The 13th-ranked Georgetown Hoyas are playing inspired basketball, and they carry plenty of momentum into today's Big East Conference clash with the resurgent Providence Friars.

The 25th-ranked West Virginia Mountaineers
will face a significant challenge tonight as they host the suddenly surging
Seton Hall Pirates in a Big East Conference showdown at WVU Coliseum.

With the postseason rapidly approaching, a
pair of Big East Conference teams hoping to improve their prospects meet in
the nation's capital this morning, as the South Florida Bulls take on the
14th-ranked Georgetown Hoyas.

The Bryant Bulldogs will try to produce one
of the early season upsets as they tip-off their 2013-14 schedule at the
McCarthey Athletic Center against the 15th-ranked Gonzaga Bulldogs.

Big Five rivals get together on Sunday
afternoon, as the La Salle Explorers pay a visit to the 10th-ranked Villanova
Wildcats.

Seven non-FBS schools have decided to
withdraw from the Big East and pursue a new basketball framework.

The loud sentiment from Palo Alto to
Providence, from one college "biscuits" diehard to another, is the lack of a
dominant team will result in a March fitting of its multi-million-dollar
moniker.

A pair of teams having already logged double-
digit wins meet in a Big East Conference showdown on Wednesday night, as the
third-ranked Louisville Cardinals pay a visit to the Seton Hall Pirates.

Syracuse remained firmly entrenched as the top
team in the latest Associated Press men's college basketball poll.

Connecticut men's basketball coach Jim Calhoun
will miss at least two more games after having surgery to help alleviate the
spinal stenosis that forced him to take a medical leave of absence.

Providence College has fired men's head
basketball coach Keno Davis after three seasons.