All times ET

Monday
7 p.m.: Pitt at West Virginia (ESPN)
9 p.m.: Missouri at Texas (ESPN)

Tuesday
7 p.m.: Michigan State at Illinois (ESPN)
7 p.m.: Tennessee at Kentucky (ESPNU)
9 p.m.: Kansas State at Iowa State (ESPN3)
9 p.m.: Vanderbilt at Arkansas (ESPN)

Wednesday
6:30 p.m.: Indiana at Michigan (BTN)
7 p.m.: Connecticut at Georgetown (ESPN2)
8:15 p.m.: Memphis at Southern Miss (CBSSN)
9 p.m.: Baylor at Texas A&M (ESPN2)
9 p.m.: Oklahoma at Kansas (ESPNU)
9 p.m.: Illinois State at Creighton (ESPN3)
10:30 p.m.: Colorado State at UNLV (The Mtn.)

Thursday
8 p.m.: Oral Roberts at South Dakota State
9 p.m.: UCLA at Washington (ESPN)
11 p.m.: Gonzaga at BYU (ESPN2)

Saturday
Noon: Syracuse at St. John's (ESPN)
1 p.m.: Marquette at Notre Dame (CBS)
1 p.m.: Vanderbilt at Florida (CBS)
1 p.m.: Virginia at Florida State (ESPN3)
1 p.m.: Xavier at Memphis (FSN)
2 p.m.: Ohio State at Wisconsin (ESPN)
4 p.m.: North Carolina at Maryland (ESPN)
4 p.m.: Middle Tennessee at Denver (ESPN2)
4 p.m.: UNLV at Wyoming (The Mtn.)
5 p.m.: Old Dominion at George Mason (ESPNU)
7 p.m.: Indiana at Purdue (BTN)
9 p.m.: Kansas at Missouri (ESPN)

Sunday
1 p.m.: Michigan at Michigan State (CBS)

Tuesday
Ames, Iowa (Kansas State at Iowa State): Saturday was a big deal for Iowa State. The question now is, where do the Cyclones go from here? In upsetting Kansas, Fred Hoiberg's program got the biggest win in its rather dubious recent history. If the season ended today, Iowa State would be dancing. But the season doesn't end today, or this week, and Iowa State has another huge opportunity to get a quality win when Frank Martin's Wildcats -- who took a tough loss to Oklahoma on Saturday -- come to Hilton Coliseum.

Wednesday
Ann Arbor, Mich. (Indiana at Michigan): Indiana has lost four out of its past five, including this past week's hard-fought trip to Wisconsin. That's hardly a crime; it's tough to win on the road in conference play, after all. But after such a promising start, the Hoosiers will be eager to avoid a significant slide, or at least the appearance of one. With another tough road game on the schedule this week -- Michigan is playing well and defending its home court in expected style -- that could be a tall task.

Washington, D.C. (Connecticut at Georgetown): Now that a messy NCAA investigation into alleged impermissible benefits has reached some conclusion (pending legal threats notwithstanding) UConn freshman Ryan Boatright is back in action this week. That's good news for the Huskies, who desperately need Boatright's energy, not to mention another capable body in the backcourt. But Boatright's return isn't an immediate cure to what ails this talented but thus far disappointing team. Georgetown will be eager to bounce back at home after Saturday's ugly loss at Pittsburgh.

Hattiesburg, Miss. (Memphis at Southern Miss): Remember when Memphis could sleepwalk its way through C-USA play? Those days are long gone. The Tigers are 6-1 in league so far, but so is Southern Miss, whose only league loss -- a 60-58 nail-biter -- came Jan. 11 at Memphis. The Golden Eagles lack the high-end talent of Josh Pastner's squad, but with five scorers averaging double figures to date, they're as balanced as any team in the country.

Thursday
Seattle (UCLA at Washington): Thanks to Saturday's big win at Arizona, Washington earned sole possession of first place in the weird, wild Pac-12. The Huskies have always looked like the most talented team in the conference -- often by a significant margin -- but they've also been one of the more disjointed, frustrating teams in the country. Are they finally putting it together? If they handle business against the Bruins and move to 8-2 in league play, it would be hard to argue otherwise.

Saturday
South Bend, Ind. (Marquette at Notre Dame): For the first month or so of the season, Mike Brey's Notre Dame team appeared to be in a classic rebuilding year. A few weeks later, Notre Dame is sitting at 6-3 in the Big East, with recent wins over Syracuse and Connecticut, the latter of which came in Hartford on Sunday. In other words, this game may have seemed relatively easy for Marquette -- at least as far as road trips are concerned -- at one point in the season. This is not that point.

Gainesville, Fla. (Vanderbilt at Florida): The Commodores have put their early-season Ezeli-less struggles in the rearview mirror. We probably should have seen that coming. What we couldn't have anticipated was that Vandy would suddenly step its defense up in the SEC to the point that it is allowing the second-fewest points per possession in league play thus far. Will that defense hold up at Florida? Even if it doesn't, this matchup -- two guard-oriented teams with one true force in the post (Ezeli and Patric Young, respectively) -- should be a lot of fun to watch.

Madison, Wis. (Ohio State at Wisconsin): Historically, few Big Ten teams escape from Madison with a win. Kohl Center dominance hasn't been quite the sure thing for the Badgers in 2012, but that doesn't make Ohio State's task all that much easier Saturday. The good news? The Buckeyes possess the best perimeter defender in the country in guard Aaron Craft. Wisconsin guard Jordan Taylor almost never commits turnovers, but if there's anyone who can force him into big mistakes, it's Craft.

Columbia, Mo. (Kansas at Missouri): Big, big game. You know the drill: Missouri's four-out-one-in offense (featuring the efficiency freak that is forward Ricardo Ratliffe) will try to slice and dice its way through Kansas' staunch defense (featuring center Jeff Withey and All-American candidate Thomas Robinson, who is just a freak in general). There are Big 12 title implications on the line, but that's the least of it: When Missouri leaves the Big 12 for the SEC next year, the century-old Border War may fall by the wayside. Best to enjoy it while we can, I suppose.

Sunday
East Lansing, Mich. (Michigan at Michigan St.): Speaking of rivalries, the Spartans will be eager to host Michigan on their own turf this week, given the way the last meeting between these two teams -- a heated, exciting finish to a narrow Michigan win -- ended. In the meantime, the Spartans are playing some of the best basketball in the country on both sides of the floor; if any team can upend Ohio State's constant status as the Big Ten title favorite, it is the versatile, cohesive batch led by forward Draymond Green.

-- Eamonn Brennan

• Are officials overworked?

In the wake of the controversial no-call at the end of the Syracuse-West Virginia game, that question is sure to be asked. Head official Karl Hess worked 21 games in the month of January, prompting the argument that neither he nor his staff was sharp enough to see the goaltending on Baye Keita.

I, for one, don't buy it. Surgeons perform more than one surgery in a day, a rather slightly more critical profession and one requiring even more attention to detail. They are in the O.R. more than once a week. A game generally lasts about two hours -- that's 120 minutes of serious concentration, hardly a tax upon the brain. Yes, officials travel in between but I spent a few days two years ago with Tim Higgins, traveling from Newark, N.J., to State College, Pa., to Syracuse. There's plenty of down time -- maybe even too much.

Barring travel woes, most officials arrive the night before a game and then spend the better part of the day in a hotel room, waiting for tip. Prior to the Cuse game, Hess, according to Statsheet.com, worked the NC State-North Carolina game on Thursday. That's a day and a half before the Orange and Mountaineers played, plenty of time to hop a flight from Raleigh to Syracuse, eat, sleep and refocus.

So why the mistakes? Simple: Officials are human. They make mistakes. They miss things. Understandably that answer won't be terribly palatable in Morgantown today, where fans have a legit gripe, but it is the truth.

• Is Kentucky good or the beneficiary of a soft SEC schedule?

Yes. To both. Anyone who tries to discredit the Wildcats' 21-1 record by arguing UK hasn't exactly played a murderers' row is glossing over a few things -- namely Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, Anthony Davis, Terrence Jones, Marquis Teague, Doron Lamb and Darius Miller. Kentucky is talented and very good, a team that already is playing with the sort of rhythm it took last year's Final Four squad another month to develop.

But there's also no denying that the SEC isn't giving us a lot to really go on here. Of the Wildcats' first seven opponents, only one -- Arkansas -- has a winning league record. Three are at or below .500 overall and only one (Alabama) has a top 50 RPI. Four (Georgia, Auburn, Tennessee and South Carolina) are below 100. The road will get tougher for the Wildcats this month, with Florida, Mississippi State and Vanderbilt awaiting. For now it's safe to say Kentucky is good. We're just not quite sure how good.

• Is Gonzaga's reign atop the West Coast Conference over?

It certainly appears that way right now. Saint Mary's dominant win at BYU (not exactly an easy place to play) ought to open whatever eyes remained closed to the Gaels. Saint Mary's, winner of 11 in a row, is balanced with Rob Jones and Matthew Dellavedova sharing the scoring; fun to watch -- the Gaels average 76.7 points -- and tough. How tough? Head coach Randy Bennett coached on Saturday despite leaving a Los Angeles operating room at 2 a.m. after a gruesome injury to his thumb. He coached the game in a cast. Most important, the Gaels already claimed the first game against the Zags. The rematch looms on Feb. 9.

-- Dana O'Neil