College Basketball Catchup: Michigan Rebounds, Vandy Got Better, UCLA Is Hot

Michigan recovered after a loss to UConn. A second-year forward looks like she’s taking the leap for Mississippi State. UCLA is hot, hot, hot to begin the season.

Here’s what you require to understand from the other day’s slate of college basketball.

Michigan remains in a hard position. A minimum of, relative to a year earlier, when the Wolverines was among the leading groups for nearly the whole season, and after that wound up being nationwide champs. Now, however, Michigan has a brand-new coach– Mike Boynton– and some brand-new gamers, too, and lost to UConn currently.

On Wednesday, Michigan took on versus Marquette in the house, and came away with an 84-70 success. Tennessee transfer J.P. Estrella played a considerable function, with the senior forward scoring 18 with 8 rebounds and 2 helps in his 31 minutes, however right up there with Estrella was freshman Quinn Costello. In 25 minutes off the bench, the forward scored 15 points, all on 3s: he was 5-for-6 from beyond the arc, and didn’t shoot when from inside it.

Mike Boynton had absolutely nothing however favorable things to state about Costello postgame. “I’ve coached some really good shooters, I’ve never coached a 6’10″ guy who can shoot like he can.”

Boyton explained that Costello is a “high achiever” who works hard on the non-shooting aspects of his game to help the team win, but on Wednesday it was absolutely his shot that helped Michigan the most. 

Mississippi State’s Favour Nwaedozi is no complete stranger to rebounding. As a junior last year, the 6-foot-3 forward– who had actually shown up for her very first NCAA season after investing 2 years playing for Mukogawa Women’s University in Japan– pulled down precisely 10 boards per video game, and did so while balancing 12.2 points per. That’s balancing a double-double right there.

On Wednesday versus Troy, Nwaedozi was right back at it, just much better. She had 8 rebounds almost midway into the very first quarterand would end up the night with 19 boards and 22 points.

Nwaedozi had a help and 2 takes simply for great step, and shot 10-for-14 while scoring another 2 from the line for the leading proving of the day. She presently leads all gamers in the SEC with 14.7 rebounds per video game in addition to overall boards, with 44, and what’s most crazy about that is she’s playing about 22 minutes per video game. Her per 40 minute numbers are cartoonish: Nwaedozi is balancing 25.9 rebounds per video game there. Simply 3 video games, yes, however in her 2nd season in the SEC, a much better efficiency than a currently excellent one would not be a surprise.

Ethan Roberts signed up with Notre Dame history last night, sinking 10 3s in 13 efforts– he’s one of simply 3 Fighting Irish, in addition to Kyle McAlarney and Matt Farrell, to make 10 3s in a single video game.

Roberts didn’t simply rating from deep, even if that was mainly where his points originated from. He included another 6 from inside the arc to lead all scorers, males and females, on Wednesday. Notre Dame didn’t require rather that level of efficiency out of Roberts– the Irish beat South Carolina State, 99-59– however they got it all the exact same.

Roberts is the very first D-I males’s hooper this year to strike double-digit 3s, however not the very first D-I gamer to achieve the task in 2026: Chloe Donnell dropped 14 versus Ecclesia for Northwestern State on Nov. 2. Roberts is, nevertheless, the very first of the year to handle it versus a Division I challenger rather of a group from a lower department.

Unlike with Notre Dame and Roberts, the ladies’s scoring leader on Wednesday definitely required to go that difficult in order for her group to win. Nadia Moore, a junior guard from Duquesne who has just this year end up being a routine starter, dropped a career-best 33 versus Marist in a video game the Dukes would win by a simple 5 points.

Moore began hot, and ended up sweltering: she scored 15 of Duquesne’s 22 points in the 4th quarter, in a video game the Dukes would win 72-67. She assisted with more than simply pure scoring, too, as Moore dispensed 4 helps, got a take and protected 5 rebounds, and shot precisely at 69% total and 4-for-7 on treys.

She had actually never ever scored even 20 points in a video game in the past, with her previous career-best sitting at 18. Entering into Wednesday, Moore had simply 3 video games on her résumé in which she scored more points than she carried out in the 4th quarter of this one alone. Marist definitely wasn’t prepared for that shift.

Mia Woolfolk had 2 respectable seasons for Georgia before moving to Vanderbilt for the 2026-2027 season. With the Commodores, she’s going to have more assistance than she did on the Bulldogs, and Woolfolk is likewise going to make Vandy much better than it was, too. Versus Western Kentucky last night, Woolfolk was unstoppable in the paint. She took 14 shots and missed out on simply 2, sank 3 of 4 from the charity stripe, and got 3 boards and a take while she was hectic in the paint, too.

Sophomore guard Aubrey Galvan– see above clip– is currently delighting in having Woolfolk spending time in the paint as another scoring choice to pass to, and her continuous danger there is going to produce chances for All-American Mikayla Blakes to take much better shots this season, too: a frightening proposal, thinking about Blakes led Division I in scoring last season with 27 points per video game.

No. 9 UCLA is off to a fantastic start this year. The Bruins have actually balanced 101.3 points per video game throughout their very first 3 contests, dropping 84, 114 and 106 points up until now. That 84 was no joke, either, due to the fact that it came versus then-No. 5 Arizona in the Bruins’ very first dub of the season.

UCLA’s females’s group is the safeguarding nationwide champ; the guys’s group hasn’t won considering that the 1994-1995 season, nevertheless, when the Bruins won their still-men’s-record 11th title. Mick Cronin’s team has a fair bit of season delegated survive, however that win versus Arizona and the subsequent beatdown versus challengers the Bruins ought to be winning is at least making this group appear like one that has something to reveal the remainder of the league this year.