Conference allegiance is, for the most part, a myth during the season. After all, most of your die-hard college football fans aren't rooting hard for their hated division rivals just because they're battling against a team from another league.
Everybody may hold hands and sing "Kumbaya" in Upward Basketball leagues, but that doesn't happen in the rugged SEC, the high-flying ACC or the gritty Big Ten.
Still, when the season is over and all the cheering is ...
The college football season is barely 24 hours in the grave, so that must mean it's time to look ahead to what 2017 has in store for the SEC.
Alabama took the league on its shoulders and made it to Monday's College Football Playoff National Championship, but it lost 35-31 to Clemson in the final second. It was a disappointing finish to an overall disappointing season for the conference.
Beyond Alabama's regular-season dominance, the SEC didn't have another ...
The loss wasn't a certainty until Tuesday night, but the groundwork for Duke's 88-72 defeat at Florida State was laid a few days earlier when its best interior defender limped off the court.
Since Amile Jefferson suffered a bone bruise to his right foot—the same one he broke in December 2015, causing him to miss the rest of last season—late in the first half Saturday against Boston College, it's been a major balancing act for the ...
After roughly two weeks of college basketball conference play, it's only natural to have some knee-jerk reactions to what we've witnessed.
Before we dive into those, though, a hearty welcome to the college football fanatics in the crowd. You could have turned your attention to the 2017 offseason/preseason, the NFL playoffs or The Bachelor, but we're glad to have you and hope to get you caught up to speed on what you've missed over the past two ...
No. 9 Florida State picked up a program-record 12th straight victory Tuesday night with an 88-72 win over No. 7 Duke at the Donald L. Tucker Civic Center in Tallahassee, Florida.
Led by Xavier Rathan-Mayes' 21 points, the Seminoles had four scorers in double digits, as Dwayne Bacon and Terance Mann added 13 apiece and Jonathan Isaac had 11.
The bench also came up huge, outscoring the Blue Devils bench 21-4.
Florida State entered Tuesday night just 9-35 ...
For the second consecutive week, the No. 1 team in the AP Top 25 took an undefeated record into a hostile environment and emerged with an L, as the No. 10 West Virginia Mountaineers knocked off the No. 1 Baylor Bears in Morgantown by a score of 89-68 Tuesday night.
Whatever you do, though, don't call it an upset.
West Virginia was the lower-ranked team, sure, but the Mountaineers were 5.5-point favorites, according to OddsShark.com. Moreover, KenPom.com ...
For a brief second, it looked like Xavier would hand Villanova its second loss. The Musketeers ran out to an eight-point lead in the first half and looked unstoppable on the offensive end.
Then the well went dry. Xavier never recovered.
Kris Jenkins and Josh Hart each scored 20 points, as third-ranked Villanova overcame a rough start for a dominant 79-54 win over No. 15 Xavier.
Down eight with 7:25 remaining in the first half, Villanova went on ...
The Baylor Bears won their first 15 games to ascend to the No. 1 position in the Associated Press Poll. That winning streak didn't last a single game at the mountaintop.
The No. 10 West Virginia Mountaineers employed their havoc-causing full-court press and beat Baylor in commanding fashion Tuesday 89-68 in the latter's first game of the season at No. 1. The Mountaineers swarmed the Bears ball-handlers all over the floor, forcing 29 turnovers and outscoring ...
Now that most teams are a few games into their conference schedules, we're starting to get a stronger understanding of where things stand for the rest of the current college basketball season.
We're still two months away from the NCAA tournament, but let's face it, a clear hierarchy has already been established in terms of which teams have legitimate NCAA tournament aspirations. That has some fanbases looking forward to next year and hoping that this year's recruiting ...
The West Virginia Mountaineers student section broke out in a "No means no" chant during Tuesday night's game against the Baylor Bears at the WVU Coliseum, according to West Virginia MetroNews' Allan Taylor.
The chant at the Coliseum was no doubt in reference to the sexual assault scandal that previously enveloped Baylor and the school's football team.
Last May, the school released a statement that disclosed a review by law firm Pepper Hamilton, LLP, which found "a failure ...