Archive | Basketball – Men’s
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No. 11 Texas A&M suffers letdown in Lincoln
Saturday's game at Nebraska, set at the bye week's end and a brief two days before a high-stakes matchup in Reed with arch-rival Texas, seemed the ideal set-up for a prototypical "trap game" for Texas A&M.
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Kentucky’s first half key in 66-60 win over Georgia
Impressive. Then complacent. That’s the transition Kentucky (16-4, 4-2 SEC) made during the course of its 66-60 win over Georgia (14-6, 3-4) that avenged a loss earlier in the season.
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Robinson keys Kansas rout in Sunflower Showdown
Wayne Simien, arguably the best post player in Kansas history not named Wilt Chamberlain, saw his jersey hung in the rafters at halftime Saturday night.
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Penn State upsets No. 15 Wisconsin, 56-52
Call it unlucky No. 13. The Wisconsin men’s basketball team was riding a 12-game winning streak against Penn State entering Saturday’s game at the Bryce Jordan Center.
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Catch 22-0: Buckeyes top Northwestern by a free throw to remain undefeated
EVANSTON, Ill. — One more Northwestern basket and the roof may have blown off the building at Welsh-Ryan Arena in Evanston, Ill., on Saturday night. Fortunately for the No.
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Behind Novak’s threes, Wolverines take down Spartans, 61-57
EAST LANSING, Mich. — In the dead of winter, four young men stood at the front of the Michigan State student section behind the baseline at the Breslin Center. Their chests read: 1181. It was the total number of days since a Michigan football or men’s basketball team beat Michigan State.
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Oklahoma State reflects on the 2001 plane crash
Words couldn't express. Terry Don Phillips' voice quivers as he thinks back to the night and then words fail him. "Even right now it's hard, even though it's been 10 years," Phillips said in a phone interview. Phillips, who was Oklahoma State's athletic director at the time of the Jan.
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UConn handles visit from Tennessee
The UConn men's basketball team showed the nation that it doesn't need junior captain Kemba Walker to carry them to victory every game. It was a total team effort by the Huskies in a 72-61 win over Tennessee before a capacity crowd of 16, 294 at the XL Center in Hartford.
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Still perfect: Late momentum against Illini propels No. 1 Buckeyes to 20-0
Facing an eight-point deficit, in one of the conference's most hostile environments, it was a pair of freshmen that ignited a second-half comeback and gave the undefeated Ohio State Buckeyes a 73-68 win against Illinois on Saturday.