The No. 13 Wisconsin Badgers are the Big Ten's highest-ranked team in the Associated Press Top 25, and they looked the part Tuesday with a 75-68 victory over the No. 25 Indiana Hoosiers at Assembly Hall. Wisconsin closed the game with a 9-5 spurt after Indiana was within three at 66-63 and moved to 13-2 in the process. The Badgers are also 2-0 in conference play and extended their winning streak to nine games. The Hoosiers fell to ...

As the calendar changes from 2016 to 2017, conference play begins in earnest across the nation. The first seven weeks gave us a general idea of what to expect the rest of the season, but nothing is definite and a lot can change. Some teams are overrated early in the season because of soft nonconference schedules. Others will play their best basketball in February and March after slow starts as they get injured players back or ...

Winter break is a thing of the past, and so is the stasis that had fallen over the college basketball landscape during it. Villanova remains the Associated Press' top-ranked team for the fifth straight week, but it's part of a reshuffled Top 25. Baylor has ascended to the No. 2 spot and is followed by Kansas, UCLA and Gonzaga to round out the Top Five. Here is a look at how the remaining rankings played out: The start ...

Complete and utter chaos in the ACC and Big Ten led to a boatload of winners and losers in college basketball's latest Associated Press Top 25. By normal conference week standards, this was nothing out of the ordinary. Ten ranked teams suffered a combined 11 losses, compared to nine ranked teams suffering 12 losses during this week one year ago. Now that more quality foes are facing each other instead of running up the score against ...

Duke men's basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski will have back surgery Friday to remove a fragment of a herniated disc, according to GoDuke.com. Krzyzewski is expected to be sidelined for up to four weeks while recovering from the procedure. Associate head coach Jeff Capel will take over head coaching duties during that time. Krzyzewski spoke about his decision to have surgery: Dr. William Richardson, Dr. [Allan] Friedman, and our medical team have worked tirelessly to help manage this issue ...

Basketball teams cannot live on stars alone. You'll bloat up with hydrogen and burn yourself. No, instead you need a balanced diet.  Everyone understands this to be true. Unless your best players can log 40 minutes game after game, you're going to need some depth. You're going to need guys who can come off the bench and chip in a few buckets, a clutch rebound or some sticky defense. Some bench players even contribute more. In the case ...

Villanova came into Saturday having already put together one of the most impressive calendar years in college basketball history. Why not add a road win over No. 10 Creighton to end the year in style? The Wildcats won their 38th game of 2016, their 20th in a row overall and their 14th straight in the 2016-17 season, beating Creighton 80-70 behind Jalen Brunson's career-high 27 points, five assists and four rebounds and Josh Hart's double-double (18 points and 10 rebounds). Kris Jenkins added ...

Virginia Tech put up 47 first-half points en route to an 89-75 upset of No. 5 Duke in the ACC opener for both teams Saturday afternoon at Cassell Coliseum in Blacksburg, Virginia. Six different players reached double figures in scoring for the Hokies, led by junior guard Justin Bibbs, who had 18 points on the strength of four three-pointers. Justin Robinson added 14 points, seven assists and five rebounds, while Zach LeDay chipped in 11 points ...

The No. 6 Louisville Cardinals bolstered their resume Saturday at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, as they defeated the No. 16 Indiana Hoosiers 77-62. Louisville improved to 12-2 with the win and bounced back from a loss to Virginia, while Indiana fell to 10-4 and has now dropped two consecutive games as well as three of its past five. The Cardinals were a far more efficient team than the Hoosiers on Saturday, shooting 52.9 percent from the field as ...

No. 1 Villanova extended its winning streak to 20 games with an 80-70 victory over No. 10 Creighton on Saturday afternoon at the CenturyLink Center in Omaha, Nebraska. The double-digit margin of victory for the Wildcats is not indicative of what was a close and hard-fought contest throughout. Villanova (14-0, 2-0 Big East) trailed by double digits in the first half as Creighton came out firing in front of an energized home crowd. But Jay Wright's team ...