As crazy as the Illini (8-3) making a real push up the College Football Playoff rankings on Tuesday? Uh, no. Seven teams ...

As November nears an end, the idea in college basketball is to start picking up momentum. For these teams in the last full weekend of the month, though, not so much.

By ERIC OLSON With more than half of the 16 teams still mathematically alive to make the conference championship game, the ...