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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) For some of college basketball's top leagues, there's little doubt who should be the player of the year in the conference. In others, there are multiple worthy candidates that can walk away with the honor. The five power conferences - the Big 12, Atlantic Coast Conference, Big...

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...

AP Basketball WriterNo. 15 Arizona still hoping to get Allonzo Trier backBy JOHN MARSHALLArizona sophomore guard Allonzo Trier could play this season. Then again, he may not.No one's sure what's going to happen, not even his coach.''I hope that Allonzo has an opportunity to play sometime this year. I'll...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) A change in travel plans for the Mississippi State basketball team proved to be good fortune for a woman who was pulled out of her vehicle after a one-car accident. The Bulldogs were supposed to fly from Columbus, Mississippi, to Baton Rouge for their Southeastern Conference...

Associated PressBurnett scores 41 as Ole Miss holds off Oral Roberts in OTBy BILL KISERST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) Deandre Burnett scored a career-high 41 points, and Mississippi pulled away in overtime to hold off Oral Roberts 95-88 Friday on the opening day of the Paradise Jam...

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) Bruce Brown finished with a triple double as Miami defeated South Carolina State 82-46 Tuesday night. Brown scored 11 points and finished with 11 rebounds and 10 assists for the Hurricanes. The triple double was Miami's first since Anthony King scored 11 points, had 10 rebounds...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) When it comes to football and politics, Nebraska is as red a state as there is. When it comes to basketball, it's a deep shade of blue, as in Creighton blue. The 10th-ranked Bluejays (8-0) and Nebraska Cornhuskers (5-3) play their annual game Wednesday night at Pinnacle...

AP Basketball WriterChaminade in 1982: Witnessing one of sports' greatest upsetsBy JOHN MARSHALLLAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) Chaminade's 77-72 victory over Ralph Sampson and top-ranked Virginia in 1982 is widely considered the biggest upset in college basketball history, among the greatest in any sport.Unlike today's world of 24-hour sports networks,...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) Hayden Graham scored 16 points and Air Force beat NAIA-member McPherson College 88-71 on Friday night. Air Force went on a 19-2 run in the first half to take control and led 45-31 at the break. Frank Toohey and Zach Kocur added 14 points apiece for Air...

PITTSBURGH (AP) The four players tasked with overseeing a transition they never asked for and never saw coming can't quite explain what went wrong. It wasn't, Pittsburgh seniors Jamel Artis, Mike Young, Sheldon Jeter and Chris Jones insist, longtime head coach Jamie Dixon's abrupt departure for TCU last spring or...

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) The Latest on the semifinal games in the Final Four: (all times local): 3:35 p.m. Sindarius Thornwell has been red hot for South Carolina in the NCAA tournament. Not so much in the first half against Gonzaga. The SEC player of the year was scoreless through the first 12...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) A young Minnesota squad learned some good and bad about itself in the second half Sunday.It resulted in a win.Kevin Dorsey and Joey King keyed a second-half surge and the Gophers lost a double-digit lead but rallied to beat Louisiana-Monroe 67-56.King finished with 20 points, Nate...