Category: Basketball

Bensley Joseph had 20 points and Bryce Hopkins scored 19 to rally Providence to a 70-63 victory over DePaul in overtime on Tuesday night in a Big East Conference opener.

AK Okereke scored 24 points and Cooper Norad scored 21 points and Cornell withstood a furious second-half rally by Cal and beat the Golden Bears 88-80 on Tuesday. Nazir Williams added 18 points and Jake Fiegen 11 for the Big Red (7-3), which beat an Atlantic Coast Conference team for the first time since December 1951, four years before the debut of Disneyland. Joshua Ola-Joseph scored 21 points to lead the Golden Bears.

Boogie Fland scored 20 points as Arkansas stormed back from a 15-point deficit, withstood a late comeback attempt and hung on for an 89-87 victory over No. 14 Michigan on Tuesday night in the Jimmy V Classic at Madison Square Garden.

Video of Arkansas coach John Calipari's postgame press conference after the Arkansas Razorbacks win over Michigan.

This one, like most of the others, didn’t cost them in the final result — No. 4 Duke beat Incarnate Word 72-46 on Tuesday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The problem within, though, is the Blue Devils (8-2) can’t quite put a finger on why it’s become a trend. It took Duke until the second half to seemingly settle into Tuesday night’s game.

Boogie Fland scored 20 points as Arkansas stormed back from a 15-point deficit, withstood a late comeback attempt and hung on for an 89-87 victory over No. 14 Michigan on Tuesday night in the Jimmy V Classic at Madison Square Garden. D.J. Wagner added 16 points for the Razorbacks (8-2), who went without a basket for the final 3:01 and nearly blew an 18-point lead. Trevon Brazile added 15 points and a key block on Vladislav Goldin with 14 seconds left.

Kasparas Jakucionis scored a career-high 24 points, Tre White had 23 points and eight rebounds and Kylan Boswell added 19 points and six assists to lead Illinois to an 86-80 win over No. 20 Wisconsin on Tuesday night. It was the fourth straight game in which Jakucionis scored 20 or more points for the Illini (7-2, 1-1 Big Ten), who beat Wisconsin for the ninth consecutive time. Nolan Winter led the Badgers (8-3, 0-2) with 15 points and seven rebounds, John Tonje had 14 points, Max Klesmit scored 13 and John Blackwell had 10.

Bensley Joseph had 20 points and Bryce Hopkins scored 19 to rally Providence to a 70-63 victory over DePaul in overtime on Tuesday night in a Big East Conference opener. Joseph made two free throws and a layup and Hopkins followed with a layup and two free throws to complete an 8-0 run that gave the Friars a 68-61 lead with 20 seconds remaining. Joseph had seven assists and Hopkins added 10 rebounds for the Friars (7-4).

Michigan went up 15, then down 18, then got within two late, but ultimately fell 89-87 to Arkansas in the Jimmy V Classic at Madison Square Garden.

Kaleb Banks scored 18 points as Tulane beat Southern Miss 86-58 on Tuesday night. Banks also added five rebounds for the Green Wave (5-6). Gregg Glenn III scored 16 points while going 6 of 10 and 3 of 3 from the free-throw line and added 10 rebounds.

Arkansas trailed by as much as 15 points in the first half, led by as much as 18 in the second half and then led by just 1-point with less than a minute remaining in regulation. Freshman guard Boogie Fland, a native of Bronx, New York, led the Razorbacks with 20 points, seven assists, one rebound and two steals. Fland knocked down two of the Hogs' nine made 3-pointers, and they shot 50.0% from the field as a team in the game.

Arkansas basketball guard DJ Wagner. © Wendell Cruz-Imagn Images Under the bright lights of Madison Square Garden, the Arkansas Razorbacks (8-2, 0-0 SEC) picked up an impressive 89-87 the No. 14 Michigan Wolverines (8-2, 2-0 Big 10) in the Jimmy V Classic at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Dylan Harper finished with 24 points, 12 rebounds and five assists, fellow freshman Ace Bailey totaled 15 points and 15 rebounds, and Rutgers held off Penn State 80-76 on Tuesday night.