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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...
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...
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...
Fourth-quarter surge propels Wolves past winless Nets
Donte DiVincenzo scored 25 points as the Minnesota Timberwolves pulled away in the fourth quarter for a 125-109 victory over the winless Brooklyn Nets on Monday night in New York.,DiVincenzo hit two 3-pointers in the fourth when the Timberwolves outscored the Nets 34-21. The guard shot 8 of 17 overa...
Behind freshman Stefan Vaaks, Providence beats Holy Cross
Freshman guard Stefan Vaaks scored a team-high 19 points as Providence beat visiting Holy Cross 89-79 in a season-opening battle of New England foes on Monday night.,A native of Estonia, Vaaks hit five field goals, including three from 3-point range, and led five double-figure scorers for Providence...
Georgia begins season strong with rout of Bellarmine
Blue Cain and Jeremiah Wilkinson each scored 15 points Monday night as Georgia opened its season with a 104-59 rout of visiting Bellarmine in Athens, Ga.,Jake Wilkins came off the bench to add 12 for the Bulldogs, who canned 54.3 percent from the field, including a blistering 58.8 percent in the sec...
Koa Peat debuts with 30, No. 13 Arizona takes down No. 3 Florida, 93-87
Freshman Koa Peat scored 30 points with seven rebounds and five assists in a stirring debut and No. 13 Arizona pulled off a 93-87 upset of No. 3 Florida at Las Vegas in the season opener on Monday. ,Jaden Bradley scored 27 points and Ivan Kharchenkov added 12 points with 10 rebounds as Arizona ralli...
Virginia thumps Rider in Ryan Odom's debut as coach
Thijs De Ridder had 21 points and 10 rebounds and Virginia ran away with an 87-53 win against Rider to open the Ryan Odom era on Monday night in Charlottesville, Va.,Odom, who spent the past two seasons coaching at VCU, replaced interim coach Ron Sanchez and brought in a dozen new players to replace...
NC State steamrolls North Carolina Central in Will Wade's debut
In his North Carolina State debut, Darrion Williams got the Wolfpack off to a quick start on their way to a wire-to-wire, 114-66 win over visiting North Carolina Central on Monday in Raleigh, N.C.,Williams, who was named the preseason Atlantic Coast Conference player of the year, finished with 19 po...
11 players score as Clemson routs New Hampshire
Ace Buckner scored a game-high 18 points and RJ Godfrey finished with nine points and nine rebounds to lead Clemson to an 88-38 victory over visiting New Hampshire on Monday night in the season opener for each team., ,Eleven players scored for the Tigers, who never trailed. Jake Wahlin scored 11 poi...
Early second-half run pushes Virginia Tech past Charleston Southern
A 27-3 run to open the second half propelled Virginia Tech to an easy 98-67 season-opening win over Charleston Southern in Blacksburg, Va. ,The visiting Buccaneers stayed within 42-38 at halftime, but in just over eight minutes, the Hokies expanded the lead to 69-41 and ran away with the game from t...
No. 25 North Carolina flexes muscles in blowout of Central Arkansas
Caleb Wilson scored 22 points in his collegiate debut, and No. 25 North Carolina received contributions from a variety of sources in a season-opening 94-54 victory against Central Arkansas on Monday night in Chapel Hill, N.C.,Kyan Evans, boosted by four 3-pointers, poured in 15 points, Henri Veesaar...
Cincinnati debuts new-look group in easy win over Western Carolina
Led by balanced scoring and solid defense, host Cincinnati defeated Western Carolina 94-63 in the teams' season opener Monday night.,It was the Bearcats' first game with a vastly different roster, and four different players scored in double figures for them, with Baba Miller, Shon Abaev and Moustaph...
Late run by Penn State puts away pesky Fairfield in opener
Melih Tunca scored 19 points on 7-of-11 shooting as Penn State rallied for a 76-68 home victory over Fairfield on Monday at University Park, Pa., in the season opener for both teams., ,Kayden Mingo chipped in 15 points and Ivan Juric notched 13 for Penn State (1-0), which trailed by as many as 13 po...
No. 22 Michigan State pulls away from Colgate, 80-69
Jaxon Kohler scored 16 points and grabbed 15 rebounds as No. 22 Michigan State downed Colgate, 80-69, in the season opener for both teams in East Lansing, Mich., on Monday night.,Jeremy Fears Jr. also had a double-double with 14 points and 10 assists, while Coen Carr contributed 12 points. Carson Co...