The top teams in the Big East collide when Dan Hurley and the third-ranked UConn Huskies take on Rick Pitino and the No. 22 ranked St. John’s Red Storm in a key matchup on Friday night. Connecticut is coming off a 92-60 win over Xavier on Tuesday, while St. John’s defeated DePaul 68-56 that same […]
CBS Sports Chart There are definitely games this weekend with two higher ranked teams. But there’s nothing more exciting taking place than Friday night’s game between UConn and St. John’s at Madison Square Garden in New York. It’s hard to top. The Huskies and Red Storm enter this matchup having won 26 consecutive games between […]
Seton Hall’s 72-60 loss to Villanova Wednesday night returned the team to the wrong side of the NCAA Tournament bubble and underscored an increasingly bleak reality facing the Big East. If the Pirates don’t get their ship right in the next five weeks, the league will likely send just three teams to the NCAA Tournament […]
On Tuesday’s episode of the Eye On College Basketball Podcast that we did on CBS Sports Network, Matt Norlander and I got to talking about UConn and its body of work to date. Simply put: I’m higher in it than he is. To be clear, we both think the Huskies would be the No. 1 […]
Arizona keeps winning. And it continues to hold its No. 1 ranking firmly. The 22-0 Wildcats were the unanimous pick for the top spot in Monday’s Associated Press Top 25 poll after beating No. 16 BYU and rival Arizona State last week. Arizona is off to the best start in school history and the Wildcats […]
Arizona’s perfect record will be tested by the Big 12 gauntlet over the next four weeks. But for now, there’s no doubt about it: the Wildcats (20-0, 7-0 Big 12) are by far the No. 1 team in the country. The Wildcats were the unanimous No. 1 pick in the Associated Press Top 25 for […]
HARTFORD, Conn. – After two hours of haymakers, of burns on the floor, of elbows disguised as spears and battering rams, a classic Big East slugfest would come down to… this? At a loose ball, bouncing all over the place, almost begging for someone to finally grab it and win this game? Of course it […]
For college sports fans who turn their full attention to basketball after the thrill of Indiana College football Playoff National Championship Game win over Miami, welcome to what has been an exciting season so far. Freshman stars are once again a hallmark of the sport, the top conference hierarchy is well balanced and the race […]
It’s a tough era for the mid-major in men’s basketball. But it’s a good week. If you took it all in with the rest of the hoops junkies on Saturday, you saw as many replays of Miami — Ohio, not Florida — hitting wild shots to outlast Buffalo and stay undefeated as anything else. That’s […]
The third-ranked UConn Huskies will look to remain perfect in Big East play when they take on the Georgetown Hoyas in a key matchup on Saturday afternoon. Connecticut is coming off a 69-64 win at Seton Hall on Tuesday, while Georgetown dropped an 86-83 decision at Creighton that same night. The Huskies (17-1, 7-0 Big […]