There will be eight games today involving matchups between teams currently in the top-50 of the CS360 Composite National Rankings. Most notably, Notre Dame will be playing at West Virginia in an ESPNU-televised game between the respective favorites in the BIG EAST divisional races. Based on the CNR, none of these eight games involves a matchup of top-20 teams – but there is one top-25 showdown (#19 Kansas at #22 Texas A&M).
As a reminder, the CS360 sidebar scoreboard includes various helpful pregame links (team notes, live stats, audio and video) – along with postgame links (recaps, often from both teams, plus final stats, photo galleries, video highlights, audio/video game comments, etc.). Typically, you can click on a team's name (top-50 squads) for a direct link to that team's homepage on the school's website.
Here are today's eight top-50 head-to-head matchups:
• #8 Notre Dame at #37 West Virginia (6 ET)
• #4 UCLA at #50 Pepperdine (3 PT)
• #16 Michigan-Statet at #41 Indiana (7:30 ET)
• #14 Rutgers at #39 Marquette (7 CT
• #34 San Diego at #17 USC (3 PT)
• #19 Kansas at #22 Texas A&M (7 CT)
• #43 Villanova at #25 Connecticut (7 ET)
• #32 Illinois at #30 Purdue (4 ET)
Friday's other games of interest involving top-50 teams include: Oklahoma at Colorado ... South Carolina at Mississippi ... and Missouri at Texas.