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College basketball scores, winners and losers: Blue bloods Kentucky, Duke, Kansas and UNC are still fighting - CBS Sports
Feb 21, 2021 2 mins, 57 secs

Kentucky, Duke and Michigan State aren't even in CBS Sports Bracketology Expert Jerry Palm's Bubble Watch, but each of those won vs.

It entered Saturday with a 13-1 record inside Williams Arena, and has managed to build out its burgeoning NCAA Tournament resume largely within the confines of its own venue.

They weren't alone though, as fellow Big Ten member Indiana choked away a second-half lead to Michigan State on Saturday, suffering hit to its NCAA Tournament resume.

The Spartans are still a long ways from having a shot at making the NCAA Tournament as an at-large team, but the win at Indiana put Michigan State into the category of blue blood programs that showed they still have life.

Duke, Michigan State and especially Kentucky still have a ton of work to do to make the NCAA Tournament.

When Minnesota handed Michigan its only loss of the season and improved to 11-5 overall and 4-4 in the Big Ten back on Jan.

It felt like they were on the fast track to the NCAA Tournament.

5 seed in Bracketology, still has a gauntlet of games to finish out regular season play with Texas and Baylor on tap ahead of postseason action, but this is a team right now that's firing on all cylinders and slowly gaining confidence and momentum as it rumbles towards the most consequential section of the season.

The Hoosiers completely collapsed Saturday against Sparty in the second half in an eventual 78-71 loss.

During that final 20 minutes, Michigan State scored 52 (!) second-half points, going 17-of-30 from the floor, 5-of-9 from 3-point range and committing only four turnovers.

Instead, as Jerry Palm noted, IU is on the outside looking in with Rutgers, Michigan, Michigan State and Purdue to close the regular season. .

Syracuse could ill-afford a Quad 2 home loss to Notre Dame on Saturday, but it looked like the Orange were headed for one when they fell behind by 20 points early in the second half.

The junior guard scored 17 of his career-high 29 points in the final 11:10 to help Syracuse rally for a 75-67 victory to stay on the NCAA Tournament bubble.

Daly tied a season high with 30 points in 39 minutes of action as they defeated La Salle 91-82.

It was Saint Joseph's second win on the season and first since a Jan.

Texas led West Virginia by as many as 19 points in the second half, only to see it crumble down the stretch in an eventual 84-82 defeat.

It really started coming apart just minutes into the second half when Andrew Jones and Courtney Ramey got into an on-court verbal sparring session, which led to the two being separated

The loss was particularly brutal for Stanford, which entered the day as one of the "First Four Out" of the NCAA Tournament field, according to Palm

Williams is the first Washington State player to reach 40 points since Klay Thompson scored 43 in 2011

Cleveland State and Wright State both won Saturday to clinch a share of the Horizon League regular-season title, and the milestone carries particular weight for a Cleveland State program that had struggled through five straight losing seasons in the conference before this year

The Vikings outscored Purdue Fort Wayne by 20 points in the second half on Saturday, overcoming a 12-point halftime deficit

16 seed in the NCAA Tournament -- clinched the America East regular season title this weekend

It's actually UMBC's first regular season league title since the 2007-08 season

Belmont also looks like a good bet to make the NCAA Tournament

The Bruins secured the OVC regular season title with a 90-66 win over Tennessee Tech

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