Overview
- No. 2 Arizona beat No. 14 Kansas 84-61 in Tucson behind Brayden Burries’ 20-point, 12-rebound double-double and decisive second-half runs.
- Freshman Koa Peat returned after three missed games and scored 12 points, and Arizona is tracking toward the Big 12 Tournament’s No. 1 seed via a head-to-head tiebreaker over Houston.
- Kansas freshman Darryn Peterson scored 24 in the loss as the Jayhawks dropped their third game in five and face a push to secure a Big 12 Tournament double-bye.
- Rutgers topped Maryland 69-65 after the Terps erased a 19-point halftime deficit, dropping Maryland to 4-14 in Big Ten play and locking it into a first-round tournament game.
- Michigan announced reserve guard L.J. Cason suffered a torn ACL against Illinois and will miss the rest of the season, thinning the Wolverines’ rotation before March.