Category: NCAA Basketball

Fellow rookie Kon Knueppel powered the offense with 22 points and three 3-pointers for the Blue Devils (1-0), who shot 55.6% for the game. Quion Burns scored 15 points for the Black Bears (0-1), which shot just 6 for 24 (25%) after halftime as Duke pulled away. Maine: The Black Bears were picked fourth in the America East, their highest projected finish since the 2010-11 season.

Cooper Flagg and Kon Kneuppel led Duke to a huge opening night win.

Horace Simmons led Drexel past Georgian Court on Monday night with 24 points off of the bench in a 95-43 win. Simmons finished 8 of 9 from 3-point range for the Dragons (1-0). Kobe Magee went 5 of 9 from the field (4 for 8 from 3-point range) to add 14 points.

Fletcher Loyer scored 21 points to lead five players in double figures as No. 14 Purdue beat Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 90-73 on Monday night. Also scoring in double figures were Trey Kaufman-Renn with 15 points, Myles Colvin with 14, Daniel Jacobsen with 13 and Braden Smith with 12. Kaufman-Renn had nine rebounds and Smith had 15 assists.

Beers, a third-team Associated Press All-American for Oregon State last season, made 8 of 11 field goals for the Sooners. Skyler Vann added 12 points and seven rebounds for Oklahoma in its first game as a member of the Southeastern Conference.

The Big Ten College Countdown crew takes a look at the season ahead for the Big Ten men’s basketball teams with the highest expectations.

Robert Hinton scored 27 points as Harvard beat Marist 79-66 on Monday night. Hinton shot 9 of 12 from the field and 8 of 10 from the free-throw line for the Crimson. Austin Hunt and Luca Ace-Nasteski both scored nine points on 4-of-9 shooting.

Jamal Mashburn Jr. had 26 points in Temple's 81-70 win over Sacred Heart on Monday night. Mashburn added three steals for the Owls. William Settle added 16 points while shooting 5 of 9 from the field and 5 for 5 from the free-throw line while he also had seven rebounds, six assists, and three blocks.

Josh Morgan had 25 points in Stonehill's 81-62 win against Framingham State on Monday night. Morgan also added three steals for the Skyhawks. Todd Brogna added 20 points while shooting 5 for 7 (2 for 3 from 3-point range) and 8 of 10 from the free-throw line while he also had eight rebounds.

Clara Strack scored 22 points, Georgia Amoore added 11, and No. 22 Kentucky started with a 98-43 win over South Carolina Upstate on Monday in the Wildcats' first game under Kenny Brooks. Brooks built Virginia Tech into an NCAA Tournament regular and brought Strack, a 6-foot-5 sophomore, and Amoore, a graduate senior and All-American candidate, with him as his Wildcat roster has 11 new players. Amoore had nine points in the first quarter, and Kentucky used runs of 11 and nine points to lead 26-11 after one quarter.

Oziyah Sellers scored a career-high 24 points, Maxime Raynaud added 16 points, 12 rebounds and six assists and Stanford beat Denver 85-62 on Monday in Kyle Smith's debut as the Cardinal's head coach. Smith spent five years at Washington State and last season was the Pac-12 Conference coach of the year when the Cougars reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Smith brought in five transfers, including Stanford's first three undergrad transfers since 2009, and it paid off with Sellers, formerly of USC, scoring 17 second-half points and shooting 10-of-15.

Adama Bal scored 24 points to help Santa Clara defeat Saint Louis 85-78 on Monday night in a season opener. Bal shot 7 of 13 from the field, including 3 for 7 from 3-point range, and went 7 for 8 from the line for the Broncos. Camaron Tongue scored 18 points while shooting 6 of 11 from the field and 5 for 5 from the line and added seven rebounds.

Ante Brzovic's 27 points helped Charleston defeat Southern Illinois 90-80 on Monday in a season opener. Brzovic also contributed nine rebounds for the Cougars. Deywilk Tavarez scored 17 points while shooting 5 for 7 (3 for 3 from 3-point range) and 4 of 4 from the free-throw line.

Kiki Iriafen made a pair of free throws with seconds remaining to lift No. Southern California over Mississippi 68-66 on Monday in a season-opening doubleheader in France. The score was tied 66-66 with 10 seconds left when Iriafen — an Associated Press preseason All-America selection — hit her two free throws.

JuJu Watkins, Paige Bueckers and Hannah Hidalgo lead the top teams as the sport enters its post-Caitlin Clark era.