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LAS VEGAS -- Kentucky played North Carolina in arguably the best college basketball game of the season, a thriller that may not be topped again until March Madness hits.The sixth-ranked Wildcats dont get much time to enjoy it.Next up is No. 10 Louisville on Wednesday, a rivalry game that had their attention right after the buzzer sounded in Las Vegas on Saturday.Now weve got another war in three or four days after we traveled half a country away to go back home and play Louisville on the road, Kentucky coach John Calipari said.Kentucky (10-1) has one loss, to No. 2 UCLA, and blew out everyone else it played, so Calipari wanted a close game for his young team.It certainly got it against North Carolina .The Tar Heels have the length and athleticism to match the Wildcats, and the teams put on quite a show along The Strip, trading highlight-reel plays.Kentuckys Malik Monk scored a Kentucky freshman-record 47 points and hit a late 3-pointer to propel the Wildcats to the 103-100 victory. The win moved Kentucky up a spot to No. 6 in the latest AP Top 25 .Now the Wildcats get the 50th meeting with their biggest rival.Louisville (10-1) had a hard time shaking Grand Canyon on Dec. 3 but has won its past three games in blowouts and has one of the nations best defenses.The Cardinals lead the nation in adjusted defensive efficiency, allowing 87.8 points per 100 possessions, and held Wichita State to 17 points in the first half earlier this season.Louisville-Kentucky games are always intense, and last years game was won by the Wildcats 75-73 to give Coach Cal his 200th career victory.Were going to run with them, but we have to take good shots, Louisville coach Rick Pitino said. Hopefully its good enough to beat them. They are a great transition team.Louisvilles schedule doesnt get much easier after Wednesday. The Cardinals play No. 12 Virginia on Dec. 28, No. 16 Indiana three days later, then at No. 25 Notre Dame on Jan. 4.---CAROLINA RIVALSThat Bluegrass battle isnt the only rivalry game this week.Also on Wednesday, No. 22 South Carolina hosts Clemson in a 9 p.m. EST game.The Gamecocks (9-1) dropped six spots in the poll after losing to Seton Hall at Madison Square Garden but bounced back with an 11-point win over South Florida .Clemson (8-2) has rallied from losing two of its first four games -- to Xavier and Oklahoma -- with six straight wins, including 67-54 over Alabama on Sunday.South Carolina leading scorer Sindarius Thornwell has been suspended indefinitely for violating athletic department policy, so the Tigers could have a shot on the road.---LIGHT SLATEThe holiday week is light on big-time matchups and front-loaded with games, with no Top-25 teams playing on the weekend.Kentucky-Louisville is the only game between ranked teams and many of the teams in the Top 25 are expected to have blowouts against smaller schools.A handful of games could be close, at least for a little while. Those include No. 18 Arizona, which is short-handed, against New Mexico on Tuesday and No. 8 North Carolina against Northern Iowa on Wednesday.---WATCH LISTA few teams that could make a move into the poll with wins this week:Florida. The Gators (8-3) had a rough week two weeks ago, losing to Duke and Florida State, but again received votes this week after blowing out Charlotte . They play Little Rock on Wednesday.Virginia Tech. The Hokies (9-1) have three wins over Power-5 teams and their only loss was close to Texas A&M. They received more votes last week and could find themselves ranked with a win over Charleston Southern on Tuesday.Maryland. The Terps (11-1) have wins over Georgetown, Richmond and Oklahoma State and may be back in the rankings with a win over Charlotte on Tuesday.---More AP college basketball at http://collegebasketball.ap.orgUndefeated x Air Max 90 Black Opti Yellow . White came in fourth place in the event. He was the two-time defending gold medallist. 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As opposites do attract we are set for a corker of an opener.GLASGOW, Scotland -- To describe Juan Martin del Potros Davis Cup victory over Andy Murray as an instant classic doesnt seem right. There was very little about this -- a match of five sets, five hours, and great, almost-operatic shifts in mood and momentum -- that could be thought of as instant.They were supposed to be reprising the Olympic final; instead, they only went and improved on it in the opening rubber of the semifinal between defending champions Great Britain and Argentina, by producing a match that was even longer on theatre, emotion and quality. More than anything, it was long on time -- Murray had never previously played a match lasting in excess of five hours.As a final twist, there was even a different ending.Understandably, Kyle Edmunds match against Guido Pella wasnt quite the humdinger as the one that had preceded it. And with the Yorkshireman losing in four sets, which left Britain trailing 0-2, the home team must win Saturdays doubles rubber if they are to have a chance of going through to Novembers final against France or Croatia. There was some doubt on Friday evening whether Murray will feature in the doubles alongside his brother Jamie, with the possibility that Dan Evans will deputise for him.So Del Potro, whose comeback year had already brought a victory over Stan Wawrinka at Wimbledon, and wins over Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal in Rio de Janeiro, can now add Murray to that list. For Murray, this was that very rare event -- a defeat in the Davis Cup, with this his first in the competition since losing to Italys Fabio Fognini at the 2014 quarterfinal in Naples.Understandably, this was an emotional match for both of them, especially as it came on the day that Murrays paternal grandfather, Gordon Murray, was laid to rest, with the Wimbledon and Olympic champion missing the funeral. Some 7,000 miles distant from when Murray and Del Potro had played for a gold medal, and a month after that match in Rio de Janeiro, they simply carried on as they had left off. Then they turned the dial.With that Olympic final, they had walked on court with impossibly high expectations, but those were only exceeded with Del Potros 6-4, 5-7, 6-7, 6-3, 6-4 victory in five hours and seven minutes, completed with an ace banged down the T.I did great today, said world No.2 Murray. Im very proud of how I fought, I did fantastic. I fought for every point, tried as best as I could. Thats all you can do.It was very fine margins. That happens in tennis and sport sometimes. It could have gone either way and he just played a little bit better in the fifth set.These two can do most things on a tennis court -- whats clearly beyond them is playing a quick match or anything less than extraordinary. Such was the effort that Del Potro put into the Olympic final, he said he felt dizzy and left the last of his toenails on the court, and the two of them put so much into this -- physically, mentally and emotionally -- that it was a wonder that both stayed intact. The Olympic final had been long -- at a couple of minutes over four hours -- but that was the abridged version next to this.How could Edmund and Pella, who were playing the second singles match of the day, stand a chance of topping that? After losing the opening set, Pella came back to win 6-7, 6-4, 6-3, 6-2, in a match lasting just a touch over three hours.Anyone who suggests that South American crowds are tthe most excitable in the Davis Cup has plainly never experienced an afternoon at the tennis in Glasgow, amid the pipers and pandemonium, and with Murray orchestrating his public to make even more noise.ddddddddddddn the opening afternoon, the galleries were fuelled -- in this order -- by a love for Murray, a desire to see Britains Davis Cup team prosper, and the pre-match mojitos and strawberry daiquiris they had been drinking outside in the sunshine. With an audience of 7,000, the Emirates Arena holds less than half the spectators inside Wimbledons Centre Court, but the crowd is three times as loud. If a health and safety inspector had dropped by, he would have immediately issued Murray and Del Potro with industrial ear-protectors.And, given the menace, the mph and the mayhem of Del Potros forehand, that inspector would doubtless also have urged Murray to put on some body-armour. For a man of such a gentle nature off the court, Del Potro could not be more violent on it, even after all the wrist operations that have vandalised his career, keeping him off the scene for years. From the very first game, he was taking giant swings with his forehand, really crushing the tennis ball. Thats not to say, though, that he was hitting streams of winners, as Murray was retrieving, defending and counter-attacking as only he can, and there were plenty of long and brutal rallies.On his first appearance in Scotland for 12 months, Murray was living dangerously against Del Potros forehand. So was Murrays racket, as at times it looked as though the Scot was thinking extremely hard about smashing it on the ground. The Argentine fans, gathered in the stand behind the umpires chair, made themselves heard with chants of Delpo, Delpo. But Murray dodged danger, and so did that frame.When Murray was serving at 4-4 in the second set, Del Potro was just a point away away from breaking, which would have left him serving for a two-set lead. But Murray held on, after saving that breakpoint with a volleyed winner, and he later broke Del Potro for the set after the Argentina put a backhand wide. That finish to the set wasnt without controversy, as the crowd had called out earlier in the point when they had believed one of Del Potros shots was going to miss the court, only for it to land inside the line. After hurling his racket to the floor, Del Potro immediately walked behind the umpires chair where he fetched the referee.But those Argentine protests didnt come to anything, apart from the umpire reminding the crowd to keep quiet during rallies.For a while, the crowd must have been thinking of Murray as Harry Houdini in shorts -- his talent as an escapologist was evident when Del Potro, serving at 5-4, had a point for the third set. Murrays response was to send the ball looping over the Tower of Tandil, to break serve and then snaffle the tiebreak. But Del Potro wasnt finished. Nor was the match. Far from it.Del Potro said: Im so tired. Ive got cramps everywhere. It was my longest match of my career and I won it against Andy playing here.Its very special for me and also the way of my tennis. It could be the revenge [for the Olympics]. But in that match I was exhausted before the final. We made a good choice with the captain to play Andy on the first day. ' ' '