Led by unanimous Defensive Player of the Year junior cornerback Ahmad "Sauce" Gardner and repeat Offensive Player of the Year senior quarterback Desmond Ridder, the No. 3/4-ranked Cincinnati football team placed a league-high 12 Bearcats on the All-American Athletic Conference First Team on Wednesday.

East Carolina held tight defensively in the final seconds of Tuesday night's non-conference bout with Old Dominion, scoring a 63-62 victory inside Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum.

The 4-1 UCF men's basketball team will try to have a short memory as the Knights aim to bounce back from a close weekend loss to Oklahoma with another big game against No. 21/20 Auburn (5-1) on the road. UCF will travel to Auburn for an 8 p.m. clash with the Tigers.

East Carolina University will represent the American Athletic Conference in the 2021 Military Bowl presented by Peraton, benefiting the USO. The Pirates will make their first bowl appearance since the 2014 season against an opponent from the Atlantic Coast Conference on Monday, December 27 at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis. Kickoff is at 2:30 p.m. ET and the game will be televised on ESPN.

Gabe Kalscheur scored 30 points and led Iowa State to a 78-59 win over No. 9 Memphis in the NIT Season Tip-Off championship game on Friday night at the Barclays Center. The win was the largest margin of victory over a top 10 team in school history.

Fresh off a statement week in Kansas City, the Cincinnati men's basketball team is set to return to Fifth Third Arena when it hosts Monmouth at 2 p.m. Saturday.

After a 69-61 win over RV/RV Virginia Tech Wednesday night, the No. 9/10 Memphis Tigers go for an NIT Season Tip-Off title against Iowa State Friday night in Brooklyn, N.Y. Tip-off is scheduled for 8:30 p.m. CT on ESPN2.

Arkansas made several key plays inside the final 1:40 to secure a 73-67 victory over Cincinnati to win the 2021 Hall of Fame Classic Tuesday evening at the T-Mobile Center. The #12/13 Razorbacks improve to 5-0 on the season while the Bearcats drop to 5-1.

The Fighting Illini dropped the first game of the Hall of Fame Classic on Monday night, falling 71-51 to Cincinnati. Illinois center Kofi Cockburn played for the first time this season and scored a team-high 18 points.

Jeremiah Williams scored a career-high 22 points and Khalif Battle had a game and season-high 28 to lead Temple to a 75-58 win over Elon in the seventh-place game of the Shriners Children's Charleston Classic Sunday morning at TD Arena.

Senior quarterback Desmond Ridder celebrated Senior Day by tossing three touchdowns, rushing for a score and catching his first career touchdown to lead the No. 3-ranked Cincinnati football team to a dominant 48-14 victory over SMU on Saturday at Nippert Stadium.

In the last home game of the regular season, No. 17 Houston Football knocked off Memphis 31-13 on Friday night at TDECU Stadium to finish the American Athletic Conference regular season undefeated.

Clemson University men’s basketball avenged a 2017 Charleston Classic championship game to Temple on Thursday night at TD Arena. Clemson dominated from start to finish and routed Temple 75-48 to advance to the semifinals against No. 22 St. Bonaventure on Friday afternoon at 2:30 p.m.

Freshman guard Jalen Cook continued his early season scoring spree, as he netted a game-high 21 points, but it was not enough as the Tulane University men's basketball team (1-2) suffered a hard-fought 59-54 setback to Florida State (2-1) Wednesday night at the Donald L. Tucker Center.

Tyler Harris hit four 3-pointers on his way to 18 points, Emoni Bates added 16 and Jalen Duren had 13 points, eight rebounds and six blocked shots in a 90-74 Memphis Tigers win over Saint Louis Tuesday night in Memphis, Tenn.

The University of South Florida Bulls (2-1) trailed by double digits with under seven minutes remaining to North Carolina A&T State (0-3) on Monday night at the Yuengling Center. The Bulls answered the bell with a 17-3 run from there, including 10-unanswered points over the final 1:51 on the clock, and secured a 56-54 comeback win when Javon Greene (McDonough, Ga.) nailed a three-pointer with 12 seconds left in the contest.

The UCF men's basketball season is off to a roaring start and the Knights will look to keep that momentum rolling on Tuesday, Nov. 13 as UCF welcomes Jacksonville to Addition Financial Arena in Orlando for a 7 p.m. tipoff.

East Carolina shot lights out in the first half of Sunday's bout with in-state opponent Western Carolina, easily disposing of the Catamounts 95-79 inside Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum.

Ricky Council scored a game-high 19 points to spark Wichita State to a 64-58 win over South Alabama on Saturday afternoon at Charles Koch Arena.

The UCF football team gave up 17 points in the second quarter and couldn't recover as SMU prevailed 55-28 in American Athletic Conference action Saturday at Gerald Ford Stadium.