While most of the nation’s conference tournaments will conclude this weekend, several teams have already clinched automatic bids in the Division I Basketball Championship Tournament by winning their respective conference tournaments: Atlantic Sun: Lipscomb Big South: Radford Big Ten: Michigan Colonial: Charleston Horizon League: Wright State MAAC: Iona Missouri Valley: Loyola (Chicago) Northeast: LIU Brooklyn […]
In the midst of conference tournament season where many of the nation’s teams are vying to earn a spot in the Big Dance (Division I Basketball Championship Tournament), several teams have already clinched automatic bids there by winning their respective conference tournaments: Big Ten: Michigan Big South: Radford Atlantic Sun: Lipscomb Missouri Valley: Loyola (Chicago) […]
Virginia remained at No. 1 for the week of Feb. 25-Mar. 4, receiving 48 votes from a media panel in the Associated Press Top 25 poll, up six from a week ago. No. 2 Michigan State, the 2017-18 regular season Big Ten title winner, received 17 first-place votes. The Xavier Musketeers defeated Georgetown 89-77 on […]
The ranks of the top four teams of the Associated Press Top 25 poll — Virginia, Michigan State, Villanova and Xavier — remain unchanged from last week. Wins over Virginia Tech and Clemson vaulted the Duke Blue Devils back into the Top 5 in at No. 5, up seven spots from last week. The Texas […]
For Feb. 19-25, UConn remains the unanimous No. 1 team. The Huskies (26-0) received all 32 first-place votes from a national media panel. They were followed by Mississippi State, Baylor, Louisville and Notre Dame. The Louisville Cardinals lost to UConn by 11 points on Feb. 12. Texas, South Carolina, Oregon, Florida State and UCLA round […]
The top five for Feb. 12-18 remained unchanged with the UConn Huskies leading the way as the unanimous choice from the 32-member national media panel. Mississippi State, Baylor, Louisville and Notre Dame round out the first five teams in the poll. No. 7 UCLA changed places with No. 8 South Carolina from last week, and […]
Despite an overtime 61-60 home loss Saturday, Feb. 10 to Virginia Tech, the Virginia Cavaliers jumped up one spot to No. 1 on the Associated Press Top 25 poll entering the week of Feb. 12-18. This is first time the program has reached No. 1 since December 1982 — the senior season of 7-foot-4 great […]
Their victorious routs of South Carolina and Cincinnati last week kept the UConn Huskies as the No. 1 choice in the poll from the 32-member national media panel for the week of Feb. 5. The rest of the top five also remained unchanged this week: (in order) Mississippi State, Baylor, Louisville and Notre Dame. After […]
The Villanova Wildcats, the Virginia Cavaliers and the Purdue Boilermakers remained the nation’s top three teams, based on the Associated Press poll, as they each extended their respective winning streaks. Several teams this week saw multi-year high rankings: Cincinnati (No. 6) reached its highest ranking since January 2004; Texas Tech (No. 7), highest since March […]
