Read The Athletic’s latest men’s college basketball Top 25 rankings. Shead’s initial try missed, but this time he got the game-winner off in time: Tennessee Tennessee is up to 18th in offense at KenPom and has the third-best defense in college basketball. And if you take out the seven games when he was dealing with his ankle and slumping, he’s …
Read The Athletic’s latest men’s college basketball Top 25 rankings. The Huskies stayed disciplined off ball, and their on-the-ball defense was terrific, relying on their ability to keep the ball in front and use their length to make Villanova take tough contested shots: Creighton took 18 unguarded catch-and-shoot 3s against UConn, per Synergy’s tracking. Among the Jayhawks starters, Furphy and …
PITTSBURGH — Houston looks like a problem again. Kyler Edwards scored 25 points, Fabian White Jr. added 14 and Houston’s defense clamped down in the second half to make things even tougher on UAB’s leading scorer, Jordan “Jelly” Walker, who made 1 of 10 3-pointers. “Defensively, second half, I thought we were outstanding in just about every facet, our ball …
