Basketball Page 860 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights

Appalachian State makes rare trip west to face Oregon State
The Appalachian State men's basketball team doesn't make it out west very often....

Stanford, Santa Clara put unbeaten marks on line
Two local rivals off to perfect starts will collide Tuesday night when Stanford plays host to Santa Clara in a nonconference game....

Ole Miss hopes for quicker start against Detroit Mercy
Ole Miss has started the season with consecutive victories at home....

DePaul out to make home court an advantage vs. South Dakota
After winning four of five nonconference home games a year ago, DePaul is 0-2 at Wintrust Arena to open the season, a trend the Blue Demons will aim to reverse when South Dakota visits on Tuesday....

TCU's defense on rise ahead of matchup with UTRGV
If TCU coach Jamie Dixon had one takeaway from his team's 82-60 win over Omaha on Thursday night, it involved the defense....

Vanderbilt looks to get on track vs. UNC Greensboro
Vanderbilt, after a rough start to its season, looks to start a winning streak when it faces UNC Greensboro in Nashville on Tuesday night....

Oklahoma hopes to continue dominant start vs. Texas State
Undefeated Oklahoma looks to build on a successful start to the season when it opposes Texas State on Tuesday in Norman, Okla....

Mississippi State will again lean on depth vs. North Alabama
Mississippi State won its first two games of the season despite being short-handed....

Top 25 roundup: Tyler Perkins leads Penn's upset of No. 21 Villanova
Tyler Perkins scored 22 points, Ed Holland III added 12 and host Penn upset No. 21 Villanova 76-72 on Monday in Philadelphia....

No. 16 USC goes for another big win, hosts UC Irvine
No. 16 Southern California continues its early-season homestand on Tuesday night when it hosts UC Irvine in Los Angeles....

Northwestern, Western Michigan collide trending in different directions
Two teams that are off to entirely different starts to the season will meet when Western Michigan travels to Evanston, Ill., to face Northwestern on Tuesday night....

NBA roundup: Pascal Siakam's late shot pushes Raptors past Wizards
Pascal Siakam made a jump shot with eight seconds to play and the Toronto Raptors came back to defeat the visiting Washington Wizards 111-107 Monday night....

De’Aaron Fox returns to power Kings past Cavaliers
De'Aaron Fox poured in a game-high 28 points in 36 minutes in his return from a five-game absence, Domantas Sabonis missed a triple-double by one rebound and the Sacramento Kings ran away from the visiting Cleveland Cavaliers early for a 132-120 victory Monday night....

Georgia Tech aims to extend perfect start vs. UMass Lowell
Georgia Tech will try to keep its perfect record intact under first-year coach Damon Stoudamire when the Yellow Jackets host unbeaten UMass Lowell on Tuesday in the first meeting between the teams....

West Virginia attempts to bounce back, battles Jacksonville State
Two games into the season, West Virginia has already gone off script, and not in a good way....

Florida hopes interior production continues vs. FAMU
Entering this season, one of the biggest concerns for Florida was its interior play after the departure of All-SEC forward Colin Castleton....

Syracuse looks to end two-game series skid vs. Colgate
In an unexpected twist to the Central New York rivalry, Syracuse will try to halt a two-game losing streak to Colgate when the teams meet Tuesday on the Orange's home court....

Jalen Cone, Cal sink Cal State Bakersfield from long range
Jalen Cone's five 3-pointers provided the difference in a high-scoring first half and Cal avenged a 2017 postseason defeat with an 83-63 nonconference men's basketball triumph over Cal State Bakersfield on Monday night in Berkeley, Calif....

Virginia seeks more contributions from Blake Buchanan vs. North Carolina A&T
Of the scholarship offers Blake Buchanan attracted as a high school player in Idaho, Virginia's was the only one from a school east of the Mississippi River....

Lakers, taking on Grizzlies, look to continue recent surge
After a start to the regular season that did not meet expectations, the Los Angeles Lakers will embrace another chance to participate in the NBA in-season tournament when they play host to the Memphis Grizzlies on Tuesday....