Category: NCAA Basketball

The Pitt Panthers team picked up a pair of ACC wins last week to bring their record to 3-0 in league play. Jeff Capel’s team owns a 12-2 overall record, and perhaps now enters its biggest week of the season to date. The Panthers also host an upstart Louisville team for a big home game on Saturday.

While UCLA, Southern Cal, Notre Dame and Ohio State all recently returned key players, Connecticut and South Carolina are now facing the potential of playing without stars.

Tennessee tightened its grip on No. 1 in the AP Top 25 on Monday following a pair of lopsided wins, including one over SEC rival Arkansas, that left the Volunteers as the only undefeated team in men’s Division I college basketball.

The Arkansas Razorbacks (11-3, 0-1 SEC) fell back out of the AP College Basketball Top 25 on Monday. The drop out of the rankings comes after Arkansas split its games last week. The Hogs took a 92-62 win over Oakland to finish the non-conference slate, but were thrashed 76-52 on the road by No.

Tennessee is the last remaining undefeated team in the nation.

Tennessee tightened its grip on No. 1 in the AP Top 25 on Monday following a pair of lopsided wins, including one over SEC rival Arkansas, that left the Volunteers as the only undefeated team in men's Division I college basketball. The Vols picked up four more first-place votes and had 45 of 60 from the national panel to remain atop the poll for the fifth straight week. Auburn earned the other 15 first-place nods and stayed at No. 2, while Iowa State, Duke and Alabama rounded out a top five that was unchanged following the first week of conference play for many leagues around the country.

Tennessee keeps hold of the No. 1 spot in the USA TODAY Sports men's college basketball poll for the fifth consecutive week. Kansas fell from top 10.

Sean Jones hasn’t played since injuring his right knee in a loss to Butler on Jan. 10, 2024.

Jon Scheyer also said it was valuable watching his team, ranked No. 4 in last week’s AP Top 25, beat SMU 89-62 from a different perspective.

West Virginia sophomore Sencire Harris has never let his offense affect the other areas of his game.

Michigan Wolverines went 2-0 last week with victories over Western Kentucky and USC to help improve potential seeding in 2025 NCAA March Madness.

The SEC is in prime position to send a record amount of teams to the NCAA men's tournament, while the Big Ten doesn't have any clear title contenders.

Examining Michigan State basketball's NCAA tournament résumé for March Madness through the first few days of 2025.

Wisconsin Badgers (11-3, 1-2 Big Ten) at Rutgers Scarlet Knights (8-6, 1-2 Big Ten) Piscataway, New Jersey; Monday, 7 p.m. EST BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Badgers -1.5; over/under is 156.5 BOTTOM LINE: Wisconsin visits Rutgers after John Blackwell scored 32 points in Wisconsin's 116-85 win over the Iowa Hawkeyes. The Scarlet Knights have gone 7-0 at home.

Pittsburgh Panthers (12-2, 3-0 ACC) at Duke Blue Devils (12-2, 4-0 ACC) Durham, North Carolina; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Pittsburgh visits No. Duke after Ishmael Leggett scored 21 points in Pittsburgh's 83-68 win against the Stanford Cardinal.