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The Minnesota Wild will look to stay unbeaten since their coaching change when they host the Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday afternoon in Saint Paul, Minn. Minnesota has won back-to-back games since veteran coach John Hynes took over behind the bench. Hynes replaced Dean Evason, who was fired on Monday after the team stumbled to a 5-10-4 record to start the season. Hynes acknowledged that his new team seemed to be playing with a sense of

No. 22 James Madison is focused on making progress regardless of the situation it finds itself in. Sometimes the situation ends up being a meeting with a Division III opponent, which is exactly what the Dukes will be up against when they face Keystone College in Harrisonburg, Va., on Sunday afternoon. “My favorite thing is improving,” James Madison coach Mark Byington said. “I don’t get caught up in results. We’ve got to keep getting better

With Missouri in the toughest portion of its nonconference schedule, coach Dennis Gates wants to see his players attacking the basket more aggressively. That was a point of emphasis for the Tigers (6-2) prepared to host Wichita State (7-1) on Sunday afternoon in Columbia, Mo. Missouri is coming off a 71-64 victory at Pittsburgh in the ACC/SEC Challenge. The Tigers prevailed despite getting outscored 25-9 at the free-throw line. “We’ve gotta continue to attack the

The Cincinnati Bearcats look to match their longest unbeaten start in six years when they host the Florida Gulf Coast Eagles on Sunday. The Bearcats (6-0) are coming off a dramatic 86-81 overtime win at Howard on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., and then an on-campus accident two days later, when one of their players was struck by a vehicle. Viktor Lakhin scored a team-high 19 points while Dan Skillings Jr. added 16 and a key

Auburn has a nonconference schedule typical of an elite college basketball program. Seven games are at home, five are at neutral sites and one is a true road game. What’s not typical is the hostile arena Auburn (5-1) will visit on Sunday when the Tigers take on Appalachian State (5-2) in Boone, N.C. The last time the Mountaineers of the Sun Belt Conference hosted a power conference school was 23 years ago when they opened

The Seattle Kraken haven’t been healthy up front all season. And now they’ll be even more shorthanded heading into Saturday’s game at Ottawa. The Kraken placed Jaden Schwartz, who is second on the team with eight goals, on injured reserve Thursday with a lower-body injury. General manager Ron Francis told The Seattle Times that Schwartz is expected to miss about six weeks. Forward Brandon Tanev suffered a lower-body injury in the season opener and missed

Mississippi State will try to bounce back from its first loss of the season when it faces Southern on Sunday afternoon in Starkville, Miss. The No. 21 Bulldogs (6-1) lost to Georgia Tech 67-59 in the ACC/SEC Challenge on Tuesday night in Atlanta. Mississippi State fell behind by 13 points at halftime and could never catch up in the second half. “We played harder (at halftime),” Bulldogs coach Chris Jans said, “but first 11 possessions

In-state bragging rights — and maybe a national ranking — are on the line Sunday when Nebraska hosts No. 15 Creighton in a nonconference game in Lincoln, Neb. The host Cornhuskers (7-0) are off to their best start since the 1992-93 season and have won every game by at least 10 points. They received votes in the most recent Associated Press poll, and a win over Creighton could get them into the Top 25 for

Michigan and Oregon will be part of the same conference next season, but the two programs are getting a head start on their Big Ten partnership. The Wolverines will battle the Ducks on Saturday in Eugene, Ore., in a contest that was initially scheduled to take place in November 2020. The coronavirus pandemic led to the cancellation of the contest. The two teams did meet in the first part of the scheduling arrangement with then-No.

Charleston coach Pat Kelsey spent the remainder of the 2023 NCAA Tournament wondering what might have been after his Cougars took a six-point loss in the first round to San Diego State, the eventual national runner-up. On Saturday night, Kelsey will get the most vivid reminder yet of what could have been when Charleston visits another of last season’s Final Four Cinderellas, No. 13 Florida Atlantic, in the final game of the Field of 68