College Basketball

Wisconsin men’s basketball’s recent 73-71 loss to USC hurt in a way that its other five losses did not. The Jan. 25 loss to the Trojans counted as a Quad 2 loss on the Badgers’ NCAA tournament résumé, marking the first time UW fell in a non-Quad 1 game this season. Even with that setback, though, Wisconsin remains a projected …

Xavier wasn’t supposed to be able to hang with either of their last two opponents. Creighton had run them off their own home floor a month ago, and St. John’s is two games clear of anyone not named UConn in the Big East. Both teams figured to make short work of the Musketeers. The fact that Xavier was in both …

Looking to stay up late and catch some college hoops action? Look no further than Wednesday’s nightcap between the UCLA Bruins and Oregon Ducks, airing at 11:00 p.m. ET on the Big Ten Network.  The Bruins are finally streaking, winning four of their last five, and will look to avoid a letdown in Eugene against a hapless Ducks squad. Advertisement …

👋 GOOD MORNING – If you’re reading this, there’s a pretty solid chance the Arizona Cardinals, somehow, still don’t have a head coach. Sigh. How much longer is this going to go? But for now, we’ll press on, and take a look at one of the most inspiring teams in our state — the No. 1 Arizona Wildcats basketball program. …

Kentucky Basketball and its fans have seen more than enough struggles already for one season. Time and time again, the now 14-7 Wildcats come out flat and unprepared with a lack of energy to start games. Advertisement Preparation and effort are two things that everyone can control, regardless of talent level or NIL values. Yet Kentucky head coach Mark Pope …

For people who never saw him play, it would be hard to explain Duke’s Jason Williams. Built like a fireplug with a low center of gravity and also strong and explosive, Williams could do anything he wanted on the basketball court. Once against UCLA, he scored 17 straight points. And while he could be flakey at times and seem to …

No. 5 Nebraska (20-1, 9-1) remained on the road Tuesday night for its biggest showdown of the season at No. 2 Michigan (19-1, 9-1). After holding the lead for most of the night, the Huskers fell late to the Wolverines 75-72, suffering their first loss of the season. The Huskers held an 11-point lead partway through the first, scoring 50 points in …

BLOOMINGTON — Purdue basketball’s mid-season stumble continued Tuesday night, and it might have carried Big Ten championship contention along with it. The No. 12 Boilermakers’ urgency kicked in too late at Indiana. The Hoosiers’ 72-67 victory boosted the NCAA tournament hopes of a team starting to jell. Advertisement Purdue’s third straight loss symbolized a team trying to glue itself back …

If Tuesday night taught us anything, it’s that nothing comes easy in the Big Ten. Tom Izzo’s Michigan State had to go to overtime just to get past a Rutgers team that’s 9–12 on the season and sitting 14th in the Big Ten. And after the game, Izzo had no interest in sugarcoating the win. “They came at us in …

On Tuesday night, the Alabama Crimson Tide took the court for the first of two huge SEC games this week, doing so against the Missouri Tigers in Tuscaloosa. A game which Alabama dropped last season in Columbia, the Crimson Tide avenged that loss with an all-around big showing Tuesday night inside Coleman Coliseum, defeating the Tigers, 90-64. The Crimson Tide …

For about 20 minutes Tuesday night, San Jose State (6-15, 1-9 MW) looked like it was ready to drag Boise State (13-8, 5-5 MW) into a grinder. The Spartans traded punches, spaced the floor, and stayed afloat with timely shooting from the perimeter. But once the second-half arrived, so did the cold truth: Boise State was bigger, deeper, and far …

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Lamar Wilkerson had 19 points, Nick Dorn added 18 and Conor Enright scored five of his eight points in the final 71 seconds to help Indiana hold off No. 12 Purdue 72-67 on Tuesday night. Indiana won its second straight game and gave coach Darian DeVries the biggest win of his first season with the Hoosiers …

Indiana men’s basketball had played well for stretches this season, but, until tonight, lacked the quality win to show for it. The Hoosiers had suffered some bad losses, and let good wins slip away, making Tuesday night’s matchup with Purdue even weightier than the usual rivalry game. Darian DeVries had his group ready for the matchup out of the gate, …

The weeklong freakout about Vanderbilt’s three-game losing streak after starting the season 16-0 is officially over. After blowing out Mississippi State in Starkville over the weekend, the Vanderbilt Commodores came back to Memorial Gym and amidst Snowpocalypse easily handled Kentucky. This was a beatdown from start to finish, as the Commodores opened up a 7-0 lead early in the game …

The No. 17 Virginia Cavaliers overcame a 19-point first-half deficit in South Bend on Tuesday night to defeat Notre Dame 100-97 in double overtime. A pair of Devin Tillis free throws evened the score in the final seconds of regulation, while Sam Lewis’s game-tying three-pointer near the end of the first overtime saved the Cavaliers again. In double overtime, Lewis …

Major college basketball’s longest winning streak in more than a decade ended at 24 games Tuesday night with No. 5 Nebraska’s 75-72 loss at No. 3 Michigan. “To beat Michigan, you have to play almost perfect and we had a lapse at the end,” Cornhuskers guard Sam Hoiberg said. Advertisement Nebraska did not score over the final 3:20, missing its …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Alex Sarr had 29 points, 12 rebounds and six blocked shots, and the Washington Wizards snapped a nine-game losing streak with a 115-111 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Tuesday night. It was Washington’s first home victory over Portland since Jan. 16, 2017. Advertisement The Wizards led 112-106 when Shaedon Sharpe cut the lead in half …

PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — Jeremy Fears scored 27 of his career-high 29 points in the second half and overtime, and No. 7 Michigan State outlasted Rutgers 88-79 on Tuesday night. Fears also had nine assists, including a pass to Divine Ugochukwu for the tying 3-pointer from the corner with 11 seconds left in regulation. Advertisement When the Spartans (19-2, 9-1 …

The Marquette men’s basketball team starts seeing Big East opponents for the second time this season when the Golden Eagles face Creighton on Jan. 27 at Fiserv Forum. MU (7-14, 2-8 Big East) lost to Bluejays (12-8, 6-3), 84-63, on Dec. 20 in Omaha, Nebraska. Advertisement More: Marquette’s Damarius Owens and Royce Parham are realizing talents Follow along for live …

Week 12’s college basketball action did not knock out any undefeated teams. The Arizona Wildcats, Nebraska Cornhuskers, and Miami-OH Redhawks went a perfect 5-0 and all reached the 20-0 mark. The last time any team reached 20-0 or better was Gonzaga in 2021, who started 30-0 before losing in the national championship game to the Baylor Bears. Now we have …

UConn basketball guard Braylon Mullins officially out for Providence game appeared first on ClutchPoints. Add ClutchPoints as a Preferred Source by clicking here. UConn will be without its starting guard for its Tuesday night Big East matchup against Providence. Freshman Braylon Mullins will miss his seventh game of the 2025-2026 college basketball season with a head injury. Advertisement Mullins is …

Mark Few and the Gonzaga Bulldogs boast the fifth-longest winning streak in college basketball, rattling off 14 straight after getting crushed by Michigan in the Players Era Championship back on Nov. 26. Gonzaga (21-1, 9-0) has managed to win the last three without leading scorers Braden Huff (knee) and Graham Ike (ankle), a monumental feat that is thanks to heroic …

Amid all their injuries, the Kentucky Wildcats have won five straight games. They have a grit to them, an “it” factor, and an athleticism that are all contributing to their winning streak. The best part is they haven’t peaked yet or played their best basketball. The Wildcats’ best basketball will be required this week with a two-game road trip that …

Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2026 Tipoff Time: 8:30PM ET Location: Hope Coliseum — Morgantown, West Virginia Broadcast Information Channel: FS1 Streaming: Fox Sports (TV provider login required) Announcers: Jake Eisenberg and Nick Bahe Advertisement Radio: Mountaineer Sports Network (Radio Affiliates) | SiriusXM Channel 390 and Streaming Channel 980 | WVU Gameday App (Apple | Android) Radio Announcers: Tony Caridi (PBP), Brad Howe (analyst), David Kahn …

Freshman superstar AJ Dybantsa had the worst shooting night of his college career, maybe his entire basketball-playing career, in No. 13 BYU’s 86-83 loss to No. 1 Arizona on Monday night in front of more than 18,000 fans at the Marriott Center. After going a frosty 6 of 24 from the field and 1 of 8 from 3-point range, however, …