Category: Basketball

Iowa State Cyclones (8-2) at Iowa Hawkeyes (8-1) Iowa City, Iowa; Wednesday, 9 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: No. Iowa hosts No.

Fresno State Bulldogs (3-6, 0-1 MWC) at BYU Cougars (6-2) Provo, Utah; Wednesday, 9 p.m. EST BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Cougars -27.5; over/under is 155.5 BOTTOM LINE: Fresno State enters the matchup with BYU as losers of four straight games. The Cougars are 5-0 on their home court.

Mekhi Mason scored a season-high 23 points and Washington pulled away in the second half to beat Eastern Washington 87-69 on Tuesday night. Mason made 7 of 11 shots with five 3-pointers and he scored 15 after halftime to help the Huskies (7-3) turn a seven-point lead into a rout, improving to 5-1 at home. Great Osobor totaled 16 points for Washington, which was coming off losses to former Pac-12 rivals UCLA and USC to begin the trio's first season in the Big Ten Conference.

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.

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.