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Saturday, January 11, 2025
A quick look at key results and/or top stories from the night before, as well as a look ahead to key games during the season, to lead a reader into the new day
Middle Tennessee State carved out a place in college basketball history in March when it posted one of the biggest upsets in NCAA Tournament history by knocking out Michigan State. This year’s Blue Raiders are not the same team as last year’s group, though. They very well might be better.
The ranks of unbeaten teams in NCAA Division I college basketball dwindled a little further last night, with Butler and TCU losing to bring the list down to nine.
Three distinct events, all exceptional and special in their own way, led the college basketball schedule Tuesday. They were unique, poignant, just fun, or all of the above, and it’s impossible to feature mention one but not the others.
There was nothing like a return to comfortable surroundings against a comfortably familiar rival to get Connecticut a win that maybe can get the Huskies’ season back on track. Desperately needing a spark in a season that early on has been defined by injuries, stunning losses and near-losses, the Huskies rallied […]
We’re barely into December, but already the number of unbeaten teams this college basketball season has whittled down to less than a dozen.
A long losing streak in a city rivalry comes to an end, and not a moment too soon. Plus another Spartan goes down and Kentucky catches a cold instead of something else.
Cincinnati won the battle against Iowa State Thursday night, and then the Bearcats went ahead and won the war too.
Road teams were the story of the night in college basketball on Wednesday. Now there’s something you don’t say often in this sport at the end of November.
With holiday tournaments past, college basketball hits a docile stretch, a relative lull in the schedule. One filled with guarantee games, light weeks while teams take final exams, made-for-TV games, and more guarantee games.
Kentucky was frighteningly good against an overmatched opponent Monday night. West Virginia played a similar team and was maybe even more impressive.
