Hoops du Jour
Men: Campbell at Penn State
Tipoff: Tonight, 6, Jordan Center, University Park
Records: Campbell (3-4), Penn State (7-1)
TV: Big Ten Network
Radio: ESPN Radio 1370 State College & 103.7-FM
Satellite: SiriusXM Ch. 372
Notable: Penn State freshman guard Kayden Mingo was named Big Ten Freshman of the Week on Monday for his work in helping the Nittany Lions go 2-0 last week. He averaged 13.5 points-per game, 3.5 rebounds, 4.5 assists and 5 steals-per game. He leads Penn State in scoring at 14.3 ppg. … The Fighting Camels are coming off a 99-51 loss to Wake Forest. Their wins are over Texas-Arlington, Western Michigan and Mid-Atlantic Christian, which is not an NCAA affiliated school. … Campbell’s coach, John Andrezejek is in his first season after being an assistant for national champion Florida last season. … Campbell is 0-4 on the road this season. … D.J. Smith leads Campbell in scoring (19.6) followed by Dovydas Butka (14.9), Chris Fields (12.7) and Jeremiah Williamson-Johnson (11.1). … Penn State is coming off a 31-point win over Sacred Heart. … Besides Mingo, the Lions can count on Melih Tunca (13.9) and Freddie Dillione V (12.8). …After this game, Penn State does not play again until Tuesday, Dec. 9, at Indiana with an 8:30 p.m. tipoff.
Mirror prediction: Penn State 80, Campbell 53
Mirror prediction record: 8-0
— Scott Franco
Men: Texas A&M at Pitt
Tipoff: 7 p.m., Petersen Events Center, Pittsburgh
Records: Texas A&M (6-2, 0-0 SEC); Pittsburgh (5-3, 0-0 ACC)
TV: ESPNU (Jay Alter and Randolph Childress)
Notable: ACC/SEC Challenge game … Pitt is coming off a 67-66 win over Ohio State on Friday on Damarco Minor’s buzzer-beating 3-pointer … Pitt sophomore starting guard Brandin Cummings has missed three games, including the last two, with a lower body injury … Texas A&M’s wins have come against Northwestern State, Texas Southern, Montana, Manhattan, Mississippi Valley State and Florida State. The Aggies have lost to Oklahoma State and UCF, which also beat Pitt … Former Samford coach Bucky McMillan is in his first season in charge of the Aggies … Spain native Ruben Dominguez (15.6 ppg.), NC State transfer guard Marcus Hill (11.6 ppg.) and 6-foot-8 USC transfer Rashaun Agee (10.5 ppg.) have been A&M’s top players … Former Panther Federiko Federiko, a graduate student, has started three games for A&M and averages 4.0 points and 3.8 rebounds … Pitt won the only previous meeting, 79-62, in 1985.
Mirror prediction: Texas A&M 77, Pitt 74
Mirror prediction record: 6-2
— Buck Frank
Lady Mounties get first win
CRESSON — The Mount Aloysius women’s basketball team picked up its first win of the season Monday night, disposing of Wilson College, 79-58, in area collegiate action.
The Lady Mounties (1-4) led 19-14 after one quarter, then started to pull away a 16-7 showing in the second frame for a 35-21 halftime lead.
Annalyn Isaacs led the Mount with 14 points to go with 11 points and 13 rebounds from Molly Kosmack. Teammates Brionna Brown and Mackenzie Barr each added nine points.
Lae Black led Wilson (4-4) with 14 points.
The Mount is at Carlow College on Wednesday.
Top 25 men
Wolverines jump up to No. 3
Michigan jumped to No. 3 in the Associated Press Top 25 men’s basketball poll on Monday as rival Michigan State and Iowa State both climbed into the top 10.
No. 1 Purdue and No. 2 Arizona remained atop the rankings. The Boilermakers received 40 first-place votes from a 61-person media panel, Arizona got six and Michigan got 15 after its dominating run through the Players Era Championship.
Duke and UConn held their positions from last week to round out the top five. Louisville remained No. 6, followed by Michigan State, which moved up four spots and No. 8 Houston, which dropped five places after losing to then-No. 17 Tennessee at Players Era.
The Wolverines opened the Las Vegas tournament with a 94-54 win over San Diego State, crushed then-No. 21 Auburn 102-72 and handed Gonzaga coach Mark Few his worst loss in 902 career games with a 101-61 win over the 12th-ranked Zags.
No. 17 Vanderbilt had the biggest jump of the week, moving up seven spots after winning the Battle 4 Atlantis title in the Bahamas.
No. 10 Iowa State climbed five places after winning three games at the Players Era championship.
No. 7 Michigan State moved up four places following lopsided wins over East Carolina and No. 16 North Carolina in the Fort Myers Tip-Off. No. 13 Tennessee also gained four spots after beating Houston and losing to Kansas, which moved back into the poll at No. 21.
No. 23 St. John’s had the biggest drop among teams still in the poll, losing nine places after wrapping losses to Iowa State and Auburn around a win over Baylor at the Players Era.
Reigning national champion Florida fell five places to No. 15 after losing to TCU in the Rady Children’s Invitational. No. 12 Alabama dropped four places after losing to Gonzaga in its opener of the Players Era.
Top 25 women
Longhorns move closer to the top
Texas moved up to No. 2 behind UConn in The Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball poll on Monday after beating two top teams in a Thanksgiving tournament.
The Longhorns topped then-No. 2 South Carolina 66-64 a day after beating then-No. 3 UCLA 76-65 in Las Vegas. It was the first time in the past 25 years that a team has beaten two top three teams in such a short time frame.
Texas received 10 first-place votes from a 32-member national media panel. No. 1 UConn garnered the other 22. The Huskies routed Xavier 104-39 to open Big East play. South Carolina fell to third and UCLA was fourth.
LSU remained fifth. The Tigers, who haven’t played a ranked opponent yet, have scored over 100 points in each of their first eight games to set an NCAA record. They broke the mark of six in a row set by the 1981-82 Louisiana Tech team that LSU coach Kim Mulkey played on.
Michigan, Maryland, TCU, Oklahoma and Iowa State rounded out the top 10. The Cyclones got a school-record 47-point effort from star post player Audi Crooks to beat Indiana on Sunday.
Ohio State debuted in this year’s poll at No. 23 after edging West Virginia last week 83-81. The Buckeyes followed that up with a 98-point win over Niagara, the most points scored in school history and the biggest margin of victory ever for the Buckeyes. N.C. State fell out of the poll.
The Big Ten matched the Southeastern Conference this week with eight teams ranked after Ohio State entered the Top 25. The Big 12 is next with five and the Atlantic Coast Conference has three. The Big East has one.




