The first USA TODAY Sports men's basketball poll of the regular season saw a close race between Purdue and Houston for the the No. 1 spot in rankings.

The Associated Press Top 25 poll will update later Monday, at which point Purdue is expected to remain No. 1 for the second straight week. Houston should still be No. 2, which means the top two teams in the AP poll and CBS Sports Top 25 And 1 daily college basketball rankings are exactly the same.

New Analysts this Season on Peacock Include Former Iowa Head Coach Lisa Bluder, NBA Veterans Brendan Haywood and Evan Turner, and Big Ten All-Time Leading Scorer Calbert Cheaney

The NCAA revoked the eligibility of six men’s college basketball players on Friday as a result of three separate sports-betting cases that involved a power-conference school and allegations of players throwing games to lose by more points than the spread.

These are brand new times. This is not college sport as we knew it since the late 1800s. Amateurs? Nope, writes FOX 32 sports columnist Rick Telander.

The Oklahoma Sooners will take on the UCLA Bruins on Monday at Golden 1 Center in what should be an exciting women’s college basketball matchup.

Friday should get us back on track and provide something compelling with the most notable game originating at the Dean E. Smith Center, where Darryn Peterson and the Kansas Jayhawks will play North Carolina.