College Basketball

Alex Karaban scored 12 points, Tarris Reed Jr. added 11 and No. 5 UConn used a dominating second half to defeat Villanova 73-63 on Saturday night. Braylon Mullins added 10 points for the Huskies (25-2, 15-2 Big East), who rebounded from Wednesday’s 91-84 home loss to unranked Creighton. Tyler Perkins scored 15 points and Matt Hodge had 13 for Villanova (21-6, 12-4), which had won six in a row since […]

Anthony Dell’Orso tied a season high with 22 points and No. 4 Arizona toppled second-ranked Houston 73-66 on Saturday to move into sole possession of first place in the Big 12 Conference. Arizona (25-2, 12-2), which opened the season 23-0, won its second straight game following consecutive losses to then-No. 9 Kansas and then- 16th-ranked Texas Tech, that knocked the team out of the No. 1 spot in the AP […]

Meet Cameron Boozer, the Duke forward who has a case for the nation's best player. The men's college basketball season is ramping up with high-stakes games every night and the NCAA Tournament just around the corner. In those key regular-season games, March Madness stars introduce themselves to the nation with magical moments and Cinderella runs. We're teaching you about them before they become national heroes. Ahead of No. 1 Michigan […]

Trey Kaufman-Renn scored 20 points and Braden Smith added 15 points and eight assists Friday night, helping No. 7 Purdue produce a historic rout over rival Indiana 93-64 to earn a split in this season's series. The Boilermakers emphatically ended their two-game losing streak against the Hoosiers by producing their highest point total in the series since scoring 94 points in 1998. It also was their largest victory margin in […]

Meet Trey Kaufman-Renn, the Purdue big man who brings nostalgia to 1990s basketball with his game. The men's college basketball season is ramping up with high-stakes games every night and the NCAA Tournament just around the corner. In those key regular-season games, March Madness stars introduce themselves to the nation with magical moments and Cinderella runs. We're teaching you about them before they become national heroes. Ahead of No. 7 […]

UCLA head coach Mick Cronin might not "give a rat's ass" about the Michigan State student section, but he wants Bruins redshirt senior Steven Jamerson II to know that he's sorry for making a scene and ejecting the big man for a flagrant foul he committed during the team's Tuesday night loss to the Spartans. Even before the referees reviewed the play and assessed Jamerson with a flagrant-1 foul, Cronin […]

You know all about the Power 6 conferences in college basketball. You hear about those more than any other, and those groups often dominate the March Madness conversation. There are 25 other conferences out there, however, and our goal is to get you up to speed on the teams, players and fights in the standings to know before the conference tournaments, Selection Sunday and the official start of March Madness. […]

The game of the year in college basketball takes place Saturday night in Washington, D.C. It will be the top-ranked Michigan Wolverines (-2.5, 148.5) taking on the No. 3 Duke Blue Devils, and this game could be an early preview of a Final Four matchup that we end up seeing in early spring. Michigan is 25-1 on the year and putting together one of the more dominant regular seasons in […]

Men's college basketball, women's college basketball – there's no shortage of college ball, every night. Don't worry, we're here to help you figure out what you missed but shouldn't have. Here are all the best moments from last night in college basketball. Oklahoma won a nail-biter against Georgia There were some ranked-ranked matchups on Thursday, and maybe the best of the bunch was in Georgia. No. 11 Oklahoma was visiting […]