Category: NCAA Basketball

Freshman Ebuka Okorie scored 28 points, Benny Gealer made a crucial pair of free throws with 8.2 seconds left, and Stanford beat No. 16 Louisville 80-76 on Friday. Okorie shot 9 of 18 and went 8 of 10 on free throws in 38 minutes to pace Stanford (12-3, 1-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) to its first win over a ranked opponent since beating then-No. 4 Arizona on Dec. 31, 2023.

The Wolverines didn't even have their best stuff offensively, but they still flirted with another 100-point outing.

Michigan basketball score: The Wolverines showed new football coach Kyle Whittingham how to dominate, destroying USC on Friday at Crisler Center.

It wasn't long after sixth-ranked Duke finally fought off a pesky Georgia Tech team that coach Jon Scheyer pointed to the lesson emerging from the Blue Devils' Atlantic Coast Conference opener. Notably, the ACC had a stronger showing in marquee nonconference matchups and has shown more depth of quality teams compared to last year with Duke operating as a one-team show on the way to the Final Four. “I just feel like the league as a whole, it's so much better,” said Terrence Oglesby, a college basketball and NBA TV analyst who played at Clemson.

It's a Southern California showdown between two ranked Big Ten teams.

It's the Big 12 opener for two teams on winning streaks.

The Hakweyes will try to remain unbeaten at home while the Bruins seek to stay undefeated in the Big Ten.

No. 9 Michigan State basketball's game against No. 13 Nebraska is the first game with two ranked men's teams in 13 years at Pinnacle Bank Arena.

Tip-off is at 4 p.m. ET on Peacock and NBCSN.

Madison Booker matched her season high with 28 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, and Jordan Lee scored a career-best 23 points to help No. 2 Texas overcome a slow start to beat Missouri 89-71 on Thursday night. Ashton Judd added 12 points for Texas (16-0, 1-0 Southeastern Conference) in her first game in Columbia since playing for Missouri from 2022-25. Grace Slaughter scored 20 points, and Abbey Schreacke added 15 for Missouri (12-4, 0-1), which was playing without second-leading scorer Shannon Dowell for the third straight game as she nurses a lower body injury.

Garzon scored 17 points and had seven rebounds for the Terps, who were 1 for 12 from deep and committed 18 turnovers after scoring at least 80 points in 13 games of their first 14 games. Poffenbarger had 15 points, eight rebounds and six assists and Oluchi Okananwa had 12 points for Maryland. NO.

The Spartans pulled away in the second half, including an 11-1 run late in the fourth quarter that lasted over five minutes.

Joyce Edwards scored 25 points and No. 3 South Carolina won its 24th straight game over previously undefeated Alabama 83-57 on Thursday to start Southeastern Conference play. Raven Johnson added 17 points for the Gamecocks (14-1, 1-0 SEC), who played without injured Ta'Niya LSatson, who is second on the team with a 16.9-point average. It was another outing in which the Gamecocks were less than full strength.

It's a Big Ten matchup of two top-15 teams in Lincoln, Nebraska.

It's a showdown of ranked Big Ten teams in Ann Arbor.