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AP Basketball WriterNCAA not anticipating any big changes to NCAA TournamentBy JOHN MARSHALLPHOENIX (AP) The NCAA Tournament has gone through some massive changes in recent years, the biggest being an expansion to 68 teams.Don't expect any more big changes anytime soon.Though there are annual quibbles about which teams...

WASHINGTON (AP) After a conscious effort to test a Georgetown roster that relies heavily on freshmen and sophomores, coach John Thompson III takes his team into Big East play with five non-conference losses for just the second time in program history.It was a disappointing enough start to the...

Former Yale hoops captain seeks injunction, return to schoolNEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) Lawyers for former Yale basketball captain Jack Montague are seeking a court order that would allow him to return to class while he fights his expulsion for what the university says was sexual misconduct.The senior point...

AP Sports WriterWilliams-Goss scores 33, No. 1 Gonzaga beats BYU 85-75By KAREEM COPELANDPROVO, Utah (AP) Nigel Williams-Goss scored 33 points and No. 1 Gonzaga remains the lone undefeated team in the country after an 85-75 victory over BYU on Thursday night.The Bulldogs (23-0, 11-0 West Coast Conference) now...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Texas coach Shaka Smart says sophomores Tevin Mack and Kerwin Roach Jr. remain suspended for the No. 21 Longhorns' season-opener Friday against Incarnate Word. Those players were suspended for last week's exhibition game against Angelo State for an undisclosed violation of team rules during the offseason, but...

PHOENIX (AP) The start of conference season usually means plenty of match-ups between AP Top 25 teams. This week is overloaded with ranked-on-ranked games with nine. It starts Tuesday night when newly top-ranked Baylor plays at No. 10 West Virginia. The Bears have gone from afterthought early in the season - no...

PITTSBURGH (AP) Duquesne has named longtime University of Dayton administrator David Harper as the school's new athletic director.Harper replaces Greg Amodio, who left the Dukes in July for the same job at Quinnipiac.Harper spent the last three years at Dayton as the associate vice president of university advancement,...

SHANGHAI, China (AP) Andrew Andrews scored 23 points to lead the Washington Huskies to a 77-71 victory over the Texas Longhorns on Saturday in the first-ever regular-season men's basketball game played in China.Washington led by as many as 9 in the second half before the Longhorns rallied to...

AP Sports WriterClemson looking to end NCAA Tournament drought this seasonBy PETE IACOBELLICOLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) New faces, new building. Same old quest for the Clemson Tigers.The men's basketball team has not made the NCAA Tournament since coach Brad Brownell's first year in 2011, which ended a program-record run...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) Skal Labissiere has heeded Kentucky coach John Calipari's advice to be an offensive presence.The 6-foot-11 freshman leads the second-ranked Wildcats in scoring at 17.5 points through two games. He's coming off a 26-point performance against NJIT, a game in which he floated jumpers, slammed home...

NCAA Regional highlights MSG college hoops scheduleNEW YORK (AP) The State Farm Champions Classic featuring Duke, Kansas, Kentucky and Michigan State opens Madison Square Garden's 2016-17 college basketball schedule in November and the NCAA East Regional will help close it in March.Kentucky faces Michigan State and Duke plays...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) The Vanderbilt Commodores have heard all the talk about how they should be a very good team this season. They're doing their best to tune out all that chatter and prove how quickly they've grown up.''It's tough to block it out, so we hear it,''...