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

News & Observer sports columnist Luke DeCock is back on the AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll panel for the upcoming season. Here is his preseason ballot, with a friendly reminder that he hates your team.

Two women have been found dead outside the Campus Edge Apartments.

According to the Tippecanoe Coroner, Tanya Roy and her twin sister Rayna Roy, both 25 years of age, who were found deceased in the alley of the 100 block of

Jeff Brohm prepared Louisville to be successful. Now comes perhaps the far trickier part for the 14th-ranked Cardinals (6-0, 3-0 ACC): figuring out how to handle it. Fresh off a cathartic and impressive upset of Notre Dame, Louisville visits struggling Pittsburgh (1-4, 0-2) on Saturday hoping to avoid the kind of letdowns that the teams Brohm coached at Purdue experienced.

The Big Ten got an unexpected boost in the offseason when Zach Edey decided to return to Purdue for a fourth year. Or will Purdue’s well-publicized struggles in the NCAA Tournament — emblematic of the entire conference’s recent postseason failures — persist? The 7-foot-4, 300-pound Edey was the runaway winner of the AP National Player of the Year award last season, when he averaged 22.3 points, 12.9 rebounds and 2.1 blocks per game.

For teams like Penn State, “buy games” are often a chance to get younger, inexperienced players game action.

One game doesn’t make a program whether it was Louisville’s big win over Notre Dame or Kentucky’s blowout loss at Georgia.

Penn State drops from first to third by not playing, which is how it works in the world of Big Ten Power Rankings "What have you done for me lately?"

‘Yeah, it sucks. Yeah, we know we should have won the game. We have a tough matchup this week and we have to get better for that.’