Northwestern State Demons (1-2) at Rice Owls (2-1) Houston; Saturday, 3 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Northwestern State visits Rice after Micah Thomas scored 20 points in Northwestern State’s 73-57 loss to the Oklahoma Sooners. Rice went 11-21 overall last season while going 6-10 at home. The Owls shot 44.3% from the field and 33.7% from 3-point range last season. Northwestern …

Each week during the 2024-25 NBA season, we will take a deeper dive into some of the league’s biggest storylines in an attempt to determine whether trends are based more in fact or fiction moving forward. [Last week: Is home-court advantage in the NBA’s regular season dead?] Fact or Fiction: The NBA needs more 3-point specialists Last week, when we …

Virginia Cavaliers (2-0) vs. Villanova Wildcats (2-2) Baltimore; Friday, 5 p.m. EST BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Wildcats -4.5; over/under is 129.5 BOTTOM LINE: Villanova takes on Virginia in Baltimore, Maryland. Villanova went 18-16 overall with a 7-5 record in non-conference games during the 2023-24 season. The Wildcats gave up 65.6 points per game while committing 15.5 fouls last season. Virginia finished …

MANHATTAN — Kansas State basketball Jerome Tang struggled to find anything positive about the Wildcats’ first serious setback of the young season. The only silver lining might have been the timing. “The great thing about this is it’s early in the year, and it doesn’t end your season,” Tang said after LSU dominated his Wildcats for all but the first …

WEST LAFAYETTE – Purdue basketball players possess a vague understanding of the historic streak on the line Friday against No. 2 Alabama. Not that coach Matt Painter hides it from them. He’s fond of pointing out senior Caleb Furst has never lost a nonconference regular-season game. In 38 nonconference regular season games stretching back to 2020, the Boilermakers have come …

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East Tennessee State Buccaneers (2-1) at Davidson Wildcats (2-0) Davidson, North Carolina; Saturday, 5 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Davidson takes on East Tennessee State after Reed Bailey scored 24 points in Davidson’s 91-85 victory against the Bowling Green Falcons. Davidson finished 9-7 at home a season ago while going 15-17 overall. The Wildcats averaged 70.1 points per game last season, …

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Temple Owls (3-0) at Boston College Eagles (1-1) Boston; Friday, 7 p.m. EST BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Eagles -1.5; over/under is 145.5 BOTTOM LINE: Temple faces Boston College after Zion Stanford scored 23 points in Temple’s 69-61 win against the Drexel Dragons. Boston College finished 20-16 overall a season ago while going 10-6 at home. The Eagles shot 45.6% from the …

WEST LAFAYETTE – Purdue basketball players possess a vague understanding of the historic streak on the line Friday against No. 2 Alabama. Not that coach Matt Painter hides it from them. He’s fond of pointing out senior Caleb Furst has never lost a nonconference regular-season game. In 38 nonconference regular season games stretching back to 2020, the Boilermakers have come …

Wisconsin basketball (3-0) returns to the hardwood for its fourth game of the 2024-25 slate on Friday night for a matchup against the Arizona Wildcats (2-0). The Badgers enter the contest after a 87-56 win over Appalachian State last Sunday. The performance was easily UW’s most impressive of the season — the Badgers rattled off a 23-0 scoring surge in …

Former Wisconsin Badgers guard Connor Essegian started his first career game with the Nebraska Cornhuskers on Wednesday night. In over 16 minutes of action, Essegian logged eight points in an 86-60 victory over the Fairleigh Dickinson Knights. The former Badger nailed two of his seven three-point field goal attempts and notched two rebounds in the effort. Through three games of …

The Crimson Tide is rolling for the first time this season as Alabama basketball hits the road for Purdue. All 14,876 seats in No. 12 Purdue’s Mackey Arena are sold out for Friday’s top 15 matchup as Alabama and the Boilermakers seek to stretch 3-0 records. On top of that, No. 2 UA has helped attract 21 teams and 23 …

For each season that Alabama basketball coach Nate Oats has been with the Crimson Tide, big man Clifford Omoruyi has a game against Purdue. Three appearances in Mackey Arena with six total against Purdue (3-0) see the Rutgers transfer enter Friday’s matchup as UA’s most experienced player against coach Matt Painter and the Boilermakers. At Thursday’s media availability ahead of …

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Michigan basketball returns home to take on TCU on Friday night (6 p.m., FS1) at Crisler Center after a hard-fought 72-70 loss to Wake Forest on Sunday in Greensboro, North Carolina. The game, technically a neutral-site matchup, was played just more than 30 miles away from the Demon Deacons’ campus in Winston-Salem. Although the Wolverines got out to a 13-point …

Monmouth’s brutal early season schedule, part head coach King Rice’s non-conference philosophy, part economic reality at a time when guaranteed money games are vital for mid-majors, continues when the Hawks make the journey up Rt. 18 to Jersey Mike’s Arena in Piscataway for tonight’s (6:30 p.m.) Big Ten Network clash with No. 24 Rutgers. The Hawks (0-3) have only ever …

FAYETTEVILLE — It only took three games, but Arkansas basketball coach John Calipari is dealing with the repercussions of his small roster. Officially, the No. 21 Razorbacks (2-1) have 15 players available. But, in reality, Arkansas has nine players who Calipari wants to use in his rotation. The others are likely going to play in emergency situations. The Hogs might …

Alabama basketball is aiming to stay undefeated in its first road trip against its first ranked opponent of the 2024-25 season. No. 12 Purdue welcomes the No. 2 Crimson Tide for a 6 p.m. CT tipoff Friday at Mackey Arena. Both returning Final Four teams take the floor 3-0 on the season. After breaking 100 in the season opener against …

East Tennessee State Buccaneers (2-1) at Davidson Wildcats (2-0) Davidson, North Carolina; Saturday, 5 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Davidson takes on East Tennessee State after Reed Bailey scored 24 points in Davidson’s 91-85 victory against the Bowling Green Falcons. Davidson finished 9-7 at home a season ago while going 15-17 overall. The Wildcats averaged 70.1 points per game last season, …

Vermont basketball seeks to end a two-game slide when it visits Iona in Friday’s nonconference clash in New Rochelle, New York. The Catamounts fell at Merrimack 65-51 last weekend to drop to 1-2 on the season. The America East Conference favorites were also blown out by No. 11 Auburn 94-43 on Nov. 6, two nights after opening their season with …

Wisconsin welcomes No. 9 Arizona to Madison on Friday, exclusively on Peacock. Live coverage begins at 9:00 p.m. ET. Keep reading for how to watch and live stream the Arizona at Wisconsin men’s college basketball game. Plus, how to follow all of the Big Ten college basketball action this season. This is the ninth meeting all-time between the schools. Wisconsin …

MANHATTAN — Kansas State basketball basketball was exposed, and it wasn’t pretty. LSU outshot the Wildcats, controlled the boards and never had to sweat in the second half Thursday night on the way to a comfortable 76-65 victory at Bramlage Coliseum. It was the first loss for K-State, which slipped to 2-1, while LSU improved to 3-0. Former Wildcat Cam …

Dallas Mavericks v Utah Jazz Dallas keeps finding new ways to lose in the clutch. Thursday night the Mavericks dropped their fourth game in a row — by a total of eight points — when a defensive miscommunication left Luka Doncic in no-man’s land and Utah’s Jordan Clarkson whipped a pass right past him to John Collins for a game-winning …

The Iowa Hawkeyes (3-0) earned another dominant win against the South Dakota Coyotes by a score of 96-77 on Tuesday night from Carver-Hawkeye Arena thanks to contributions from up and down the lineup. While the Coyotes kept the game close by only trailing 42-36 at halftime, the Hawkeyes were able to slam the door shut in the second half to …