Community Picks: Xavier Musketeers 0% vs Villanova Wildcats 0%

Third-ranked Villanova will have a chance to tie a remarkable record when it hosts No. 15 Xavier Tuesday night at The Pavilion. The Wildcats (15-1, 3-1 Big East) are in search of their 46th consecutive victory at their cozy 6,500-seat on-campus arena on the Main Line. For Villanova to match this record, it will have to defeat a very potent Xavier team, which has won six in a row and improved to 13-2 and 3-0 in the Big East following a 97-82 win over St. John's on Saturday. Continue to Article

January 09, 2017 7:21:pm EST

A decades-long Baylor fan got emotional with coach Scott Drew after the Bears won their last game to remain one of two undefeated teams in the country. Baylor wasn't even getting votes in the Top 25 poll at the start of the season two months ago, when its football team was in the midst of a 7-6 season overshadowed by scandal. Now Baylor is the 59th school to be ranked No. 1 since the AP men's basketball poll started in the 1948-49 season. Continue to Article

January 09, 2017 6:29:pm EST

The Bears (15-0) have made a meteoric rise in the poll, going from a team that didn't receive a vote in the preseason poll to one that received 55 first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel on Monday. Villanova, which received one first-place vote, had been No. 1 for the last five weeks, but the Wildcats (15-1) dropped to third after losing at Butler last week. UCLA (16-1), which got the other first-place vote, stayed fourth. Continue to Article

January 09, 2017 12:04:pm EST