NCAABB

12:25 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Houston is No. 1 in the NCAA’s initial NET rankings, mirroring the AP Top 25. The Cougars (8-0) were the No. 1 team in the AP Top 25 for the second straight week Monday and took the top spot in the NCAA Evaluation Tool, the primary sorting tool

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

5:47 PM ET ESPN News Services BLACKSBURG, Va. — Justyn Mutts scored 27 points to lead the Virginia Tech men’s basketball team to an 80-72 victory over No. 18 North Carolina on Sunday. Mutts scored 21 of his points in the second half for the Hokies (8-1, 1-0 Atlantic Coast Conference), who built an 18-point

3:28 PM ET Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — Caleb Daniels scored 22 points and top freshman Cam Whitmore brought instant energy in his debut following a thumb injury to lead Villanova to a 70-66 win over Oklahoma on Saturday in the first game with former Wildcats coach Jay Wright in the broadcast booth. Wright wore a

1:03 AM ET 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.

10:13 PM ET Associated Press FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Antoine Davis became the Horizon League’s all-time leading scorer, and he helped Detroit Mercy rally late for a 75-66 victory over Purdue Fort Wayne on Thursday night. Davis finished with 22 points after needing 18 points to surpass Alfredrick Hughes’ conference record of 2,914 points from

7:30 AM ET North Carolina had a 15-point lead entering halftime of last season’s NCAA championship game against Kansas. The Tar Heels would eventually lose that matchup — but they entered the 2022-23 season as the No. 1 team in America and the national title favorite. Hubert Davis had, after all, returned key players from

7:00 AM ET Last week at the Maui Invitational, Arkansas looked like a potential Final Four team. The Razorbacks lost by just three points to Creighton, then beat San Diego State in overtime to secure third place at the event. It was a positive sign for the ceiling of a newcomer-heavy team still figuring things

10:07 AM ET Pete ThamelESPN West Virginia is expected to hire Wren Baker as its next athletic director, sources told ESPN. A deal has not been signed but is expected to be finalized in the next 24 hours, according to sources. Baker is the athletic director at North Texas and emerged as one of the

11:41 PM ET Louisville‘s difficult start to the men’s basketball season seemed to hit rock bottom on Tuesday, with coach Kenny Payne saying, “At times, it looked like we gave up,” in a 79-54 home loss to Maryland. The Cardinals dropped to 0-7 on the season, joining this season’s California Golden Bears as the only

8:00 AM ET Sure, college football and the NFL will take center stage this week. But college basketball will feature an impressive slate of games, too — including the final run of the ACC/Big Ten Challenge on the ESPN family of networks. Don’t know what to watch? No worries. We’ll help you identify the four

2:35 PM ET Montverde Academy (Florida) has won Geico Nationals in back-to-back years. With five players ranked in the 2023 ESPN 100 and four more ranked in the 2024 ESPN 60, can the Eagles make it a three-peat? We rank the best teams in the country for the 2022-23 season. Below is the ESPN High

12:12 PM ET Associated Press Make some room, Phi Slama Jama. Another Houston team has reached the top of men’s college basketball. Nearly four decades after Clyde Drexler and Akeem Olajuwon took the Cougars to No. 1, the latest bunch led by Marcus Sasser and star freshman Jarace Walker took over the top spot in

10:00 AM ET The ACC, SEC and ESPN have announced the formation of the ACC/SEC Challenge for men’s and women’s basketball, starting during the 2023-24 season. The introduction of the ACC/SEC Challenge marks the end of the ACC/Big Ten Challenge after 23 years and the end of the SEC/Big Ten Challenge that began in 2013.

Nov 21, 2022 Rankings over the first two months of a men’s college basketball season are ever-changing. They’re inherently based on a small sample size, schedules are unbalanced and one or two good weeks can completely change the perception of a team. As we get deeper into the campaign, it’s easier to point to a

1:09 AM ET Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. — Donovan Clingan had 15 points and 10 rebounds to power No. 20 UConn to a 71-53 win over Iowa State in the championship game of the Phil Knight Invitational on Sunday night. Tristen Newton scored 13 points for the Huskies (8-0), who went 20-for-25 at the free-throw

7:42 PM ET Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. — Mark Sears had 24 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists, and No. 18 Alabama sent top-ranked North Carolina to a second straight loss with a 103-101 victory in a quadruple-overtime thriller Sunday in the third-place game of the Phil Knight Invitational tournament. Jahvon Quinerly added 21 points

7:48 PM ET ESPN News Services PORTLAND, Ore. — Zach Edey and No. 24 Purdue shook off a slow start. When No. 8 Duke tried to rally in the second half, the Boilermakers finished strong. Edey had 21 points and 12 rebounds, and Purdue beat Duke 75-56 on Sunday in the championship game of the