College Basketball

[ad_1] AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Madison Booker scored 22 points and No. 7 Texas bounced back from a loss at second-ranked South Carolina, beating Auburn 74-57 on Thursday night. Booker, who was held to seven points in Sunday’s loss to the Gamecocks, missed just one shot in the first half for the Longhorns (17-2, 4-1 Southeastern Conference). Rori Harmon added …

[ad_1] NCAA Logo NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Division I men’s basketball teams will be able to play two exhibitions against any other four-year schools without needing a waiver that required game proceeds be donated to charity under a change approved at the NCAA convention. The men’s basketball oversight committee for Division I approved the proposal taking effect with the 2025-26 season. …

[ad_1] UCLA men’s basketball coach Mick Cronin yells at a player during a win over Gonzaga on Dec. 28. Cronin acknowledges that the Bruins haven’t adjusted well to the more physical Big Ten style of play. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times) Mick Cronin’s brand of basketball — tough, relentless, hard to score a point on — would figure to play …

[ad_1] Jan. 16—Maine started the second half on a 10-0 run and pulled away to beat the New Jersey Institute of Technology 57-44 in an America East men’s basketball game on Thursday in Newark, New Jersey. AJ Lopez scored 12 of his game-high 18 points in the second half for Maine (11-8, 3-1 America East). The Black Bears outscored the …

[ad_1] For the first time in what feels like a long time, the Oregon Ducks men’s basketball team is cooking with gas. The Ducks are halfway through their season, and they’ve won a handful of games they seemed to have no business winning. I’ll leave it to you to decide whether that’s a good or bad omen for the March …

[ad_1] Jan. 16—Maine started the second half on a 10-0 run and pulled away to beat the New Jersey Institute of Technology 57-44 in an America East men’s basketball game on Thursday in Newark, New Jersey. AJ Lopez scored 12 of his game-high 18 points in the second half for Maine (11-8, 3-1 America East). The Black Bears outscored the …

[ad_1] NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Division I men’s basketball teams will be able to play two exhibitions against any other four-year schools without needing a waiver that required game proceeds be donated to charity under a change approved at the NCAA convention. The men’s basketball oversight committee for Division I approved the proposal taking effect with the 2025-26 season. The …

[ad_1] It may be the biggest compliment you can pay to a point guard: “You feel safer and more confident because you’re in the game with that guy.” That’s what junior Braden Smith offers Purdue basketball, according former Indiana coach Tom Crean, who joined 107.5 The Fan on Thursday morning. Smith reminds Crean of a former Hoosier he coached from …

[ad_1] AUBURN — It appears Auburn basketball will be without Johni Broome for another game. HOW DO YOU SAY ‘JOHNI BROOME’? Backstory, pronunciation guide for Auburn basketball’s All-American Broome, who injured his ankle in the Tigers’ road win against South Carolina, was sidelined for Auburn’s latest win, over No. 15 Mississippi State, and coach Bruce Pearl said that Broome will …

[ad_1] Tom Crean’s mantra is, “The ball finds energy.” He’s not seeing a lot of that in Indiana basketball lately. The former Hoosiers coach, now an analyst at ESPN, joined 107.5 The Fan on Thursday morning and discussed the current IU squad (13-5, 4-3 Big Ten), which is coming off a pair of 25-point losses that have left fans howling. …

[ad_1] TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Arizona’s free-flowing offense bogged down. The team’s best player wasn’t always at this best. The expected starting center played limited minutes before going down with a season-ending foot injury. The combination led to the Wildcats’ worst stretch in four seasons under coach Tommy Lloyd, dimming the prospects of a season that had opened with so …

[ad_1] SMU pulled off a 54-52 win at Virginia thanks to Boopie MIller’s heroics on Wednesday night. (Amber Searls-Imagn Images) March came early for Boopie Miller and SMU. The Mustangs absolutely stunned Virginia on Wednesday night at John Paul Jones Arena after Miller drained a ridiculous fade-away 3-pointer right before the buzzer. The shot, which sent him falling into his …

[ad_1] Gonzaga Bulldogs (14-4, 5-0 WCC) at Oregon State Beavers (13-5, 3-2 WCC) Corvallis, Oregon; Thursday, 11 p.m. EST BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Bulldogs -9.5; over/under is 150.5 BOTTOM LINE: No. 16 Gonzaga faces Oregon State after Graham Ike scored 21 points in Gonzaga’s 88-75 victory over the Washington State Cougars. The Beavers have gone 10-1 in home games. Oregon State …

[ad_1] Curtis Jones had no NCAA scholarship offers out of high school in St. Paul, Minnesota. Not Division I. Not Division II. He only had a junior college chance at Indian Hills (Iowa) Community College. He improved enough to land at Buffalo. Then Iowa State. “I didn’t pass the eye test,” Jones told CBS Sports recently. That is no longer …

[ad_1] EAST LANSING — Tom Izzo arrived to his postgame news conference heated. Never mind No. 12 Michigan State basketball’s 10th straight win. Or the Spartans’ sixth in a row to open Big Ten play. Or their 15-2 record, all benchmarks they reached Wednesday night that Izzo’s teams haven’t hit in the six years since his last Final Four trip. The …

[ad_1] Upon graduating from Cretin-Derham Hall High School in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 2020, Curtis Jones had no Division II offers to play basketball at the next level, let alone Division I offers. Roughly five years later, Jones is now a key contributor to one of the top Division I schools in the nation for the Iowa State Cyclones and …

[ad_1] Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns (5-12, 3-2 Sun Belt) at Arkansas State Red Wolves (12-5, 3-2 Sun Belt) Jonesboro, Arkansas; Thursday, 8 p.m. EST BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Red Wolves -16.5; over/under is 147.5 BOTTOM LINE: Arkansas State hosts Louisiana after Taryn Todd scored 21 points in Arkansas State’s 84-78 victory over the Troy Trojans. The Red Wolves have gone 7-0 in …

[ad_1] EAST LANSING — Tom Izzo arrived to his postgame news conference heated. Never mind No. 12 Michigan State basketball’s 10th straight win. Or the Spartans’ sixth in a row to open Big Ten play. Or their 15-2 record, all benchmarks they reached Wednesday night that Izzo’s teams haven’t hit in the six years since his last Final Four trip. …

[ad_1] EAST LANSING – Tom Izzo arrived to his postgame press conference heated. Never mind No. 12 Michigan State basketball’s 10th straight win. Or the Spartans’ sixth in a row to open Big Ten play. Or their 15-2 record, all benchmarks they reached Wednesday night that Izzo’s teams haven’t hit in the six years since his last Final Four trip. …

[ad_1] It’s Illinois vs Indiana tonight on Peacock as the women go head-to-head in a Thursday night Big Ten college basketball thriller at 7 PM ET. See below to find out how to live stream tonight’s Illinois vs Indiana game, as well as additional information on how you can follow all of the Big Ten college basketball action this season. …

[ad_1] The odds are stacked for Alabama basketball this weekend. No. 9 Kentucky leads the series with the Crimson Tide, 114-40. After Tuesday, the fifth-ranked team in the country enters a daunting Rupp Arena coming off what Nate Oats called a “disappointing” loss to No. 21 Ole Miss. Granted, Alabama (14-3) is 3-1 in its last four outings against UK …

[ad_1] After losing two key players early in the game, the Rhode Island Rams fell on the road to Loyola-Chicago, 81-77, Wednesday night. URI guards Quentin Diboundje and Jamarques Lawrence both sustained ankle injuries early in the first half and the Ramblers made the most of their advantage, building a 10-point lead over the next seven minutes. The Rams answered …

[ad_1] Jan. 16—The last Big Ten men’s basketball power poll from Illinois beat Scott Richey came a month ago. Let’s just say some things have changed since before the holiday season. Others are frustratingly the same if you’re a fan of, let’s say, Indiana for example. Here’s how Richey, in his 10th season covering the Illini, sees the conference stacking …

[ad_1] There were stretches Wednesday, in the second half, that Kansas basketball had to try to mount a comeback without KJ Adams. Adams, a veteran forward and starter for the Jayhawks, appeared to suffer an upper-body injury while attempting to make a stop defensively in the second half with a bit less than 16 minutes remaining. Although he’d soon return …

[ad_1] Chaz Lanier corralled a loose ball and shot it over the extended arm of Georgia guard Blue Cain. The Tennessee basketball guard made it, finally seeing a shot go in Wednesday in the waning moments of the first half. The high-scoring Lanier made only one more shot on a lowly shooting night. The Vols guard had a brutal one …