Heading into this week, the Villanova Wildcats returned to the top spot in Monday’s new poll after an upset-filled week of Jan. 1 that included losses by No. 1 Michigan State and No. 2 Duke. The second-ranked West Virginia Mountaineers — which beat then-No. 7 Oklahoma Sooners and star freshman Trae Young last week — […]
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Heading into this week, the Michigan State Spartans, which haven’t lost since Nov. 14, are No. 1 for the first time since the 2015-16 season, the 12th time overall. Making the biggest jump in the poll this week are the Oklahoma Sooners (from 12 to 7) at their highest ranking since reaching No. 1 and […]
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Heading into this week, the nation’s current top four teams — Villanova, Michigan State, Arizona State and Duke — won their six games for the week of Dec. 18-23 by an average margin of 39.7 points. Tenth-ranked TCU has the nation’s longest winning streak at 17 games dating to last season’s NIT championship, and now […]
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CBS features its second weekend of college basketball coverage for the 2017-18 season with the aptly-named CBS Sports Classic doubleheader of Ohio State vs. North Carolina followed by Kentucky vs. UCLA on the afternoon of Saturday, Dec. 23. Follow @SonOfTheBronx If you can see this text, your browser does not support iframes. This section of […]
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The Crossroads Classic, the four-team basketball event of Indiana schools — Indiana Hoosiers, the Purdue Boilermakers, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, and Butler Bulldogs — held in Indianapolis, Indiana at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, will take place on Dec. 16 and be televised on Fox. Purdue and Notre Dame are both ranked in the Associated Press […]
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Thanksgiving weekend features several in-state rivalries, highlighted by what’s projected to be its most-watched: No. 1 Alabama Crimson Tide at No. 6 Auburn Tigers on CBS on Nov. 25. The Alabama-Auburn matchup is known annually as the Iron Bowl. This year, an Auburn victory over the current No. 1 team in the country will most […]
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Four legendary men’s college basketball programs battle each other on Nov. 14 in the annual State Farm Champions Classic, held this year in Chicago and will air on ESPN. The top two ranked teams according to preseason polls, No. 1 Duke Blue Devils and No. 2 Michigan State Spartans, will face off first. Then, it’ll […]
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This weekend, Fox televises one of the most anticipated college football games of the season when No. 2 Penn State Nittany Lions travels to Columbus, Ohio this week to face off against No. 6 Ohio State Buckeyes. It has been nearly 20 years since a Penn State football team sat atop the college football world, […]
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ABC’s “Saturday Night Football” features No. 19 Michigan at No. 2 Penn State (7:30 p.m.), as the Nittany Lions welcome the Wolverines into Beaver Stadium for their traditional white out game. After starting this season 6-0, the Nittany Lions have earned their highest Associated Press Poll ranking since 1999. The Wolverines were the last Big […]