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No. 4 Duke clamps down late, tops Pitt in bounce-back win
Feb 10, 2026; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; Pittsburgh Panthers guard Barry Dunning Jr. (22) shoots against Duke Blue Devils forward Cameron Boozer (12) during the first half at Petersen Events Center. Mandatory Credit: Charles LeClaire-Imagn Images Isaiah Evans scored 21 points to power No. 4 Duke to a 70-54 road win at Pittsburgh on Tuesday night.
Evans went 5 of 6 from 3-point range in the bounce-back victory for the Blue Devils (22-2, 11-1 Atlantic Coast Conference). Cameron Boozer contributed his 13th double-double of the season with 17 points and 10 rebounds, while Caleb Foster scored 14 points, grabbed eight rebounds and dished out five assists.
Roman Siulepa paced the Panthers (9-16, 2-10) with 19 points, and Barry Dunning Jr. scored 17. It was Pitt’s fourth consecutive loss and 10th in its last 12 games.
Pitt had a six-point lead early on, and still maintained a one-point advantage with less than three minutes remaining in the first half. Dunning scored 13 points in the opening period, while Duke struggled with its shooting from beyond the arc, hitting just 22.2% of its 3-pointers in the first 20 minutes. However, one of the 3-pointers the Blue Devils made was from Devin Harris, which capped off a 7-0 run to close the half with Duke up 35-29.
Duke turned up the tempo in the second half and went on to lead by as much as 18 points following a 14-5 run late in the game. That scoring surge began with a thunderous dunk by Boozer, then punctuated by the freshman phenom converting a 3-point play where he connected on a layup through contact and then knocked down the free throw.
Pitt made just one field goal in the final four minutes of play.
The Blue Devils dominated inside, outrebounding the Panthers 37-23 and outscoring them in the paint 36-22. After a hot shooting first half, Pitt made just 2 of 13 3-pointers in the second half while Duke knocked down 7 of 14, with four of those makes coming from Evans.
Duke played without starting center Patrick Ngongba, who was listed as questionable with a left hand injury coming into the game. Ultimately, the 6-foot-11 sophomore was sidelined while wearing a wrap on his hand on the bench.
“He’s doing better. He’s really tough, he played through it (against North Carolina on Saturday). The good news is we got the imaging and all that,” Duke head coach Jon Scheyer said on the Blue Devils’ pregame radio show. “Everything is intact and he’s okay, but there’s some stuff going on there with some soreness and we got to get him right and healthy.”
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Texas A&M out to regain swagger vs. surging Missouri
Jan 21, 2026; College Station, Texas, USA; Texas A&M Aggies guard Pop Isaacs (2) defends during the first half against the Mississippi State Bulldogs at Reed Arena. Mandatory Credit: Maria Lysaker-Imagn Images Texas A&M will try to avoid its first three-game losing streak of the season when it hosts improving Missouri on Wednesday in a Southeastern Conference game in College Station, Texas.
The Aggies (17-6, 7-3 SEC) most recently suffered an 86-67 loss at home to then-No. 17 Florida on Saturday. That was the first time in league play that Texas A&M lost by more than five points and the first time since November that it has lost back-to-back games.
Texas A&M’s shooting was the culprit in Saturday’s loss. The Aggies entered the contest averaging 92.0 points per game but shot just 30.6% from the floor and scored less than 70 points for only the second time all year. A&M made just one of its first 27 shots, including a stretch of 23 straight misses.
“We can learn more from this game than a lot of games,” Texas A&M coach Bucky McMillan said. “Just understand we’ve got to stay the course and not get too antsy. Our destiny is right in front of us.”
Pop Isaacs and Marcus Hill led the Aggies in scoring with 17 points apiece in defeat.
“I believe in this team,” Issacs said. “We did a good job staying together earlier in the year when we went through that adversity. I have no doubt this team will stick together, do this and find our swagger back.”
Missouri (16-7, 6-4 SEC) heads to Texas after a 78-59 romp at South Carolina on Saturday that produced the Tigers’ first two-game winning streak since the first week in January and snapped a three-game road losing skid.
Jayden Stone scored 22 points, Mark Mitchell added 20 points and 11 rebounds and T.O. Barrett hit for 14 points in the win, which improved Missouri’s chances of advancing to the NCAA Tournament for the third time in the last four years.
A win over the Aggies on the road would aid those chances even more.
“To be able to go on the road and never have a deficit in a game is tremendous,” Missouri coach Dennis Gates said after Saturday’s win. “Hats off to our team.
“We played a collective game from the beginning to the end,” Gates added. “Defensively, to be able to hold a team on their home court to 30% in the first half, 30% in the second and for the game 30%, that’s a remarkable accomplishment.”
The Tigers have five more Quadrant 1 games remaining on their schedule, including Wednesday’s clash in Aggieland. Three of those Quad 1 opportunities will be at home against Vanderbilt, Tennessee and Arkansas.
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DePaul tries to end 23-game skid vs. Creighton
Feb 3, 2026; Chicago, Illinois, USA; DePaul Blue Demons head coach Chris Holtmann directs his team against the St. John’s Red Storm during the first half at Wintrust Arena. Mandatory Credit: Kamil Krzaczynski-Imagn Images If DePaul is going to end its longest losing streak of the season, it must beat Creighton for the first time in more than a decade.
Losers of four in a row, the host Blue Demons try to avoid a 24th consecutive defeat to the Bluejays on Wednesday night in Big East action at Chicago.
League play hasn’t been easy for DePaul (12-12, 4-9 Big East), which last defeated Seton Hall at home on Jan. 24. The Blue Demons have averaged only 63.8 points and shot 42.3% in the past four games, and they were outscored by a total of 30 points in their last two.
Providence shot 58.9% overall and went 9 of 21 from 3-point range during Saturday’s 90-72 home win over DePaul.
“You’ve got to learn from every experience,” DePaul coach Chris Holtmann told WGN Radio 720.
DePaul’s CJ Gunn averages a team-leading 14.0 points, but has failed to score at least 10 in three of the last four contests. He posted nine in each of the last two on a combined 8-of-28 shooting.
Gunn averaged 13.0 points while the Blue Demons lost all three 2024-25 meetings with Creighton, which has won 28 of the last 29 matchups in this series. DePaul’s most recent victory over the Bluejays came 70-60 at Omaha on Jan. 7, 2015.
Creighton (13-11, 7-6) should feel more confident after ending its own three-game losing streak with Saturday’s 69-68 home win over Seton Hall. Nik Graves scored just seven points, but the final three came from his shot with 2.5 seconds left in regulation, securing the win.
“I think it can be a change in momentum for us,” Graves said of the last-second victory. “Just coming together, being able to win in that fashion. Coming back, fighting hard, playing together. I think we can build off of that.”
The Bluejays will now try to break a four-game losing streak on the road, where they have won 12 straight against DePaul dating back to a 72-57 loss on Nov. 30, 2005.
Creighton’s Josh Dix averages a team-leading 11.8 points, and scored 16 on Saturday, just days after his mother passed away. He had totaled 13 points in the three games prior.
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Dreadful season for Kansas State continues with visit from Cincinnati
Feb 1, 2026; Manhattan, Kansas, USA; Kansas State Wildcats head coach Jerome Tang looks on during the second half against the Iowa State Cyclones at Bramlage Coliseum. Mandatory Credit: Scott Sewell-Imagn Images With less than a month left in the Big 12 regular season, two struggling teams will meet up Wednesday night when Kansas State hosts Cincinnati in Manhattan, Kan.
The Wildcats (10-13, 1-9 Big 12) will take to their home court having dropped four straight contests and nine of 10.
Coach Jerome Tang’s squad opened Tuesday in a last-place tie with Utah, which hosted No. 3 Houston that night.
Kansas State was fighting a flu bug spreading through the team during a blowout home loss to No. 8 Iowa State, but the team showed promise at TCU, losing in Texas 84-82 despite a gritty performance by top scorer P.J. Haggerty.
Haggerty returned to his home state and scored 30 points on 14-of-24 shooting, including 2 of 5 from three-point range.
“We have to bring this kind of focus and energy to Bramlage (Coliseum),” Tang said, looking ahead to the Cincinnati matchup. “Our fans deserve that right now. … Our fans deserve this kind of focus and energy.”
Haggerty averages 23.3 points per game and has paced the team in scoring in the past dozen games. He also leads in rebounding at 5.2. David Castillo adds 11.7 points, while Nate Johnson scores 11.3.
The Bearcats (12-12, 4-7) have dropped four of the past six games but are coming off their best win in conference play, a 92-72 thrashing of rival UCF at home in Ohio.
Opening the game as the worst shooting team in the Big 12 at 47.1%, Cincinnati turned in a season-best 58.9% (33 of 56) performance and waylaid the Knights in a long-shot bid to make the NCAA Tournament field.
Listed as probable for Wednesday, Estonian guard Kerr Kriisa (5.8 points, 3.0 assists) missed four consecutive games with a shoulder separation in January. He returned for five games but didn’t play against UCF.
Coach Wes Miller has given backcourt mate Keyshuan Tillery more playing time. Tillery logged 17 minutes against the Knights.
“Keyshuan’s minutes in the first half were significant,” Miller said of Tillery, who averages three points while playing 10 minutes per game. “He’s going to be an elite college guard. Elite. I see (him) in a Final Four one day because he’s got leadership characteristics. He’s got the competitive edge and all the ability.”
Baba Miller leads the Bearcats with 13.6 points and 10.5 rebounds.
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Texas A&M out to regain swagger vs. surging Missouri
DePaul tries to end 23-game skid vs. Creighton
