College Basketball

The Texas Tech Red Raiders travel to Waco and hope to remain in the hunt for the Big 12 title with a win over the Baylor Bears. All eyes will be on Red Raiders forward JT Toppin, who is averaging better than 21 points and 11 boards on the season. Advertisement Read on for my Texas Tech vs Baylor predictions …

The Michigan Wolverines went 2-for-2 out west, winning games they were supposed to win in unmemorable fashions. Over the course of a 20-game conference season, the victories over Washington and Oregon may not jump to the top of the list, but recovering from the first loss of the year is a tricky landmine that the team did well to avoid. …

After a bit of a skid in Big Ten play, the Iowa Hawkeyes flexed their muscles under head coach Ben McCollum with a blistering performance on the road in a dominant win over the Indiana Hoosiers to bounce back and get back in the win column. The win moved Iowa to 13-5 overall with a 3-4 mark in Big Ten …

Crisler Arena will be rocking tonight as the Michigan Wolverines return home from a two-game road trip to host the Indiana Hoosiers in Big Ten action. The Wolverines defense is tough, and my Indiana vs. Michigan predictions expect the home team to bowl over the visitors. Advertisement Read on for my college basketball picks for Tuesday, January 20. Indiana vs …

Can this be a “get right” game for the Colorado State men’s basketball team? The Rams have lost three of their last four and five of their last seven games. They will look to get back into the win column against an Air Force squad struggling on the court and dealing with uncertainty off it due to an internal investigation …

Nebraska forward Braden Frager won Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors on Monday. The Lincoln native averaged 21.5 points over two games while shooting 59% from the field and 50% from three-point range. It’s the third time that Frager won the Freshman of the Week award this season. That’s the most by a Nebraska freshman since Bryce McGowens won …

Michigan basketball’s West Coast sweep was an interesting one. On the one hand, the Wolverines picked up two Big Ten wins on the road – a respectable result for any team. On the other hand, U-M clearly isn’t clicking as it once was. Michigan was unable to pull away from a Washington team in the bottom third of the league …

Kansas provides update on Bill Self’s condition following hospitalization originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. Kansas men’s basketball coach Bill Self was taken to a hospital Monday after feeling “under the weather” and did not travel with the team for Tuesday night’s game at Colorado. Advertisement Kansas said in …

The Gonzaga Bulldogs (19-1, 7-0 WCC) have moved up a spot in the AP Poll after the Iowa State Cyclones struggled in Big 12 Conference play. Gonzaga stands at No. 8 and received 1,103 total points from the voters. This comes after two in-state road victories in Pullman over the Washington State Cougars and in Seattle against the Seattle U …

The Marquette men’s basketball team returns to Fiserv Forum on Jan. 19 to face Providence after back-to-back losses on the road last week. One of the few positives recently for the Golden Eagles (6-13, 1-7 Big East) has been the improved play of sophomore forward Damarius Owens. Advertisement The Friars (9-9, 2-5) have the conference’s highest-scoring offense at 88.9 points per …

Iowa State basketball coach T.J. Otzelberger didn’t mince his words when asked for his opinion on UCF, which will be making the trip to Ames for a Jan. 20 game at Hilton Coliseum. “It’s coach (Johnny) Dawkins’ best team without a doubt; he’s done a great job putting the roster together,” Otzelberger said. Advertisement It’s more than just flattery or …

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Freshman guard Aubrey Galvan hit a late free throw and finished with 20 points as No. 5 Vanderbilt beat No. 7 Michigan 72-69 on Monday as part of a doubleheader played at the Prudential Center on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Galvan was 7 of 14 from the field and Mikayla Blakes and Justine Pissott, both …

The Marquette men’s basketball team returns to Fiserv Forum on Jan. 19 to face Providence after back-to-back losses on the road last week. One of the few positives recently for the Golden Eagles (6-13, 1-7 Big East) has been the improved play of sophomore forward Damarius Owens. Advertisement The Friars (9-9, 2-5) have the conference’s highest-scoring offense at 88.9 points …

The Michigan Wolverines survived two tough West Coast tests last week, defeating the Washington Huskies and the Oregon Ducks by 10 points in each game. Road tests in the Big Ten are never easy, and despite putting together numerous 40-point wins in the first half the season, January has been a tougher experience for head coach Dusty May and his …

Following wins over Marquette and Villanova in the last week, St. John’s is on the brink of returning to the top 25. The Red Storm received 64 votes in the Associated Press’s week 11 men’s basketball poll, tied with Wisconsin for the most among unranked teams. Notable poll voters like Jon Rothstein, Dick Vitale, Seth Davis, and Jeff Borzello were …

Fresh off an impressive 80-63 win Saturday at Washington, Michigan State will look to close out Oregon and return home at 17-2 overall and 7-1 in the Big Ten. Michigan State faced Oregon twice last year – once at the Breslin Center and again in the Big Ten tournament. MSU won both matchups but Oregon gave the Spartans some initial …

The North Carolina Tar Heels suffered their first losing week of the 2025-26 college basketball season this past week. The trip out west resulted in two losses for the Tar Heels, first blowing a lead to Stanford and then losing to Cal on Saturday. The losses dropped UNC to 14-4 overall, and they are now 2-3 in Atlantic Coast Conference …

North Carolina has stumbled early in ACC play despite a hot start to the season. Carolina entered ACC play with a 12-1 record, its best start in 17 years. However, the Tar Heels have faltered in conference, going 2-3 through their first five ACC games. They have also lost three of their last four, falling to SMU, Stanford and California. …

For the first time since the team disembarked for the Maui trip last season, UConn men’s basketball comes in at No. 2 in the AP Top 25. The 18-1 Huskies are coming off of a 2-0 week as they continue to dominate in Big East play, knocking off then-No. 25 Seton Hall and Georgetown on the road. With Iowa State …

We’re suddenly down to just three perfect teams left in the country, one of which is firmly holding down the No. 1 ranking. Here’s everything you missed in the 11th week of the regular season, and the latest Associated Press poll. Advertisement Arizona holds as undefeated teams drop to 3 Last week it was Michigan that fell off. This time, …

There is some movement in the Big Ten basketball rankings this week; however, the consensus notion is that the Cornhuskers are now the best team in the Big Ten. They are sitting in the driver’s seat to win this conference. All Nebraska has to do is win, and that is what the Huskers have been doing of late. Right behind …

The teams at the top of the conference standings started to flex their muscles this week, with the top five teams in this week’s bracketology update combining for a 10-0 week, including eight wins by double-digit margins. With a lot of the top teams in the conference playing teams on the opposite end of the standings, most of the action …

SEATTLE — It was another low-production game for Coen Carr, but Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo remains committed to his high-flying forward. “It’ll be a cold day in hell before I give up on Coen Carr,” Izzo said after the 12th-ranked Spartans’ 80-63 victory at Washington on Saturday, Jan. 17. Advertisement Carr scored just six points on 2-for-4 shooting …

Kentucky Basketball has been clutch the last couple of weeks, putting together a three-game winning streak with a home blowout of Mississippi State, followed by narrow road victories over LSU and No.24 Tennessee. Slow starts this season have caused members of Big Blue Nation to age a few years, but second-half adjustments and timely shot-making have been a solution to …

The University of Akron men’s basketball team is traveling to Buffalo, New York and Athens, Ohio, this week for challenging Mid-American Conference games. Although the temperatures will be cold outside, Akron coach John Groce is confident his players will be hot with their shooting after a 104-89 win over Western Michigan on Jan. 17. Advertisement Akron (14-4, 5-1) outscored Western …