Auburn aims for first place in the state of Florida, and Miami and many others face off on Saturday

Saturday’s men’s basketball leaderboard features 15 ranked teams, including the SEC’s top 25 team – one of which could lead to the history of the winning team.

Here’s everything you need to know about Saturday’s men’s college basketball.

Top 25 points

• No. 2 Auburn 80, No. 12 Kentucky 71
• No. 5 Baylor 65, Oklahoma 51
• No. 6 Duke 79, Syracuse 59
• No. 7 Kansas 78, Kansas State 75
• Well. 9 UCLA in Colorado
• No. 10 Houston 79, East Carolina 36
• No. 11 Villanova 85, Georgetown 74
• No. 24 Tennessee 64, No. 13 LSU 50
• TCU 59, No. 15 Iowa State 44
• No. 16 Southern California 79, Utah 67
• No. 18 Texas Tech 78, West Virginia 65
• State of Missouri 79, No. 22 Loyola Chicago 69
• No. 23 Texas 56, Oklahoma State 51

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Auburn could make history after winning the 12th Kentucky

In the most recent AP Top 25 poll released on January 16, Auburn fell just four points from earning first place for the first time in the program’s history. Well. 1 Gonzaga scored 1,486 points compared to 1,482 points for Auburn.

That was the first survey since. 1 Baylor became the first-ever top-ranked team to drop two home games in the same week, and Tigers – ranked 14th nationally in the AP survey for the most ranked programs without being number one. , according to College Poll Archive – was in the forefront of the top spot consideration. (Click here to see a breakdown of the schools ranked highest in the top 1)

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Auburn had to settle for 2nd place in the AP poll, but on Saturday the Tigers showed why they could earn No. 1 for the first time in school history after winning 12th place in the Kentucky Wildcats 80-71.

That’s how it happened.

In a match between some of the country’s leading front-line players – Auburn’s Jabari Smith and Walker Kessler and Kentucky’s Oscar Tshiebwe – they each performed admirably, with Tshiebwe scoring 16 points and 14 rebounds in double blocks, while Kessler scoring a goal. -high 19 points, repeatedly ending up in undisputed alley-oops after Auburn’s runs, and Smith had 14. Both Tigers also had seven rebounds, two assists and two blocks.

Tshiebwe took two rebounds more than their other teammates combined.

It was a physically challenging afternoon in the backyard of Kentucky. Freshman TyTy Washington Jr. only played nine minutes and had to leave the game in the first half when he was embarrassed by Tshiebwe’s foot after the shot. Another of Guard’s guards, Sahvir Wheeler, hit the ground twice hard after the collision with Kessler.

One of Auburn’s emotional and offensive spark plugs, guard KD Johnson scored an effective 17 points in the afternoon’s 4/6 shootout.

Auburn reached the free throw line repeatedly, making 24 out of 29 attempts. Kentucky fired well from the line, 80 percent, but only lasted 10 attempts.

Given the small margin between Gonzaga and Auburn in the AP poll, only one AP voter could raise the Tigers significantly to make the Tigers number one for the first time ever.

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Florida State wins in Miami to get a stake in the ACC

What a week for Florida State. The team won 3-0 this week as ACC enemies No. 6 Duke and Miami won a one-point victory over North Florida without a conference. The victory over the Blue Devils came home overtime, and on Saturday Florida State went to Miami and became the only other team to have won the Hurricanes at Coral Gables this season.

Since the beginning of December, Miami has been 0-2 against Florida State (both losses will come in 12 days) and ‘Canes is 10-0 against everyone else they have played. Although Florida State did just three of the 12 3-point attempts, it fired 55 percent inside the arc and dominated the glass at both ends of the floor. He grabbed 36.7 percent of the available offensive rebounds and 77.8 percent of any defensive rebounds. kenpom.com.

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The ball ball margin was 39-27 in favor of Florida State.

Florida State seemed to be on the road toward the road for a road victory. He led at halftime with 24 points 43-19 thanks to Wyatt Wilkes in the final second. Florida State still carried a double-digit lead after seven minutes of play, but in front of a home crowd, Miami stormed back in the second half. Miami’s Isaiah Wong scored nine consecutive Miami points, including a four-point game that cut Florida State’s lead 61-58 1:22 left. Stealing Wong from Florida State’s Caleb Mills led to Sam Waardenburg’s dunk, cutting the deficit to 61-60, and Miami was able to force a round of the clock into Florida State’s next ball control, but Wong lost a potential game winner and Florida State survived a road victory.

Now Florida State and Miami are tied at the top of the ACC, each with a conference record of 6-2 and one win before Duke, and Florida State is responsible for both of Miami’s conference losses.

Baylor follows 0-2 weeks and 2-0 weeks

A week after it became the first all-time team to lose two home games in the same week, Baylor – now in 5th place – returned to victory and followed the losses with a road victory in West Virginia. , which is never an easy task, and another road victory over Oklahoma.

Despite the less-than-lucky history the Bears made last week, the sky isn’t falling at Waco, as Baylor is now 17-2 (5-2 Big 12) and competing for the second regular season conference championship and a possible no. 1 seed in an NCAA tournament.

On Saturday, four bears scored a double-digit goal in a steady scoring attempt as Adam Flagler set a team record of 16 points, followed by LJ Cryer with 14, Matthew Mayer with 12 and Kendall Brown with 10 points.

It wasn’t a banner day for the balls to be handled or fed, 42 combined moves, but Oklahoma made 25 of them, seven of which were made by guard Jordan Goldwire. Baylor finished with 16 plunge and five bears had multiple passes.

Next, Baylor will have a home game against Kansas State before traveling to Alabama in the Big 12 / SEC Challenge.

Kansas beat the 17-point deficit against Kansas State

When Baylor and Texas Tech won on Saturday to improve 5-2 in the Big 12, Kansas beat their rivals on Kansas State’s 78-75 road to hold the conference lead. Jayhawks is in the conference game reading 5-1.

Kansas State scored 50 points in the first half and its first basket after halftime, Nijel Pack’s Triple Point, gave the Wildcats the biggest lead of the game, 53-36. But Kansas State managed to get just 22 points in the last 19 minutes, while Kansas scored 42. Kansas scored some of their key points on the free throw line – Ochai Agbaji scored one of two to narrow the Kansas State lead to 75-70, then David. McCormack sank a pair and Agbaji made two more, raising Jayhawks one.

Kansas Christian Braun blocked Markquis Nowell and then Nowell failed in the third, with Agbaji raising Kansas to 76-75 with seven seconds left. Pack missed a potential triangle and Agbaji made two more free throws to reach the final margin of the game.

Agbaji scored a record-breaking 29 points, while three other Kansas starters scored a double-digit goal. Kansas almost doubled in the Kansas State tables 47-24.

The unpunished TCU wins 15th place in Iowa Staten 15th

Iowa State, once one of the last undefeated teams in the country since the 12-0 start, has returned to the surface with the launch of the Big 12 – a conference that kenpom.com stamps as the best in the country. On Saturday, the Cyclones lost their second game in a row but scored just 44 points in a 15-point home loss to the unpunished TCU.

In the Sports Reference database, which dates from 2010-2011, it is the lowest score in the state of Iowa in a decade. The Cyclones are now in 2-5 Big 12 games.

In the loss, the state of Iowa made only 3 of its 26 three-point attempts, or 11.5 percent, and TCU was no better thanks to its 4-15 3-point shot. Cyclones also did less than 50 percent of the two-point attempts.

Izaiah Brockington scored 19 points, but no one else in Cyclone scored more than seven. TCU’s Damion Baugh set a game record of 23 points.

In Tennessee, LSU is at its lowest since 2016

In one of the two SEC’s top 25 matches played on Saturday, Tennessee 24 lost to number 13 at LSU 64-50, the first time the Tigers had scored 50 points or less since November 2016, when they had scored 47 goals Against Wichita State.

Tennessee, led by Santiago Vescov with 16 points, six rebounds and five assists, threw 10 three-pointers, while LSU made just four of their 19 attempts deep. Tigers had 14 transfers and only seven free-throw attempts.

Tennessee is now 4-3 in the SEC, while LSU is 3-4 and the Tigers are running a three-match losing streak.