Despite Duke basketball’s dominance, Cooper Flagg and the third-ranked Blue Devils accomplished a first on Saturday night by ...

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Duke supplanted Florida at No. 2 in the latest AP Top 25 men's college basketball rankings Monday after a statement win Saturday inside Madison Square Garden in which it defeated Illinois, 110-67, to ...

Illinois was humming along as one of the country's better college basketball teams. Then the 3-point shots stopped falling.

The moment hit as one would expect for walk-on guard Spencer Hubbard of the third-ranked Duke Blue Devils. On the biggest of college basketball stages at Madison Square Garden on Saturday, he nailed a ...

His Illinois teammate, freshman forward Will Riley, is also viewed as a possible first-round pick. "When you're talking about a big-time, nationally televised game in Madison Square Garden," an ...

Illinois made 15 of its 18 2-point tries ... The 18-year-old star only scored 16 points in his first trip to Madison Square Garden, but six of his teammates ended up in double-digits as the ...

Illinois coach Brad Underwood has a different ... seven rebounds and five assists in his Madison Square Garden debut. Duke romped to a 110-67 victory so lopsided that coach Jon Scheyer emptied ...

Illinois could not buy a three-pointer in the first half. The Illini went scoreless from deep, shooting 0-16 in the first 20 minutes. Most were relatively good looks, besides a couple of step-back ...