“They’re a completely different team when he’s on the floor”. This year’s Elite Eight appearance is Kansas’ third in as many seasons and 23rd all-time. FSU would defeat #4 Gonzaga.
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Bill Mowery, the manager of Mossy’s Eats Ales & Spirits at 6235 Towncenter Drive in Clemmons, said he tends to get his busiest crowds for afternoon opening-round games, especially when Duke and North Carolina are involved as they were this year.
In the span of a month, Kansas dropped a pair of home games to Arizona State and Texas Tech, in addition to a not-actually-neutral neutral-site loss to Washington in Kansas City.
Malik Newman scored 17, Devonte Graham had 16 (with four assists, five rebounds and four fouls) and Lagerald Vick added 13. Kansas State would not be denied and retake the lead with just under 15 minutes.
Clemson had the biggest lead in the game with an advantage of 20 at one point. They struggled against #6 Houston. Kansas had to replace three starters from a team that won 31 games and finished sixth in Ken Pomeroy’s adjusted efficiency margin, including National Player of the Year-sweeping guard Frank Mason and No. 4 draft pick Josh Jackson. As much as we talk about, ‘Hey, we won the league. And so my feeling was in ’86, we, we got there right away.
“This is the team everyone would have thought … would not be in this game”. The Wolfpack found themselves down by double-digits in each game they played.
“I just like to see him succeed”.
Duval isn’t the only Devil who can call one of his Sunday opponents a former teammate.
His 17 points Friday night boosted his average over the past six games to 21.6 points. Ramblers would go on to victory 69-68.
Texas Tech will play top seed Villanova in the East regional final Sunday.
Clemson has gone cold in the Midwest Region semifinal against top-seeded Kansas. Clemson closed the game on a 19-8 run to pull within two possessions, but some clutch KU free throw shooting from KU helped stave off the late charge.
Mark Owens, who recently took over as the chief executive and president of the Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce, said some employers take a can’t-beat-it-join-it approach to March Madness. They would go on a 13-5 run to close it out.
That lead ballooned to 20 points at 49-29 with 18:07 left, as KU’s Vick, Newman and Graham knocked down 3s in the early moments of the second half.
“It just opens up the whole game for us”. The closest they would get is four points.
Clemson would pull to within four twice, but would fall 80-76.
West Virginia cut the lead to three before the under-eight minute timeout. “We hit a little dead spot at the end of the first half that we couldn’t quite come back from”. Smart money takes the Jayhawks. He’s in the Elite Eight, which lately seems a given for those who wear this uniform. The Jayhawks had a 20 point lead over the Tigers, but saw that lead shrink to just six points with 2.27 left. Outscoring the Mountaineers 27-18 and winning 90-78.
Six minutes of play later, a Kansas inbounds pass went amok, Clemson’s Shelton Mitchell grabbed it near midcourt and began storming toward the basket.
Daxter Miles had 16 points to lead West Virginia. Duke ranks 215th in three pointers allowed per game (23.2). Syracuse would claw their way back, with Orange keeping the game within five. After coasting to a 22-point win against 15th-seeded Iona and a 25-point win over No. 7 Rhode Island, the 11th-seeded Syracuse Orange gave the Blue Devils everything they could handle on Friday night.
BOSTON – Texas Tech is headed to the Elite Eight for the first time in program history. Clemson reached the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1997. Holding until the Red Raiders would tie the game with 11 minutes remaining.
Clemson guard Gabe DeVoe did not come this far to have his college career end like this.
Clemson had more second-chance points with 15, compared to Kansas’ 11.
Of course, senior-laden, Keenan Evans-led Texas Tech didn’t get here by mistake.
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Texas Tech (27-9) also got 33 points from its bench, compared to just 6 for Purdue.
