After another big victory against a highly ranked team, no team can match the season Auburn is having. It was also a big weekend for Houston.

UConn and Kansas opened the 2024-25 season as the teams with the best odds of winning the 2025 NCAA Tournament. Those two programs were followed by Duke, Alabama, Houston to round out the top five. UConn currently has the 17th-shortest odds (45-1) to win the tournament,

Gulf Coast rock music fans can soon purchase tickets to a performance featuring legendary rock music as the C Spire Concert Series brings Kansas, .38 Special, and the Outlaws to Orange Beach. According to event organizers,

TOPEKA — Apolina Bahati’s decades-long journey to United States citizenship came to a close Monday at a naturalization ceremony in the marble-enveloped rotunda of the Kansas Capitol. Bahati left Congo at age 2 for life as a refugee in Tanzania before deciding as an adult to cross the ocean for a chance at permanence in the United States.

In Topeka, the 30 new citizens came from 18 different nations, and the ceremony gave speakers a chance to stress their own immigrant roots.

Texas Tech made its Top 25 season debut at No. 22 after beating Cincinnati and Oklahoma State to run its Big 12 winning streak to four games. Vanderbilt entered the poll at No. 24 for the first time since Dec. 7, 2015, as the women's team also cracked the poll this week for the first time since 2014.

The Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum marked Kansas’ 164th anniversary of statehood with live music, storytelling, and historical exhibits.

No. 2 Duke (17-2) beat Wake Forest 63-56. No. 3 Iowa St. (17-2) beat UCF 108-83; beat Arizona St. 76-61. No. 4 Alabama (17-3) beat Vanderbilt

Auburn's Tahaad Pettiford was sent to the line, but he only knocked down one, giving Tennessee the ball back with 12 seconds to play. The Vols pushed to their side of the court, and Rick Barnes called a timeout to set up the final play down 53-51.

The University of Wisconsin football program addressed key positions for its 2025 roster during the winter transfer portal window. But many of its opponents got better, at least on paper. The transfer portal was open from Dec.

SEC still leads the way with nine ranked teams, but the Big Ten has settled into a steady six in the AP Top 25

The Southeastern Conference has a big week ahead, with four games between ranked teams, headlined by No. 6 Tennessee at top-ranked Auburn on Saturday