No. 2 Kentucky was expected to comfortably take care of business against short-handed No. 13 Michigan State on Tuesday night in the Champions Classic because the Spartans lack the size to handle the plethora of big Wildcats. Instead, it was Kentucky's guards putting on a show against Michigan State at Madison Square Garden, pacing the Wildcats to the 69-48 victory. It was perhaps the best three-guard performance we've seen in college hoops since the one Isaiah Briscoe, Jamal ...

The No. 2 Kentucky Wildcats stayed perfect through their first three games of the 2016-17 season with a 69-48 victory over the winless No. 13 Michigan State Spartans during Tuesday night's Champions Classic from Madison Square Garden in New York.  Behind Malik Monk's 23 points and Isaiah Briscoe's 21, Kentucky outscored Michigan State, 35-22, in the second half to cruise to a comfortable victory.  Monk's prowess from three-point range proved to be the difference for Kentucky. The ...

Taking advantage of the Georgetown Hoyas' complete mental breakdown in the final 30 seconds, the Maryland Terrapins stole a 76-75 victory at the Verizon Center on Tuesday.  Up 73-68 with 29 seconds remaining, the Hoyas committed a foul that Maryland turned into two free throws. Rodney Pryor slipped and was called for traveling on the ensuing inbound pass, and Isaac Copeland was called for a foul away from the ball on Maryland's inbound pass.  Mike Wise of ...

Kansas 77, Duke 75—Final Frank Mason III nailed a jumper with 1.8 seconds remaining to help the No. 7 Kansas Jayhawks clip the top-ranked Duke Blue Devils at Madison Square Garden. Kansas recovered from a poor first half thanks to a surge from freshman Josh Jackson, but the team coughed up a seven-point advantage during the final two minutes. But then Mason, who tallied 21 points, saved the Jayhawks in the closing moments. Luke Kennard scored 22 points ...

No. 2 Kentucky thrashed No. 13 Michigan State 69-48 on Tuesday night in the Champions Classic at Madison Square Garden in New York City.  Malik Monk led all scorers with 23 points on the night. The freshman drained seven shots from behind the arc to help lift the young Wildcats to a 3-0 start to the season. Isaiah Briscoe also dropped 21 points on the night when the Spartans couldn't generate anything much on offense. Tom Izzo's new-look ...

The Baylor Bears are looking to bounce back from last season's disappointing loss to Yale in the first round of the NCAA tournament, and it took them all of two games to earn a head-turning win in the 2016-17 campaign. Baylor handled the Oregon Ducks on Tuesday in commanding fashion, 66-49. The Ducks are No. 4 in the Associated Press Top 25 and are coming off an Elite Eight appearance and Pac-12 championship, but they struggled ...

De'Aaron Fox was in no hurry. He could see what he needed. Sure, he was at the McDonald's All-American Game in Chicago. Sure, he was the most heralded member of an incoming Kentucky freshman class that he himself referred to as a "superteam." But he could see what he needed to do.       "I'm going to have to put on weight," he told Bleacher Report. "That's the biggest difference between high school and college basketball." He ...

The Duke Blue Devils and Kansas Jayhawks will bring some of the intensity of March basketball to November with an early-season showdown on Tuesday. The two blue-blooded programs have a combined eight national titles and 30 Final Four appearances and headline a loaded Champions Classic at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The Kentucky Wildcats and Michigan State Spartans will also face each other in the Big Apple as part of the event. Duke and Kansas ...

College basketball fans have a number of high-profile showdowns to choose from when watching the first full week of competition, but few stand out as much as the clash between the Michigan State Spartans and Kentucky Wildcats. It is the first game of a doubleheader in this year's loaded Champions Classic at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The second contest features a battle between the Duke Blue Devils and Kansas Jayhawks. Michigan State and Kentucky ...

There's no such thing as a perfect team in college basketball. It doesn't matter how much talent is on the roster and how accomplished the coach and his staff are, when working with 18- to 22-year-olds, it's impossible to expect to put together a completely flawless team. Otherwise, we wouldn't be going on 40 years since the last team (Indiana) went unbeaten in a college basketball season. Every one of the 351 Division I teams has something ...