Mike Gesell hit a driving layup through contact for the go-ahead three-point play with 1 minute 16 seconds left, helping visiting Iowa beat No. 12 North Carolina, 60-55, on Wednesday night in the A.C.C./Big Ten Challenge.
Kentucky held firm to the No. 1 spot in the Associated Press men’s poll while the defending national champion, Connecticut, dropped out of the top 25.
A freshman, A’ja Wilson, scored 16 points as the South Carolina women’s team, ranked No. 1, romped at home over North Carolina Central.
Jonathan Holmes made a 3-pointer with two seconds left to give the No. 7 Longhorns a 55-54 victory over the No. 24 Huskies.
Dekeiya Cohen made six of seven shots from the field and scored 18 points to lead No. 13 Baylor women to a 96-42 victory over visiting Stetson.
Domantas Sabonis had 14 points and 8 rebounds to help No. 10 Gonzaga defeat St. John’s, 73-66, on Friday night in the NIT Season Tip-Off championship game at Madison Square Garden.
Sam Dekker scored 17 points, and Nigel Hayes’s tip-in with 20 seconds left capped his 15-point day as Wisconsin rallied to beat Georgetown in the Battle 4 Atlantis semifinals in Paradise Island, Bahamas.
McNeil, a sophomore guard, was formally charged with two felony counts of assault, the second arrest of a prominent Big Ten athlete on charges of domestic violence in the past two weeks.
The one-year scholarship has come to be viewed as similar to an employment contract, while four-year awards are seen as more in the spirit of amateurism.
Several changes, including the N.C.A.A.'s decision not to ask student-athletes to sign statements allowing promotional use of their likenesses, come amid growing unrest over the amateur model of college sports.
Mark Emmert, the president of the N.C.A.A., is an unapologetic target of detractors as his organization faces legal challenges to its amateurism model.
Kendrick Payne, a former defensive lineman in college at California, watched the O’Bannon case unfold a few miles from where he works as a driver for a ride-sharing company.
