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Kevin Love and Lorenzo Mata-Real showed how dominating UCLA’s two big men can be when they’re in the lineup at the same time. Playing together for the first time, Love scored 21 points, Mata-Real added 14 points and 14 rebounds and the second-ranked Bruins trounced Youngstown State 83-52 in the first round of the CBE…

Finally healthy and playing against some old acquaintances from back home, Malik Hairston had a career game Monday night, leading No. 11 Oregon to a 97-88 victory over Western Michigan in the World Vision Invitational. Hairston scored 29 points on 9-of-11 shooting to pace the Ducks (3-0). It was a career-high for the senior forward…

Two games against unranked opponents turned out to be surprisingly tough tests for No. 10 Marquette. Two days after struggling to win its season opener against IUPUI, the Golden Eagles needed a second-half surge to beat Utah Valley 66-55 on Monday night. While Marquette coach Tom Crean can take some solace in knowing that his…

Indiana fans welcomed Eric Gordon by chanting his name Monday night. The highly touted freshman responded with an opening act that lived up to the billing. Gordon finished with 33 points, the most ever by an Indiana player in his college debut, and it was his play at both ends of the court that eventually…

Texas won its season opener but boy, did the Longhorns miss Kevin Durant. Last season’s freshman phenom and national player of the year is now in the NBA and his absence left a huge hole in the Texas offense as the 16th-ranked Longhorns scored their fewest points in a season-opening win in 25 years in…

Jon Scheyer is playing less and producing more. Duke’s one-time starting shooting guard came off the bench and scored 22 points to lead the 13th-ranked Blue Devils to an 86-61 rout of New Mexico State on Monday night. Scheyer, who as a freshman started 31 of 32 games and averaged about 34 minutes, is playing…

Kansas sophomore guard Sherron Collins, the fourth-ranked Jayhawks’ leading scorer in their first two games, will be out at least six weeks after undergoing surgery Monday to repair a stress fracture in his left foot. Coach Bill Self told Sports Betting News the 5-foot-11 Collins visited the doctor after experiencing pain in the foot on…

Arizona interim coach Kevin O’Neill said Lute Olson will return soon from his personal leave of absence. “He will be back shortly,” O’Neill said Monday at a campus news conference. “We all know that and our job is to go about our business day to day until he is back.” No date has been set…

The Atlantic Sun Conference doesn’t have any members in the Top 25, but its teams knocked a couple of big-name schools out of the rankings. Gardner-Webb’s win over Kentucky and Mercer’s victory over Southern California weren’t enough to get them into Sports Betting News’ first regular-season poll Monday, although both did receive votes.

Maryland had just finished playing its first game when coach Gary Williams turned his attention toward the next one. D.J. Strawberry scored 19 points, Ekene Ibekwe had 10 points and 10 rebounds, and the Terrapins beat Hampton 102-75 Tuesday night to advance to the second round of the 2K Sports College Hoops Classic.

The New York Yankees and Jorge Posada agreed Monday night to a $52.4 million, four-year contract that keeps the catcher off the free-agent market. A five-time All-Star, Posada said Sunday he was “really close” to a deal with the Yankees and his preference was to remain with the only major league team he’s played for.

Darrell Jackson sat stewing at his locker long after most of his San Francisco teammates left Monday night, the longtime Seattle receiver still wearing his grass-stained 49ers uniform. After a historically bad night for his new team during another steady victory for his old Seahawks, Jackson could be excused for momentarily wishing he had never…