After guiding St. John's to its best season in four decades, coach Rick Pitino sought a tougher nonconference schedule to better prepare his players for the rigors of conference and postseason games.One of those games arrives Saturday afternoon when th...

The New York Islanders had nearly three full days to ponder what could have been after squandering a trio of one-goal leads against the Boston Bruins on Tuesday.The Minnesota Wild won't have to wait nearly as long to get back on to the ice after a simi...

Twenty-one turnovers and a 2-for-16 performance from the 3-point arc don't typically lead to a win. However, Oregon posted those team statistics in its season opener on Tuesday and still walked off its home court with a one-point victory over Hawaii.Th...

All the adoration around the new-look North Carolina State team was nice leading up to the season.Now there's some serious business for the Wolfpack at the end of the season's first week.UAB visits NC State for a Friday night game in Raleigh, N.C.The W...

Missouri expects to run its offense this season through its top two returning players, forward Mark Mitchell and point guard Anthony Robinson II.After those two combined for just 17 points in Missouri's 88-67 season-opening victory at Howard on Monday,...

Early-season runaways can offer lots to like, but "what you don't want to do is create bad habits," DePaul coach Chris Holtmann cautions.After rolling past Chicago State on Monday behind what Holtmann called some terrific sequences, the Blue Demons wil...