With Big Ten play nearing its midpoint, No. 16 Oregon opens the week tied for seventh in the highly competitive conference. The Ducks (16-4, 5-4 Big Ten) are coming off a loss at Minnesota that is nowhere near as dreadful as it would have been a month ago,

The Badgers, alone in fourth place, sit behind only Michigan (14-5, 6-2 Big Ten), Purdue (16-5, 8-2 Big Ten) and Michigan State (17-2, 8-0 Big Ten) in the Big Ten standings. They have road games remaining against those top two teams.

Recruiting sites like 247Sports and On3 view Loya as a notch below Tracy and Coleman on their transfer portal rankings. According to 247Sports, Coleman is the 35th-best transfer portal wide receiver; Tracy is 55th and Loya is 57th.

Oregon suffered its first loss away from home this season at Minnesota — the lowest ranked Big Ten team in NET.

Oregon men's basketball turned an 18-point deficit into an eventual one-shot lead Saturday afternoon before losing steam against Minnesota

IOWA CITY — Payton Sandfort is expected to be available for Iowa basketball’s Tuesday matchup with Minnesota, according to the Big Ten availability report. Sandfort got banged up multiple times in the first half of Iowa’s contest against UCLA on Friday and sat out the majority of the game.

Iowa is playing a dangerous game, in which the volume of the broader program narrative will only get louder should it continue down this path.

Oregon dropped in the polls after splitting games with Washington and Minnesota.

Dawson Garcia scored a season-high 31 points on 13-for-19 shooting and Parker Fox had 13 points and 11 rebounds to help Minnesota beat No. 15 Oregon 77-69 on Saturday.

UCLA (14-6, 5-4), fresh off an 85-83 victory ... The Bruins play at USC on Monday. Washington plays at Minnesota February 1.

Minnesota completely shook up its wide receiver ... and Nebraska's Malachi Coleman have stolen all the headlines, but UCLA transfer Logan Loya could wind up being one of the most underrated ...

Vanderbilt entered the Associated Press women's basketball Top 25 on Monday at No. 23, its first ranking in more than a decade, while Texas returned to the top five and Ohio State and Duke both jumped back into the top 10.