 points for the Cougars missed the early weeks of this season with an ankle injury, but he has quickly become a factor for No. 5 UConn. In his second game, he scored 17 points …

NEW YORK — Rick Pitino doesn’t expect St. John’s to go 18-2 in Big East play again. But the head coach believes his Johnnies have what it takes to repeat as conference champions, even if this season’s team remains a work in progress. Advertisement “We’re not as good as UConn right now, but you wouldn’t expect that because UConn had …

The man has two gears. There’s the laid-back, considerate, happy-to-support AJ Dybantsa. Then there’s the ticked off, angry Dybantsa that obliterates defenses and takes over games for No. 10 BYU. When Dybantsa won MVP honors at the 2025 FIBA U19 World Cup, he was very much that first guy. Advertisement Gear 1. In that championship series against the best players …

It was a great week of action across the league. While there wasn’t a ton during the weekdays, Saturday had a gargantuan slate, highlighted by marquee opportunities for teams like Illinois, Nebraska, and UCLA. Of course, all that action shook things up considerably. So, let’s jump into this week’s Power Rankings. Advertisement #1 – Michigan Wolverines (—) The Wolverines had …