One solid half of basketball was quite good enough for Bruno Fernando and Maryland in a blowout victory over North Carolina A&T.
Fourth-ranked Duke looked shockingly dominant in a practically flawless performance against a top-5 opponent to start the season.
The only Atlantic Coast Conference Coastal Division teams that have yet to appear in the league’s championship game are Pittsburgh and Virginia. Pitt leads the Coastal right now. Virginia sits alone in second place. Go figure. There’s Coastal chaos, again.
The University of Maryland has fired athletic trainers Wes Robinson and Steve Nordwall, who had been suspended since August due to their involvement in the events leading to Jordan McNair’s death.
A.J. Brodeur scored 19 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, and his free throw with 20 seconds left to play allowed Pennsylvania to escape George Mason with a 72-71 season-opening victory on Tuesday night.
With the apex of this season’s controversy now behind them, the Maryland Terrapins are working on finishing out the final three games of the regular season, while their fans work through conflicting feelings of how to support the team.
Marvin Prochet had 20 points and 10 rebounds to help Niagara win its season opener with an 80-72 victory over St. Bonaventure on Monday night.
Garrett Covington scored 21 points, Olamide Pedersen had 14 points and 10 rebounds and Youngstown State beat Division III-member Heidelberg 106-83 on Monday night.
Jason Carter scored 24 points, Doug Taylor had 14 points and 10 rebounds, and Ohio beat Campbell 81-73 on Monday night.
Freshman Sam Sessoms six Binghamton players, including all five starters, in double-figures with 18 points and Binghamton beat Division III Misericordia 107-64 on Monday night.
Jacksonville State planned to double team Penn State's best player, but it was tough for the Gamecocks to determine who that was for most of the night.
Charlie Brown Jr. and Lamarr Kimble, both returning after injuries kept them sidelined a year ago, scored 21 and 19 points, respectively, as Saint Joseph's cruised past Monmouth in the campus opener of the Myrtle Beach Invitation on Monday night.
Nike Sibande scored 21 points and Dalonte Brown added 18 and Miami (Ohio) cruised to a 91-42 victory over NAIA-member Midway on Monday night.
Xavier Johnson glanced down at the box score and shrugged. Sure, the Pittsburgh freshman understands the numbers he put up during an 84-75 victory over Troy on Monday night - when he scored 15 points to go with nine assists and seven rebounds - looked impressive for someone playing his third collegiate game.
Kenny Williams spent two games missing shot after shot in an unusually cold stretch for No. 7 North Carolina's senior starting guard and top defensive player.
Kamar Baldwin scored 13 of his 26 points down the stretch as Butler pulled away for an 84-63 win over Detroit Mercy on Monday night.
Muffet McGraw doesn't think Notre Dame is enduring a hangover from its 2018 NCAA championship. She thinks the top-ranked Irish have lots of problems to deal with.
Josh Hopkins scored 15 points, freshman Jayden Martinez had 14 points and eight rebounds and New Hampshire beat Division III Mount Saint Vincent 100-61 on Monday.
Wisconsin reserve forward Alex Illikainen is leaving the basketball team, sapping depth for an already thin frontcourt.
When C. Vivian Stringer first started coaching 46 years ago, there weren't many female African-American basketball coaches to turn to for advice. So she looked elsewhere.
The top 25 teams in The Associated Press' men's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Nov. 11, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week's ranking:
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Lindsay Whalen got her first win as a coach and C. Vivian Stringer moved within one victory of 1,000 as women's college basketball tipped off its season.
Jahmiah Simmons and Jorden Duffy scored 13 points apiece to help North Texas beat Hawaii 68-51 on Sunday night.
Myles Carter had 25 points and 12 rebounds and Morgan Means scored 21 points to help Seattle beat Bryant 82-59 on Sunday night.
