College basketball scores, opening night winners and losers: No. 3 Illinois rolls, Memphis shocks Iowa State

The Fighting Illini smashed records in a 120-45 rout of Fairleigh Dickinson College basketball's much-needed return on opening night is Christmas Day … until it starts to get hairy in the second half of a buy game. Just ask North Carolina's Michael Malone, who had to bench his starters midway through the middle of a second-half collapse against Western Carolina. UNC, with help from an untimely technical on the Catamounts, avoided disaster in Monday's 80-72 win, but it was a pucker-worthy showing from a $20 million roster that looks far from the top of the ACC pecking order. The Field of 68 also garners some well-deserved recognition for bringing back the opening day marathon!

Grambling State and Northern Illinois played one of Monday's best games in a 4 a.m. banger. The Tigers of Grambling State won 89-87. Let's dive into the rest of the winners and losers from Monday's slate. The Illini are in the middle of changing their offensive gameplan, pivoting from a team that played slow and relied heavily on pick-and-rolls into a zoom-zoom transition attack that basically has no plays. The 75-point margin of victory was the largest for Illinois at the State Farm Center, which opened in 1963. The Illini fell seven points short of tying the school record for points in a game. The Illini