Insider:To hell with what NBA mock drafts say, Braden Smith was best player on ... Rutgers freshmen Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey entered Thursday's game averaging a combined 40.1 points.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Freshman Ace Bailey finished with 24 points and 11 rebounds, Dylan Harper scored 21 and Rutgers rallied late to beat Nebraska 85-82 on Thursday night. Bailey made both ends ...

I've been on ranked teams, and I know how it goes," Michigan basketball's Tre Donaldson warned earlier. "People start to get complacent when ranked."

Welcome back to the Big Ten Basketball Weekend Rundown. In this edition of the Weekend Rundown, we will be going over the results from Thursday to Sunday and examining where each team stands as January nears its end.

The Big Ten has reached the halfway point of its season. Time to assess how each of the league’s 18 schools have done so far.

The newest college basketball rankings are here as the 2024-25 AP Poll Top 25 was updated after Week 12 of the season. There were some upsets so naturally, there were shakeups in the rankings. That’s just college basketball!

The Big Ten schedule is nearing the halfway point as January winds down. One team has separated itself at the top of the conference standings, but the league race is far from decided.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue point guard Braden Smith took a loss Tuesday night personally. So Friday night, he took charge — right from the start. He turned an opening possession steal into ...

Braden Smith had 24 points, 10 assists, seven rebounds and four steals to help No. 11 Purdue rout No. 21 Michigan 91-64 on Friday night. Smith was 10 of 17 from the field and had only one turnover ...

Are the Wolverines worthy of OTE’s lofty mid-season ranking? Probably not. At least not yet. Illinois and Michigan State look like the class of the conference. But Michigan, along with Purdue and maybe Oregon and Wisconsin,

Jase Richardson scored a career-high 20 points and No. 8 Michigan State rolled to its 12th consecutive win, beating Rutgers at MSG.

College basketball has no shortage of stakes and storylines as we round out the third full week of 2025. Auburn holds the top spot on the AP poll despite having star Johni Broome on the shelf. Duke ’s Cooper Flagg is looking extremely first pick-ish. UConn coach Dan Hurley passionately lobbied for Dan Hurley as the No. 1 coach.