Top 25 roundup: Texas ends No. 10 Vanderbilt's perfect start
Jan 14, 2026; Austin, Texas, USA; Texas Longhorns guard Dailyn Swain (3) and head coach Sean Miller celebrate a win against the Vanderbilt Commodores after the game at Moody Center. Mandatory Credit: Dustin Safranek-Imagn Images Matas Vokietaitis scored 22 points on 7-of-9 shooting from the floor and Texas' defense did the rest in a stunning 80-64 upset of previously undefeated No. 10 Vanderbilt on Wednesday in Austin, Texas.
The Commodores (16-1, 3-1 Southeastern Conference) were seeking a program-record 17-0 start to the season, having matched the 16-0 start set by the 2007-08 team.
Tramon Mark added 21 points for the Longhorns (11-6, 2-2), and Dailyn Swain posted 14 points, nine boards and seven assists.
Duke Miles led Vanderbilt with 21 points while Tyler Tanner had 17. The Commodores shot just 26.7% from the floor in the second half and 36.7% overall.
No. 1 Arizona 89, Arizona State 82
Koa Peat achieved his first game with at least 20 points and 10 rebounds and Tobe Awaka scored a career-high 25 points to help the host Wildcats hold off the Sun Devils in Tucson, Ariz.
Peat finished with 24 points and 10 rebounds after making all seven of his shots from the field in the second half. Arizona (17-0, 4-0 Big 12) used a stretch of 11 straight made field goals to pull away to a 75-63 lead with 7:01 left.
Maurice Odum finished with 23 points and seven assists to lead Arizona State (10-7, 1-3). Massamba Diop added 16 points and six rebounds.
No. 4 Michigan 82, Washington 72
Aday Mara scored 20 points on 10-of-11 shooting to lead the Wolverines to a victory over the Huskies in Seattle.
Morez Johnson Jr. recorded 16 points and a career-best 16 rebounds as Michigan (15-1, 5-1 Big Ten) bounced back from its first setback of the season, against Wisconsin on Saturday.
JJ Mandaquit scored 15 points while Quimari Peterson added 13 as the Huskies (10-7, 2-4) lost for the third time in the past four games.
No. 5 Purdue 79, Iowa 72
Braden Smith scored 16 points and dished eight assists as the Boilermakers held on for a win over the Hawkeyes in West Lafayette, Ind.
Trey Kaufman-Renn added 12 points for Purdue (16-1, 6-0 Big Ten), which won its eighth game in a row. Fletcher Loyer scored 11 points, and Oscar Cluff finished with 10 points on 4-for-4 shooting.
Bennett Stirtz scored 19 points on 7-for-15 shooting to lead Iowa (12-5, 2-4), which dropped its third consecutive game. Kael Combs scored 16 points and Cam Manyawu chipped in 13.
No. 6 Duke 71, Cal 56
Isaiah Evans had eight of his 17 points in a late first-half surge, Cameron Boozer saved 17 of his game-high 21 points for the second half and the Blue Devils pulled away from the Golden Bears in their first visit ever to Berkeley, Calif.
Boozer also snatched a game-high 13 rebounds to complete his eighth double-double for Duke (16-1, 5-0 Atlantic Coast Conference), which has won five straight.
Lee Dort had 14 points and a team-high nine rebounds for Cal (13-5, 1-4), which lost its third straight despite playing before its biggest home crowd of the season and leading by six on four occasions in the first half.
No. 11 BYU 76, TCU 70
AJ Dybantsa scored 25 points as the Cougars pulled away late in a win over the Horned Frogs in Provo, Utah.
Richie Saunders tallied 18 points and Robert Wright III added 15 for BYU (16-1, 4-0 Big 12), which pushed its winning streak to 13 games.
Xavier Edmonds racked up 19 points for TCU (11-6, 1-3). Micah Robinson added 10 points for the Horned Frogs, who dropped their third straight game.
No. 13 Illinois 79, Northwestern 68
Keaton Wagler scored 20 of his 22 points in the second half while leading the Fighting Illini to a victory over the Wildcats in Evanston, Ill.
Tomislav Ivisic contributed 14 of his season-high-tying 21 points in the second half -- including two crucial 3-pointers late -- as Illinois (14-3, 5-1 Big Ten) extended its winning streak to six games.
Jayden Reid, dropped from the Northwestern starting lineup for the first time this season, delivered a career-high 28 points off the bench to pace the Wildcats (8-9, 0-6). Nick Martinelli, the nation's leading scorer at 24.1 points per game, finished with 20 points on 5-of-12 shooting from the field.
Stanford 95, No. 14 North Carolina 90
Freshman Ebuka Okorie scored a career-high 36 points on 12-of-20 shooting and added nine assists as the host Cardinal closed on an 11-3 run to beat the Tar Heels.
Ryan Agarwal set career highs with five 3-pointers and 20 points for Stanford (14-4, 3-2 ACC), which shot 57.1% from the field and from long distance. Jeremy Dent-Smith added a season-high 20 off the bench while shooting 6 of 7 from 3-point range.
Caleb Wilson scored 20 of his career-high 26 points in the second half and grabbed nine rebounds for North Carolina (14-3, 2-2), which has lost two of its past three games. Henri Veesaar matched his career high with 26 points.
No. 15 Texas Tech 88, Utah 74
Sparked by stars JT Toppin and Christian Anderson, the Red Raiders broke away from the Utes with a huge run heading into halftime on the way to a victory in Lubbock, Texas.
Toppin led Texas Tech (13-4, 3-1 Big 12) with 31 points, 13 rebounds and five blocked shots, and he also had seven assists. Anderson logged 26 points and 10 assists, buoyed by six 3-pointers.
Keanu Dawes and Don McHenry paced Utah (8-9, 0-4) with 18 points apiece, and Terrence Brown contributed 17. That trio combined to hit 18 of 34 shots from the field. The rest of the Utes were a combined 7 of 24 (29.2%).
No. 17 Arkansas 108, South Carolina 74
Darius Acuff Jr. scored 18 points and added a season-high 13 assists, Meleek Thomas contributed five 3-pointers and 21 points off the bench, and the Razorbacks blew out the Gamecocks in Fayetteville, Ark.
Malique Ewin added 18 points for the Razorbacks (13-4, 3-1 Southeastern Conference), who had six players score in double figures. Arkansas bounced back decisively from its worst loss of the season, 95-73 at Auburn on Saturday.
Meechie Johnson scored 17 of his 29 points in the first half and added six assists for the Gamecocks (10-7, 1-3), who have lost three of their past four games. Nick Pringle scored 15 points and grabbed a game-high seven rebounds for the Razorbacks against his former team.
Ole Miss 97, No. 21 Georgia 95 (OT)
Patton Pinkins rebounded a missed shot and scored at the buzzer to lift the Rebels to an overtime upset of the Bulldogs in Athens, Ga.
AJ Storr, who led Ole Miss with 27 points, missed a jumper with one second left, but Pinkins was able to put it in for the winning shot to round out his 18-point performance.
The Rebels (10-7, 2-2 SEC) also got 14 points from Travis Perry and 13 from Ilias Kamardine. Georgia (14-3, 2-2) was led by Jeremiah Wilkinson, who had six 3-pointers and scored a season-high 32.
No. 23 Utah State 71, Nevada 62
Mason Falslev scored 26 points to lift the Aggies over the visiting Wolf Pack in Logan, Utah.
Falslev hit 9 of 14 shots from the field to boost the Aggies (15-1, 6-0 Mountain West) to their eighth straight victory while remaining unbeaten in conference play and surviving their first true conference test. Utah State had been beating conference foes by an average of 26 points.
Corey Camper Jr. scored 14 points and Elijah Price notched his third consecutive double-double with 13 points and 11 rebounds for Nevada (12-5, 4-2).
--Field Level Media
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