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No. 5 St. John's, No. 15 Alabama begin tough nonleague slates
After guiding St. John's to its best season in four decades, coach Rick Pitino sought a tougher nonconference schedule to better prepare his players for the rigors of conference and postseason games.,One of those games arrives Saturday afternoon when the fifth-ranked Red Storm send out their revampe...
Islanders, Wild try to get past come-from ahead losses
The New York Islanders had nearly three full days to ponder what could have been after squandering a trio of one-goal leads against the Boston Bruins on Tuesday.,The Minnesota Wild won't have to wait nearly as long to get back on to the ice after a similar experience on Thursday.,The Islanders and W...
Short-handed Oregon pursues improved performance vs. Rice
Twenty-one turnovers and a 2-for-16 performance from the 3-point arc don't typically lead to a win. However, Oregon posted those team statistics in its season opener on Tuesday and still walked off its home court with a one-point victory over Hawaii.,The Ducks hope to be better on Friday night when ...
Matchup with UAB presents 'different opportunity' for NC State
All the adoration around the new-look North Carolina State team was nice leading up to the season.,Now there's some serious business for the Wolfpack at the end of the season's first week.,UAB visits NC State for a Friday night game in Raleigh, N.C.,The Wolfpack (1-0) rolled to a 114-66 win over vis...
Missouri aims to jump-start stalwarts against SEMO
Missouri expects to run its offense this season through its top two returning players, forward Mark Mitchell and point guard Anthony Robinson II.,After those two combined for just 17 points in Missouri's 88-67 season-opening victory at Howard on Monday, the Tigers (1-0) will try to get Mitchell and ...
DePaul, trying to avoid overconfidence, faces Stonehill
Early-season runaways can offer lots to like, but "what you don't want to do is create bad habits," DePaul coach Chris Holtmann cautions.,After rolling past Chicago State on Monday behind what Holtmann called some terrific sequences, the Blue Demons will host Stonehill on Friday with an eye on stayi...
Ole Miss plots to dominate boards against UL Monroe
Ole Miss' season opener went the way one might expect for a team featuring eight transfers.,The Rebels got off to a slow start and looked like a group still learning about each other, but things got better as the game went along.,Ole Miss defeated visiting Southeastern Louisiana 88-58 on Monday nigh...
After stellar opener, Seton Hall's Najai Hines squares off with Wagner
Seton Hall is aiming for a bounce-back season after a disappointing 2024-25 campaign in which it finished 7-25. A 2-0 start would be a strong step for coach Shaheen Holloway and the Pirates, who host Wagner on Friday in South Orange, N.J.,Seton Hall is coming off a 77-50 neutral-site victory vs. Sai...
Cincinnati looks to maintain scoring spread vs. Georgia State
Cincinnati will turn to its new-look balanced attack to continue to set the table for the Big 12 Conference gauntlet when it hosts Georgia State on Friday.,The Bearcats (1-0) were dynamite in their season-opening 94-63 win over visiting Western Carolina on Monday. Cincinnati got 18 points each from ...
Georgia Tech looks to lock in against Bryant after OT scare
After escaping with an overtime win over Maryland-Eastern Shore, Georgia Tech hopes to see a more complete effort Friday against visiting Bryant in Atlanta.,Georgia Tech (1-0) needed Peyton Marshall's game-tying free throw with 1.7 seconds left to send its season opener to overtime, where the Yellow...
Wake Forest sees room for improvement against visiting Morehead State
Wake Forest will need to avoid becoming greedy early in the season.,The Demon Deacons will try to pounce on another opponent when Morehead State visits for Friday night's game at Winston-Salem, N.C.,But coach Steve Forbes is directing his team to pay attention to the details.,Coming off an 88-74 sea...
New-look Virginia seeks more success vs. North Carolina Central
Led by a 22-year-old freshman forward and the shortest player on the roster, Virginia made a statement in its first game under head coach Ryan Odom: This isn't Tony Bennett's program anymore., ,Belgian import Thijs De Ridder delivered a double-double and 5-foot-10 Chance Mallory sparked a second-hal...
Heat, Hornets play early-season rematch in NBA Cup opener
The Miami Heat, who have played a road-heavy schedule so far, return home to face the Charlotte Hornets on Friday night in an NBA Cup matchup.,Miami is 2-0 at home but just 2-4 on the road, having just concluded a 1-3 trek out west.,However, the Heat finished the trip ranked fourth in the NBA in sco...
Cohesion on top of Pittsburgh's mind with Longwood in town
Pittsburgh is currently searching for its identity in the early going. The Panthers will have the opportunity to start to mold one when they host Longwood on Friday night in Pittsburgh, Pa., ,Coach Jeff Capel, who has 11 new players, thinks he found at least two he can count on heading into the game...
Notre Dame hopes to continue hot shooting against Detroit Mercy
When Detroit Mercy coach Mark Montgomery scouted the video of Notre Dame's season-opening win over Long Island, he must've gotten a bad case of shooter envy., ,That's because Montgomery's squad shot a collective 8 of 40 from 3-point range during their season-opening 91-71 loss at University of Illin...
Iowa seeks to build intensity in matchup with Western Illinois
Iowa coach Ben McCollum wants the Hawkeyes to play with some edge.,After cruising to a 101-69 season-opening home win against Robert Morris on Tuesday, Iowa has another chance to show off its tenacity against Western Illinois in Iowa City on Friday.,"We've got some edgy, tough kids that fly around,"...
After bye and with fresh reinforcements, Eagles head to Green Bay
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- The Philadelphia Eagles will unveil their newly upgraded defense when they travel to Green Bay to face the Packers on Monday night.,The Eagles (6-2) are coming off a bye. The previous week, they defeated the New York Giants 38-20, avenging an earlier 34-17 loss. After a 4-0 start,...
Clemson to flex depth with big rotation vs. Gardner-Webb
With a diverse group of players, including only one who played minutes for Clemson last year, coach Brad Brownell isn't sure how his lineup will ultimately shape up.,For now, Brownell is happy to rotate most of his players equally, meaning the Tigers will utilize their depth on Friday when they face...
Robert McCray V, Florida State back to work against Alabama State
Robert McCray V delivered some program history in Luke Loucks' Florida State coaching debut Tuesday night.,The Jacksonville transfer guard dished a program-record 17 assists in the Seminoles' season-opening 108-76 win over Alcorn State, nearly doubling his previous career high of nine and posting th...
Bruins welcome Pepperdine's UCLA-heavy coaching staff
No. 12 UCLA is a program steeped in history. Pepperdine, which visits the Bruins on Friday in Los Angeles, pulls plenty of its current identity from UCLA's past.,The Waves (1-0) are in their second season under head coach Ed Schilling, a UCLA assistant for Steve Alford from 2013-17. The Bruins won a...