The top five teams in the ESPN/USA Today men's college basketball poll - led by No. 1 North Carolina - remained unchanged this week.
But No. 6 Pittsburgh's 80-55 loss to Dayton had a dramatic effect on both teams. The Panthers fell to No. 13 in this week's voting of 31 coaches. The Flyers climbed into the poll at No. 23, thanks to their 11-1 start, including wins over Pittsburgh and Louisville.
Unbeatens Memphis (11-0), Kansas (13-0) and Washington State (12-0) are second, third and fourth in the rankings. UCLA (12-1) remains fifth. No. 6 Michigan State (12-1) and No. 7 Georgetown (9-1) each moved up a spot. Duke climbed two places to No. 8, followed by once-beatens Tennessee and Texas A&M.
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Auburn forward Korvotney Barber, the national field-goal percentage leader at 72.0 percent, is expected to be sidelined at least four weeks after breaking his non-shooting left hand.
Barger, averaging 13.8 points and 6.9 rebounds, was injured Saturday in the Tigers' 79-59 victory over Towson.
The injury leaves the team with just six available scholarship players.
"For our team, it is heartbreaking, and I feel for them. Obviously, it is an unbelievably difficult situation," Coach Jeff Lebow said Sunday.
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Pittsburgh guard Levance Fields suffered a broken left foot in Saturday's loss to Dayton and will be out 8-12 weeks which could end his regular season.
Pittsburgh spokesperson Greg Hotchkiss said Fields will have surgery Monday and will have a pin inserted in his left foot.
"We're extremely disappointed for Levance," Coach Jamie Dixon said. "We expect him to make a full recovery and return sometime later in the season."
Fields' injury comes a week after the Panthers lost starting forward Mike Cook for the season with a torn ACL in a victory over Duke at Madison Square Garden in which Fields hit the game-winning 3-pointer.
Fields was averaging 11.9 points, 3.8 rebounds and 5.4 assists in 12 starts for Pitt this season, his second as a starter. He had started 49 straight games at Pitt.
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Dec 2007 Archive
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ESPN | Dec 29, 2007
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ESPN | Dec 29, 2007
Texas' inside game got a much-needed lift Saturday when team doctors cleared freshman forward Gary Johnson to play for the first time this season on Wednesday against TCU.
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ESPN | Dec 29, 2007
Eddie Sutton figures he'll get wins No.
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ESPN | Dec 29, 2007
Mississippi showed a little of the muscle it will need when the Southeastern Conference season starts in a couple weeks.
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Yahoo.com | Dec 29, 2007
Eddie Sutton figures he'll get wins No.
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ESPN | Dec 28, 2007
The knee injury that will sideline North Carolina junior Bobby Frasor for the rest of the season is limited to a torn ligament.
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ESPN | Dec 28, 2007
Top-ranked North Carolina's latest lopsided victory didn't matter much in the locker room.
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ESPN | Dec 26, 2007
Eddie Sutton is going to get another shot at his 800th victory.
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ESPN.com | Dec 26, 2007
Texas Tech Coach Bob Knight was given a public reprimand by the Big 12 for comments about officiating after a loss to New Mexico earlier this month.
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Yahoo.com | Dec 26, 2007
Jessie Evans was expected to resign Wednesday night as basketball coach at San Francisco which lost five of its last six games in addition to the NCAA suspension of one of its international players, The Associated Press has learned.
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AP | Dec 25, 2007
After nearly a four-year absence, Connecticut is back at No.
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ESPN | Dec 25, 2007
Injured Louisville center David Padgett has been cleared to work out and could be back when the Cardinals face West Virginia next month, Coach Rick Pitino said Monday.
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ESPN | Dec 24, 2007
North Carolina State point guard Farnold Degand is out for the season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament.
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ESPN | Dec 24, 2007
Former No.
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ESPN | Dec 23, 2007
Jack McClinton forgot his game jersey.
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ESPN | Dec 23, 2007
Next season, Illini Coach Bruce Weber will be welcoming heralded Kentucky transfer Alex Legion to Champaign, according to a published report.
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ESPN | Dec 23, 2007
Greg Kampe has been coaching at little-known Oakland University longer than any of his players have been alive.
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ESPN | Dec 23, 2007
West Virginia forward Alex Ruoff could only shake his head and laugh at how unemotional Coach Bob Huggins was after securing his 600th career victory.
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ESPN.com | Dec 23, 2007
Finally, it was Candice Wiggins' and Stanford's turn in the long rivalry with Tennessee.
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ESPN | Dec 22, 2007
Josh Shipp scored 15 of his 19 points in the second half as No.
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ESPN | Dec 22, 2007
Roy Williams spent the past few days running his North Carolina players hard during practice.
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ESPN | Dec 21, 2007
Official word is expected late Friday after Pitt fifth-year senior Mike Cook has an MRI on his left knee, but the Panthers' staff is expecting him to be out for the season with a torn ACL.
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ESPN | Dec 21, 2007
The Ohio Valley Conference announced Friday it will make courtside replay available during all games played in conference venues starting in January.
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ESPN | Dec 21, 2007
Oklahoma planned to make Gonzaga's Jeremy Pargo try to win the game from long range.
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ESPN | Dec 20, 2007
Gonzaga's Josh Heytvelt, who has not seen any regular-season action since February, will play Thursday night in the Bulldogs' matchup against Oklahoma in Oklahoma City, school officials announced.
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ESPN | Dec 20, 2007
A cool freshman kept frustrated Memphis unbeaten.
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ESPN | Dec 20, 2007
Three days after suffering a concussion, Tyler Hansbrough bodied up to the ballhandler near the North Carolina bench when he was inadvertently elbowed in the face and fell to the floor.
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ESPN.com | Dec 19, 2007
The ingredients were there, as they have been throughout Rick Pitino's hugely successful coaching career.
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AP | Dec 18, 2007
Dick Vitale, the voice of college basketball for almost three decades, had vocal cord surgery Tuesday and is expected to be off the air until at least February.
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USA Today | Dec 18, 2007
Kevin O'Neill will succeed Lute Olson as Arizona's basketball coach when the Hall of Famer retires.
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Yahoo.com | Dec 18, 2007
According to reports from ESPN.
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FoxSports | Dec 17, 2007
Stanford sophomore 7-footer Brook Lopez was cleared this morning and will play Wednesday against Santa Clara.
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ESPN | Dec 17, 2007
The top 10 teams in the ESPN/USA Today's men's basketball poll remain the same, with North Carolina holding the top spot for the third straight week.
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ESPN | Dec 17, 2007
All-American Tyler Hansbrough was listed as probable for North Carolina's next game following a concussion during a victory at Rutgers.
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Yahoo.com | Dec 17, 2007
The last time Tyler Hansbrough left New Jersey after a North Carolina game he was devastated after a tough loss one game from the Final Four.
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ESPN | Dec 17, 2007
Junior guard Eric Devendorf, the second-leading scorer for the Syracuse Orange, will miss the rest of the season after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.
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ESPN | Dec 16, 2007
Purdue's freshmen grew up just in time to deny Rick Pitino his 500th college coaching win.
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ESPN | Dec 15, 2007
Arizona Wildcats' men's basketball Coach Lute Olson isn't expected to coach a single game this season because he's on personal leave, but he'll continue to be paid his $738,000 base salary.
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ESPN | Dec 14, 2007
USC redshirt freshman forward Kasey Cunningham suffered an ACL and lateral meniscus tear in his left knee during practice on Wednesday and is expected to undergo season-ending surgery in the next few weeks.
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ESPN | Dec 14, 2007
Tennessee sophomore forward Duke Crews recently was found to have a heart condition, and the school announced he is out indefinitely.
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ESPN | Dec 14, 2007
Indiana freshman Eric Gordon is expected to play Saturday against Western Carolina after sitting out a game with a bruised tailbone.
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Chicago Tribune | Dec 14, 2007
Illlinois and Notre Dame are among the schools that are pursuing shooting guard Alex Legion, who has decided to transfer from Kentucky.
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ESPN | Dec 13, 2007
Iowa State freshman forward Clayton Vette is leaving the Cyclones for personal reasons.
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ESPN | Dec 12, 2007
Arkansas State's leading scorer, Adrian Banks, is suspended through the end of the calendar year after being charged with firing a handgun within Jonesboro's city limits, coach Dickey Nutt said.
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Yahoo.com | Dec 12, 2007
Saint Mary's first game as a ranked team in 18 years turned into a disappointment.
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ESPN | Dec 11, 2007
University of Minnesota basketball coach Tubby Smith finalized a contract that will pay him $1.
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Globe And Mail | Dec 11, 2007
After being the West Coast Conference's lone representative in The Associated Press' college basketball poll for the past decade, Gonzaga has another league member in the rankings as Saint Mary's, Calif.
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ESPN | Dec 10, 2007
Louisville (No.
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ESPN | Dec 10, 2007
North Carolina tops a list of eight unbeatens among the top nine in this week's ESPN/USA Today men's college basketball poll.
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Yahoo.com | Dec 10, 2007
Tyrese Rice scored 19 points to lead Boston College to a 81-78 win over Maryland on Sunday.
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Yahoo.com | Dec 10, 2007
Villanova Coach Jay Wright grew up on a steady diet of Big 5 games and considers himself both a modern-day guardian and historian of the famed city series.
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ESPN | Dec 9, 2007
Luc Richard Mbah a Moute scored 21 points, and UCLA (No.
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ESPN | Dec 9, 2007
The points kept coming and so did the assists.
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ESPN | Dec 8, 2007
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ESPN | Dec 8, 2007
Brian Roberts and Dayton extended Rick Pitino's wait to join the 500-win club.
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ESPN | Dec 8, 2007
Taylor King scored 18 points, fellow freshman Nolan Smith added a career-high 17 as Duke (No.
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AP | Dec 7, 2007
Arizona basketball Coach Lute Olson, on leave of absence from his team, is facing a divorce proceeding.
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USA Today | Dec 7, 2007
A sore back won't keep Indiana freshman Eric Gordon out of action Saturday.
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Yahoo.com | Dec 7, 2007
Arizona Coach Lute Olson announced on Thursday that he is extending his leave of absence through the remainder of the season.
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Yahoo.com | Dec 6, 2007
Kansas forward Brandon Rush was arrested on Thursday for failure to appear in court for traffic violations.
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AP | Dec 6, 2007
A former Fresno State women's basketball coach was awarded $19.
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ESPN | Dec 6, 2007
Coach Kirk Earlywine saw no reason to analyze how No.
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ESPN | Dec 5, 2007
The pockets of Carolina blue brightened the bleacher seats at the ol' Palestra, and boy did those top-ranked Tar Heels ever give their fans a reason to cheer.
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Yahoo.com | Dec 5, 2007
Derrick Rose made three free throws in overtime and No. 2 Memphis beat No. 24 USC 62-58 on Tuesday night in the Jimmy V Classic at Madison Square Garden.
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SI.com | Dec 3, 2007
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ESPN | Dec 3, 2007
North Carolina moved up to No.
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Yahoo.com | Dec 2, 2007
Damion James dunked with 8 seconds remaining to help No.
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ESPN | Dec 2, 2007
Darren Collison and Alfred Aboya practiced without pain Friday and will play when UCLA (No.
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ESPN | Dec 2, 2007
Mario Chalmers made a 3-pointer and a free throw in the final 20 seconds, and No.
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ESPN | Dec 1, 2007
Davidson kept rallying from double-digit deficits, giving No.
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ESPN | Dec 1, 2007
Every time Tyler Hansbrough caught the ball in the post, Kentucky's players swarmed around him, swatting at the ball.
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