In Ruffner’s fire management class, SIU forestry students are following the headlines closely, letting current events in California lead their learning in a way textbooks never could.

A coalition of states, including New York, California, Illinois, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, are expected to file the challenge later on Tuesday in the Southern District of New York.

The Valparaiso Beacons (10-11, 3-7 MVC) will be trying to break a five-game losing streak when hosting the Southern Illinois Salukis (9-12, 4-6 MVC) on Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at

The order sparked quick pushback from Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill, who said Trump was trampling on the power of the purse given to Congress.

St. John's at Georgetown, 6:30 p.m. Cent. Michigan at Buffalo, 7 p.m. Providence at Seton Hall, 7 p.m. Dayton at St. Bonaventure, 8 p.m. North Carolina at Pittsburgh, 9 p.m.

Southern Illinois faces the Valparaiso Beacons after Ali Abdou Dibba scored 26 points in the Salukis' 89-85 victory over the UIC Flames.

Here’s where the Nebraska, Creighton and Omaha men and women landed in the NCAA's latest NET rankings: As of the morning of Jan. 27 Creighton: No. 34 Nebraska: No. 32 Omaha: No. 261 Creighton: No. 39 Nebraska: No. 63 Omaha: No. 202 Manage Omaha Subscription Activate Digital Subscription

The Big Ten schedule is nearing the halfway point as January winds down. One team has separated itself at the top of the conference standings, but the league race is far from decided.

ANN ARBOR, MI - Harvard. Yale. Princeton. These are the classic Ivy League schools. University of Michigan was just compared favorably to all of them. The Ann Arbor university was named in a Jan. 17 Forbes story declaring 20 colleges and universities as the “New Ivies,

Wisconsin held Nebraska to its lowest point total (55) since a Dec. 7 loss to Michigan State (52). That performance raised the Badgers’ KenPom defensive efficiency ranking to No. 50 nationally, the highest it’s been all season. That pushed the team’s overall ranking to No. 14.

The Illini have an elite team when they are at full strength. But they hit a rough patch while missing key players.

The difference between these predictions and the top-25 ranking is that the bracket predictions more heavily weigh the future games to be played on the field, predicting the outcome. That said, let's take a look at the first bracket projection for the 2025 season.