Perhaps most impressive among those unbeaten teams was what transpired in No. 10 Nebraska's 83-77 win vs. Indiana. The Cornhuskers-- a 4.5-point road underdog, and the only underdog among top-10 teams in action Saturday -- remained unbeaten with a gritty 83-77 win over the Hoosiers, erasing a 16-point second-half deficit to win by six.

The long and winding college basketball season is a grind and even the best teams can stumble at points. Take the case of No. 2 Michigan, which absolutely stamp

Iowa State beat Baylor to improve to 15-0. The Cyclones have No. 17 Kansas on the schedule in mid-January, but before then it faces Oklahoma State, so the road to the Jayhawks isn't easy, either.

We are living in a country where Indiana's football program is ranked No. 1 and favored to win the national championship. That's crazy. Similarly nutty, Nebraska's men's basketball program is undefeated and ranked in the top 10 for the first time since 1966.

The Boilermakers have a core four: Trey Kaufman-Renn (13.8 points, 10.1 rebounds); Fletcher Loyer (13.8 points, 39% 3-point shooting); Braden Smith (13.3 points, nation-leading 9.5 assists, 1.9 steals, 39.3% 3-pointers), and Oscar Cluff (11.2 points, 8.7 rebounds). Purdue has beaten Wisconsin and Washington over the past week.

The Vanderbilt Commodores are hosting the LSU Tigers in a college basketball game. See score updates from Memorial Gymnasium.

Pete Maravich Assembly Center in Baton Rouge, La. where the No. 12 LSU Tigers are hosting This college basketball game is scheduled to start at 3 p.m. EST and will be broadcast on ESPN. Fans looking to watch can do so for free by using DIRECTV,