At the midway point of the 2016-17 college basketball season, the Baylor Bears are the biggest winners in Week 10's Associated Press Top 25. No matter how many times Jon Rothstein tries to warn us, the unexpected never becomes ordinary in college basketball. Few experts had Baylor pegged in the preseason as a real contender to win the Big 12, let alone had the Bears ranked in the Top 25. And now that they have climbed ...

If you polled most college basketball writers and fans, the ACC would probably get the nod for best league in America. But the advanced numbers at KenPom.com say the Big 12 is college basketball's best league for the fourth straight season. This week, for the first time all year, the top two teams in our poll come from the Big 12. The ACC does have the most teams in this week's poll (six) and is a victim ...

No. 20 Purdue 66, No. 13 Wisconsin 55 There are no more undefeated teams in Big Ten play.  The No. 20 Purdue Boilermakers flexed their muscle in a battle of title contenders with the No. 13 Wisconsin Badgers at Mackey Arena on Sunday night.  Purdue's frontcourt duo of Caleb Swanigan and Isaac Haas dominated in the paint against a Wisconsin team that failed to get anything going on the offensive end of the court.  Swanigan, who is one of ...

The ACC released a statement on Saturday night saying it could not rule with certainty that Duke Blue Devils guard Grayson Allen attempted to trip a Boston College Eagles player during his team's 93-82 win earlier in the day.  According to ESPN.com news services, the statement noted "there is nothing conclusive that can be determined" after Allen's left leg made contact with Connar Tava when the Eagles forward set a screen on the Blue Devils guard ...

Hamidou Diallo, one of the best all-around athletes in the 2017 recruiting class, announced Saturday he's going to play college basketball at Kentucky. ESPN.com's Jeff Borzello first reported the news and shed some light on the timing of the announcement: Diallo is a 5-star prospect who checks in as the No. 10 overall recruit in the 2017 class, according to Scout. He also sits atop the list of incoming shooting guards. The Putnam Science Academy (Connecticut) product is ...

The Xavier Musketeers reinstated senior guard Myles Davis Saturday after he was initially suspended in September for his alleged involvement in two criminal incidents with his ex-girlfriend.   "Beginning tomorrow Myles Davis will be reinstated to our basketball program," head coach Chris Mack said, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer's Rick Broering.  WLWT's Mark Slaughter relayed Mack's complete statement regarding Davis' reinstatement:  In August, the Cincinnati Enquirer's Kevin Grasha reported Davis was facing multiple criminal charges for misdemeanor criminal damaging.  Citing court filings, ...

Duke Blue Devils forward Amile Jefferson was plagued by a right foot injury a season ago, and medical woes struck again during the team's 93-82 win over the Boston College Eagles on Saturday. According to College Basketball Talk's Rob Dauster, Jefferson limped to the bench in the first half with an apparent right foot injury. Interim head coach Jeff Capel confirmed Jefferson hurt his foot but said he wouldn't know the severity of the injury until ...

No. 12 Florida State won its 11th consecutive game Saturday afternoon with a 93-78 result over No. 21 Virginia Tech from Donald L. Tucker Civic Center in Tallahassee, Florida.  Terance Mann dropped 22 points while shooting 7-of-11 from the floor with nine rebounds to lead the winning effort. Dwayne Bacon added 17 and a pair of steals on the day. That was enough to outduel Virginia Tech's duo of Chris Clarke and Zach LeDay, whose 22 and 19 points, respectively, accounted ...

Tensions ran high during Saturday afternoon's game between Missouri Tigers and Georgia Bulldogs, and the coaches provided some of the fireworks at Stegeman Coliseum.    As the buzzer sounded to signal halftime in Athens, Georgia, a small scuffle between the players broke out underneath the basket with the Tigers leading 26-20.  The teams' coaching staffs intervened but started to go at each other in the process. Per the SEC Network telecast, Georgia director of basketball operations Kent Davison ...

The ACC showdown between the North Carolina State Wolfpack and North Carolina Tar Heels has been postponed due to anticipated bad weather in Chapel Hill.   Per Tar Heel Blog, the two teams will make up the game Sunday at 1 p.m. ET.  The official postponement comes one day after North Carolina's athletics website posted an update on the game's status: Current weather forecasts are predicting the possibility of wintry conditions in North Carolina on Saturday, January 7th. Unfortunately, it is impossible ...