Top 10 teams Kentucky, Houston, and Arizona all lose, and the Mountain West is a mess on a crazy men’s basketball Saturday.

Top 10 teams Kentucky, Houston, and Arizona all lose, and the Mountain West is a mess on a crazy men’s basketball Saturday.

No. 2 Houston seemed to do just enough on the road to Fort Worth on Saturday, taking a four-point advantage into the last 90 seconds of overtime.

They were trying to avoid their second straight unranked loss in a very hostile start to Big 12 play.

But Trevion Tennyson of TCU quickly answered with an important three-pointer. Then, Horned Frogs ace Emmanuel Miller got the ball and a chance to win; he slid to the basket and made a layup with just under nine seconds left to score a 68-67 win over Houston.

Miller got the afternoon off to a great start as well, making an early three-pointer to put TCU ahead 3-0.

That small lead turned out to be the Frogs’ only lead during the half. Kelvin Sampson’s team held TCU to one basket over the next eight seconds and then went on a 13-2 run.

Houston’s lead grew to 12 points as the Horned Frogs’ slow start continued. But Jameer Nelson Jr. gave TCU a much-needed scoring boost, and by halftime, the difference was only one basket.

TCU hit an amazing 53% from deep, and another three-pointer from Avery Anderson III gave them their first lead since the beginning of the game.

The Horned Frogs kept their two-possession lead for most of the second half thanks to spread scoring.

Houston started the expected run with an and-one and a three in Damian Dunn in between an Emmanuel Sharp layup. An 8-0 run gave Houston an eight-point lead that Miller’s late efforts erased.

With only five minutes left in overtime against sixth-ranked Kentucky, Buzz Williams’ team turned to their reliable strategy: dominating the boards, aiming to compensate for a sluggish start in the SEC and uplift the College Station fans.

On Saturday afternoon, America’s best offensive rebounder team finished with an eight-point lead on the glass.

They grabbed four important offensive boards in overtime to help Texas A&M beat Kentucky 95-91, just the third time in ten years.

Early and frequently at Reed Arena, the Aggies’ stars made tough shots. Wade Taylor IV or Tyrese Radford scored 59 points, grabbed 15 rebounds, and dished out nine assists, and they also led a short 7-0 run that put the Aggies up 15-8.

Later, Taylor made his third triple of the half to give the Aggies a game-high 11-point lead. But Kentucky answered right away with an 18-6 run that gave the Wildcats a one-point lead just before halftime.

After going back and forth, Texas A&M finally took the lead again with six minutes left in the second half.

The Aggies grew their lead to four points several times in the last three minutes, but youngster Rob Dillingham always seemed lacking an answer.

The North Carolina native made three amazing three-pointers in a row during crunch time. The last one tied the game at 87 with 67 seconds left.

The Knights played with the same toughness, defense, and disruption that had made Johnny Dawkins’ time at UCF so successful.

They held No. 3 Kansas by just 23 points in the second half, beating the Jayhawks 65–60 for their first Big 12 conference win and possibly the biggest win in the program’s history.

The Sunflower State gave the Knights a rough start to their conference season. Over the weekend, Kansas State beat UCF 77-52 at Bramlage Coliseum, and early Wednesday morning, Kansas went on a 35-12 run to lead by as many as 16.

But after a Dajuan Harris layup put Kansas ahead 35-19 at the last media timeout of the first half, UCF’s defense went from being weak to strong, letting in only 25 points in the last 24 minutes and starting a 10-2 Knights run that brought the score to within 10 points going into halftime.

A big part of UCF’s strong defense was stopping Kansas’s star frontcourt. K.J. Adams or Hunter Dickinson scored only eight points in the second half, with the Michigan transfer scoring a three-pointer to make things better.

UCF ranks eighth in the country with a 23.4 rate of turnovers, which the Knights used to score 18 points off of mistakes and 18 important points off of those steals.

Midway through the second half, a Jaylin Sellers jumper gave UCF an early lead. Soon after, Darius Johnson, who scored 17 points and Sellers 18 points, forced a steal and made a crucial three-pointer, which sent the sold-out Addition Financial Arena through a frenzy and forced Bill Self to call a timeout.

As expected, the third-ranked team in the country put up a fight. After a quick 8-0 run, Kansas took the lead again, and Harris’s two free throws tied the game before a final media timeout.

Kansas could only score one field goal in the last few minutes thanks to a strong performance from UCF post leader Ibrahima Diallo, who made a jump shot, grabbed two boards, and blocked a shot. This helped UCF’s defense shine and secure a huge win.