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Cameron Carr steadies Baylor for opening night win vs. UT Rio Grande Valley
After a slow start, the Baylor Bears turned things into high gear to wrap up an opening night win over the visiting UT Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros in a 96-81 win Monday in Waco, Texas.,The Bears were paced by four players scoring double figures with Cameron Carr (28) and highly-touted freshman Tounde...
Marquette shakes off rusty start to beat Albany
Chase Ross scored 15 points and dished five assists to lead Marquette to a season-opening 80-53 victory over Albany on Monday night in Milwaukee.,Eleven players who touched the floor scored for Marquette, with Zaide Lowery adding 13 and Damarius Owens scoring 11. Marquette shot 41.4% from the floor ...
Labaron Philon leads No. 15 Alabama to easy win over North Dakota
Labaron Philon scored a career-high 22 points and added eight assists to lead No. 15 Alabama to an easy 91-62 victory over North Dakota on Monday night in the season opener for both teams in Tuscaloosa, Ala.,Houston Mallette added 15 points and eight rebounds for the Crimson Tide. Amari Allen regist...
Kelvin Sampson earns 800th win as No. 2 Houston bests Lehigh
On an opening night in which they unfurled a Final Four banner from the rafters of the Fertitta Center, Kelvin Sampson earned his 800th career win and second-ranked Houston handled visiting Lehigh 75-57 on Monday night.,Over a 36-year career coaching at Montana Tech, Washington State, Oklahoma, Indi...
Maple Leafs complete furious comeback to stun Penguins
Bobby McMann scored the go-ahead goal in the third period Monday as the Toronto Maple Leafs wiped out a three-goal deficit to defeat the visiting Pittsburgh Penguins 4-3.,Pittsburgh led 3-0 after two periods before Toronto scored three goals in a span of 3:24 early in the third. McMann scored Toront...
So far, so good as DePaul thumps Chicago State in opener
NJ Benson scored 16 points and grabbed 10 rebounds as host DePaul rolled to a 92-62 season-opening victory over Chicago State on Monday night in Chicago.,Layden Blocker also scored 16 and CJ Gunn added 12 points. Both joined Benson as the three key returners for the Blue Demons, who made half of the...
John Blackwell (31), No. 24 Wisconsin put away Campbell
John Blackwell scored 31 points and Nick Boyd added 21 as No. 24 Wisconsin pulled away for a 96-64 victory over Campbell on Monday night in the season opener for both teams in Madison, Wis.,Campbell, which trailed by 15 early in the second half, rallied within 67-62 on two free throws by Chris Field...
Milan Momcilovic scores 29 as No. 16 Iowa State routs Fairleigh Dickinson
Milan Momcilovic scored 29 points on 11-for-16 shooting, including 7-for-10 shooting from beyond the arc, and No. 16 Iowa State cruised to an 88-50 win over Fairleigh Dickinson on Monday night in Ames, Iowa.,Tamin Lipsey added 18 points, six rebounds, five assists and five steals for Iowa State (1-0...
Jusuf Nurkic scores in final second, Jazz hang tough to beat Celtics
Jusuf Nurkic scored with 0.6 seconds to play to give the visiting Utah Jazz a 105-103 victory over the Boston Celtics on Monday night.,Jaylen Brown was called for an offensive foul while Boston was trying to inbound the ball following Nurkic's basket, which prevented the Celtics from attempting a fi...
Arrinten Page's double-double paces Northwestern to win over Mercyhurst
Arrinten Page posted a double-double of 18 points and 12 rebounds in his program debut, and Nick Martinelli scored 17 points to lift host Northwestern to a season-opening 70-47 victory against Mercyhurst on Monday night in Evanston, Ill.,K.J. Windham added 11 points and seven rebounds for the Wildca...
Malik Dia's milestone night leads Ole Miss past SE Louisiana
Malik Dia scored 20 points and eclipsed 1,000 for his career as Ole Miss throttled Southeastern Louisiana 88-58 in both teams' season opener on Monday in Oxford, Miss.,The Rebels trailed for most of the first half, but they turned a three-point deficit into a 16-point lead in the final 7:19 before t...
Tyler Nickel pours in 20 points as Vanderbilt crushes Lipscomb
Vanderbilt got double-figure scoring from five players in a 105-61 demolition of Lipscomb inside Vanderbilt's Memorial Gymnasium in Nashville, Tenn., in a battle of schools separated by three miles.,The Commodores never trailed and led by 30 at halftime, spoiling the Lipscomb debut of coach Kevin Ca...
No. 19 Kansas dominates Green Bay behind Darryn Peterson, Flory Bidunga
Darryn Peterson scored 21 points in his debut game and Flory Bidunga led all scorers with 23 points, as No. 19 Kansas easily defeated Green Bay, 94-51, in the season opener for both teams.,Peterson was 7-for-11 from the field, including 3 of 7 from 3-point range in 22 minutes for Kansas (1-0). With ...
Georgia Tech barely outlasts UMES in OT slugfest
Kowacie Reeves Jr. poured in 12 points and knocked down a clutch, tiebreaking 3-pointer with 37 seconds remaining in overtime to lift Georgia Tech to a thrilling 56-52 season-opening win over Maryland-Eastern Shore on Monday night in Atlanta.,Reeves' shot gave the Yellow Jackets a 55-52 advantage. M...
Texas A&M rolls Northwestern St. in Bucky McMillan's debut
Spanish import Ruben Dominguez poured in 18 points to lead five Texas A&M players in double figures as the new-look Aggies romped past Northwestern State 98-68 on Monday in the season opener for both teams in College Station, Texas.,The Aggies (1-0) played their first game under new coach Bucky McMi...
Knicks pull away in 41-point third, extend Wizards' skid
Josh Hart scored 10 points during a decisive third-period run Monday night for the host New York Knicks, who pulled away and beat the Washington Wizards19-102.,Hart (12 points, 10 rebounds) and Karl-Anthony Towns (33 points, 13 rebounds) each posted double-doubles for the Knicks, who won both ends o...
Florida Atlantic rallies late, takes down Boston College in OT
Kanaan Carlyle scored a team-high 19 points to lead the host Florida Atlantic Owls to an 83-78 overtime win on Monday night in Boca Raton, Fla.,Carlyle was one of five scorers in double figures for the Owls (1-0), who rallied from a nine-point deficit with 5:12 to go in regulation to win their seaso...
Nebraska dominates second half in blowout of West Georgia
Braden Frager scored 22 points and Jamarques Lawrence added 18 as Nebraska dominated the second half en route to an 86-53 win over West Georgia on Monday in Lincoln, Neb., in the season opener for both teams.,Rienk Mast contributed 10 points and 11 rebounds for Nebraska, which opened the second half...
Freshman Najai Hines arrives, leads Seton Hall to rout of Saint Peter's
Freshman Najai Hines scored 12 points and grabbed nine rebounds, while hearing chants of "Baby Shaq" from the New Jersey crowd as he led Seton Hall to a 77-50 victory over visiting Saint Peter's on Monday night in the season opener for both teams.,Stephon Payne III had 11 points in 18 minutes for Se...
Giannis Antetokounmpo buzzer-beater lifts Bucks over Pacers
Giannis Antetokounmpo capped his game-high 33-point performance on Monday with a buzzer-beating, turnaround fadeaway to lift the Milwaukee Bucks past the Indiana Pacers, 117-115, in Indianapolis.,Backing down Aaron Nesmith in the closing seconds, Antetokounmpo pivoted at the left elbow just as a dou...