No. 12 seed Yale defeated heavily favored Baylor in the first round of the NCAA tournament on Thursday setting up Saturday’s Duke-Yale matchup. Yale and Duke meet Saturday in NCAA play in a game that is a rematch of what turned into a tense game in November at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
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The Yale Bulldogs were one of the teams that came into the NCAA Tournament with controversy following them. “We’re not going to slow them down, and I’m not sure that they will slow us down”, he said.
When Coach Kevin Ollie and two players were asked about the team’s success afterward, Ollie – who improved to 7-0 in the N.C.A.A. tournament – quipped, “Don’t give out our secrets”. Stopping in front a cheering throng of Yale fans, he slammed both hands down on the scorer’s table before again lifting his arms high.
Watch this video from the Yale locker room after the game. “People outside, they always thought we couldn’t win this one”.
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Mason was the catalyst, connecting on nine of his 18 field goal attempts, and going a ideal 11 for 11 from the free throw line.
One reporter posed that question to Baylor forward Taurean Prince, though not in that exact fashion, but his bewilderment was obvious, as if he tried to italicize the two school’s names with his voice to drive the point home. It lost on a last-second 3-pointer past year to Georgia State. Prince finished with 28 points and Johnathan Motley added 15 in the loss.
Duke (24-10), seeded fourth in the West, will next play Yale. With role players Phills, Blake Reynolds and Sam Downey combining to go 5-for-8 for 13 points, it required just about the entire roster.
The Bulldogs led by as many as 13 points in the second half before having their lead cut to 1.
Baylor took the rebound and raced down the floor and got a layup from Lester Medford. He slipped on his way to the basket, turning it over.
“Obviously disappointed”, Bears coach Scott Drew said.
Yale had a 36-32 rebounding advantage and shot 53.1 percent, 64 percent in the first half. “We had a hard time matching him”.
Yale expelled Montague on February 10, following an allegation of sexual misconduct. Montague’s attorney, Max Stern, said this week that the dispute is about whether the woman consented to the sex. A lawyer for Montague has said he plans to sue the school, which based its decision on an internal judicial process. Can they defeat the team that won it all last season? That changed today in Providence, just over 100 miles from their campus as the 12th seeded Bulldogs took down the 5th seeded Baylor Bears 79 to 75.
“Well, it got dicey there when Justin [Sears] turned the ball over out of bounds”, Jones said. Yale clearly outplayed Baylor for the majority of its upset win, and Little Rock more than proved it belonged against Purdue, coming from behind late in regulation and outlasting the Boilermakers after two high-intensity overtimes.
Baylor guard Al Freeman (25) battles for a rebound with Yale guard Anthony Dallier (1) in the first half during the first round of the NCAA college men’s basketball tournament in Providence, R.I., Thursday, March 17, 2016.
Prince’s poignant response will be remember by Baylor fans for a while. Prince was charged with a technical foul on the play.
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Rodney Purvis, Daniel Hamilton and a stifling defense carried CT back from an 11-point first-half deficit, giving the Huskies enough for a 74-67 first-round victory over Colorado on Thursday and keeping Kevin Ollie unbeaten as a head coach in the NCAA Tournament.
