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The Purdue men’s basketball team is ranked No. 3 in the preseason Associated Press Top 25 poll released earlier today – the Boilermakers’ highest preseason ranking since the 1987-88 season.

Wisconsin quarterback Tanner Mordecai is out indefinitely after breaking his throwing hand in a loss to Iowa on Saturday. Badgers coach Luke Fickell confirmed Monday that Mordecai had undergone surgery a day earlier. As Mordecai was attempting a pass late in the second quarter Saturday, his right hand hit the helmet of Iowa linebacker Jay Higgins on his follow through.

Bill Self likes to remind his team that the faces may change at Kansas but the expectations within his program never do. The Jayhawks were the clear No. 1 pick in the AP Top 25 preseason men's basketball poll released Monday, earning 46 of 63 first-place votes to easily outdistance No. 2 Duke and No. 3 Purdue. “You know you'll have a target on your back playing at Kansas,” said Kevin McCullar Jr., who decided to return for a second season with the Jayhawks and fifth in ...

Bill Self’s Jayhawks received 46 of a possible 63 first-place votes to place ahead of runner-up Duke.

Louisville coach Jeff Brohn spent all week trying to guard his team against an emotional letdown following a cathartic and emphatic victory over Notre Dame. Brohm had been through this before. A handful of times during his six-year stay at Purdue the Boilermakers would upset a highly ranked team.

The Huskies delivered one of the best wins of the season in a Pac-12 thriller, but was it enough to vault them into the top spot?

The Aggies and Bulldogs are a combined 8-4 this season and both remain very much alive in the race for the MWC championship.

Purdue announced during Saturday's game a new cancer research center named after the late Tyler Trent.

The Bulldogs won for a third time this season when allowing 30 or more points.

Ohio State running back Dallan Hayden spent five games preparing for an opportunity that never came. On a day Kyle McCord threw three touchdown passes, Hayden provided a big boost for an injury riddle group of running backs by rushing for 76 yards and a score in his season debut to help No. 3 Ohio State rout Purdue 41-7.