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Freshman Cooper Flagg rang up 42 points and No. 4 Duke held off visiting Notre Dame for an 86-78 victory Saturday afternoon in Durham, N.C.

Highland School (Va.) five-star forward Nate Ament is already on tap to check out the Duke basketball program once again come early February, coinciding with the Blue Devils' home game against the archrival UNC Tar Heels in Cameron Indoor Stadium on Saturday, Feb. 1, at 6:30 p.m. ET (ESPN).

The Crimson Tide (14-2, 3-0 Southeastern Conference) never trailed in winning their eighth consecutive game. Alabama snapped A&M’s nine-game win streak, the longest by the Aggies (13-3, 2-1) since the 2015-16 squad won 10 straight.

No. 3 Iowa St. at Texas Tech, 2 p.m. No. 4 Duke vs. Notre Dame, Noon No. 5 Alabama at No. 10 Texas A&M, 8 p.m. No. 6 Kentucky at No. 14 Mississippi St., 8:30 p.m. No ...

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A huge win over the back-to-back champion UConn Huskies has sent Creighton surging into Andy Katz's latest men’s basketball Power 37 rankings.

Iowa State. Marquette. Kansas. Michigan. UConn. Gonzaga. Memphis. Oregon. Utah State. And a long list of Southeastern Conference teams.

Nate Ament and Darryn Peterson, the No. 4 and No. 2 recruits in the Class of 2025 respectively, put on star performances on Sunday night.

Boise St. at Colorado St., 8:30 p.m. Duquesne at La Salle, 11 a.m. Holy Cross at Army, 11 a.m. Marquette at Providence, 11 a.m. Navy at Boston U., 11:30 a.m.

St. Francis (Pa.) at Wagner, 1 p.m. Brown at Cornell, 2 p.m. Columbia at Princeton, 2 p.m. Dartmouth at Yale, 2 p.m. Mercyhurst at LIU, 2 p.m. Penn at Harvard, 2 p.m. Hofstra at Drexel, 3 p.m. Morehouse at Howard, 4 p.m.

The Georgetown Hoyas (12-6, 3-4 Big East) and Villanova Wildcats (12-7, 5-3) square off on Monday night. The opening tip at Finneran Pavilion will be at 6 p.m. ET (FS1). Let's analyze BetMGM Spo