East Carolina has won nine consecutive non-conference games and goes for No. 10 when it travels to Charleston on Monday. The Cougars are coming off two impressive double-digit wins, the first an upset victory over LSU and the second against the highest scoring team in the country, The Citadel.

On the 74th anniversary of the infamous Hawaiian attack, No. 7 Villanova and No. 8 Oklahoma square off in tiny Bloch Arena located on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickham on Monday. Both teams are undefeated with the Wildcats having topped Stanford and Georgia Tech, among others, while the Sooners have posted notable wins against Memphis and Wisconsin.

No. 11 Purdue, off to its best start since the 2009-10 squad opened 14-0, plays its second of four games in nine days before breaking for exams when interstate rival IUPUI visits on Monday. Led by a tenacious defense that allows opponents to shoot only 33 percent and features a pair of 7-footers, the Boilermakers have won all eight games this season by at least 12 points.

For nearly a decade, Butler has built its reputation on tenacious defense while VMI has consistently been among the highest-scoring teams in the country. The 25th-ranked Bulldogs have opened things up much more so far this year and will have a chance to show off the nation’s second-best scoring offense again on Monday when they host the Keydets.

As its campus is trying to get over a heartbreaking football loss over the weekend, the Iowa basketball team will try to bring some joy to Iowa City when it hosts Western Illinois on Monday night in a non-conference matchup. The Hawkeyes have won three straight, including the last two at home, but they can't be caught looking ahead to an upcoming showdown with in-state rival and nationally ranked Iowa State on Thursday.

Georgetown will look to avoid a letdown against visiting Brown on Monday night after earning an emotional victory over former Big East rival Syracuse over the weekend. The Hoyas' 79-72 win on Saturday came after earlier narrow losses to a pair of top-five teams, No. 2 Maryland (75-71) and No. 5 Duke (86-84).

Iowa State will try to remain unbeaten Monday night while gunning for the 1,300th victory in program history when the No. 4 Cyclones host Buffalo. Iowa State has had a fairly easy time stockpiling wins this season as the Cyclones have won their first six games by an average of 20.2 points.

No. 16 Oregon looks to bounce back from its first loss of the season when it faces Navy as part of the Pearl Harbor Classic on Monday in Honolulu, HI. The Ducks won their first six games of the new campaign, including an impressive 74-67 victory over 23rd-ranked Baylor on Nov. 16, before dropping an 80-69 decision to UNLV on Friday.

USC, which snapped a two-game losing streak with a 75-63 victory at UC Santa Barbara in its first true road game of the season on Thursday night, won't leave Los Angeles again for the rest of the year. The Trojans begin a five-game homestand on Monday night when they host Idaho at the Galen Center.