Men’s College Basketball
Nick Boyd scored 20 points for Wisconsin in the Badgers’ convincing home win over Donovan Dent, Tyler Bilodeau and UCLA to hand the Bruins their second straight loss and third in the last six.
NEWS AND ANALYSIS
The Cougars will try to start 2-0 in the Big 12 for the first time.
Former Michigan State and NBA player Paul Davis was ejected from the Breslin Center after vocally criticizing officials from the stands during the 12th-ranked Spartans’ victory over USC.
Yet the administration in Lincoln stuck by Fred Hoiberg, and the patience finally is paying off.
The Cyclones will take their unbeaten record to Waco, Texas.
The Huskies will try to extend a 10-game winning streak and perfect record in the Big East.
Two Big East teams coming off defeats will meet in Indianapolis.
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UConn stayed steady while taking Marquette’s best shot and ended up with a Big East victory.
The Golden Eagles didn’t have much to stress about in a breezy victory over Villanova.
The Pirates staged a late-game comeback featuring some final-second heroics that gave them the win over the Bluejays.
Darryn Peterson was magnificent in his return to the court, but it wasn’t enough for the Jayhawks to escape with a win on the road against the Knights.
Kansas may not have gotten the win, but star freshman Darryn Peterson looked incredible while dropping 26 points in 23 minutes in his return to the court.
The top-ranked Wildcats kept pounding away at the Utes and were rewarded with a sizeable Big 12 victory.
The Trojans were outmatched as the Bruins flexed their muscles in a 34-point victory.
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The Spartans enjoyed a 25-5 advantage in fast-break points and a 21-9 edge in points off the bench.
The 6-foot-1 Francis, a junior NJIT transfer, has scored 100 in the past four games — all coming off the bench.
Braden Frager scored 15 points off the bench and No. 10 Nebraska held off a late rally by Ohio State to win.
The Rutgers bench scores 58 points to help the Scarlet Knights outlast the Ducks in overtime to get their first Big Ten win of the season.
An overtime win over Auburn in its Southeastern Conference opening game showed No. 23 Georgia’s high-scoring offense is no fluke.
The one-point difference kept the first poll of 2026 from becoming the second ever with a tie for No. 1; Oregon State and Virginia shared the top spot on Jan. 26, 1981.
Solo Ball scored 11 of his 17 points in the second half and Tarris Reed Jr. finished with 13 points and nine rebounds as No. 4 UConn rolled to a 73-57 win over visiting Marquette on Sunday to extend its winning streak to 10 games.
Elijah Fisher scored 10 points and Najai Hines had a go-ahead three-point play with one second left to rally Seton Hall to a 56-54 victory over Creighton on Sunday.
Dan Hurley knows that Big East wins aren’t always pretty, but his UConn Huskies got it done against Marquette.
The nation’s second-leading scorer, Dybantsa was coming off perhaps the best performance of his young career, when he scored 33 points with 10 rebounds and 10 assists against Eastern Washington.