Category: NCAA Basketball

Jasen Green and Blake Harper scored 14 points apiece and No. 23 Creighton pulled away from Maryland Eastern Shore for an 84-45 victory after a clunky first half Friday night. The Bluejays (2-1) shot miserably in the second half of a 27-point loss at No. 19 Gonzaga on Tuesday, and their struggles continued over stretches of the opening 20 minutes against the Hawks (1-4) of the Mid-East Athletic Conference. Creighton went 7 for 8 while getting out to a 16-2 lead and 6 of 25 the rest of the half.

Maryland transfer Rodney Rice had a triple-double of 21 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists to lead four players in double figures and USC defeated Illinois State 87-67 on Friday night in the opener of the Hall of Fame Series doubleheader at Intuit Dome. The Trojans (3-0) got 18 points by Chad Baker-Mazara, 14 points from Gabe Dynes and 13 points by Ezra Ausar. Ty’Reek Coleman scored 16 points and Johnny Kinziger added 15 for the Redbirds (1-2), who won 22 games last season, their most in nine years.

Rodney Rice finishes with 21 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists to record only the second triple-double in USC men's basketball history in a win over Illinois State.

Freshman forward Cameron Boozer scored 23 of his season-high 35 points in the first half as No. 4 Duke put together three double-figure scoring runs on the way to beating Indiana State 100-62 on Friday night. Boozer, who also had 12 rebounds and five assists, finished 13 for 16 from the field after connecting on nine of 10 first-half shots. Caleb Foster added 14 points and Dame Sarr had 10 for Duke (4-0), which geared up for Tuesday’s showdown against No. 25 Kansas in New York City by reaching 100 points in consecutive games for the first time in nearly eight years.

Mouhamed Dioubate scored a season-high 20 points to lead No. 9 Kentucky to a 99-53 win over Eastern Illinois on Friday night. Dioubate, an Alabama transfer, completed a double-double with 11 rebounds and led five players in double figures. Denzel Aberdeen scored 13 points, Otega Oweh added 12, and Malachi Moreno and Andrija Jelavic finished with 11 points apiece.

What channel is Michigan basketball's game today vs TCU? That's the question as U-M looks to stay in the top 5 in the coaches poll.

What channel is Michigan basketball's game today vs TCU? That's the question as U-M looks to stay in the top 5 in the coaches poll.

A Provo police department release said Davis suffered minor injuries and was charged with driving under the influence after being taken to the police station.

Tom Izzo finished Michigan State basketball's 2026 recruiting class with a bang, adding 5-star center Ethan Taylor to his four-player signing group.

Darryn Peterson will miss another game for No. 25 Kansas this weekend because of a lingering hamstring issue, Bill Self said Friday, though the Jayhawks coach added “we don't think it's a long-term deal at all.” The nation's top-ranked recruit, and potentially the No. 1 pick in next year's NBA draft, missed Tuesday night’s 77-46 rout of Texas A&M-Corpus Christi after hurting himself in a shootaround earlier in the day. The big question is whether Peterson will be back for some high-profile games beginning next week.

Tip-off for La Salle vs Penn State is at 1 PM ET on Peacock.

Purdue point guard Braden Smith scored 21 of his 29 points in the second half to lead the top-ranked Boilermakers over Alabama in a top-10 showdown.

The Big Ten meets the Big East in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

It's a matchup of two 3-0 teams in Washington, D.C.

All-American Lauren Betts had 20 points and 10 rebounds to lead No. UCLA to a 78-60 victory over No. North Carolina on Thursday night in the WBCA Challenge, the Bruins' second win over a ranked team this week.