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Big Ten Basketball: Week 3 Composite Schedule, Results

We're in to Week 3 of the Big Ten men's college basketball season, and several league teams are competing in holiday tournaments around the country. Here's the complete Week 3 schedule, with summaries of the games played thus far this week.

Updated Friday, Nov. 26, 7 a.m. ET

There's a lot to be thankful for this week with the holidays finally here. Happy Thanksgiving to all, with lots of basketball to feast on this week.

Congratulations to the Wisconsin Badgers for winning the Maui Jim Maui Invitational on Wednesday, knocking off previously unbeaten St. Mary's 61-55 in the title game. The Badgers, who lost six seniors, are playing well ahead of schedule.

"There's something about this group, from the first day of practices we compete," Wisconsin forward Tyler Wahl said. "At the start, we were playing a little too much one-on-one basketball," Wahl said. "When we started to swing it, playing our game instead of their game, that's when we really started to roll."

Michigan State is hoping to do the same in the Bahamas, playing in the finals on Friday after knocking off No. 22 Connecticut on Thursday.

It's Week 3 in the Big Ten men's basketball season, and here is this week's composite schedule, with summaries of each game, updated every day. 

This week's results

Saturday, Nov. 27

  • NEBRASKA 83, SOUTH DAKOTA 70: Keisei Tominaga scored 23 points off the bench and freshman Bryce McGowens added 22 as Nebraska (5-2) beat South Dakota. 
  • MASSACHUSETTS 85, RUTGERS 83: Noah Fernandes hit a three-pointer at the buzzer to give UMass a stunning 85-83 victory over Rutgers (3-3). Paul Mulcahy scored in the paint to give Rutgers an 83-82 lead with 5 seconds remaining before the Fernandes game-winner. 
  • INDIANA 90, MARSHALL 79: Trayce Jackson-Davis set an Assembly Hall record with 43 points as Indiana (6-0) beat Marshall to win the Hoosier Classic. He broke Steve Alford's mark of 42 set in 1987 against Michigan State. To read the full game story, CLICK HERE
  • LOUISVILLE 63, MARYLAND 55:  Maryland (5-2) made only four three-pointers all night and struggled offensively in the loss to Louisville in the Baha Mar Hoops Bahamas Championship in Nassau, Bahamas. Donta Scott led the Terps with 14 points.
  • PENN STATE 60, OREGON STATE 45: Penn State (4-2) held Oregon State to  31.4 percent shooting and got 14 points from Jalen Pickett and 13 from Seth Lundy in the third-place game of the Emerald Coast Classic at Destin, Fla.

Friday, Nov. 26

  • NO. 3 PURDUE 97, OMAHA 40: Purdue (6-0) got 20 points from Zach Edey and 16 off the bench from Brandon Newman in an easy win at Mackey Arena in West Lafayette, Ind. The Boilermakers held Omaha to 27.0 percent shooting. To read the complete game story, CLICK HERE
  • NO. 6 BAYLOR 75, MICHIGAN STATE 58: Michigan State (5-2) finally ran out of gas and got blown out by Baylor in the second half in the championship game of the Battle 4 Atlantis in Nassau, Bahamas. Gabe Brown led the Spartans with 13 points. To read the complete game story, CLICK HERE
  • NO. 14 ILLINOIS 94, RIO GRANDE VALLEY 85: Kofi Cockburn scored 38 points on 15-of-19 shooting and Utah transfer Alfonso Plummer added 30 thanks to six three-pointers in the Illinois (4-2) win.
  • LSU 68, PENN STATE 63 (OT): Penn State (3-2) forced overtime on a bizarre last-second play, but couldn't hold off the Tigers in the extra period. Jalen Pickett led the Nittany Lions with 14 points. 
  • IOWA 85, PORTLAND STATE 51: Keegan Murray scored 23 points and had nine. rebounds and Patrick McCaffery added 14 points as Iowa (6-0) remained unbeaten. Kris Murray added 13 off the bench. To read the complete game story, CLICK HERE

Thursday, Nov. 25

  • MICHIGAN STATE 64, NO. 22 CONNECTICUT 60: Gabe Brown scored 16 points and Julius Marble II added 15 off the bench as Michigan State (5-1) handed Connecticut its first loss of the season in the semifinals of the Battle 4 Atlantis at Nassau in the Bahamas. Michigan State scored the final nine points of the game. 
  • MARYLAND 86, RICHMOND 80: Hakim Hart scored 24 points and Eric Ayala added 20 as Maryland (5-1) needed a second-half rally to get past Richmond at the Baha Mar Hoops Bahamas Championship in Nassau, Bahamas. Maryland made 10 three-pointers.

Wednesday, Nov. 24

  • WISCONSIN 61, ST. MARY'S 55: Johnny Davis had 20 points and seven rebounds and Tyler Wahl added 19 as Wisconsin (5-1) beat St. Mary's to win the Maui Jim Maui Invitational at Las Vegas, Nev. "The grit and the resilience, that's always a good starting point," Wisconsin coach Greg Gard said. "When your guys play hard, you can live with mistakes. The grit and resolve with this group, I've seen that from the beginning."
  • MICHIGAN STATE 63, LOYOLA-CHICAGO 61: Malik Hall made all nine field goal attempts and all five free throws for Michigan State (3-1) in a hard-fought win over Loyola-Chicago in Battle 4 Atlantis quarterfinals at Nassau, Bahamas.  Marcus Bingham Jr. dunked home an alley-oop pass from Tyson Walker with 3.4 seconds to give the Spartans the win.
  • NO. 23 FLORIDA 71, OHIO STATE 68: Tyree Appleby hit a three-pointer at the buzzer for Florida to knock off Ohio State (4-2) in the championship game of the Fort Myers Tipoff Tournament in Fort Myers, Fla. E.J. Liddell had 23 for the Buckeyes, and Kyle Young had 11 points and six rebounds off the bench.
  • MICHIGAN 65, TARLTETON 54: Eli Brooks had 15 points and freshman Caleb Houstan added 14 as Michigan (4-2) won handily in Ann Arbor.
  • MINNESOTA 55, JACKSONVILLE 44: Payton Willis scored 17 points and Jamison Battle added 14 as Minnesota (5-0) remained unbeaten. 

Tuesday, Nov. 23

  • WISCONSIN 65, NO. 12 HOUSTON 63:  Johnny Davis scored a career-high 30 points and Wisconsin (4-1) held on after nearly letting a 20-point slip away in the semifinals of the Maui Jim Maui Invitational in Las Vegas, Nev. "We did a really good job of sharing the ball," Davis said. "We really needed to come out fast, especially against these guys. They're one of those teams where if you get down they'll just bury you."
  • NO. 14 ILLINOIS 7, KANSAS STATE 64: Illinois (3-2) got 23 points and 13 rebonds from Kofi Cockburn in beating Kansas State in the third-place game of Hall of Fame Classic in Kansas City, Mo. Illinois senior guard Trent Frazier had to leave the game with an apparent knee injury.
  • NORTHWESTERN 78, GEORGIA 62: Northwestern (4-1) got 22 points from Boo Buie in the blowout win over Tom Crean's Georgia (2-4) squad in the third-place game of the Roman Legends Classic in Newark, N.J. 
  • INDIANA 70, JACKSON STATE 35: Indiana (5-0) got 14 points, seven rebounds and three assists from point guard Xavier Johnson in a blowout win over Jackson State. To read the complete game story, CLICK HERE
  • NEBRASKA 79, TENNESSEE STATE 73: Freshman Bryce McGowens and Alonzo Verge Jr. each had 18 points in Nebraska's (4-2) hard-fought win over Tennessee State. Indiana opens its Big Ten season with Nebraska on Dec. 4.

Monday, Nov. 22

  • CINCINNATI 71, NO. 14 ILLINOIS 51: Center Kofi Cockburn returned from suspension for Illinois (2-2) and he scored 18 points, but his Illini teammates made just 9-of-44 shots (20.4 percent in an ugly loss to Cincinnati (5-0) in the Hall of Fame Classic in Kansas City, Mo. "Give Cincinnati a ton of credit. They played harder than we did, which is very unacceptable for me to stomach," Illini coach Brad Underwood said. 
  • OHIO STATE 79, NO. 21 SETON HALL 76: Ohio State (4-1) got 28 points from E.J. Liddell in knocking off their first ranked opponent of the season. Justin Ahrens added 17 and Kyle Young had 12 off the bench. The Buckeyes were 11-for-22 from three-point range, with Ahrens hitting five.
  • WISCONSIN 69, TEXAS A&M 58: Johnny Davis scored 21 points and Brad Davison added 19 as Wisconsin (3-1) had Texas A&M its first loss of the season (4-1) in the Maui Jim Maui Invitational in Las Vegas, Nev.
  • PENN STATE 85, CORNELL 74: Penn State (3-1) got 23 points from Seth Lundy and 22 from Sam Sessions in its best offensive performance of the season. The Nittany Lions made 15 three-pointers, tying a school record done only twice before.
  • LAFAYETTE 53, RUTGERS 51: Rutgers (3-2) continues to struggle early, shooting just 28.6 percent from the field in an ugly home loss to Lafayette. Kyle Jennings hit a deep 3-pointer with 2.1 seconds remaining to give Lafayette (1-4) its first win of the season.
  • IOWA 109, WESTERN MICHIGAN 61: Iowa (5-0) continues to put on a show offensively in another blowout win. The Hawkeyes are averaging 99.6 points per game so far this season. Keegan Murray scored a career-high 29 points and freshman Payton Sandfort added 19 off the bench.
  • PROVIDENCE 77, NORTHWESTERN 72: xxx Boo Buie had 23 points for Northwestern (4-1), but the Wildcats came up short against Providence (5-0) in a battle of unbeatens in the Roman Legends Classic in Newark, N.J. Former Indiana star Al Durham had 11 for Providence.

This week's schedule

Sunday, Nov. 28

  • No games scheduled
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