Connecticut's Jalen Adams returned from a concussion to score a team-high 18 points while playing all 45 minutes last game. Adams' effort, however, wasn't good enough to get the Huskies back on the winning track, so UConn looks to snap a three-game skid when it visits Memphis on Thursday in an American Athletic Conference game.

Purdue will try to bounce back from a rare home loss when it travels to Ohio State on Thursday night. The 20th-ranked Boilermakers, who are 25-3 at Mackey Arena over the last two seasons, come in off a surprising 91-82 overtime loss to visiting Minnesota on New Year's Day after opening Big Ten play four days earlier with a 89-67 home rout of Iowa.

Fourth-ranked Gonzaga strives to continue the best start in school history when it visits San Francisco on Thursday for a West Coast Conference contest. Nine of the Bulldogs' 14 wins have been by 20 or more points and they opened conference play with 30- and 20-point victories over Pepperdine and Pacific, respectively.

Nebraska looks for its first 3-0 start in Big Ten play when it hosts Iowa on Thursday. The Cornhuskers shocked No. 25 Indiana 87-83 at Assembly Hall before taking down Maryland 67-65 on New Year's Day to register back-to-back road victories in the Big Ten for the first time in nearly a year, and hope to build on an impressive seven-day stretch by notching their fourth straight win overall.

Minnesota and Northwestern combined for only three losses in non-conference play, but one of the teams will already have two Big Ten setbacks after they clash in the Wildcats’ home conference opener Thursday. The Golden Gophers come off a rousing overtime victory on the road over Purdue on Sunday - their first road conference win since the 2014-15 season - while Northwestern looks to bounce back after a road loss to Michigan State and extend its home winning streak to 14.

The best shooting team in the nation will go up against one of the top rebounding squads Thursday night when No. 5 UCLA hosts California in a Pac-12 game. The Bruins continue to lead Division I in field goal percentage at 54.2 and they'll likely need to shoot a high mark against the Golden Bears, who have secured a nation-leading 82 percent of their defensive rebounds.

Arizona State, which earned a split in its Pac-12-opening road trip, returns home to host a pair of games, beginning with Thursday night’s date with Colorado. Utah then visits Saturday, and the contests hold even more importance than usual for the Sun Devils, who follow the homestand with three consecutive road games against ranked teams (Arizona, UCLA and

Arizona has done well this season without the starting lineup many expected all summer, and the No. 17 Wildcats will try to keep their momentum moving forward Thursday night when they host Utah in a Pac-12 game. Arizona welcomed back injured point guard Parker Jackson-Cartwright last week and won both games to give the Wildcats a solid start to conference play, but the Utes will pose a much stiffer challenge.

Nineteenth-ranked Saint Mary's begins a key two-week stretch in West Coast Conference play when it hosts BYU on Thursday night. The Gaels then hit the road for three straight games, culminating with a Jan. 14 showdown at unbeaten Gonzaga.

After watching its season-opening 14-game winning streak come to a crashing halt with an ugly 23-point loss at Oregon, USC aims for a bounce-back effort Thursday against visiting Stanford. The Trojans committed a season-high 17 turnovers against the Ducks on Friday and barely resembled the team that cruised through a relatively soft non-conference schedule.