NCAA Basketball

The Toledo Rockets captured NCAA.com Team of the Week honors and scored one of its biggest wins in program history on Dec. 8, defeating No. 14 Michigan 71-68 at the Crisler Center in Ann Arbor. Toledo already owned the longest road winning streak in the country coming into Thursday’s game, and that streak now extends

USATSI The Arizona State Sun Devils will try to extend their seven-game winning streak when they face the Creighton Bluejays on Monday night. Arizona State has only dropped one game this season and is coming off a 75-57 win over SMU. Creighton has been a streaky team, winning its first six games before losing its

HOUSTON (AP) — No. 8 Alabama could have called it a day when it was trailing by double-figures early in the second half. The Crimson Tide didn’t, and earned another marquee win this season. Alabama rallied from a 15-point second half deficit to stun No. 1 Houston 71-65 on Saturday, becoming just the second men’s

USATSI Memphis announced Friday that legendary coach Larry Brown is stepping away from his role as special adviser to Tigers head coach Penny Hardaway due to “ongoing health concerns.” Brown first took a leave of absence from his role before the season due to what was described at the time as a “minor medical issue.” 

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — On the phone was an assistant coach staring at a mountain in front of him. Figuratively, anyway. Tom Parrotta is one of Speedy Claxton’s aides at Hofstra, and his assignment this week was putting together the scouting report on the Pride’s Wednesday opponent. Which meant Purdue. Which meant Zach Edey, the

The USC Trojans managed to win their third straight game on Wednesday night by defeating the Cal State Fullerton Titans, 64-50, at the Galen Center. In a battle of 2022 NCAA Tournament teams, the Trojans led from start to finish despite a subpar outing from Boogie Ellis and Reese Dixon-Waters. Nonetheless, Andy Enfield’s team got

7:00 AM ET When the buzzer sounded on North Carolina‘s loss at Virginia Tech on Sunday afternoon, the Tar Heels made history. They became the first preseason No. 1 team to lose four straight games. Less than 24 hours later, when the updated AP poll was released, they were given another dubious distinction: the fastest

Share Iowa’s Caitlin Clark, the nation’s top scorer, led a second-half offensive surge to overtake rival No. 10 Iowa State, 70-57. The No. 16 Hawkeyes followed a slow 23-point first half with a 47-point second to pull way. Clark posted 13 of her 19 points in the final two quarters. She finished with eight rebounds

Dec 7, 2022 John GasawayESPN Insider Close ESPN Insider college basketball contributor First began covering college hoops in 2004 Has written for Basketball Prospectus and the Wall Street Journal The number of Division I men’s college basketball head coaches is tiny, roughly equivalent to the populations of small towns like Arroyo Alto, Texas; East Germantown,

Welcome to this week’s Starting Five in women’s basketball. Below, you can find standouts at each position from the past week. Let’s jump into it! Taylen Collins, Oklahoma State Junior forward Taylen Collins had a record-setting performance on Saturday in Oklahoma State’s 82-64 win over North Texas, recording her third double-double of the season, finishing

USATSI The Yale Bulldogs will try to improve on their 8-1 start to the season when they face the Butler Bulldogs on Tuesday night. Yale bounced back from its loss to Colorado with a pair of wins over Howard and Stony Brook. Butler has won three of its last four games, beating Tennessee Tech in

It wasn’t as chaotic as “Feast Week,” but there was plenty of major upsets last week throughout the college basketball landscape. Here’s everything from Week 4 of the season, and the latest Associated Press poll. What happened to North Carolina? North Carolina’s tough stretch continued last week. After opening the season ranked No. 1 in

The 2021-22 men’s basketball season marks the fourth season of the NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET) rankings, which replaced the RPI prior to the 2018-19 season as the primary sorting tool for evaluating teams. In May 2020, the NCAA announced there will be changes made to the NCAA Evaluation Tool to increase accuracy and simplify it

8:00 AM ET Are Gonzaga’s hopes of a fourth straight 1-seed in the NCAA tournament already over? After the Bulldogs’ loss to Baylor on Friday, that might be the case. They’re now just 5-3 on the season, with losses to Texas and Purdue in addition to the Bears in South Dakota. It’s their most losses

Villanova and Oklahoma will meet Saturday on CBS in the Big East/Big 12 Battle with each team looking for a marquee nonconference victory. It’s been a rough start for the Wildcats, but a game with the Sooners represents a chance for Villanova to get headed in the right direction before Big East play begins later

Dec 2, 2022 Unranked Utah‘s biggest victory of the year, an 81-66 upset of No. 4 Arizona in the teams’ Pac-12 opener Thursday night, came exactly 10 years after the death of Rick Majerus, the legendary coach who led the Utes to the 1998 national title game. Majerus, who died of heart failure on Dec.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Texas had pressured Creighton’s shooters into a miserable night, only to watch a late flurry of 3-pointers start swishing. An 11-point Longhorns lead was down to three. That hardly rattled Marcus Carr and the second-ranked Longhorns, who stepped up with big late shots of their own and steady free-throw shooting to secure

Share The 2022 ACC/Big Ten Challenge concluded with the ACC coming away with an overall win, going 8-6. Notre Dame’s dominating 70-52 win against No. 20 Michigan State clinched the victory for the ACC across the 14 games.  In other notable Wednesday results, No. 17 Duke beat No. 25 Ohio State 81-72 and No. 10