With a 17-3 record, Tennessee ranks No. 8 nationally behind Auburn, Duke, Iowa State, Alabama, Florida, Houston, and Michigan State. Kentucky is on their trail at No. 12 with only Marquette, Purdue, and Kansas in between. When: Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. ET
No. 10 Marquette plays the Butler Bulldogs after Stevie Mitchell scored 21 points in the Golden Eagles' 87-74 victory against the Villanova Wildcats
The Huskies have lost three times since the first meeting with the Blue Demons, an 81-68 road victory. UConn is coming off a 76-72 loss to Xavier and have alternated wins and losses for their last six games since the first meeting with DePaul. The squad sits at 14-6 and is 6-3 in the conference, two games behind Marquette and St. John’s at the top.
Army at Colgate, 6 p.m. George Washington at UMass, 6 p.m. La Salle at St. Bonaventure, 6 p.m. Maryland at Penn St., 6 p.m. Rhode Island at Fordham, 6:30 p.m. Bucknell at Loyola (Md.), 7 p.m. Butler at Seton Hall, 7 p.m.
No. 1 Auburn (19-1) beat LSU 87-74. Next: at No. 23 Mississippi, Saturday. No. 2 Duke (18-2) did not play. Next: vs. North Carolina, Saturday.
No. 25 UConn (14-6) vs. DePaul (10-11), 8 p.m. No. 16 Oregon (16-4) at UCLA (15-6), 10:30 p.m. No. 18 Illinois (14-6) at Nebraska (12-8), 8:30 p.m. No. 19 Memphis (16-4) at Tulane (11-9), 9 p.m.
Tennessee, Michigan State and Marquette are listed as No. 2 seeds ... Following an upset loss at Vanderbilt, Kentucky fell to the 3-line in DeCourcy's latest projections. The Wildcats are joined ...
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For Kentucky, the game before The Game was a tough one on paper — a Tuesday night road contest against Rick Barnes' Tennessee Vols, who were ranked No. 1 in the country just a few weeks ago and listed as 10.
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Auburn keeps winning games that come down to the wire. It’s kept them on top of the AP Top 25, too. The Tigers were the unanimous choice atop the men’s college basketball poll for the second consecutive week Monday,