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The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Get the poll delivered straight to your inbox with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. Boston College Eagles (19-15, 10-13 ACC) at Providence Friars (21-13, 12-11 Big East) Providence, Rhode Island; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EDT BOTTOM LINE: Providence and Boston College square off …

USA Basketball’s men’s team will see Serbia and South Sudan in two of its three group-stage games at the Paris Olympics, while the U.S. women will open their schedule in a gold-medal-game rematch against Japan in France this summer. FIBA, the sport’s global organizing body, held the draw for the Paris Games in Mies, Switzerland, on Tuesday, slotting the fields …

LONDON (AP) — Manchester United teenager Kobbie Mainoo’s swift rise to prominence could yet see the midfielder play for England in high-profile friendlies against Brazil and Belgium in the coming days. The 18-year-old Mainoo received his first call-up by England on Tuesday, his latest step in a breakthrough season that could yet end with a place in his country’s squad …