It is a top-25 Big Ten battle as Purdue faces Oregon. It’s time to continue our College Basketball odds series with a Purdue-Oregon prediction and pick. Purdue comes into the game at 14-4 on the year.

Grant Nelson scored a season-best 25 points and collected 11 rebounds to help No. 4 Alabama notch a 102-97 victory over No. 8 Kentucky in a high-octane Southeastern Conference contest in Lexington, Ky.

Javon Small scored 12 of his 27 points in the final two minutes to lead West Virginia to a win over No. Iowa State, ending the Cyclones' national-best 12-game winning streak. Amani Hansberry added 12 points for the Mountaineers (13-4,

Vanderbilt stuns Tennessee, Creighton earns a ranked win and Alabama tops Kentucky on an exciting Saturday of men’s college basketball.

Grant Nelson had 25 points and 11 rebounds, and No. 4 Alabama beat No. 8 Kentucky 102-97 on Saturday in a matchup of two of the top

Colgate at Lafayette, 1 p.m. Maine at UMBC, 1 p.m. Mercyhurst at Wagner, 1 p.m. Albany (NY) at Binghamton, 2 p.m. Canisius at Fairfield, 2 p.m. Cornell at Penn, 2 p.m.

We now turn our attention to the skyscraper juggernaut known as the B!G Men’s Building. Here we have grouped the B1G men’s basketball teams into three tiers - Penthouse Level, Executive Level, and Business Level.

Men’s college basketball and Illini beat writer Scott Richey projects his top-four seeds for each region of the NCAA tournament

Marquette has the defense to neutralize Xavier's 87th-ranked offense. Marquette is 56th in the nation, allowing just 67.4 points per game. The one area where Marquette will have to be careful is with Xavier's three-point shooting, but the Golden Eagles have been above-average this season with a 31.7% three-point efficiency allowed.

Number 17 Purdue heads to Eugene to face #13 Oregon on Saturday afternoon at 3:00 PM ET. Keep reading for our Purdue vs. Oregon prediction.

Here is this week’s edition of Oregon State mailbag, where readers ask questions about Beavers’ athletics, and The Oregonian/OregonLive’s Nick Daschel gives an answer. As always, if you have a mailbag question,

Florida, Georgia, Michigan and more have shocked the nation with their play through the midway point of the season.