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Wichita State accepted an invitation Friday to join the American Athletic Conference, ending a relationship with the Missouri Valley Conference that dated back 72 years. The presidents of the AAC's 12 member schools voted unanimously to admit the school in all sports but football. The school, which has been a...

Rick Pitino is guessing his Louisville Cardinals won't be the last team to be No. 1 this season. The 15-1 Cardinals took advantage of losses by Duke and Michigan to move up two spots to No. 1 on Monday in The Associated Press' Top 25 poll. This is just the...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) E.J. Boyce scored 20 points off the bench and led seven players in double figures as San Jose State posted a 109-70 win over West Coast Baptist of the National Christian College Athletic Association in a season opener on Saturday. Boyce sank six 3-pointers for the...

DAYTON, Ohio (AP) Kyle Davis and Charles Cooke scored 18 points apiece to lead Dayton over Division II Saint Joseph's (Ind.) 91-59 on Tuesday night for its fourth straight win.Kendall Pollard added 14 points and Scoochie Smith chipped in 13 for the Flyers (6-2), who shot 55 percent from...

No. 5 Indiana will have freshman forward Jeremy Hollowell back Monday night at Iowa. Athletic director Fred Glass issued a statement Sunday saying the NCAA has cleared Hollowell of any potential infractions. On Friday, Glass said Hollowell and his family notified the school of a potential "compliance issue." Glass says...

DALLAS (AP) SMU junior guard Keith Frazier, the former Dallas high school star whose name was prominent in an NCAA investigation that led to a postseason ban for the undefeated Mustangs, has decided to transfer.Coach Larry Brown said Friday that the 2013 McDonald's All-American ''wanted a fresh start''...

HAMPTON, Va. (AP) Jermaine Marrow scored 25 points to lead Hampton to an 84-80 win over Savannah State on Monday night. Lawrence Cooks and Charles Wilson-Fisher added 16 points each for Hampton (5-10, 2-0 Mid-Eastern), which has won three straight. Cooks made a career-best five 3-pointers while Wilson-Fisher grabbed eight...

VILLANOVA, Pa. (AP) Jay Wright had kept notes on scripture as much as scouting reports from the first scrimmage of Villanova's championship season through the national title game, writing down homilies delivered by team chaplain Rob Hagan inside the cover of his game folders. ''I had never done it before,...

Connecticut has given men's basketball coach Kevin Ollie a five-year contract extension worth just more than $7 million that will run through the end of the 2017-18 season. Ollie has demonstrated to UConn that he can coach, lead, coordinate, relate and organize a program. He also has had to ensure his...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Shaka Smart's first season at Texas has been anything but sharp.Excruciatingly long road trips bounced Texas around half the globe's time zones, from China to the Bahamas and back again before Thanksgiving, producing three losses in the first five games.The Longhorns (5-3) returned home to...

Branden Dawson was crumpled on the ground, clutching his surgically repaired left knee. He bounced back to play again and Derrick Nix scored 17 points to help No. 22 Michigan State pull away for a 66-56 victory over Nebraska on Sunday night. The Spartans -- and Dawson in particular -- held...

A decades-long Baylor fan got emotional with coach Scott Drew after the Bears won their last game to remain one of two undefeated teams in the country. The fan told Drew, ''I thought we could go to a Final Four, but I never thought I'd see the day when Baylor...