Reserve Jordan Gainey scored 19 points and No. 6 Tennessee overcame a sluggish start and beat No. 23 Georgia 74-56 on Wednesday night.

No. 11 Kentucky (17-2) beat Arkansas 89-69. Next: vs. No. 19 Alabama, Thursday. No. 12 Ohio St. (18-1) at Nebraska. Next: vs. Washington, Sunday.

Virginia visits Miami on Wednesday! Let's continue our College Basketball odds series with a Virginia-Miami prediction and pick.

Army at Colgate, 6 p.m. George Washington at UMass, 6 p.m. La Salle at St. Bonaventure, 6 p.m. Maryland at Penn St., 6 p.m. Rhode Island at Fordham, 6:30 p.m. Bucknell at Loyola (Md.), 7 p.m. Butler at Seton Hall, 7 p.m.

The transfer portal and NIL have created an unpredictable environment that makes it extremely difficult to predict year-to-year projections of a football team.

The Texas A&M men’s indoor track & field team is ranked No. 1 in the first USTFCCCA poll of the season. The A&M women are No. 7.

For Kentucky, the game before The Game was a tough one on paper — a Tuesday night road contest against Rick Barnes' Tennessee Vols, who were ranked No. 1 in the country just a few weeks ago and listed as 10.

UCLA, the only unbeaten Division I team remaining, is on track to continue its best season in program history.

Our Bryce Lazenby has put together a four-round mock draft for the Pittsburgh Steelers that adds a much-needed wide receiver and young quarterback with Pittsburgh's first two picks in the 2025 NFL Draft.

In other region/state news, former Virginia Tech offensive lineman Griffin Duggan has signed with signed with Old Dominion out of the transfer portal. Duggan is a Suffolk native and former

Stat to know: In Sunday's win over Maryland, Lauren Betts scored 33 points on 14-of-15 shooting, becoming the first UCLA player with at least 30 points and a 90% field goal percentage in the past 25 years and the first player at any school to do that against an AP top-10 opponent in the past 25 years.

St. John's at Georgetown, 6:30 p.m. Cent. Michigan at Buffalo, 7 p.m. Providence at Seton Hall, 7 p.m. Dayton at St. Bonaventure, 8 p.m. North Carolina at Pittsburgh, 9 p.m.