By The Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Fairleigh Dickinson turned the second No. 16 seed in historical past to win an NCAA Tournament sport, gorgeous top-seeded Purdue 63-58 behind 19 factors from Sean Moore and a relentless, hustling protection on Friday evening.
The shortest group within the tourney, the Knights (21-15) confirmed no concern in swarming 7-foot-4 All-America heart Zach Edey from the beginning. FDU’s gamers had been faster and extra composed than the Big Ten champion Boilermakers (29-6).
Five years in the past, UMBC confirmed the way in which for the little guys by overwhelming Virginia within the first 16-over-1 victory after quite a few shut calls over time. Still, No. 16s had a 1-150 file in opposition to No. 1s and had been 1-151 general earlier than FDU’s shocker.
The Knights will now meet Memphis or Florida Atlantic on Sunday for a Sweet 16 berth within the East Region and a visit subsequent week to play at Madison Square Garden in New York — only a brief drive from the non-public faculty’s campus in Teaneck, New Jersey.
Fairleigh Dickinson didn’t even win the Northeast Conference Tournament, falling by one level within the title sport to Merrimack, which couldn’t take part within the NCAA Tournament due to an NCAA rule that bars it from the postseason as a result of it’s nonetheless finishing its four-year transition from Division II.
FDU held Purdue scoreless for greater than 5 1/2 minutes down the stretch and moved forward by 5 on a 3-pointer by Moore — who’s from suburban Columbus — with 1:03 left. The Knights held on from there, changing into the second straight double-digit seed to ship the Boilermakers residence. Purdue was a 3 seed when it misplaced to fifteen seed Saint Peter’s, one other small New Jersey faculty, within the Sweet 16 final yr.
Edey completed with 21 level and 15 rebounds in what might have been his closing school sport, however the Knights constantly denied him the ball within the second half. He didn’t try a shot within the closing 9 minutes.
FLORIDA ATLANTIC 66, MEMPHIS 65
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Nicholas Boyd drove into the lane and made a floater with 2.5 seconds left, and Florida Atlantic beat Memphis in a rugged, back-and-forth sport for the college’s first-ever NCAA Tournament win.
Coach Penny Hardaway’s Tigers (26-9) had the ball and a one-point lead with 19 seconds left, however a steal by Brandon Weatherspoon and a subsequent leap ball — Hardaway argued his group had referred to as timeout earlier than the tie-up — gave the Owls (32-3) an opportunity, and Boyd transformed.
Giancarlo Rosado scored 15 factors to steer ninth-seeded FAU, which superior to face a shocking opponent, No. 16 seed Fairleigh Dickinson, within the second spherical.
Kendric Davis scored 16 factors regardless of being hobbled by a second-half leg harm for eighth-seeded Memphis. DeAndre Williams added 13 factors whereas enjoying many of the second half with 4 fouls for the Tigers, together with a tip-in that put his group forward 65-64 with 34 seconds left.
KENTUCKY 61, PROVIDENCE 53
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Oscar Tshiebwe pulled down 25 rebounds, the second-most within the match since 1973, and Kentucky beat Providence.
Antonio Reeves scored 22 factors and Jacob Toppin had 18 for the sixth-seeded Wildcats (22-11), who superior to face Kansas State Sunday within the East Region.
Eleven of Tshiebwe’s rebounds got here on the offensive glass — a giant issue within the Wildcats staying in management as each offenses grinded to a halt after halftime.
With the two-time Associated Press All-American grabbing nearly each free ball, Kentucky completed with a 48-31 rebounding benefit, controlling the offensive glass (plus-10) and dominating in second-chance factors, 18-2.
Ed Croswell scored 16 factors for Providence (21-12), which shot simply 36.2% whereas making 5 of 24 3-pointers.
KANSAS STATE 77, MONTANA STATE 65
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Markquis Nowell had 17 factors and 14 assists and No. 3 seed Kansas State held off 14th-seeded Montana State for its first NCAA Tournament win since knocking off Kentucky in 2018 to achieve the Elite Eight.
Now the 2 Wildcat packages will meet once more in a rematch on Sunday within the second spherical.
Nowell and fellow third-team Associated Press All-American Keyontae Johnson, who had 18 factors and eight rebounds, proved an excessive amount of for the Bobcats to deal with. Nae’Qwan Tomlin added 13 factors for Kansas State (24-9).
RaeQuan Battle had 26 factors on 9-of-17 capturing for Montana State (25-10), which had its eight-game win steak snapped.
MICHIGAN STATE 72, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 62
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Joey Hauser scored 17 factors and No. 7 seed Michigan State clamped down defensively on No. 10 seed Southern California within the second half.
Coach Tom Izzo’s Spartans (20-12) will face Marquette on Sunday within the East Region for a spot within the Sweet 16.
Tyson Walker and Jaden Akins added 12 factors apiece for Michigan State, which held USC to 34% capturing within the second half.
Joshua Morgan scored 14 and Kobe Johnson 13 to steer the Trojans (22-11), who had been knocked out within the match’s first spherical for the second straight yr.
MARQUETTE 78, VERMONT 61
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Kam Jones scored 18 straight factors for Marquette within the second half, and the second-seeded Golden Eagles beat No. 15 seed Vermont for his or her first NCAA Tournament victory in a decade.
Jones completed with 19 factors. Oso Ighodaro scored 14 factors and David Joplin added 12 as Marquette (29-6) pulled away within the final 10 minutes. Marquette received its first NCAA Tournament sport in a decade and superior to face Michigan State on Sunday.
Dylan Penn, Matt Veretto and Robin Duncan every had 11 factors for Vermont (23-11), whose 15-game win streak was snapped.
Jones made a 3-pointer early within the second half to start an 18-6 spurt throughout which he scored all of Marquette’s factors because the Golden Eagles pulled forward 63-46.
MIDWEST REGION
XAVIER 72, KENNESAW STATE 67
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Jack Nunge blocked Terrell Burden’s driving try at a go-ahead layup within the closing seconds, and Xavier dug out of a 13-point gap in opposition to shocking Kennesaw State.
Souley Boum hit 4 clinching free throws within the closing 2.6 seconds for the third-seeded Musketeers (26-9), who ran off 15 unanswered factors as a part of a game-ending 24-6 run. That was sufficient to show away the 14th-seeded Owls (26-9) in this system’s first-ever March Madness sport.
Xavier strikes on to face Pittsburgh on Sunday.
Xavier led 68-67 when Burden — who’d been profitable all day with dribble penetration — was the paint previous Jerome Hunter and appeared to have a path to the rim. The 7-foot Nunge moved over and swatted the ball into the backboard.
Jerome Hunter scored 24 factors to steer the Musketeers, whereas Boum had 17. Nunge had 10 factors, 11 rebounds, two steals and two blocks.
Burden and Chris Youngblood every scored 14 factors to steer Kennesaw State.
PITTSBURGH 59, IOWA STATE 41
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Nelly Cummings scored 13 factors and No. 11 seed Pittsburgh held sixth-seeded Iowa State to 23% capturing.
Jamarius Burton added 11 factors and Greg Elliott had 10 for coach Jeff Capel’s Panthers, who stormed to a 22-2 lead after Iowa State missed its first 11 pictures. Things didn’t get a lot better for the Cyclones, who had three stretches by which they missed a minimum of eight consecutive pictures.
Pitt (24-11), which edged Mississippi State within the First Four, strikes on to play third-seeded Xavier on Sunday.
Gabe Kalscheur and Jaren Holmes every had 12 factors for Iowa State (19-14).
MIAMI 63, DRAKE 56
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Nijel Pack scored 21 factors, together with the go-ahead jumper and a pair of free throws within the closing minute, and No. 5 seed Miami rallied previous Twelfth-seeded Drake.
The Hurricanes (26-7) scored the ultimate 10 factors. Norchad Omier added 12 factors and 14 rebounds for the Hurricanes, who had been held to a season low in scoring. Wooga Poplar had 15 factors.
Miami will face fourth-seeded Indiana within the second spherical.
Darnell Brodie had 20 factors and 9 rebounds to steer Drake (27-8). The Missouri Valley Conference match champions had been outscored 16-1 over the ultimate 4:29 and 10-0 within the final 2:28. The Bulldogs missed their final seven pictures from the sector and had been scoreless the ultimate 3:24.
INDIANA 71, KENT STATE 60
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Trayce Jackson-Davis did all of it with 24 factors, 11 rebounds, 5 blocked pictures and 5 assists as Indiana defeated Thirteenth-seeded Kent State to achieve the second spherical of the NCAA Tournament for the primary time since 2016.
The fourth-seeded Hoosiers (23-11) superior to play fifth-seeded Miami Sunday for a visit to Kansas City for the Midwest Region semifinals.
Jackson-Davis turned the primary participant since blocks turned an official NCAA statistic in 1985-86 to have a minimum of 20 factors, 10 rebounds, 5 blocks and 5 assists in an NCAA Tournament sport, based on OptaSTATS.
Sincere Carry scored 15 factors to steer the Golden Flashes (28-7), who had received six straight heading into match.
Race Thompson matched a season excessive with 20 factors for the Hoosiers on 8-of-11 capturing.
WEST REGION
SAINT MARY’S 63, VCU 51
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Mitchell Saxen had 17 factors, seven rebounds and 4 blocks, and Saint Mary’s beat ailing VCU.
Alex Ducas additionally scored 17 factors because the fifth-seeded Gaels (27-7) superior to the second spherical for the second straight yr. Logan Johnson had 12 factors and 10 rebounds, and reserve Augustas Marciulionis scored 13 factors. Saint Mary’s will face UConn on Sunday.
Ace Baldwin led Twelfth-seeded VCU (27-8) with 13 factors, however he appeared to sprain his proper ankle on his touchdown after taking a jumper with simply over 14 minutes left in regulation. The Atlantic 10 Conference Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year went to the locker room for remedy and missed about 5 minutes as VCU expanded its lead from 4 factors to 9.
UCONN 87, IONA 63
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Adama Sanogo scored 10 of his 28 factors within the first 5 minutes of the second half as fourth-seeded UConn took management and beat Iona.
The Huskies (26-8) superior to play fifth-seeded Saint Mary’s on Sunday after dropping within the first spherical underneath coach Dan Hurley the final two seasons.
Coach Rick Pitino’s Gaels (27-8) had their 14-game successful streak snapped. The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference champions led by two at halftime however didn’t have the depth to maintain up with one of many Big East’s greatest for 40 minutes.
Walter Clayton Jr. led Iona with 14 factors.
GONZAGA 82, GRAND CANYON 70
DENVER (AP) — Slow-starting Gonzaga lastly began enjoying like a title contender, then wore out Grand Canyon behind 28 factors and 10 rebounds from Julian Strawther.
Zags senior Drew Timme introduced his sweatband and handlebar moustache again to March Madness and completed with 21 factors, six rebounds and three blocks for the third-seeded Bulldogs (29-5), who haven’t misplaced a first-round sport within the match since 2008.
Next up for Gonzaga is a sport Sunday in opposition to TCU.
Like nearly each Zag exterior of Strawther, Timme was bottled up and annoyed within the first half, then got here out of halftime and appeared like a unique participant. After trailing by as many as seven, Timme’s three-point play gave Gonzaga a 48-40 lead early within the second half.
Ray Harrison led the 14th-seeded Lopes (24-12) with 20 factors and Chance McMillian had 16.
TCU 72, ARIZONA STATE 70
DENVER (AP) — JaKobe Coles hit a floater from the lane with 1.5 seconds left and No. 6 seed TCU rallied from an 11-point second-half deficit to beat Eleventh-seeded Arizona State.
Coles took a move Mike Miles Jr. from close to the highest of the 3-point circle, dribbled as soon as and let go of the game-winner. Arizona State’s desperation heave on the buzzer missed.
Miles, enjoying on a hyperextended proper knee, completed with 26 factors for the Horned Frogs (22-12). They superior to play Gonzaga.
DJ Horne had 17 factors for Arizona State (23-13).
SOUTH REGION
BAYLOR 74, UC SANTA BARBARA 56
DENVER (AP) — Caleb Lohner scored a season-best 13 factors in simply 18 minutes, and No. 3 seed Baylor beat UC Santa Barbara.
Adam Flagler led the Bears with 18 factors, and LJ Cryer scored 11 of his 15 factors within the second half.
Baylor (23-10) overcame a one-point halftime deficit and superior to play Creighton on Sunday.
Miles Norris led the 14th-seeded Gauchos (27-8) with 15 factors. Ajay Mitchell added 13.
CREIGHTON 72, NORTH CAROLINA STATE 63
DENVER (AP) — Ryan Kalkbrenner scored a career-high 31 factors and sixth-seeded Creighton overcame an abysmal 3-point capturing day to fend off No. 11 seed North Carolina State.
The 7-foot-1 Kalkbrenner did just a little little bit of every thing for the Bluejays, which included hitting a giant 3-pointer on a day the group completed 3 of 20 from lengthy vary. Kalkbrenner had six dunks and 7 rebounds, and N.C. State large males D.J. Burns Jr. and Ebenezer Dowuona had been hampered by foul hassle.
Next up for the Bluejays (22-12) is third-seeded Baylor within the second spherical.
Terquavion Smith led the Wolfpack (23-11) with 32 factors.
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