Louisville 77, Indiana 62—Final The No. 6 Louisville Cardinals used a dominant defensive effort to topple the No. 16 Indiana Hoosiers 77-62 Saturday afternoon in a 2016 Countdown Classic matchup. Donovan Mitchell poured in a career-high 25 points to lead Louisville (12-2), which shot 52.9 percent from the floor while holding Indiana (10-4) to a dismal 32.2 mark. The Hoosiers finished a meager 4-of-21 from three-point range. Bleacher Report provided scoring updates and highlights throughout the game. Please ...

2016 hasn't been the greatest of years for many reasons, but in the sports world there has been no shortage of tremendous moments. In college basketball we got one of the best championship games ever in Villanova's victory over North Carolina in April, and since the 2016-17 season resumed in mid-November, we've been blessed with plenty of great performances and outcomes. But now that we're turning to 2017 over the weekend, it's time to look ahead ...

Kansas, Baylor and West Virginia are hoping to push the Big 12 to a fourth consecutive season as the country's best college basketball conference. Whether that actually happens, though, will be determined by the likes of Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, Kansas State and TCU and whether they can continue to maintain their impressive records now that the schedule is about to get more difficult. Then again, if Oklahoma and Texas keep playing as poorly as they have ...

Wednesday's purported clash of ACC titans proved to be anything but, as No. 12 Virginia put together a two-way virtuoso performance on its way to a 61-53 romp over sixth-ranked Louisville.  The Cavaliers led by as many as 21 points and never trailed after opening the game on a 12-2 run.  Devon Hall led the way with 10 points, but it was an overall team effort. Virginia shot 49 percent from the floor and had seven players ...

No. 21 Oregon 89, No. 2 UCLA 87  The three-point shot was not falling for the No. 21 Oregon Ducks for most of the second half. Despite their struggles from beyond the arc, the Ducks continued to shoot from three-point range and were finally rewarded for their efforts.  Dillon Brooks knocked down a three-point shot with 0.8 seconds left on the clock to hand the Ducks an upset win over the previously undefeated No. 2 UCLA Bruins. The game-winning ...

No. 12 Virginia used a stifling defensive effort to hold off No. 6 Louisville 61-53 on Wednesday night at the KFC Yum! Center in each team's ACC opener.  The Cavaliers (11-1, 1-0 ACC) led by 15 at the half and as many as 21 in the second half before holding off a furious Cardinals run down the stretch.  Devon Hall led Virginia with 10 points. London Perrantes and Kyle Guy each contributed nine points. The Cardinals (11-2, 0-1 ACC) ...

Billed in the preseason as the clear-cut best college basketball conference in the country, the Atlantic Coast Conference has not disappointed. One-third of the teams in the ACC will enter the start of conference play with just one loss. Six others (11 total) have been beaten two or fewer times. And of those 17 losses, 14 have come away from home against teams likely to reach the NCAA tournament. The only major surprises thus far are that ...

Now the real work begins. The college basketball season began in mid-November, but so far teams have been able to play who they choose and thus it's hard to gauge who is better than whom. That changes now that the calendar flips to conference play. In the Pac-12 that means the next 10 weeks are devoted to the league's 12 schools squaring off against each other as they jockey for position in the standings. Oregon is the ...

Big Ten play begins Tuesday with a lot of uncertainty. The conference has no unbeaten teams and no teams ranked among the Top 13 in the country, suggesting the Big Ten is not as strong as usual at the top. With Wisconsin, Purdue and Indiana clustered at 14th, 15th and 16th in the rankings, respectively, there is no clear-cut favorite for what appears to be a three-team race for the conference title. However, Michigan State has lots of ...

An eventful week in college basketball has led to some shakeups in the latest Associated Press Top 25 rankings, though Villanova, UCLA, Kansas, Baylor and Duke occupy the first five spots for the fourth straight time.   Villanova has been a near-unanimous No. 1 for four weeks now, collecting 56 out of a possible 65 first-place votes in Week 8. The defending national champions will open Big East play this week, with a huge showdown against No. 10 Creighton on New ...