Richmond 79, Temple 53. The Spiders scored the first 14 points in a building Temple hadn't played in for four years, on the night it turned 100. One week after a 17-0 start, the Owls had as many turnovers as made field goals.
Halftime was 54-31. Final was 97-93. Penn State set a program free-throw record at 43 of 49 and still watched Anigbata's three cut it to one possession with under a second left. Credit the free throws. Do not hide the second half. Pitt is next.
Burton was the purchase: 42.5 percent on 76 threes at Stephen F. Austin. He led La Salle with 15 points and four threes in the Houston opener. Volume is not a clinic. Homecoming against LIU is where the bet has to look real at home.
Last year Temple beat George Mason in overtime. This year Turner goes for 21 with five threes on the road and the Owls lose by 20. Credit her night. Do not hide the boards or the score. Navy at home is the next read.
Seventeen points, 10 rebounds, five assists, all career bests, in 39 minutes. The Lady Lions still dropped the home opener by one. Both things count.
A useful first look against CCSU. Now take it to the Palestra without pretending one game settled anything.
The opener gave Nova fans a player performance to appreciate and a defensive result they can't wave away. Neither is a season verdict.
Penn's unanimous All-Ivy forward was sick the last time he saw Illinois. Tonight at 8:30 on FS1 he gets a healthy look at the No. 3 team in the country.
Villanova's women open the 2026-27 season Sunday against Notre Dame in Rome, picked second in the Big East. Last season's three games with UConn show how big the gap to first place was, and how it moved from one game to the next.
The Atlantic 10 calls La Salle's women's team last season one of the strongest in program history, and the league's coaches still picked them 10th of 14. The roster page gives a reason to wonder, and so does the crowd count.
No. 14 Penn State got goals from Cooper Cutchins and Lilly Holmes and seven saves from Aby Deverka. Northwestern still shares the Big Ten regular-season title and, by its own account, keeps the top seed and a bye in the conference tournament.
Zach Spiker's Drexel teams are 148-161 over ten seasons, and the Dragons' win total has fallen each year since 2023-24. The Coastal Athletic Association's coaches picked them ninth of 13 for 2026-27, one spot better than last year's pick.
Jaiden Glover-Toscano is on the Atlantic 10's preseason first team after 535 points, 433 field goal attempts and 33 assists. Derek Simpson, who had 188 of the Hawks' 556 assists, is not on the 2026-27 roster.
Villanova's coach pointed to thin crowds and blamed Temple and the other schools he says "broke it off" for the end of the Big 5 as we knew it. The attendance numbers are public. So is most of the rest of the record, and it points at money.
Steve Donahue won Atlantic 10 and Big 5 Coach of the Year at Saint Joseph's. Nine players who scored about 61 percent of last season's points are gone, and the A-10 picked the Hawks sixth.
Nobody has reported that Penn State is firing Matt Campbell. This is what the term sheet guarantees: $62.5 million in pay for 2027 through 2033, before any offset for what he'd earn somewhere else.
