#baylor

#baylor

I'm a simple guy. I'm kind of just one thing at a time. I'm not a multitasker. You can ask my wife. So, I'm 100 percent locked in on Arizona basketball right now, and I'm excited to see what this team can do.

Howard University's sports have been a punchline or worse my whole life, and since before I was even around, and that's a mighty long time. I learned too much about Howard's athletic awfulness when I covered D.C. sports for Washington City Paper beginning in the 1990s. My education started when I wrote about the school's 1996 basketball team, which was in the middle of the worst losing streak in the NCAA at the time.

Listen up, that roar at your door is the UCLA women's basketball team, bursting on to the national headlines Sunday after delivering the kind of Big Ten tournament title beating that sounds, well, fake. They defeated ninth-ranked Iowa 96-45. They won the title game in arguably the country's deepest conference by 51 points.

Baylor outscores opponents by 5.7 points per game (scoring 82.7 per game to rank 44th in college basketball while allowing 77 per outing to rank 261st in college basketball) and has a +177 scoring differential overall.

"Coach Driscoll and staff did a great job," Bears coach Scott Drew said of his opponent. "I hated playing them right now."

PROVO, Utah -- Brayden Burries scored 29 points and made the game-saving block in the final seconds as top-ranked Arizona remained unbeaten by holding off a furious rally from No. 13 BYU for an 86-83 victory Monday night. Jaden Bradley added 26 points for the Wildcats (21-0, 9-0 Big 12), who matched the best start in school history. BYU trailed by 19 midway through the second half before trimming the deficit to