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 […]
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 […]
For the week of Jan. 29, the Villanova Wildcats remained at No. 1 for the fourth straight week. The Virginia Cavaliers move up to No. 2 after its two wins against ranked teams last week, having held No. 18 Clemson to 36 points — 13 in the second half — in a 25-point victory and […]
For the week of Jan. 22, the top three of Villanova, Virginia and Purdue remained in the same top three spots as last week. As for the Purdue Boilermakers (8-0 Big Ten), they have won 15 straight games and remain at No. 3, their highest since being ranked No. 2 in March 1988. They have […]
The Villanova Wildcats remained atop the Associated Press poll for the week of Jan. 15. They defeated Xavier and St. John’s in the previous week. The Virginia Cavaliers move up to No. 2 which matches the team’s highest-ever ranking since the 2014-15 season. After wins over Syracuse and North Carolina State, Virginia has been designated […]
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 — […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
