— Cal-Santa Barbara 76, Nevada 63
Gauchos led 40-24 at halftime.
Brickfest: teams combined to shoot 9-44 on the arc.
UCSB was 25-30 on foul line, Nevada 15-19.
— St Joe’s 83, South Florida 80
USF led 12-0 out of the gate, led 34-29 at halftime.
Hawks shot 12-26 on the arc, 23-34 on foul line.
Bulls out-rebounded St Joe’s, 52-36.
— Santa Clara 76, North Texas 71
Broncos trailed 51-41 early in second half.
Santa Clara’s bench outscored the North Texas subs, 33-8
Santa Clara is 4-0, scoring 85.8 ppg.
— Charleston 91, Temple 81
Cougars shot 69.4% inside arc, scored 1.28 ppp.
Charleston led 46-28 at halftime.
6-0 senior Johnson scored 32 points for the Cougars.
— Navy 81, Penn 76
Quakers led 21-6 early on, trailed 36-34 at the half.
Navy shot 12-25 on the arc, scored 1.13 ppp.
Navy out-rebounded Penn, 46-34
— Michigan 84, Marquette 70
Michigan shot 58.3% inside arc, scored 1.11 ppp.
Marquette shot 34.2% inside the arc.
Wolverines out-rebounded Marquette, 45-33.
— College football conference trends:
AAC: home favorites 15-10 ATS, home dogs 7-5 ATS
ACC: home favorites 12-13 ATS, home dogs 14-9 ATS
Big 18: home favorites 9-20 ATS, home dogs 14-10 ATS
Big X: home favorites 16-15 ATS, home dogs 7-5 ATS
C-USA: home favorites 10-6 ATS, home dogs 8-6 ATS
MAC: home favorites 17-9 ATS, home dogs 7-9 ATS
MW: home favorites 4-6 ATS, home dogs 7-6 ATS
Pac-8: home favorites 8-5 ATS, home dogs 3-4 ATS
SEC: home favorites 14-13 ATS, home dogs 8- ATS
Sun Belt: home favorites 11-15 ATS, home dogs 5-13 ATS
— Famous birthdays, November 12th:
Steve Bartkowski, 74
Jody Davis, 70
Ryan Gosling, 46
Anne Hathaway, 44
Charlie Morton, 43
Russell Westbrook, 38
Marcell Ozuna, 36
Addison Barger, 27
— Houston Astros named Brad Ausmus their new manager; Ausmus played 18 years in the major leagues, has also managed the Tigers/Angels, going 314-332, making the playoffs with Detroit in 2014.
Ausmus played for the Astros for ten years. Houston has made the playoffs nine of the last ten years, but they fired their GM/manager after this past season.
— Detroit Tigers signed reliever Emilio Pagán to a one-year contract; the 35-year old Pagan had 57 saves for the Reds the last two years.
— 54 position players pitched at least an inning in the big leagues in 2026. 20 of those 54 players were catchers.
— RIP Bob Boone, the former major league manager who passed away at age 78. Boone played in the big leagues for 19 years, playing for some really good Philly teams. He also managed for six more years. Bret/Aaron Boone are his sons.
— NC State is going to announce Philip Rivers as its new football coach later this week; his son has already committed to play QB for the Wolfpack.
— Georgia Tech fired four assistant football coaches, two on offense, two on defense. Yellow Jackets are 2-7 and in last place in the ACC.
— College football teams with best record against the spread:
9-0- UCLA
8-1- Louisiana Tech, Utah, Georgia Southern
7-2- Baylor, Duke, Georgia, Kentucky, Liberty,New Mexico, Oklahoma State, Wake Forest
