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Preview: Bruins (8-0) at Wildcats (7-0)
Date: December 03, 2016 12:30 PM EDT


LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Keeneland race course is traditionally Lexington's home to fast thoroughbreds, but the historic landmark will have to take a back seat to Rupp Arena on Saturday for an anticipated epic battle between college basketball titans Kentucky and UCLA.


No. 1 Kentucky is 7-0 and averages 95.6 points per game. The Wildcats topped 100 points in each of their last three games.


No. 11 UCLA is 8-0 and averages 97 points. Coach Steve Alford's Bruins scored more than 100 points in three of their first four games and 98 and 99 on two other occasions.


"Steve has done a great job with this team. He's really playing to their strengths, is what he's doing," Kentucky coach John Calipari said Friday. "When you watch them play, they play to this team's strengths. They're not trying to do stuff this team can't do. Their bigs can really shoot 15 footers. Their bigs can shoot some 3s, so they play that way."


But for all the mind-boggling offensive statistics, this game could be determined by the defenses, and that is where Kentucky holds an advantage.


UK gives up 65 points per game and holds opponents to 37.6 percent shooting. The Wildcats also force 19 turnovers per game.


UCLA, by contrast, surrenders 73 points and opposing teams shoot 39 percent. The Bruins force 13.4 turnovers.


"I think this is a shot-maker's game and if either team is not making shots, you'll be in trouble," Calipari said. "I doubt both teams are not making shots. So you just hope it's them and not you. Both are good-shooting teams, both have players that are able to go on runs. Score different ways. It's about making baskets. If you're missing baskets, missing shots, missing -- hard to win a game like this."


One fascinating sidebar to this game will be the battle of freshman point guards.


UCLA's Lonzo Ball was the No. 1-rated point guard in the Class of 2016 by 247Sports.com and is heralded by some recruiting analysts as the best passer in a generation. In his last game, a 98-56 win over UC-Riverside, the 6-foot-6 Ball set the school record for freshmen with 13 assists.


Kentucky's De'Aaron Fox was the No. 2-rated point guard. In his last game, a 115-69 rout of Arizona State in the Bahamas, the 6-3 Fox recorded the school's first triple-double since 1988 with 14 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists.


Ball, from Chino, Calif., has passing skills that are drawing comparisons to another California product, Jason Kidd. He has 77 assists to just 18 turnovers.


Fox is beyond heralded, by his coach John Calipari as possibly faster than another former Wildcat, John Wall. His assist-to-turnover numbers are 53-19.


"Ball is really good," Calipari said. "Like, he's big. He sees the court. He's OK to take no shots -- he doesn't care -- or if he needs to score 25 he will. He's smart. You can see on the court -- he's like our guys -- he's got a nimble mind. He'll see something happening before it happens."


Those, of course, are not the only cast of characters who could play a role in determining the outcome of Saturday afternoon's game.


Freshman guard Malik Monk is Kentucky's leading scorer at 19.3 points per game. Sophomore guard Isaiah Briscoe is next at 18.4, followed by Fox at 15.3. Freshman forward Bam Adebayo averages 11.1 points and a team-best 7.6 rebounds.


UCLA has six players averaging in double figures, topped by senior guard Isaac Hamilton at 18 points per game. Next comes freshman forward T.J. Leaf at 17.3, senior guard Bryce Alford, 15.5; Ball, 14.6; sophomore guard Aaron Holiday, 12.9; and junior center Thomas Welsh, who scores 10.8 and grabs a team-best 9.8 rebounds. Leaf checks in at 9.0 rebounds per game.


"This is a great game in early December for us," Calipari said. "They could bash us. They beat us last year. We never had a chance. They got the same team back with Ball. We lost everybody and have a brand new team. It'll be interesting."
 

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Preview: Sooners (5-1) at Badgers (6-2)
Date: December 03, 2016 1:00 PM EDT


If senior forward Nigel Hayes wants to show off his unselfish side, Wisconsin coach Greg Gard is more than happy to let the veteran assume some on-court leadership for the No. 17 Badgers.


Hayes registered 9 points, 11 rebounds and a career-high 10 assists in the Badgers' 77-60 win against No. 22 Syracuse five days ago. Hayes missed a free throw during the final minute of the game that would have secured a triple-double performance. The only Badgers player who accomplished the feat was guard Josh Gasser, who scored 10 points and had 10 rebounds and 12 assists in a win against Northwestern in 2011.


Gard likely expects more of the same type effort from Hayes when Wisconsin (6-2) finishes the week with its third game in six days as it hosts Oklahoma (5-1) on Saturday at noon central at the Kohl Center in Madison, Wis.


"Probably one thing that's overlooked a lot with him and doesn't get talked about as much or enough is his ability to pass and his vision," Gard said. "He just made things go and he made a difference. That was kind of the plan coming in, to try to touch him as much as possible and let him facilitate and make plays from there."


Hayes is third in team scoring at 11.3 points per game, but a slew of his assists against the Orange were from feeding the ball inside to sophomore forward Ethan Happ, who scored a game-high 24 points. Happ is the Badgers' rebounding leader at 9.9 per game, and he contributes 13.4 points per contest.


Senior guard Bronson Koenig is Wisconsin's scoring leader at 15.1 points per game. Koenig is fresh off a strong effort, in which he was 6 of 7 from beyond the arc against Syracuse.


Meanwhile, Oklahoma coach Lon Kruger did something earlier this week that he hasn't done in three years: Made a change in the Sooners' starting lineup. Freshman forward Kristian Doolittle was replaced by redshirt freshman Matt Freeman in Tuesday's game against North Colorado.


Doolittle, who averaged 7.4 points and 6.4 rebounds per game in five starts, did not sit for long. The freshman entered four minutes in and scored a career-high 17 points and had five rebounds in 18 minutes during the 87-66 home win against the Bears.


Doolittle is second in team rebounds with 6.2 rebounds per game, and contributes 9.1 points per tilt.


"Kristian is going to be a really good player," Kruger said of Doolittle, who shot 7 of 8 from the field. "It was good to see him attack more when he came out. We've been wanting him to do that. He can make good plays off the dribble. He's very strong and powerful when he goes to the rim. He looked comfortable."


Senior guard Jordan Woodward also had a strong effort against Northern Colorado, contributing 15 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists.


Woodward and senior guard Khadeem Lattin are two returning starters for the Sooners, who reached the NCAA Final Four last season. Three seniors departed Oklahoma and were picked in the NBA draft.


Woodward, who is averaging a team-leading 17.0 points, shot 45.5 percent (80 of 176) from beyond the arc as a junior. Lattin adds 6.7 rebounds and 11.5 points per game.
 

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Preview: Hawks (3-3) at Wildcats (7-0)
Date: December 03, 2016 1:00 PM EDT


Villanova closed the month of November with a dominating 82-57 victory at Penn on Tuesday night.


The second-ranked Wildcats (7-0) captured their 26th straight win in the month of November and the record 15th in a row over a Big 5 opponent.


Villanova will now open December with another Big 5 rivalry matchup as it hosts Saint Joseph's in what is annually referred to as the "Holy War" Saturday at 1 p.m. ET at The Pavilion.


"I honestly can't wrap my head around that and I don't want to, because it's not going to do us any good," Villanova head coach Jay Wright said of the November streak. "I don't mean that disrespectfully. If we are thinking about that, it's not going to help us get better. And we've got to keep on getting better.


"At the ends of their careers, I think these (seniors) will talk about these things. I'm really proud of them. When I'm done coaching, I think this is a four-year run in November that I will be really proud of -- the tournaments won and all of it. Right now, though, we've got to force ourselves not to think about it. We've got a game coming up."


The hottest Villanova player is senior Kris Jenkins, who scored 22 points against Penn and became the 63rd player in program history to eclipse the 1,000-point barrier. Jenkins knocked down 6 of 7 from beyond the arc on his way to leading the team in scoring. Five other Wildcats scored in double figures as well.


Despite the offensive output, Jenkins pointed to another reason for the latest victory.


"We try not to rely on offense," Jenkins said. "All the energy came from the defensive end. We did a great job of playing together defensively and that's where all the energy came from."


Saint Joseph's opened the season 3-0 but has since dropped three straight, including a 78-72 loss to Temple Wednesday night at Hagan Arena.


Shavar Newkirk carried the Hawks with 22 points, seven rebounds and five assists as he registered a fourth consecutive 20-plus point game. Guard Lamarr Kimble scored 12 points and tied his career-high with nine assists. In addition, freshman Nick Robinson posted his first career game in double figures with 11 points.


Saint Joseph's has struggled after halftime in the last three losses, a fact that was clear to head coach Phil Martelli following the six-point loss to the Owls.


"The number that I've been studying is the first five minutes of the second half," Martelli said. "Through our first five games, we lost the first five minutes of the second half by 22 points. So we were emphatic about that. We had won that first media timeout by two points."


Saint Joseph's, which went 3-1 in the Big 5 last year, will receive a break following the Villanova game for final exams and will then visit Drexel on Dec. 11.


The Hawks have lost four straight in the all-time series with Villanova and last won 74-58 on Dec. 17, 2011.
 

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Preview: Eagles (2-4) at Boilermakers (5-2)
Date: December 03, 2016 2:00 PM EDT


WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- No. 15 Purdue and Morehead State enter their Saturday afternoon game in Mackey Arena with problems to solve.


While the Boilermakers' issues are quite fixable, the Eagles are dealing with the suspension -- with pay -- of fifth-year head coach Sean Woods, who is facing complaints of player mistreatment.


Assistant coach Preston Spradlin is the acting head coach. Woods, a former Kentucky standout guard who had a 75-63 record in his first four seasons at Morehead State, was suspended by athletic director Brian Hutchinson on Nov. 22. The Eagles (2-4) lost their past four games, including the past two under Spradlin.


"Resulting from complaints received, the institution has begun an investigation involving the head basketball coach," Hutchinson said in a statement issued by the university. "While we continue through the formal process, we believe it is prudent to suspend the coach until the investigation is finished."


Purdue (5-2) comes into the game off a 71-64 ACC/Big Ten Challenge loss at No. 14 Louisville on Wednesday. The Boilermakers shot only 35.8 percent (19 of 53), turned the ball over 17 times and got only one point from struggling junior forward Vince Edwards.


Edwards, the team's leading returning scorer (11.3 points last season), is averaging only 10.6 points while shooting only 41.3 percent from the field.


Purdue is averaging 15.7 turnovers and has been guilty of 54 total turnovers in its three most recent games (18 per contest).


The Boilermakers' front line of Edwards, 6-foot-8 Caleb Swanigan and 7-2 Isaac Haas was a collective 5 of 20 from the field and 11 of 16 from the free throw line for only 23 points during the loss at Louisville.


Swanigan (six), Edwards (three) and Haas (one) were guilty of 10 of the 17 turnovers.


"We have to grow," said Swanigan, who is averaging 18.1 points and 11.9 rebounds. "I have to be better with the ball, take care of the ball and just be myself. At Louisville, we allowed them to take us out of some things.


"Even with all of the turnovers, we were able to get within four at one point. If we don't learn from it, then it's just us being uncoachable. We are going to have to see what this team is made of down the road."


Junior guard Dakota Mathias said there is no excuse for most of Purdue's giveaways.


"We have to be solid with the ball, but we also can't be too cautious," Mathias said. "We are making simple errors -- mental errors -- and then it just gets in our heads."


Boilermaker point guard P.J. Thompson shoulders the blame for what happened at Louisville.


"When we are on the road, we have to come out with a better fight," Thompson said. "It starts with me as the point guard. As a junior captain, I have to have my team ready to play.


"I have played in big games -- big road games -- and we didn't come out at Louisville like we were ready to fight."


Morehead State is led by senior guard Xavier Moon, who is averaging 13.3 points a game, and by sophomore guard Malik Maitland, who is averaging 12 points.


Since Woods' suspension, Morehead State dropped a 76-63 decision at Pittsburgh and fell 84-79 to Northern Kentucky on Wednesday.


In the only other meeting between the Boilermakers and Eagles, Purdue defeated Morehead State 81-71 on Dec. 5, 1985, in West Lafayette.
 

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Preview: Mountainers (5-1) at Cavaliers (7-0)
Date: December 03, 2016 2:00 PM EDT


In West Virginia's 108-61 win over Manhattan on Monday night, the Mountaineers forced the Jaspers to turn the ball over 41 times -- a school record. Head coach Bob Huggins' style over the years is to get up and down the floor, force turnovers and get easy transition buckets.


West Virginia's 5-1 start to the 2016-17 season is exactly that, as the Mountaineers surpassed 100 points three times in those six games, and are second in the nation in forced turnovers.


Saturday will be Huggins' and West Virginia's toughest test of the season by far as they travel to Charlottesville, Va., to take on sixth-ranked and undefeated Virginia. The Cavaliers won their 24th consecutive game at home on Wednesday night with a 63-61 come-from-behind win over Ohio State. The Cavaliers trailed by as many as 16 in the game but rallied late to preserve their unbeaten record and home winning streak.


"We have played some solid basketball but we have to be ready," Virginia head coach Tony Bennett said of his team moving forward. "We cannot afford another sleepy start."


Virginia ranks eighth in the country in fewest turnovers as the Cavaliers have done a good job of taking care of the ball this season behind senior point guard London Perrantes. Despite five turnovers in Virginia's win over the Buckeyes, Perrantes turned the ball over just 10 times this season, and the Cavaliers turned it over just 61 times as a team. West Virginia will likely test the sure-handed Cavaliers in Saturday's matchup despite Virginia handling the Mountaineers' pressure last season.


The Cavaliers knocked off West Virginia 70-54 in last year's matchup and defense is still where Bennett and his team's mindset remains.


"Last year's team maybe had a little more firepower and could afford to be sleepy at times," Bennett said. "Our message this year is 'be ready.' Our defense cannot take a possession off or get loose."


While the Cavaliers don't have the firepower on offense they did last season, they have a balanced scoring attack. Virginia currently has five players averaging at least seven points with Perrantes leading the way at 10.6 points per game.


West Virginia also boasts a balanced scoring attack, with guard Nathan Adrian leading the way at 13.5 points per game.


Virginia will need to take a conservative approach to its matchup with West Virginia to avoid letting the Mountaineers control the game.


"You guys know from last year how tough it was, and they play the whole game pressing the ball," Perrantes said of the Mountaineers. "We played a little bit of the offense that we will play against them tonight against Ohio State. We weren't planning on it, but it was just something we needed to do."


The Cavaliers showed a four-guard lineup a few times in the second half against the Buckeyes that proved to work for Bennett's squad. Playing a lineup similar to that against West Virginia should help the Cavaliers take care of the ball and keep their turnover total down.


Virginia and West Virginia tip off at 2 p.m. on Saturday.
 

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Preview: Cardinal (6-2) at Jayhawks (6-1)
Date: December 03, 2016 3:30 PM EDT


LAWRENCE, Kan. -- The growth of Josh Jackson will not eliminate whatever pressure the highly-rated freshman feels to both satisfy his preseason hype and elevate his NBA draft stock.


Yet Kansas coach Bill Self has noticed his 6-foot-8 freshman welcomes whatever pressure is heaped on him with the No. 4 Jayhawks (6-1) riding a six-game winning streak entering a game Saturday against Stanford (6-2) in Allen Fieldhouse.


Depth enables Kansas to sometimes ride the hot hand of an unconventional leading scorer. A case in point came in the Jayhawks' most recent game when sophomore guard Lagerald Vick, in just his second career start, went 9 of 9 and netted a career-high 23 points.


"I don't think that Josh looks at it like, 'I'm glad everybody else is playing good, so that takes some pressure off of me,'" Self said. "I think (top-flight) kids look at it like I want all the pressure on me now.


"But it is an advantage to be able to have five guards out there that are all very capable and making plays and making shots."


Jackson is the tallest in that group, a 6-8 wing who can penetrate for points or assists, and also contribute with sticky hands on the defensive end.


The only time he failed to score in double figures was a nine-point performance in an overtime loss to Indiana to begin the season.


"Josh thinks of it like, 'I want to get as good as fast as I can,'" Self added. "I think he's shown unbelievable improvement. And he didn't have a bad game against Indiana."


At the rate Jackson is on, averaging 14.1 points, 5.7 rebounds and 3.3 assists, he is quite possibly the most versatile freshman Self has coached at Kansas. Among other standouts on that list who left for the NBA after one year are Andrew Wiggins and Joel Embiid.


"He's got great vision," Self said. "He can pass and can alter (shots) and is getting more active defensively. He's probably as all-around as any freshman we've had who can do a little bit of everything."


The two small guards in the Kansas backcourt, senior Frank Mason and junior Devonte' Graham, join Jackson as double-digit scorers with averages of 19.6 and 12.9 points, respectively. Each averages 5.4 assists.


Stanford is coming off a 66-51 loss to No. 12 St. Mary's. The Cardinal led 30-26 at halftime but shot just 28 percent from the field in the second half and made just one 3-pointer.


"They came out more enthused than we did," Stanford coach Jerod Haase said.


Additional enthusiasm might not be enough for Stanford to upset Kansas, especially considering the Jayhawks are riding a 46-game home winning streak, which is tops in the country.


Haase, however, knows the territory.


He played at Kansas from 1995 to 1997 under Roy Williams. He then assisted the Kansas staff before moving on to serve as an assistant under Williams at North Carolina. Haase was head coach at UAB for four seasons before taking over this year at Stanford.


Reid Travis, a 6-8 junior forward who missed much of last season with a stress reaction in a leg, will try to cause problems inside. He leads Stanford in scoring (16.3) and rebounding (9.5) and could be a load for the Jayhawks, who have lacked frontcourt production.


Dorian Pickens, a 6-5 wing, averages 13.8 points and 4.4 rebounds.
 

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Preview: Musketeers (7-0) at Bears (7-0)
Date: December 03, 2016 3:30 PM EDT


WACO, Texas -- For once, the beginning of basketball season brought with it a welcome change deep in the heart of Texas.


While Baylor's football program is stuck in a quagmire of scandal off the field and a five-game losing streak on the field, the Bears basketball team ascended from unranked to No. 9 in the Associated Press poll this week.


Baylor already defeated then-fourth-ranked Oregon at home this went to the Battle 4 Atlantis to pull off an impressive string of victories over VCU, Michigan State and Louisville.


All of that serves as context as No. 7 Xavier comes into the Ferrell Center on Saturday afternoon for a top-10 nonconference hoops matchup that will draw the eyes of the college basketball nation.


Baylor (7-0) tips off at the same time as its football team kicks off on the road at West Virginia, but that coincidence wasn't even mentioned in Bears' coach Scott Drew's pregame press conference on Friday.


Instead, Drew spoke about how fortunate his program is to have two top-10 nonconference opponents come into Baylor's arena in the same season. Before this year, Baylor played only two top-10 nonconference opponents at home in its history.


"The chance of having two top-10 home games in nonconference, you've got a better chance of hitting the lottery," Drew said. "It's a great opportunity for us to play at home against a real quality opponent. For both teams, your RPI is not going to go down if you lose and, if you win, it's a great gain."


Like Baylor, Xavier (7-0) is undefeated against a slate of quality opponents. Unlike Baylor, the Musketeers haven't faced a team with a national ranking attached to it yet this season.


Xavier defeated Missouri, Clemson and Northern Iowa twice during a stretch of four games last month.


Now the Musketeers play their first game on an opponent's home floor this season -- all seven of Xavier's previous contests were either at home in Cincinnati or at the Tire Pros Invitational in Orlando -- as well as their first ranked foe.


Xavier coach Chris Mack knows his team will be fully focused on Baylor.


"There's so much respect for the type of program that Baylor's had for several years," Mack said. "(Our players) saw what they did down in the Bahamas. There's no trick, there's no science for getting our guys up for the game."


With hype and motivation equal on both sides, the game could come down to whether or not Xavier can hit shots against Baylor's treacherous zone defense. The Bears deploy 7-foot forward Jo Lual-Acuil and 6-10 forward Johnathan Motley in the interior. And Mack said everyone in the Bears' 1-3-1 zone knows his responsibility to limit open looks.


"We're going to have to find soft spots in the zone and we're going to have to make some shots, obviously, and then we're going to have to try to rebound and get second opportunities," Mack said. "Baylor makes it tough. They're big and they put that 7-footer under the rim. It's a challenge but we wouldn't have it any other way."


The Musketeers will try to attack the zone and crash the boards with a quartet of tall guards and 6-10 center Sean O'Mara.


Drew seemed to be just as concerned about stopping Xavier's lineup on the offensive end as Mack was about combatting the Baylor zone.


"We haven't faced a team with as much height across the board, basically a team of four guards at 6-6, athletic, can shoot it, post it, drive it," Drew said. "With that, it also makes it difficult to defend because, with a lot of shooters, you never know which one is going to be hot that day. It's easy to see why they're such a good team."
 

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Preview: Black Bears (2-5) at Blue Devils (7-1)
Date: December 03, 2016 5:30 PM EDT


DURHAM, N.C. -- Even with a rash of injured players often dominating the conversation about Duke's basketball team for the first few weeks of the season, there's another identity that's more relevant for coach Mike Krzyzewski in describing the Blue Devils.


"I have tough kids," Krzyzewski said. "I have really tough kids."


That's what the No. 5 Blue Devils have been counting on as they've rung up a 7-1 record. Only six players were used in Tuesday night's victory against Michigan State.


"Playing six guys is never going to be easy," fifth-year senior forward Amile Jefferson said. "But guys have to always be tough."


A deeper bench is likely to be in use Saturday when Duke wraps up a four-game homestand by taking on Maine (2-5) at Cameron Indoor Stadium.


Krzyzewski said with Jefferson and guards Matt Jones and Grayson Allen there are enough veteran players to help the Blue Devils through rough patches.


"They've been in big-time games," Krzyzewski said. "They've had adversity. ... They've earned it. It is not inherited wealth, let's put it that way. It's stuff they've earned."


Playing with grit is something that's endearing in some ways for the Blue Devils.


"We have this inner toughness," Jefferson said. "A toughness of the heart and the spirit more than physical. Our guys have always come ready to play."


Duke owns a five-game winning streak, but Jones said the 78-69 victory against Michigan State was particularly satisfying because the Blue Devils had to dig deep.


"I think we're growing as a team, especially winning that game," he said. "It's definitely a confidence booster. We just have to keep it going."


Jones received rave reviews after the last game from Krzyzewski because of his defense. The effort on the defensive end was needed because Jones ended up with just two points for his first time short of double figures this season.


It became Duke's first game this season without five players in double-digit scoring.


Maine is coming off an 82-61 home loss to Central Connecticut State on Wednesday night. That opponent has the Blue Devils nickname as well - yet with the game attracting an announced attendance of 836 it means Saturday's game should result in a drastically different setting for the Black Bears.


This will be Maine's second visit to an Atlantic Coast Conference campus this season after an 80-67 loss for last month's opener at Virginia Tech.


The Black Bears, who'll face Duke for the first time, were picked to finish last in the America East preseason poll. That didn't sit well with third-year coach Bob Walsh.


"The truth is, it bothers me," Walsh said. "It bothers our players. But that is a good thing. All Black Bear programs show up with something to prove when we play, with a pride and toughness that is evident.


"The great thing about competition is we get to play the games and the results speak for themselves."


Black Bears freshman forward Andrew Fleming, who was the top high school player in Maine last season, posted a season-best 20 points in the team's last outing.
 

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Preview: Rams (5-2) at Friars (5-2)
Date: December 03, 2016 4:30 PM EDT


Providence has won the last six games, seven of the last eight and eight of the last 10 games against local rival Rhode Island.


But none of those games were as big for the Rams as the rivalry renewal Saturday at the Dunkin Donuts Center in Providence.


While the Friars have gone to the NCAA Tournament the last three years under Ed Cooley, the Rams have been building. Now, PC is in a bit of a rebuild after losing Kris Dunn and Ben Bentil to the NBA Draft -- and it's the Rams, the 21st-ranked Rams, with the expectations.


It's also the Rams coming off a tough loss at Valparaiso that may well knock them out of the top 25 (even though Valpo is looking like a ranked team) -- and losing to the Friars would certainly spell top 25 doom for URI.


The Rams (5-2) fought hard and went right down to the final shot in the difficult road assignment at Valparaiso -- URI relying mostly on its starters in that game (the bench logged 35 minutes).


"We got a little tight with our rotation," Rhody coach Dan Hurley said Thursday. "Stan (Robinson) and others will play more."


It was clear again in that game that E.C. Matthews, who missed all but 10 minutes of last season with a knee injury and is still working his way back.


"Right now, he's going through the struggles that any player would go through coming back from an injury like that," URI coach Dan Hurley said after Matthews scored just six points, the last two coming on a late tip-in. "We knew a large part of non-conference would be time for him to get his timing back and knock the rust off. By conference play, he'll be more of his old self."


Saturday is not conference play. But the game is huge and Matthews comes in just 12-for-39 from the floor in the last four games -- 0-for-5 from 3-point range in the last three.


While Matthews, on the preseason watch lists for the Naismith, Lute Olson and Jerry West awards, comes in anything but hot, PC's Rodney Bullock comes off a career-high 36 points in a win over New Hampshire that lifted the Friars to 5-2 on the season.


Bullock was 12-for-21 from the floor as Cooley, who notched his 200th coaching win in the game, said the basket looked like "an ocean" to his player. The Friars were also an impressive 12-for-21 from 3-point range in the game.


"It gets contagious," Cooley said. "We had one of those days. Hopefully, we have more left in us."


The Friars were 8-for-16 from 3-point land in a loss to No. 7 Virginia, making them 20-for-37 from deep in the last two games -- after a 2-for-20 stat in a win over Memphis.


Talking about Bullock in his big game against UNH, Cooley said, "It seemed like everything he threw up was going to go in. The basket looked like an ocean. Hopefully he continues to shoot like that. We're going to need it the whole year."


Said Bullock, who was just 3-for-13 against Virginia: "Today was one of those days I just had it going -- midrange and then stretching it out. That's what coach recruited me for."


The Rams have lost two of their last three, falling to then-No. 1 Duke in the final of the Naismith Hall of Fame Tipoff in Connecticut, then beating Belmont (behind Hassan Martin's career-high 31 points) and losing to Valparaiso.
 

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Preview: Tigers (2-7) at Ducks (6-2)
Date: December 03, 2016 6:00 PM EDT


EUGENE, Ore. -- Dana Altman called Oregon's 93-54 win over Western Oregon on Wednesday a "development game."


Oregon built an early 18-5 lead and kept the margin in double digits the rest of the way to defeat an in-state Division II opponent.


"We needed to get out and just move the ball and run some stuff," the Ducks coach said. "I thought our activity on defense was pretty good. We needed a development game. We have got to get better and we have to make a step and talk more defensively."


The 23rd-ranked Ducks (6-2) may get another "development game" when Savannah State arrives at Matthew Knight Arena on Saturday. The Tigers are 2-6 with their only wins over Middle Georgia State and Fort Valley State.


"We have to come in with the same mindset as we did against Western Oregon," Oregon guard Tyler Dorsey said. "We have to work on the deficiencies we have and move the ball on the offensive end. We have to get our turnover-to-assist ratio closer to what we had last year and work on the offensive end."


The Ducks have won four straight games and do not have to leave the state again until January because their next seven games are in Oregon. After Savannah State, the Ducks have eight days off for finals week.


Six-foot-10 senior center Chris Boucher leads the Ducks with 13.8 points to go with 7.3 rebounds and 3.3 blocked shots per game. Junior forward Jordan Bell is averaging career highs of 10.4 points and 8.6 rebounds to go with 2.8 blocks per contest.


Junior Dillon Brooks is getting back into shape after sitting out four months and missing three games following offseason foot surgery. The all-Pac-12 forward scored 21 points in 19 minutes on 8-for-13 shooting from the field against Western Oregon after going 1-for-9 in his previous game versus Boise State.


"It is going to come, we all know that," Altman said. "We'd like to get him 20 minutes against Savannah and maybe start moving up in our week off and see how he handled the practice sessions. He has four games to get ready for the start of conference so I hope we can keep moving those minutes up. He feels great and is progressing as we had hoped."


Savannah State's top two scorers, Dexter McClanahan and Casey Wells, both come off the bench while averaging 14.1 and 13.3 points per game, respectively. Troyce Manassa is scoring 12.4 points per game while Austin Dasent averages 11.3 points with a team-leading 3.9 assists per game.


The Tigers have lost three straight games to St. Francis College in Brooklyn, Grambling, and San Diego State.


Oregon defeated Savannah State 77-59 last season in Eugene.
 

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Preview: Bulldogs (7-0) at Wildcats (6-1)
Date: December 03, 2016 5:30 PM EDT


Arizona and Gonzaga are set to resume one of the best rivalries in the West, with the Bulldogs talking about "payback."


The perennial Top 25 programs have played in each of the past three seasons -- all Arizona victories, including in the 2014 NCAA Tournament to advance to the Sweet 16 and a 68-63 win in Spokane, Wash., last season.


"Like I said, we've got something for them. Send a message Saturday," Gonzaga guard Josh Perkins said after a 97-63 home victory over Mississippi Valley State improved the Bulldogs to 7-0 on Thursday night. "We feel like we owe them some payback. It's been some years building up. Saturday's a time for us to get back at them."


Their chances appear to be good when No. 8 Gonzaga plays 16th-ranked Arizona (6-1) at Hoophall LA, a one-day doubleheader event in Los Angeles on Saturday. Arizona-Gonzaga tips off at 5:30 p.m. ET followed by BYU vs. USC.


The Wildcats are expected to have only seven available scholarship players after the team's latest injury.


Starting point guard Parker Jackson-Cartwright suffered a high ankle sprain Wednesday in a win over Texas Southern, with coach Sean Miller saying the junior would be out for a "considerable" period of time. Arizona previously lost two players to torn ACLs, an incoming freshman turned pro and sophomore guard Allonzo Trier, the team's top returning scorer at 14.8 points per game, hasn't played yet because of unspecified eligibility issues. The school has not commented on the matter.


"Where we go from here, I don't know," Miller said.


Gonzaga reloaded this season, despite losing frontcourt players Domantas Sabonis and Kyle Wiltjer from the team that reached last year's Sweet 16. A new Pac-12 transfer backcourt of point guard Nigel Williams-Goss (Washington) and Jordan Mathews (Cal) adds scoring punch to a returning unit that features center Przemek Karnowski and Perkins.


Williams-Goss leads a balanced scoring effort with 12.9 points per game, to go with an average of 4.9 assists. Perkins averages 12.7 points and is shooting 53.1 percent from behind the arc (17 of 32). Freshman 7-footer Zach Collins is averaging 11.6 points per game off the bench.


A third starting transfer, forward Johnathan Williams (Missouri), is averaging 10.9 points and 5.9 rebounds. Karnowski is the fifth double-digit scorer at 10.7 points per game. Mathews is a high-volume 3-point shooter who has made 15 of 39 for 38.5 percent.


"I admire their program, their coach, I love their team this year," Miller said. "We're not there yet in terms of dealing with them. ...


"They can run you completely out of the city of L.A. if you're not ready to go because of how great they are. We're a work in progress. We're the furthest thing from a great team."


Arizona has three double-digit scorers, all freshmen. Lauri Markkanen, a 7-footer forward with a sweet 3-point shot, is averaging 18.3 points and is shooting 46.9 percent from beyond the arc (15 of 32). Guard Kobi Simmons, likely to move into the starting lineup, is averaging 13.0 points. Wing Rawle Alkins is at 10.9 points.


Senior Kadeem Allen, who started most of last season at point guard, will move back from shooting guard to fill the primary role while Jackson-Cartwright is back. Simmons will be the backup at point.


The programs have met seven times, all since the 2000 season. They played a classic double-overtime game won by Arizona 96-95 in the second round of the 2003 Sweet 16.


"We're going to continue to play Gonzaga because they're one of the best programs in college basketball," Miller said.
 

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Preview: Zips (6-1) at Bluejays (7-0)
Date: December 03, 2016 8:00 PM EDT


OMAHA, Neb. -- Creighton hosts its second opponent of the week from the Mid-American Conference Saturday when Akron visits CenturyLink Center.


The Zips could be the stiffest defensive test the No. 10 Bluejays have faced since playing then-No. 9 Wisconsin on Nov. 15.


Akron is 6-1 with six consecutive victories since losing its season opener Nov. 12 to Youngstown State. While the Zips are averaging 80.1 points per game, they're giving up just 62.7.


Contrast that with the high-flying Bluejays offense that is averaging 92.0 points per game, the sixth-best total in the country through the first three weeks of the season.


One of the more intriguing matchups will be how Creighton's big men -- especially redshirt freshman Justin Patton -- fare against Akron senior Isaiah Johnson in the 7 p.m. CST game that will be broadcast on Fox Sports 2.


Known as Big Dog, the 6-foot-10, 290-pound Johnson is the reigning MAC Eastern Division player of the week. Johnson is averaging a team-leading 15.7 points per game while shooting 67.7 percent (24-of-42) from the field.


Johnson and Kwan Cheatham both are averaging six rebounds per game, and Johnson has blocked six shots.


How Patton responds to the biggest big man he's faced in his young collegiate career will be a good way to measure how far the 7-foot Omaha North graduate has developed his game.


Patton is averaging 13 points and 6.4 rebounds per game. He has scored in double figures in every game of Creighton's 7-0 start and, like Akron's Johnson, has blocked six shots this season.


Teammates are seeking out Patton on the offensive end, as he has had 19 dunks with 11 of those coming on lob passes from guards Marcus Foster, Khyri Thomas and Maurice Watson.


Watson has been efficiently running the Creighton offense from the point guard position. He is second in the NCAA this season with 59 total assists and an average of 8.4 per game. Watson leads the nation's active players with 698 career assists, and he's also third in steals.


Foster has been a big plus for the Bluejays offense after sitting out last season as a transfer from Kansas State. The 6-foot-3 junior from Wichita Falls, Texas is averaging a team-leading 18.3 points per game and passed the 1,000-career points milestone in Tuesday's win over Buffalo.


Senior forward Cole Huff from Altadena, Calif., has a chance to join Foster in the 1,000-point club Saturday. Huff is just 17 points shy of that career achievement as he has scored 456 as a Bluejay after transferring from Nevada with 527 points.


Both teams have relied on deep benches for their early season success. The Zips have had 15 different players log minutes this season; six of them are averaging 7.9 points per game. Antino Jackson is averaging 12.0 points per game to join Johnson with a double-digit average.


Creighton has four players averaging double figures per outing. Thomas at 14.4 per game and Watson with 11.7 join Foster and Patton in that category.
 

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10:00 pm 12/3/2016
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8:00 pm 12/3/2016
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(807) COLORADO @(808) PORTLAND
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3:30 pm 12/3/2016
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10:00 pm 12/3/2016
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9:00 pm 12/3/2016
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9:00 pm 12/3/2016
(851) DENVER @(852) WEBER ST
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8:00 pm 12/3/2016
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1:00 pm 12/3/2016
(733) ST JOSEPHS @(734) VILLANOVA
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9:00 pm 12/3/2016
(859) MISSOURI ST @(860) AIR FORCE
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The record is 16 Overs and 4 Unders for the last three seasons (+11.6 units)

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4:00 pm 12/3/2016
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3:00 pm 12/3/2016
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2:30 pm 12/3/2016
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2:00 pm 12/3/2016
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10:00 pm 12/3/2016
(855) CAL DAVIS @(856) IDAHO
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