College basketball picks: Can anyone slow down Michigan?
ESPN.com's college basketball experts make predictions for Michigan-Minnesota, Baylor-Texas Tech and other top games of the weekend.
ESPN.com's college basketball experts make predictions for Michigan-Minnesota, Baylor-Texas Tech and other top games of the weekend.
— Garrison Brooks and Armando Bacot each had a double-double, and North Carolina pulled away in the last three minutes to beat Syracuse 81-75 on Tuesday night.
No. 19 Clemson postponed games against UNC and Syracuse after a positive COVID-19 test in the Tigers' program.
ESPN.com's college basketball experts make predictions for Texas-West Virginia and other top games of the weekend.
— Leaky Black scored 16 points, and Andrew Platek's running jumper with three seconds to go carried North Carolina to a 67-65 win over Miami on Tuesday night.
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— Freshman Day'Ron Sharpe had a season-high 25 points and grabbed nine rebounds, Leaky Black hit the go-ahead jumper in the closing seconds, and North Carolina beat Notre Dame 66-65...
The Pitt-Notre Dame men's basketball game scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 2 has been postponed due to a positive test within the program as well as additional contact tracing because of a positive test outside of the program.
— Jose Alvarado scored 20 points, making a pullup jumper with 45 seconds left and two clinching free throws at 12 seconds, and Georgia Tech defeated North Carolina 72-67 in a second-half comeback Wednesday night.
Seth Greenberg and Dan Dakich tip off the podcast discussing why they have no problem with the NCAA’s “Mask Madness,” the strength of the Big Ten, Iowa losing big games, their worry for Michigan State, Baylor and Gonzaga versus the field, and blue blood not flowing through the sport this year.
— Devon Daniels scored eight straight points in the second half and finished with 21 to help North Carolina State beat 17th-ranked North Carolina 79-76 on Tuesday night.
— Armando Bacot scored 11 of his team-high 14 points in the second half Saturday, rallying No. 22 North Carolina from a double-digit deficit to beat Kentucky 75-63 at the CBS Sports Classic.
ESPN.com's college basketball experts make predictions for Gonzaga-Iowa, North Carolina-Kentucky and other top games of the weekend.
Due to varying COVID-19 protocols among the four schools and their respective basketball conferences, the matchups for Saturday's CBS Sports Classic in Cleveland featuring North Carolina, Kentucky, UCLA and Ohio State have been changed.
Gonzaga and Baylor headlined an unchanged top tier of The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll, even as both have been sidelined by recent coronavirus issues.
The top-to-bottom strength of the Big 12 and B1G has remained formidable in the early stages of 2020-21.
The UNC-N.C. Central game brings together two nearby programs, with the Tar Heels based in Chapel Hill and the Eagles of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference based in Durham about 20 minutes away.
TEAM | CONF | GB | OVR |
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Louisville | 4-0 | - | 9-1 |
Virginia | 4-0 | - | 8-2 |
Virginia Tech | 4-1 | 0.5 | 10-2 |
Clemson | 3-1 | 1 | 9-1 |
Duke | 3-1 | 1 | 5-3 |
Florida State | 2-1 | 1.5 | 6-2 |
Pittsburgh | 2-1 | 1.5 | 6-2 |
Georgia Tech | 2-1 | 1.5 | 6-3 |
North Carolina | 3-2 | 1.5 | 8-4 |
NC State | 2-3 | 2.5 | 6-4 |
Syracuse | 1-2 | 2.5 | 7-3 |
Miami | 1-5 | 4 | 5-6 |
Boston College | 1-5 | 4 | 3-9 |
Wake Forest | 0-4 | 4 | 3-4 |
Notre Dame | 0-5 | 4.5 | 3-8 |
NAME | POS | STATUS | GRADE |
---|---|---|---|
D'Marco Dunn | SG | Signed | 85 |
Dontrez Styles | SF | Signed | 84 |
Final Fours | 20 |
Tournament Record | 126-47 |
Championship Seasons | 1957, 1982, 1993, 2005, 2009, 2017 |
Tournament Appearances | 50 |