[ad_1] Another week of surprising results for several top-10 teams gives us another shakeup in Monday’s AP Top 25 poll, with Kansas falling to a season-low No. 8 and Auburn and Arizona also dropping out of the top 10 to make way for Duke, Wisconsin and Marquette. Duke jumped five spots to No. 7 after…
[ad_1] USATSI North Carolina is on a 10-game winning streak and rolling. Tennessee has legitimate Final Four potential. Kentucky’s ceiling remains sky high. But with the 12th week of this season officially in the books, it’s becoming increasingly clear that three teams have kind of separated from the rest of the sport in terms of…
[ad_1] USATSI Our weekly college basketball report card is often a space to shine a light on some of the best and worst team performances from the week that was. However, today I’m feeling like a ray of sunshine, so I’m calling an audible and pulling some strings to skew our report card heavily in…
[ad_1] USATSI Thursday didn’t offer much in the form of compelling college basketball games. Arizona was the only ranked team in action — and the Wildcats were 17.5-point favorites at Oregon State. So the order of the Top 25 And 1 wasn’t expected to change. Easy night. You know what happened next, right? Yep, Jordan…
[ad_1] USATSI What do Duke and Mississippi Valley State have in common? On the surface, there isn’t much aside from the fact that they both have the word “Devils” in their nicknames. The Blue Devils have won five national championships since 1991. The Delta Devils have never even won an NCAA Tournament game. Duke is…
[ad_1] USATSI Houston didn’t get off to the best of starts in the Big 12 this season. It would be silly to suggest otherwise. The 1-2 record was the 1-2 record. But I always assumed, and the Top 25 And 1 always reflected as much, that the 1-2 start was a byproduct of the challenging…
[ad_1] USATSI Armando Bacot led North Carolina in scoring three years ago with an average of 12.3 points. RJ Davis was fifth in scoring on that team. Just a role player. But if you fast-forward to the present, to this 2023-24 season, Davis is now a clear star and leading UNC in scoring by averaging…
[ad_1] The latest AP Top 25 men’s basketball poll released Monday has a similar look at the top with No. 1 UConn and No. 2 Purdue clinging to the top two spots but some fresh changes in the top 10 after a dramatic week that included two big-name schools falling out of the top 10. …
[ad_1] Getty Images Terrence Shannon Jr. returned to Illinois‘ rotation Sunday less than a month after being charged with rape. His legal issues remain unresolved. Regardless, the 6-foot-6 wing received a rousing ovation upon entering the game, played 28 minutes, scored 16 points and helped Illinois to an 86-63 victory. The fact that Shannon led…
[ad_1] USATSI We are nearly three months (!) into the college basketball season, and as we inch closer and closer to the sweet rhythms of March Madness, some of the best teams in the sport are beginning to get into a groove. Tennessee and Auburn dismantled their respective opponents this week to stay atop the…
