Arizona has taken the top spot in the AP Top 25 men's college basketball poll.

Texas Tech was No. 5 in last week’s College Football Playoff rankings and on Sunday jumped two spots to No. 5 in The Associated Press poll.

Bear Bachmeier threw for 289 yards and a touchdown to help No. 11 BYU beat UCF 41-21.

The final regular season week of college football has set the stage for conference championships.

Stone Harrington kicked a school-record five field goals and Texas Tech linebacker Jacob Rodriguez had two takeaways as the No. 9 Red Red Raiders beat eighth-ranked BYU 29-7.

The Big 12 has two teams in the top 10 of the Associated Press Top 25 college football poll for the first time in two years.

The latest AP Top 25 rankings have two Big 12 college football teams in the top 10 for the first time in two years.

The Big 12 has five teams in the latest Associated Press Top 25 college football poll.

Colorado fans rushed the field after a 24-17 win over No. 22 Iowa State on Saturday.

Houston coach Willie Fritz has seen it all in college football.

BYU coach Kalani Sitake is not directly addressing the status of Jake Retzlaff amid reports that the quarterback is transferring after being accused of sexual assault in a civil lawsuit that was dismissed.

Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark is doubling down on his preference for staying with only five automatic qualifiers if the College Football Playoff does expand to 16 teams as many expect after this season.

Years of bracket chaos have given way to the year of the power conference.

On Thursday, fans of the University of Houston men’s basketball team will get their first taste of March Madness, as the top-seeded Cougars will make their debut in the 2025 tournament with a matchup against 16-seeded SIU Edwardsville.

The SEC was the best conference in basketball all season, landing a record 14 teams in the 68-team NCAA Tournament.

Conference tournament week and Selection Sunday are in the rearview mirror, and we finally have the field of 68 for the men’s college basketball March Madness tournament.

The Houston Cougars defeated Arizona 72-64 to win the Big 12 Championship, marking their second victory over Arizona this season.

Milos Uzan poured in 25 points, Emanuel Sharpe added 17 and second-ranked Houston held on down the stretch for a 72-64 victory over Arizona in the Big 12 Tournament championship game Saturday night.

Emanuel Sharpe scored 19 points before fouling out, and No. 2 Houston overcame an injury to veteran forward J’Wan Roberts in the second half to beat Colorado 77-68 on Thursday and advance to the semifinals of the Big 12 Tournament.

Selection Sunday is just five days away! We’ve entered one of the most fun weeks of the college basketball calendar: conference tournament week.

Hailey Van Lith is The Associated Press women's college basketball player of the week.

There are 14 teams that were in the preseason AP Top 25 men's college basketball poll that are no longer in the rankings this week.

Duke has ended Auburn’s eight-week stay at No. 1 in the AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll.

We’re officially less than two weeks away from Selection Sunday, and the nation’s top teams are doing whatever it takes to bolster their rankings and find their way into the field of 68.

Those “Underfrogs” from TCU are now outright women's Big 12 champions.

Sedona Prince had 16 points and 19 rebounds as 10th-ranked TCU won its first Big 12 regular-season title.

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TCU goes into the regular-season finale with a chance for its first Big 12 women's basketball title.

We’re officially less than three weeks away from Selection Sunday, and the outlook for the teams with tournament potential in men’s college basketball is becoming clearer by the day.

Cougars extend home win streak to 31 straight games at Fertitta Center while improving to 3-0 in Big 12

Texas won the Big 12 title in 2023 on its way out the door to the Southeastern Conference.

College football’s conference shakeup left concerns about two super conferences dominating the playoff field.

Oklahoma State announced it has agreed to a new contract with football coach Mike Gundy.

There’s more than just school pride and bragging rights to all that bellyaching over who might be in and who might be out of college football’s first 12-team playoff.

Athletic directors at Iowa State and SMU are in a turf war over the latest College Football Playoff rankings, leading to a “stay off my lawn” moment on social media.

The first season of major conference expansion has produced an intriguing set of championship games this week, and not just because they'll determine which teams get automatic bids and first-round byes in the College Football Playoff.

The Big 12 will command a lot of attention in the final week of the regular season.

Devin Neal ran for 207 yards and three touchdowns, caught four passes for 80 yards and another score, and led Kansas to a 37-21 victory over No. 16 Colorado on Saturday.

Boise State received the fourth and final bye in this week's College Football Playoff rankings, leaving BYU out of that mix and the Big 12 on the list of power conferences with a gripe.

Utah athletic director Mark Harlan blasted the Big 12 officiating crew following BYU’s 22-21 win over the Utes for controversial calls on the Cougars’ winning drive.

Avery Johnson threw two touchdown passes and ran for a score, Chris Tennant kicked a 51-yard go-ahead field goal with 1:42 to go and No. 16 Kansas State stopped Kansas on fourth down to preserve a 29-27 victory Saturday night.

Kansas is No. 1 in the AP Top 25 preseason men's basketball poll ahead of Alabama and two-time defending national champion UConn.

Garrett Greene threw a 15-yard touchdown pass to Rodney Gallagher with 26 seconds left to lift West Virginia to a 32-28 victory over Kansas in their Big 12 opener Saturday.

After the first shake-up of the college football season, the Southeastern Conference grabbed six of the top seven spots in the AP Top 25, a first in the 88-year history of the rankings.

The new-look Big 12 begins play this weekend and the pressure is on to perform.

Big 12 presidents are scheduled next week to discuss potentially inviting UConn to the conference after school officials recently made an in-person pitch to the league, two people familiar with the discussions tell The Associated Press.

Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark believes the league has clearly solidified itself as one of the nation’s top three conferences.

Big 12 schools will share in a record $470 million in revenue distribution.

University presidents around the country are scheduled to meet this week to vote on whether to accept a proposed settlement of an antitrust lawsuit that would cost the NCAA nearly $3 billion.

New West Virginia men's basketball coach Darian DeVries has brought some reinforcements from Drake.

Postseason recognition continues to pour in for University of Houston senior point guard Jamal Shead as he has been named a Finalist for the Naismith Defensive Player of the Year by the Atlanta Tipoff Club. The official announcement was made Thursday morning.

Houston went right to the top in its first Big 12 season.

Conference tournaments across men's college basketball begin in earnest Tuesday and there are plenty of teams riding the NCAA tourney bubble.

Arthur Kaluma scored 23 points, Cam Carter added 21 and Kansas State beat sixth-ranked Iowa State 65-58 on Saturday.

Fox will expand its coverage of college football with a package of Friday night games.

The Cougars, winners of seven straight, will obviously remain No. 1 in all three major rankings heading into what could be a championship week.

Madison Booker had 20 points and five assists and led a third-quarter surge as No. 3 Texas beat BYU 71-46.

College Football Playoff officials are considering a 14-team model that would guarantee multiple automatic bids for each of the four power conferences, starting in 2026.

Aly Khalifa had 14 points, seven assists, and seven rebounds to lead No. 25 BYU to a 78-71 victory over No. 11 Baylor on Tuesday night.

TCU was on quite a roll in coach Mark Campbell’s first season, off to a school-record 14-0 start and in the AP Top 25 poll.

Jamal Shead scored a career-high 29 points and also had 10 assists, J’Wan Roberts added 12 points and No. 5 Houston snapped a two-game losing streak with a 77-54 win over No. 25 Texas Tech. The Cougars, who have now won 15 straight at home, were coming off losses at Iowa State and TCU last week.

The Big 12 says two TCU women’s basketball games have been canceled because the team does not have enough available players.

Purdue is still atop the AP Top 25 but Houston has jumped Kansas into second place as the last unbeaten team in Division I men’s college basketball.

Purdue remained atop the AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll for the third straight week while Gonzaga dropped to No. 24 after a loss to San Diego State but managed to keep alive its streak of 142 consecutive weeks in the poll.

Ollie Gordon II leads No. 22 Oklahoma State against Texas A&M in the Texas Bowl.

Conference realignment and the downfall of the Pac-12 is The Associated Press Sports Story of the Year.

Michigan, Washington, Texas and Alabama are in the College Football Playoff.

Holgorsen went 31-28 in his five years leading the Cougars program

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Dillon Gabriel accounted for a school-record eight touchdowns to help No. 17 Oklahoma roll past West Virginia 59-20.

More than bragging rights are on the line in the final matchup between Oklahoma and Oklahoma State before Oklahoma leaves the Big 12 for the Southeastern Conference.

Penn State is still chasing elite under coach James Franklin.

Kansas is the preseason No. 1 in the AP men's college basketball poll.

3 key takeaways from the state’s football scene -- and a glimpse at what’s to come next week.

Oklahoma and Texas might not be done playing each other in the Big 12 before going to the Southeastern Conference next year.

The Big 12's four new schools are seeing the positive effects of membership in a Power Five conference.

Jonathon Brooks ran for two touchdowns and No. 3 Texas got a dominant game from its defense to overpower Baylor in a 38-6 win Saturday night to launch the Longhorns into their final Big 12 season.

The Big 12 has four new teams debuting in the league this season.

The Big 12 Conference sprung from the old Big Eight, a bunch of entirely public and largely agricultural schools.

The Big Ten says it will require its football teams to provide an availability report of its players to the conference office no more than two hours before their games kickoff.

Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark says his conference is done expanding, shutting down the possibility of adding UConn and Gonzaga after engaging with the basketball powerhouses on potential membership.

What's next in conference realignment.

Larry Scott boasted five years ago that the Pac-12 Conference would be able “to adapt, react and take advantage of this new world media order that’s coming in a way others can’t.”.

A day after leaving behind more than a century as a tenant to the premier athletic conference on the West Coast, Washington’s leadership says stability was at the forefront of its decision to join the Big Ten Conference.

The Big 12 is adding Arizona, Arizona State and Utah as members next year, completing its raid of the Pac-12.

The Big Ten has joined the Big 12 in pushing the Pac-12 to the brink.

Pac-12 leaders were presented details of a long-awaited media rights deal Tuesday by Commissioner George Kliavkoff.

The nine remaining Pac-12 schools have been mostly quiet since Colorado announced it would leave the conference in 2024 and join the Big 12.

The University of Colorado's decision to return to the Big 12 next year is expected to be a boon to football coach Deion Sanders' recruiting efforts in Texas and Florida.

Peggy Coppom says it was a good day to be a Colorado Buffaloes fan when university regents approved the school's move back to the Big 12 next year.

Big 12 presidents and chancellors have voted unanimously to accept Colorado as a new member, clearing the way for the school to leave the Pac-12 and rejoin the conference.

The Big 12 Conference announced Thursday that it will launch a Big 12 Mexico, which will be the conference’s first international extension of men’s and women’s basketball, women’s soccer and baseball games.

Cougars land West Virginia's leading rusher Tony Mathis to fill running back hole

University of Texas President Jay Hartzell says he’ll attend the Southeastern Conference’s annual meeting later this month with a goal of building relationships, and not trying to assert influence in the league Texas joins in 2024.

Houston was the lone No. 1 seed left in the tournament for about 30 minutes on Friday night, until its own run ended with an 89-75 loss to Miami in the Sweet 16.

Jalen Wilson had 20 points and seven rebounds for No. 1 seed and defending national champion Kansas in a 96-68 victory over Howard.

Texas Tech coach Mark Adams, who had been suspended recently for racially insensitive comments made toward his players, resigned shortly after the Red Raiders were eliminated from the Big 12 Tournament on Wednesday.

There will be no Big 12 regular-season title for the Baylor women for the first time in 13 seasons.

A diversity study finds women are still significantly underrepresented in leadership positions at the Football Subdivision level of college athletics.