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49ers defeated the Highlanders 63-56.

"I just like how tough we've been," Nichols said.

Max Klesmit sealed the victory with a layup with 42 seconds remaining.

Christopher Newport wins DIII title

Flames earn No. 2 seed and will play Villanova Tuesday at 9 p.m.

Virginia to play Furman on Thursday.

Tishara Morehouse scored 20 points and distributed six assists as Florida Gulf Coast cruised to an 84-60 win over Liberty.

Cavaliers shooting just 1-of-7 from beyond the arc.

Liberty previously held a record of 3-0 in ASUN title games.

Taylor Soule provided a big second half spark for the Hokies.

Sean Pedulla scored 25 points including 8 three-pointers.

The Cavaliers began the day tied with No. 16 Miami and No. 25 Pittsburgh, the sixth time they’ve finished atop the ACC in 14 seasons under Tony Bennett.

The Hokies center becomes the third-straight two-time winner of the ACC Player of the Year award.

McKay and the Flames have posted seven straight 20-win seasons.

Highlanders played their first game with Shane Nichols serving as acting head coach.

No. 6 Virginia was held to a season-low 32% shooting from the field.

Kihei Clark scored 15 points in the Cavaliers victory.

Highlanders shot just 31 percent from the field.

Jeremy Roach led the Blue Devils with 16 points

The Roanoke native earned Big South honors during his senior season under then head coach Mike Jones.

Kihei Clark recorded a double-double in the gutsy road win for the Cavaliers on Monday night.

The Hoosiers stayed hot in their 86-70 win over the Buckeyes on Saturday.

Hokies win back-to-back ACC games after another strong shooting night.

Hokies are without guard Darius Maddox who's out of tonight's game while tending to a family matter.

Creighton, up-and-down since earning a No. 8 ranking in the AP Preseason Top 25, has now won four straight after upsetting No. 13 Xavier.

It's a full day of college hoops on FOX featuring Arizona, Ohio State, Indiana, Illinois and more. Here are the top plays!

Titus and Tate touched on Georgetown's memorable win over DePaul, Dajuan Wagner Jr. and his family, and more in their final show at FOX Sports.

Following their third straight SEC victory, the Tennessee Volunteers made a big jump in Mike DeCourcy's latest NCAA Tournament bracket projections.

Indiana senior Trayce Jackson-Davis is on a historic tear, playing the best basketball of his career at just the right time.

Xavier heads to Storrs, Connecticut to take on UConn in a Big East battle Wednesday on FS1. Here are the top plays!

Bronny James and a quartet of Kentucky signees highlight the rosters for the 46th annual McDonald's All American Game.

After winning 11 of their last 12 games, including a victory over Kansas, the Kansas State Wildcats made a big jump in Mike DeCourcy's bracket forecast.

LeBron James said that Bronny James is intrigued by playing at Oregon, who are one of a handful of programs on his shortlist.

A college basketball season filled with upsets continued on Sunday, when No. 1 Houston was knocked off by unranked Temple, 56-55.

Zach Edey had 24 points and 16 rebounds as No. 3 Purdue held off a furious second-half charge from Maryland for a 58-55 victory on Sunday.

NC State guard Terquavion Smith, a projected first-round NBA Draft pick, was released from a hospital after X-Rays were negative for fractures.

Armando Bacot passed Tyler Hansbrough for UNC's career rebounding record in an 80-69 victory over NC State on Saturday night.

Butler heads to Hartford, Connecticut to take on UConn in a Big East battle Sunday on FOX. Here are the top plays!

Basile led the Hokies with 13 points.

Highlanders extend their win streak to five.

The Keydets held an 8 point lead early in the second half.

The win proved to be the 400th in head coach Tony Bennett's career--the 330th with Virginia.

Iowa State heads to Columbus to take on Ohio State in a Big Ten battle on FOX. Here are the top plays!

The ACC is wide open, with a surprise contender sitting atop the conference standings. Andy Katz separates the top conference races into tiers.

Following a memorable overtime win against Kansas this past week, Kansas State is on the rise in Mike DeCourcy's latest bracket forecast.

Both Texas and Virginia made big jumps in Mike DeCourcy's latest bracket forecast, while a pair of blue bloods sit squarely on the bubble.

McGhee moves into 5th all-time in D1 history in made three-pointers.

A composure that only comes with experience showed up in crunch time as Radford men’s basketball team held on to defeat Charleston Southern, 75-70, on Carilion Clinic Court at the Dedmon Center on Saturday afternoon. Leading by as many as 15 points in the second half, the Highlanders (10-9, 4-2 Big South) braced themselves for an unrelenting comeback effort from the Buccaneers (7-10, 3-3 Big South). A 9-0 run by CSU made it a six-point game with 14 minutes to play and the guests kept it close from there on out.

Cavaliers extend win streak to three.

Houston moved up to the top-seed line in Mike DeCourcy's latest NCAA Tournament bracket forecast, while UConn dropped to a 3-seed. Get the latest here.

Asher Woods led the Keydets with 14 points.

Following an impressive win over Creighton, the UConn Huskies are back on the No. 1-seed line. Here is Mike DeCourcy's latest bracket forecast.

Interim head coach Rodney Terry has a chance to be the permanent choice to replace Chris Beard at Texas, but the competition will be fierce.

For a third straight week, John Fanta has a new team atop his weekly power rankings: Houston. See how the rest of his list shakes out.

Virginia's leading scorer Mir McLean was taken off the court on a stretcher after an apparent leg injury.

Jasmyn Roberts scored a career-high 23 points in the Hurricanes victory.

Tony Bennett earned his 327th career win--the most in program history.

Hokies drop their fourth straight game.

Washington State ended No. 5 Arizona’s 28-game home winning streak with a 74-61 upset victory on Saturday.

Zach Edey is the favorite to be this year's Naismith Men's College Player of the Year, but Azuolas Tubelis and Jalen Wilson aren't far behind.

After the fall of Chris Beard, Texas faces an extremely critical hire, and it will be among the most coveted jobs in America.

After Purdue and UConn endured recent upsets, Andy Katz and John Fanta break down who can win it all in a wide-open field.

Cavaliers were outscored 45-32 in the second half.

Darius McGhee made 5 three-pointers in the Monday night home victory.

New Year's weekend chaos gives us a shake up in John Fanta's weekly power rankings: UConn and Arkansas are falling, Baylor drops off the list, and Xavier joins the party.

Zach Freemantle had 16 points and 11 rebounds as No. 22 Xavier handed No. 2 UConn its first loss of the season, 83-73, on Saturday.

Pedulla leads the Hokies in scoring--averaging 17 points per game.

UConn, Purdue, Arizona and Kansas held onto their spots in the latest men's NCAA Tournament projections.

Zach Rosenthal dropped 16 points off the bench for the Maroons.

Andy Katz breaks down the teams that have been flying under the radar so far this season (though not for long!) and separates them into four tiers.

Amari Robinson caught the final inbounds pass, threw the ball high in the air and screamed as time ran out on Clemson’s biggest win in more than two decades.

North Carolina, which was No. 1 in the AP's preseason Top 25 poll, is an eight-seed in FOX Sports bracket forecaster Mike DeCourcy's projections after stumbling to a 9-4 record.

Purdue remained atop The Associated Press Top 25 men’s college basketball poll for a third straight week, while North Carolina returned to the rankings.

What should we make of this past week? Well, those teams that took the entire week off did it right. Here's our fresh Top 15.

Sean Pedulla and Justyn Mutts had 18 points apiece for Virginia Tech

The Cavaliers erased a late 10 point deficit but come up short on the road.

Surprise! Purdue, UConn, Mississippi State, New Mexico and Utah State remain unbeaten. Can they keep it up?

The Pac-12 has two Final Four-caliber teams in UCLA and Arizona. See where John Fanta places them in his latest power rankings.

Geno Auriemma missed No. 9 UConn’s game against Florida State on Sunday as he wasn’t feeling well after the team’s shootaround.

FOX Sports college basketball analyst Andy Katz offers up his freshmen of the year tiers, highlighted by a standout forward from Alabama.

What teams have surprised so far? Which players have impressed the most? Find out in our early season report card from Andy Katz and John Fanta.

Don't look now, but UConn is playing the best basketball in the nation. John Fanta breaks down his latest power rankings.

The charge against Chris Beard is a third-degree felony in Texas, with a possible punishment of two to 10 years in prison.

It was a wild week of college basketball, including a controversial finish that showed one replay rule should be changed. Andy Katz breaks it down.

Taylor Soule scored 21 points to lead No. 7 Virginia Tech to an 86-48 victory over UNC Asheville on Saturday.

Justyn Mutts had three steals and three points in the last two minutes and sparked a game-changing 7-0 run to help Virginia Tech beat Oklahoma State 70-65 on Sunday at the Hoop Hall Invitational in the Barclays Center.

Andy Katz takes a look at college basketball's player of the year candidates through the first month of the season.

Michigan point guard Jaelin Llewellyn is out for the rest of the season with an injured knee and is expected to have surgery next month.

What's the deal with UNC and Gonzaga? And just how far can Purdue rise up? John Fanta dives in with his latest power rankings.

North Carolina played without center Armando Bacot who was out with a bruised shoulder.

Juwan Howard and his players expressed optimism after Michigan's narrow loss to No. 3 Virginia, but the trend of late-game collapses continued.

Hokies move to 7-1 this season.

Holiday week revealed much about the college hoops landscape. Who has work to do? Who is better than we thought? Andy Katz breaks it down.

Kentucky drops out, Virginia rises, and the Big Ten rules in John Fanta's Power Rankings. Check out his Top 15, his Player of the Week, and more!

Reece Beekman was named Continental Tire Main Event Tournament MVP.

Virginia Tech led by 8 with 8 minutes to play.

Hollins played Salisbury in the annual Jean Beamer Tip-Off classic at Roanoke College.

Michigan State was underrated, Houston is stacked and Texas is a contender. All this and more in Andy Katz's weekly college hoops notebook.

The Virginia Tech Men’s Basketball team beat ODU in the quarterfinal of the Shriners Children’s Charleston Classic on Thursday 75-71.

Michigan State, Kentucky, Kansas and Duke held center stage on Tuesday night, setting up the season with a six-hour college basketball party.