Yale (23-6), meanwhile, earned its first NCAA Tournament victory in its first appearance since 1962.
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And so he played in six games, mostly in garbage time, and watched on from the bench as Yale came agonizingly close to the NCAA tournament, losing to Harvard in a one-game playoff.
“It’s obviously great, right?” But his role as stopper/helper/rebounder has been one of the big reasons the Bulldogs won their first outright Ivy League crown in 54 years this season.
Yale will face Duke on Saturday with a shot to advance to the Sweet 16.
Davis had 18 points and seven rebounds, while Niya Johnson had 16 assists and five rebounds for the Lady Bears (34-1), who have won 21 in a row. Duke looked strong in the second half against UNC Wilmington in the opening round, they finished the game by eclipsing the 90-point plateau.
The Ivy League champion Bulldogs (23-6 overall) now have the most overall wins in a season since the 1906-07 team went 30-7-1.
4 seed, Duke led by as many as 27 points in the battle of the brainy schools before seeing that dwindle to just three points with less than a minute to play.
“The guys in this locker room have known”, said Yale guard Nick Victor.
“No, we will remember this as one of the best teams in Yale’s history”, Yale sophomore Allen Wang told Business Insider.
“We knew of Makai and his background”. The Bulldogs are allowing 32 percent shooting from deep and are grabbing 40 rebounds per game. Mason scored a career-high 31 points and hit all 11 of his free throws.
“Geno better be looking out”, Newlee said of top-ranked UConn’s head coach, “because I feel like the Bears are coming after them….” “I guess I thought if I missed it, I’m sure our coach would have screamed at me…Luckily, I was able to knock it down”. I think we’re well able, too. The Bears lost on a last-second three-pointer past year in a Georgia State’s memorable victory.
A layup by Sears and two free throws by Mason helped the lead back to 72-65, before Prince gave the Bears some life with a three-pointer.
Johnathan Motley added 15 points and seven rebounds for Baylor, which shot 44 percent from the field.
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Prince and Ingram play very similar games, athletic and tall (Ingram is 6-foot-9), with the ability to step out and shoot (Ingram is at 41.4%) or get to the rim. Baylor got the ball into Lester Medford. He slipped on his way to the basket, turning it over.
Yale will have a tough time with Plumlee and also with the athleticism of Duke.
Duke shot 43.8 percent and was 3 of 10 from beyond the arc in the first half.
“I wasn’t really thinking anything to be honest with you”, Mason said. “We knew we had to come out here with our hands up at all times, and I think we did a great job of that, from letting them penetrate”. Few would have picked the boyish Yale point guard point as the potential hero as the Bulldogs walked off the bus Thursday. The Blue Devils’ big man was relegated to just four points in a first half dominated by the Seahawks.
Mike Krzyzewski was hired as Duke coach on March 18, 1980.
“There’s no excuses for my play in the first half”, Plumlee said, via ESPN. I got on two really good buses at West Point and Duke.
“You look at the juniors and seniors, this is what they’ve been doing”, Mulkey said.
Craig Ponder led UNCW (25-8) with 22 points.
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“We struggled”, Miller said. Leading scorer Grayson Allen also scored 23 points in the win over UNC-Wilmington.
