Arizona Wildcats

The headlines might not be screaming about them, but we're noticing the Blue Devils' 1-seed-worthy résumé.

— Brayden Burries and Ivan Kharchenkov each scored a career-high 20 points and No. 2 Arizona got 72 points from freshmen in a 103-73 win over Denver on Monday night.

The Arizona Wildcats continue to climb, jumping two spots to hit the No. 2 ranking on The Associated Press men's college basketball poll, while Purdue continues to be tops with 46 of 61 first-place votes.

The third in-season men's AP Top 25 poll for 2025-26 is out. Here's what's next for every team in the standings.

Big 12 announced Monday that it will get eight automatic bids to the Players Era Festival, in coming years, which will give every participant a guaranteed $1 million NIL payout.

Scott Van Pelt and Stanford Steve recap all of the action from Week 13 of the college football season. Starting with what happened on the Farm, the Big Man was THRILLED to see Frank Reich, Andrew Luck and the boys get a win. But the best game of the day was where GameDay was, as Oregon got past USC. Georgia Tech also got upset in the night slate, further complicating things for the ACC. Plus, thoughts on Notre Dame’s domination over Syracuse and who should be ahead: ND or Miami? Ohio State also dominated again, as the Buckeyes have simply steamrolled through B1G competition. Also, thoughts on Wisconsin, Washington State, Penn State, the G5, Vanderbilt, Utah, Oklahoma and more. Finally, when Christmas season truly starts and Steve’s goodbye message to Cal. | SVPod Approximate Timecodes: (0:00) Intro (0:38) Steve’s RAW emotion after Stanford beat Cal (4:53) Oregon gets past USC (21:21) Pitt upsets Georgia Tech (31:26) Notre Dame or Miami? (35:43) Why the little guy deserves a chance (39:03) Shoutout Wazzu (43:14) Oklahoma beats Mizzou (47:35) Vandy rolls Kentucky (48:58) Utah outlasts Kansas State (50:12) BYU-Cincinnati reaction (53:18) Ohio State has DOMINATED (56:18) Ole Miss and Alabama have TOUGH ONES next week… (59:18) The Lane Kiffin situation… (1:00:36) A&M is FAVORED at Texas for the 1st time since… (1:01:43) Wk 14 look ahead (1:03:16) Good for Wisconsin (1:04:08) Good for Penn State (1:06:35) Good Friday games are gonna be good (1:08:33) Coming up (1:10:03) Update on the loan calls (1:13:56) SVP’s Strosniders story (1:17:13) Steve is anti-Christmas for 5 more days (1:18:08) Steve dealt with more mechanical (1:19:06) Steve got AI glasses! (1:22:43) No premature texts, please (1:22:38) Poise was lost (1:23:43) Steve’s WILD outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Teams that won (Michigan State) and have work to do (Kentucky), plus the latest on uncommitted five-stars.

The Wildcats added another statement win to their early-season résumé, headlining this week's top-25 risers.

Arizona flipped the script on UConn in their top-five matchup, taking advantage of senior center Tarris Reed Jr.'s absence to win a physical battle in the paint during a 71-67 victory.