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Top-10 matchups are always great on paper — but not necessarily on the court. Duds happen, often out of nowhere; I can acknowledge that. But Monday’s only top-10 matchup — Houston-Iowa State inside Hilton Coliseum — was both great on paper\u00a0and\u00a0on the court. And it was the latest awesome high-profile game in what is becoming one of the best college basketball seasons in modern-history.<\/p>\n
Final score: Iowa State<\/a> 70, Houston<\/a> 67.<\/p>\n These days, best I can tell, you can’t do better than plopping down in front of a television on a Monday night and finding college basketball. Three Monday nights ago, we had a projected one-and-done top-20 pick in the 2026 NBA Draft<\/a>, Brayden Burries<\/a>, getting 29 points in Arizona’s<\/a> 86-83 win at BYU<\/a>. One Monday night later, we had Darryn Peterson<\/a>, the presumed No. 1 overall pick of the 2026 NBA Draft, getting 19 points in Kansas<\/a>‘ 64-61 win at Texas Tech<\/a>. One Monday night after that, we got Kansas, minus-Peterson for whatever it was that kept him out of that game, handing Arizona its first loss of the season, 82-78. And then, one Monday night after that,\u00a0last night, we got a tight contest between top-10 teams led by two of college basketball’s best coaches — Iowa State’s TJ Otzelberger and Houston’s Kelvin Sampson.<\/p>\n Despise NIL and transfer-waivers all you want; I get it. College basketball is more different than it’s ever been. But, all of that acknowledged, the on-the-court product has been undeniably terrific this season. Monday night was great. And I expect the same from Tuesday night — mostly because that’s when Michigan<\/a> will visit Purdue<\/a> in another top-10 matchup that looks incredible on paper, in part because of the stuff\u00a0Yaxel Lendeborg brings to the matchup<\/a>. The Wolverines are No. 1 in Tuesday morning’s updated CBS Sports Top 25 And 1 daily college basketball rankings. Purdue is No. 7.<\/p>\n Tuesday’s tip is set for 6:30 ET.<\/p>\n You can watch it live on Peacock.<\/p>\n Top 25 And 1 rankings <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS Sports graphic Top-10 matchups are always great on paper — but not necessarily on the court. Duds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[1982,7,52247,3294,217,37927,60152,60153,17641,2811,7368,3730,62790,1043,231,772,1544,12513,1640,3549],"class_list":{"0":"post-608210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-arizona-wildcats","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-brayden-burries","11":"tag-byu-cougars","12":"tag-college-basketball","13":"tag-college-basketball-rankings","14":"tag-college-basketball-top-25","15":"tag-college-basketball-top-25-and-1","16":"tag-darryn-peterson","17":"tag-houston-cougars","18":"tag-iowa-state-cyclones","19":"tag-kansas-jayhawks","20":"tag-mens-college-basketball-rankings","21":"tag-michigan-wolverines","22":"tag-ncaa","23":"tag-ncaa-basketball","24":"tag-ncaab","25":"tag-purdue-boilermakers","26":"tag-texas-tech-red-raiders","27":"tag-yaxel-lendeborg"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116086672096198519","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}