Category: NCAA Basketball

L.J. Cryer scored 23 points with six 3-pointers as Big 12 champion and third-ranked Houston won its 10th consecutive game, beating Baylor 65-61 on Saturday night to wrap up the regular season. J'Wan Roberts added 11 points and 10 rebounds for the Cougars (27-4, 19-1 Big 12), including two free throws with 13 seconds remaining. Milos Uzan had 12 points and Emanuel Sharp scored 11.

Dawson Baker scored 15 points and Richie Saunders added 14 to lead No. BYU to an 85-74 victory over rival Utah on Saturday night. Keba Keita had 12 points and Egor Demin scored 10 for the Cougars (23-8, 14-6 Big 12), who won their eighth straight game.

Eric Dailey Jr. scored a career-high 25 points and UCLA routed Southern California 90-63 on Saturday night in the crosstown rivals’ regular-season finale.

Stefan Todorovic scored 34 points and No. seed Pepperdine beat fifth-seeded Oregon State 77-73 on Saturday night in the third round of the West Coast Conference Tournament. Pepperdine (12-21) will play No.

Trenton McLaughlin had 17 points to lead Northern Arizona to a 66-53 victory over Eastern Washington on Saturday night in the first round of the Big Sky Conference Tournament. McLaughlin went 7 of 19 from the field (3 for 10 from 3-point range) for the seventh-seeded Lumberjacks (18-14), who will play No. seed Montana in Sunday's quarterfinals.

Blue Devils get tested, pull away from UNC to finish season sweep Cooper Flagg finishes a dunk in the closing minutes against UNC. Bob Donnan/USA Today Sports Images CHAPEL HILL – Another blowout would’ve been boring.

Trey Galloway and Malik Reneau each scored 16 points as the Indiana Hoosiers shut down Ohio State late in the second half.

Needing another Quad 1 win to keep NCAA Tournament hopes alive, North Carolina instead crumbled.

Ray'Sean Taylor scored 20 points and No. seed SIU Edwardsville beat top-seeded Southeast Missouri 69-48 on Saturday night to win its first Ohio Valley Conference Championship title and secured its first trip to the NCAA Tournament. It was also the first appearance in the title game for SIU Edwardsville (22-11), which entered with a 3-8 tournament record.

Gibson Jimerson scored 35 points and Robbie Avila added five of his 22 points in overtime and Saint Louis beat Duquesne 90-88 on Saturday night. Isaiah Swope's 3-pointer for Saint Louis tied it 80-all with 27 seconds left to force overtime. Avila's 3 with 36 seconds left in the extra period gave the Billikens a 90-85 lead before Duquesne's Kareem Rozier made a 3-pointer at the buzzer.

Maliq Brown hadn't played for the better part of three weeks for second-ranked Duke, a shoulder injury sidelining him just as the season made a hard turn into the stretch run. The 6-foot-9 junior was back as the feet-moving, deflection-forcing whiz critical to Duke's elite defensive machine. Brown finished with eight points, three rebounds and three assists while posting a game-best plus-20 rating in his 16 minutes.

The Cougars won their first bid to the Division I NCAA tournament in school history.

Brycen Goodine scored 14 points and led six players into double-figures scoring as Oklahoma beat Texas 76-72 to end its eight-game losing streak against the Longhorns in Saturday's regular-season finale. The Sooners closed out their regular season with a 96-84 win over No. 15 Missouri followed with their first win in Austin since 2021. Texas (17-14, 6-12), the No. 13 seed, takes on 12th-seeded Vanderbilt and Oklahoma (19-12, 6-12), the 14th seed, will battle 11th-seeded Georgia.

Dominique Daniels Jr. scored 24 points and his two free throws in the final four seconds lifted Cal Baptist past UT Arlington 70-68 in a regular season finale on Saturday. Daniels shot 8 for 25 (2 for 9 from 3-point range) and 6 of 8 from the free-throw line for the Lancers (16-14, 9-7 Western Athletic Conference). Kendal Coleman scored 12 points and added eight rebounds.

Condon finished with 17 points and 15 rebounds. Clayton, Martin and Will Richard were honored before their home finale. Sean Pedulla led the Rebels (21-10, 10-8) with 22 points.