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Take 5: Drawing conclusions from first CFP rankings
The initial rankings for the highly anticipated, first-ever 12-team College Football Playoff confirmed what many believed even before the season began: The Southeastern Conference will be represented in the new-look tournament.,Indeed, Georgia, Texas, Tennessee, and Alabama combine to make up one-th...
Suspended South Carolina F Ashlyn Watkins has charges dismissed
The first-degree assault and kidnapping charges against South Carolina forward Ashlyn Watkins were dismissed last Friday.,Public court records for Richland County, S.C., showed the pair of charges were listed as "Dismissed Not Indicted," and indicated that Watkins completed pre-trial intervention av...
LSU opens vs. UL Monroe, looks to ride late surge from last season
LSU won five of its final seven regular-season games last season, including victories against No. 11 South Carolina and No. 17 Kentucky.,The push enabled the Tigers to qualify for the NIT, finish with a winning record (17-16) and break even in the Southeastern Conference (9-9) after finishing 14-19 ...
4-star 2026 WR Vance Spafford commits to Georgia
Vance Spafford, the No. 10-ranked wide receiver in the 2026 class, committed to Georgia on Tuesday.,The 5-foot-11, 175-pound Spafford picked the Bulldogs over offers from Oregon, Nebraska and Ole Miss.,In the first nine games of the regular season for 10-0 Mission Viejo (Calif.), the four-star prosp...
Malik Reneau, No. 17 Indiana tip off against SIU Edwardsville
Malik Reneau wants to take his game to the next level this season.,If 10 straight points down the stretch of a charity exhibition game Oct. 27 at Tennessee means anything, the Indiana forward might be about to do that and then some.,Reneau and the No. 17 Hoosiers open the most anticipated season in ...
Kwame Evans Jr. logs career-best 23 as Oregon downs UC Riverside
Kwame Evans Jr. scored a career-high 23 points in 20 minutes as Oregon opened the season with a 91-76 victory over UC Riverside on Monday in Eugene, Ore.,Ducks center Nate Bittle added 16 points with a team-high 11 rebounds. A pair of Oregon newcomers also made key contributions, as Brandon Angel (f...
No. 10 Arizona stellar around perimeter in win over Canisius
Arizona perimeter players Caleb Love, Jaden Bradley and KJ Lewis combined for 46 points, 14 assists and only one turnover to propel the 10th-ranked Wildcats to a season-opening 93-64 win Monday night over Canisius in Tucson, Ariz.,Love finished with 17 points, six assists, four rebounds and no turno...
No. 5 Iowa State experiences no trouble in opener vs. MVSU
Keshon Gilbert scored 17 points, Tamin Lipsey added 16 and No. 5 Iowa State cruised to an 83-44 win over Mississippi Valley State on Monday night in Ames, Iowa, in both teams' season opener.,Joshua Jefferson and Milan Momcilovic each finished with 10 points for Iowa State, which led by double digits...
No. 24 Ole Miss has little trouble with LIU
Hot-shooting Jaylen Murray scored 24 points and No. 24 Ole Miss cruised past Long Island University 90-60 in the season opener for both teams Monday night in Oxford, Miss.,Murray made 7 of 10 field-goal attempts, 5 of 8 3-pointers and 5 of 5 free throws. Jaemyn Brakefield added 12 points and Matthew...
No. 4 Iowa State experiences no trouble in opener vs. MVSU
Keshon Gilbert scored 17 points, Tamin Lipsey added 16 and No. 5 Iowa State cruised to an 83-44 win over Mississippi Valley State on Monday night in Ames, Iowa, in both teams' season opener.,Joshua Jefferson and Milan Momcilovic each finished with 10 points for Iowa State, which led by double digits...
Wisconsin digs out of early hole, buries Holy Cross 85-61
Gabe Warren and Holy Cross were more than up to the challenge of a road opener at Wisconsin, but the Badgers broke out of a first-half slumber to survive a shaky showing and start the season with an 85-61 victory on Monday night in Madison, Wis. ,John Tonje scored 11 of his 23 points in the second h...
Mississippi State easily downs West Georgia in season opener
Guards led the way as Josh Hubbard scored 26 points and Claudell Harris Jr. poured in 20 and Mississippi State pulled away for a season-opening 95-60 victory over West Georgia on Monday night in Starkville, Miss.,The Bulldogs shot 55 percent from the field and knocked down almost half of their 3-poi...
Take 5: Early candidates to be Saints' next head coach
The New Orleans Saints became the second team to get a head start on the NFL coaching carousel by firing Dennis Allen on Monday.,He follows Robert Saleh, who was let go by the New York Jets last month. Allen's departure appeared imminent as the Saints dropped their seventh consecutive game on Sunday...
Saints WR Chris Olave suffers concussion, taken to hospital
Saints receiver Chris Olave suffered a concussion and was taken off the field on a backboard Sunday during the first quarter of New Orleans' road game against the Carolina Panthers.,The Saints soon reported Olave had been taken to the hospital and would miss the rest of the game. ,"He has movement ...
Rio Takeda wins 6-hole playoff to secure first LPGA Tour victory
Rio Takeda went the extra mile to record her first victory on the LPGA Tour, defeating Marina Alex in a playoff that lasted six sudden-death holes to capture the Toto Japan Classic in front of her home-country crowd in Shiga, Japan.,Takeda, 21, finished with a birdie on the par-5 18th hole to card a...
Veteran-laden No. 24 Ole Miss ready to get rolling, enter LIU
Ole Miss returns four of its top five scorers from last season and adds five transfers who averaged double-figure scoring in 2023-24.,Experience and depth are primary reasons why Ole Miss is ranked No. 24 as it prepares to open the season against Long Island University on Monday in Oxford, Miss.,"We...
Mississippi State aims to gain respect in opener vs. West Georgia
Mississippi State has made back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances and has one of the game's top stars in sophomore guard Josh Hubbard. But that wasn't enough to get the Bulldogs into the preseason Associated Press Top 25 rankings.,"I love the fact that there's nine (Southeastern Conference) teams ...
Kaleb Johnson runs for 3 TDs as Iowa rolls past Wisconsin
Kaleb Johnson ran for 135 yards and three touchdowns and Iowa's defense smothered Wisconsin in a 42-10 victory Saturday night in Iowa City, Iowa., ,Johnson, the Big Ten Conference leader in rushing, scored from 16 yards in the second quarter, 9 yards on the Hawkeyes' first possession of the third qu...
Mississippi State routs UMass to end seven-game slide
Michael Van Buren ran for two touchdowns and passed for another as Mississippi State ended a seven-game losing streak by beating visiting UMass 45-20 Saturday in Starkville, Miss.,Van Buren completed 14 of 25 passes for 222 yards in the win.,Mississippi State (2-7) trailed 10-0 after one quarter, bu...
Jaxson Dart, Jordan Watkins, No. 19 Ole Miss jolt Arkansas
Jaxson Dart passed for 515 yards and six touchdowns and Jordan Watkins had a career receiving day, lifting No. 19 Mississippi to a 63-31 win over Arkansas on Saturday afternoon in Fayetteville, Ark. ,Dart completed 25 of 31 passes and rushed for 47 yards for Ole Miss (7-2, 3-2 Southeastern Conferenc...