No. 17 Wisconsin used a 15-2 run to begin the second half to pull away from No. 22 Syracuse for a 77-60 win on Monday night at the Kohl Center in Madison. The Badgers (6-2) entered the season 0-2 against teams ranked in the Top 25 but got strong performances from Ethan Happ, Bronson Koenig and Nigel Hayes to secure the win. Happ led all scorers with 24 points to go along with 13 rebounds. Koenig, who came ...

There's no substitute for experience, but in today's college basketball it's becoming more difficult to find a lot of that going around. The best players don't tend to stick around long, heading for the pros at the first chance when they think they can make it, and most of those who do end up using up their eligibility don't find themselves in a featured role until that final year. It may seem like the standout senior ...

The ACC/Big Ten Challenge kicked off Monday with two of the best conferences in the nation looking for bragging rights. While top teams like North Carolina, Indiana, Duke and Wisconsin won't be in action until later in the week, there was a lot of talent on display on the first day of competition. Wins by Florida State and Northwestern created a 1-1 tie to start the challenge, but there is still a long way to go before one ...

After a wild and crazy week of early season tournaments, Kentucky and Villanova at Nos. 1 and 2 are just about the only things that didn't change in the Week 4 edition of college basketball's Associated Press Top 25. Indiana dropped 10 spots from No. 3 to No. 13 while Oregon suffered a similar slide from No. 13 to No. 23. Texas, Florida State and both Michigan schools dropped out of the Top 25 altogether, making ...

On the season's opening night, Indiana launched its way into the national conversation with a win over Kansas. A couple of weeks later, the Hoosiers lead the pack of teams that are heading backward in the latest Associated Press poll. Indiana dropped from No. 3 to No. 13 in this week's rankings after its baffling 71-68 loss to Fort Wayne on Nov. 22.  Kentucky remains the nation's cream of the crop after moving to 6-0 and is ...

Kentucky remains No. 1 in Bleacher Report's college basketball Top 25 after pummeling Cleveland State and Tennessee-Martin to improve to 6-0. Eating turkey until you need a new notch in your belt is the best part of Thanksgiving, but spending Feast Week watching early-season tournaments for 12 straight hours every day isn't far behind at No. 2. And after all the chaos from the various tournaments, there was a ton of shake-up in our Top 25. Voters ...

This is a fun time of year for college basketball statistics. Everyone's on pace to hit 150 metaphorical home runs and shatter every record known to man. Why not embrace this time? Why not allow yourself to get a little wacky by celebrating these exaggerated numbers. It's not that the stats are meaningless; even skewed numbers are grounded in performance. And they certainly offer some insight into who is (and isn't) delivering the goods thus far. Still, the ...

Georgetown has suffered a lot of unforgivable upsets in the past decade, but that didn't stop the Hoyas from losing at home to Arkansas State in the most shocking result of the first 15 days of the 2016-17 men's college basketball season. The Hoyas weren't the only current or former Big East team embarrassed to be on this list. Boston College had an ugly loss to Nicholls State, and Connecticut has already suffered a pair of ...

No. 24 Michigan State (4-3) picked up a much-needed, hard-fought 77-72 victory over Wichita State (5-2) Friday afternoon to claim third place in the 2016 Battle 4 Atlantis tournament.  Miles Bridges led the way for the Spartans with 21 points and four rebounds. Eron Harris, Nick Ward and Matt McQuaid also reached double figures in scoring with 13 apiece as MSU finally picked up its first quality win of the campaign in its fourth try. Darral Willis ...

The holiday season is upon us, a time for people to reflect on what they have and how grateful they are for those things. This applies to college basketball teams as much as it does for anything else, because they've benefited from plenty of good fortune in their own ways. Using the latest Associated Press Top 25 as a guide, we've picked out something each of the top teams in the country is most thankful for ...