The 23rd-ranked Golden Bears face Hawaii on Friday at Spokane, Washington.
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It was Kevin Ollie’s first NCAA tournament loss as UConn head coach.
California fired assistant coach Yann Hufnagel on Monday for violating the school’s sexual harassment policy and lost its leading scorer when Tyrone Wallace broke his right hand in practice. “But we have had up-and-downs throughout the whole entire year, so it’s nothing new for us”.
No sure things in that bunch of games.
In just its second year of NCAA tournament eligibility after making the move to Division I in the 2007-08 season, Florida Gulf Coast dunked its way to a convincing win over Georgetown.
VCU countered by nailing just its second and third 3-pointers of the game.
The best way for Michigan State to prove it really did deserve that No. 1 seed it got robbed of would’ve been to win it all. Wisconsin is the 1st team to win an NCAA Tournament game scoring fewer than 50 points since 2003. Purdue’s lack of a true point guard left the door open for an epic Arkansas Little Rock comeback. Of the three No. 5 seeds to play Thursday, the only one to survive was IN, which trounced Chattanooga 99-74.
Villanova wants to shed its reputation as an NCAA Tournament underachiever.
Notable: English averages 22.4 points and 6.2 assists to lead the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference in both categories.
In 1991, Beoheim’s second-seeded Orange lost to No. 15 seed Richmond in Washington, D.C.
Luckily for Clemmons, Iowa came back in overtime and won on a last-second tip-in by Adam Woodbury to win the game 72-70. Middle Tennessee’s stunning 90-81 victory over second-seeded Michigan State was one of the most jaw-dropping outcomes in NCAA tournament history. Gary Payton was in attendance in Oklahoma City on the first row behind Oregon State’s bench.
Miami is shooting a blustery 80 percent from the field (12 of 15) and are much quicker to the attack so far against a Wichita State team that won a First Four game against Vanderbilt before upsetting sixth seed Arizona 65-55. We’ve got you covered.
IN (27-7) will return to the regional semifinals for the first time since 2013, despite losing starting guard Robert Johnson to an apparent left ankle injury late in the first half.
As all the other favorites were stressing out, the Duck – and the Ducks – were just chilling. And that gave coach Roy Williams his 66th NCAA Tournament victory, breaking a tie with late mentor Dean Smith for second all-time to Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski (87). He averaged 22.5 points and 14 rebounds in the Ohio Valley Tournament despite dealing with a sprained ankle in the championship game. Texas, Baylor, Texas Southern, SMU and Stephen F. Austin all went one-and-done previous year.
At least one top seed has failed to make it past the Sweet 16 in each of the last six years, and Providence appears to be the most likely candidate to send one home early.
Duke (25-10) led by as many as 27 points before seeing that dwindle to three points with less than a minute to play. 14-seeded Stephen F. Austin beat 3-seeded West Virginia, and 13-seeded Hawaii beat 4-seeded California.
The three-day event is sandwiched between Wells Fargo Arena and the Court Avenue District providing a variety of entertainment such as basketball courts, beer tents, food trucks and some big screens to watch the ongoing NCAA basketball games.
Niang, the winningest player (97) in Cyclones history and Iowa State’s only two-time All-American, was simply too much for the 12th-seeded Trojans (30-5) of the Sun Belt.
What’s going on with Tony Bennett? . Bennett said after the game he “blacked out” and became light-headed due to dehydration. We weren’t uptight, and I thought we did a fairly good job in the first half. “Everybody got better individually and today we didn’t play our best as a team, but I feel like we had a good season up to now”.
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The positive exposure the city receives from the tournament comes on the heels of the large number of visitors who were in the capital city for Iowa’s presidential precinct caucuses six weeks ago.
