College Basketball

[ad_1] COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Tessa Johnson scored 16 points, and No. 6 South Carolina claimed a share of the Southeastern Conference regular-season championship with a 78-66 victory over No. 15 Kentucky on Sunday. No. 1 Texas defeated Florida 72-46 on Sunday, so the Longhorns and Gamecocks both finished 15-1 in conference play. They split the season series, meaning a …

[ad_1] EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Jaden Akins scored 19 points and Jaxon Kohler had 10 pounds and a career-high 16 rebounds to lead No. 8 Michigan State to a 71-62 win over No. 11 Wisconsin on Sunday. The Spartans (24-5, 15-3 Big Ten) have won five straight, putting them in position to contend for the conference championship with a …

[ad_1] No. 12 Texas A&M’s (20-9. 9-7, SEC) five-game winning streak in conference play seems like ancient history, as the Aggies have now dropped four straight after falling to No. 3 Florida 89-70 in another lopsided offensive breakdown after an encouraging start in the first half. Losing streaks are not foreign to head coach Buzz Williams during his time with …

[ad_1] LAWRENCE — Kansas basketball’s 78-73 loss Saturday at home against No. 10 Texas Tech garnered a lot of attention, and for multiple reasons. For one, the Jayhawks dropped to 19-10 overall and 10-8 against the Big 12 Conference this season. As a team that entered the season as the preseason No. 1 team in the nation and Big 12 …

[ad_1] The 13th-ranked Clemson Tigers continued on their winning ways Saturday in a 71-58 come-from-behind victory over Virginia at John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville. The Tigers’ 13-point road win was their sixth straight victory, their seventh consecutive road win, and their 10th win away from home overall this season. They’re 8-1 on the road in ACC play. Clemson (24-5 …

[ad_1] Grand Canyon kept its WAC regular-season title hopes alive Saturday night, hanging on for a 63-60 win at Seattle U. GCU (22-6, 12-2) trails first-place Utah Valley (21-7, 13-1) by one game with two games remaining before the WAC Tournament starts in Las Vegas. The two teams split their meetings this year. Utah Valley finishes in Texas with games …

[ad_1] DALLAS (AP) — Aziaha James had 19 points and nine rebounds while Zoe Brooks also scored 19 as No. 9 N.C. State beat SMU 69-45 on Sunday to claim the top seed in the ACC Tournament. Madison Hayes had 18 points and 11 rebounds for the Wolfpack (24-5, 16-2), who shared the regular-season conference title with No. 3 Notre …

[ad_1] Duke basketball is eyeing an undefeated season at Cameron Indoor Stadium for the second time in three years under head coach Jon Scheyer. Cooper Flagg, coming off an eye injury against Florida State, and the second-ranked Blue Devils (26-3, 17-1 ACC) play their final home game of the season Monday (7 p.m., ESPN) against Wake Forest (20-9, 13-7), which …

[ad_1] Saturday was a day that kept on giving for Auburn men’s basketball. The day started with the top-ranked Tigers picking up their first win at Rupp Arena since 1988 thanks to a dominating second half performance. The win over Kentucky then gave Bruce Pearl’s team a share of the SEC regular season championship, the program’s first SEC regular season …

[ad_1] LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas guard Zeke Mayo showed screenshots of racist, hateful messages he received following his performance in a loss to No. 10 Texas Tech. Mayo shared the screenshots Saturday. His account on X appeared to be deactivated Sunday morning. “I 100% deserve all the criticism in the world,” he wrote. “My performance was beyond pitiful today, …

[ad_1] JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @STARADVERTISER.COM Hawaii seniors, from left, Ryan Rapp, Gytis Nemeiksa, Tanner Christensen, Marcus Greene, and Jerome Palm posed for a photo during Senior Night festivities after UH’s win over UC Davis on Saturday. 1 /4 JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @STARADVERTISER.COM Hawaii seniors, from left, Ryan Rapp, Gytis Nemeiksa, Tanner Christensen, Marcus Greene, and Jerome Palm posed …

[ad_1] Silas Demary Jr. scored a career-high 26 points leading Georgia to a wire-to-wire 83-67 win over the Texas Longhorns Saturday night at Moody Center. The loss is a new low for a Longhorns team trying to get into the NCAA Tournament. Most bracket forecasts have Texas firmly on the tourney bubble. Texas will now likely need to play perfect …

[ad_1] Mar. 2—Here are three observations from Gonzaga’s 95-75 West Coast Conference victory against San Francisco on Saturday night at the Chase Center in San Francisco. More Nembhard magic Ryan Nembhard’s milestone week in the Bay Area continued at the Chase Center on Saturday night. The senior point guard took down the West Coast Conference single-season assists record on Tuesday …

[ad_1] Mar. 2—SAN FRANCISCO — Gonzaga went more than three months this season without a Quad 1 victory. The Zags fixed that in a hurry this week, racking up two Quad 1s in last five days to enter the post season with momentum in tow. GU’s Ben Gregg went more than a month without a made 3-pointer, but he found …

[ad_1] Despite scoring a season-high 56 points in the first half to take an early lead at Massachusetts, a second-half run by the Minutemen led to Rhode Island’s latest loss in Atlantic 10 play, 91-88, on Saturday. Massachusetts scored 14 unanswered points to take an 81-77 lead with 6:31 to play, highlighted by back-to-back 3-pointers by Daniel Sanford-Hankins. After that …

[ad_1] Wisconsin guard Max Klesmit has been ruled out of the Badgers’ game at Michigan State later this afternoon. Klesmit left early during the team’s win over Washington on Tuesday with a lower body injury. He played in just five first-half minutes and failed to crack the scoresheet. According to Greg Gard, Klesmit is still working to return to 100% …

[ad_1] EAST LANSING, MICH. – Wisconsin can accomplish a few things with a win Sunday. Play spoiler, stay alive in the Big Ten title chase and enhance its NCAA Tournament resume, which has the team in the neighborhood of a 2 or 3 seed. The Badgers, ranked No. 11 by the Associated Press and No. 12 in the USA Today …

[ad_1] The Auburn Tigers did something on Saturday they had not accomplished since 1988. That is beat the Kentucky Wildcats in Lexington. They did so by winning 94-78 in Rupp Arena. Bruce Pearl had his name mentioned in the past when it pertains to the Kentucky job. In fact, when the school parted ways with John Calipari his name was …

[ad_1] Before the calendar even turned to March, Michigan State basketball has started to epitomize “survive and advance.” Looking like they were on the verge of an epic collapse on the road against Maryland in a game they totally controlled, the Spartans pulled out some magic. Tre Holloman’s drained an epic shot from beyond half court that helped MSU stay …

[ad_1] A spot in the Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament is up for grabs when Purdue hosts in-state rival Indiana Sunday at Mackey Arena. The game, which is the regular-season finale for both teams, tips off at 2 p.m. EST on Peacock with Jenny Cavnar and Aja Ellison on the call. Keep reading to find out how to live stream …

[ad_1] Since Opening Night against Elon, the North Carolina Tar Heels get a majority of their scoring production from their talented backcourt. RJ Davis leads UNC with 17.4 points per game, Ian Jackson is second with 13.4, Seth Trimble is third with 12 per game and Elliot Cadeau has 10. In recent games, particularly during Saturday’s 92-73 win over Miami …

[ad_1] MANHATTAN — Kansas State’s basketball plays host to Colorado at 3 p.m. Sunday at Bramlage Coliseum looking to end a four-game losing streak. K-State (13-15, 7-10 Big 12) is coming off an 80-76 loss at Central Florida. Three of the four losses during the streak have come on the road, but the Wildcats did fall at home to Arizona …

[ad_1] AMES − With former Cyclone standouts, NBA players Tyrese Haliburton and Georges Niang at Hilton Coliseum to celebrate Haliburton’s recent Olympic gold medal win, there was no way the current Iowa State men’s basketball team was going to let them down, right? After missing their first four shots of the game, the ninth-ranked Cyclones pulled ahead and went on …

[ad_1] Mar. 2—MORGANTOWN — West Virginia traveled 1, 928 miles to Provo, Utah for an old-fashioned butt kicking Saturday night. By the time No. 25 BYU put the finishing touches on its 77-56 victory inside the Marriott Center, the Mountaineers’ jet lag had turned into full-blown disorientation. “I just thought in the second half, defensively, we didn’t quite have the …

[ad_1] With only a week and change left in the college basketball regular season, it’s firmly crunch time for teams on the NCAA Tournament bubble. The conference tournament remains, of course, as a last chance for teams to improve their resume ahead of the big dance. Three SEC teams remain on the edge of the bubble, as Oklahoma and Texas …