The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. UCSD Tritons (17-9, 11-3 Big West) at UC Riverside Highlanders (12-15, 7-8 Big West) Riverside, California; Thursday, 10 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: UCSD visits the UC Riverside Highlanders …

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. Central Connecticut State Blue Devils (15-10, 9-3 NEC) at Wagner Seahawks (12-12, 6-6 NEC) Staten Island, New York; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Cent. Conn. St. visits …

The new rule that rendered Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid ineligible for a second consecutive NBA MVP award because he’s missing too many games has the potential to create something the league hasn’t seen in almost two decades. That would be a wide-open MVP race. Steve Nash won the MVP award for the 2005-06 season with only 46% of the first-place votes, …