Men's N.C.A.A Tournament: St. Peter's, Gonzaga Survey; Baylor Out
"North Carolina" upset "Baylor", the reigning champion and the first No. 1 seed to bounce from the tournament. St. Peters, a No. 15 seed, also made it to the Round of 16 with a win over Murray State.
Brady Manick guided North Carolina before he was sent off for a foul in the second half. He scored 26 points. Credit ... Kevin Girage / USA Today Sports, via Reuters
The University of North Carolina men's basketball team spent part of December crushing Kentucky. January brought humiliation to Miami and Wake Forest. The embarrassment on their home court by Duke and Pittsburgh in February included the need for extra time to defeat a tragic Syracuse.
Then came March. Tar Hales went to the Duke and ruined Mike Krzyzewski's final game at the Cameron Indoor Stadium on March 5. Then, in Saturday's overtime at Fort Worth, they upset No. 1 seed and defending national champion Baylor in the East. Round of 16 advancement tournament at NCAA.
Each signature belongs to the victory strip which can save any wrong birth season. But both? As Roy Williams, who retired as North Carolina coach last year but was at the stand on Saturday, might say: "Digam."
Details can also accurately describe the rest of Saturday's action in the tournament. St. Peters - Yes, the 15th seed Moore - reached the round of 16 with a victory over No. 7 seed Murray State, and on the field top overseed, Gonzaga outscored the No. 9 seed Memphis more than expected. Fought hard.
Eighth seed Tar Hales, who took a 25-point lead in the regulation with less than 11 minutes before recovering, will meet the U.C.L.A. Friday in Philadelphia.
He - and any other team remaining in this year's men's tournament - could be under intense pressure to write a great work of suspense, compared to Baylor's 93-86, the No. 1 seed who lost this year.
Yes, Baylor won the tip off, and with Kendall Brown's quick break, took a 4-0 lead in all 68 seconds. Then the U.N.C. Captured and with 15.8 seconds left, the game was not tied and Baylor possibly erased the performance of Tar Heels, who looked more likely to be included in the record book than overtime.
Overtime begins with Freshman Dontre Styles 3 Pointer and U.N.C. Organized - this time - to maintain.
"It was just something," said Armando Bakot, one of North Carolina's star players. "It was definitely stressful."
In the first half - after which Tar Hales led 13 - Baylor fought hard behind the arc and its turnover led to the rise of Carolina and before the intermission Tar Heels accounted for 15 of 42 points. ۔
Similarly R.J. Davis, White Plains, NY. A sophomore from, who led the U.NC with 30 points. By the end of the day.
Saturday's game chaos was, in many cases, a fitting mark in North Carolina's Topsy Troy debut campaign under Hubert Davis, who came after Williams.
After a 9-point defeat to Pittsburgh on February 16, the Tar Hills began to rise and have lost only once to Virginia Tech in the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament. Krzyzowski expressed surprise this month when his own team, ranked fourth in the country, was made up of players like Bakot, a 6-foot-10 junior who is an internal revenue service agent and Brady Manick. Collects rebounds with enthusiasm. , Who moved from Oklahoma and led North Carolina by 3 points in Saturday's game.
RJ Davis said on Friday. "We knew after losing to Pitt, it wasn't the way we wanted to play. So from then on, I think we changed it and started competing. And everyone bought their characters. And that's what we're buying.
With the help of a clear foul, Baylor got around to buying the greatness of being a No.1 seed. That's all a team can do, though, one afternoon when it lags behind 25.
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Very little happened, just as the bears had hoped.
Baylor couldn't manage a basket for about four minutes in the second half. U.N.C. He took a break and scored 13 runs with a lead of 24.
Most of it came from Manik, whose 9 points in the first half seemed small by the end of the second, when he had 17. It is practically certain that he would have finished with more than 26 points, but he was eliminated with it. Apparently more than 10 minutes to play after the foul.
His dismissal proved to be the catalyst for such a Baylor attack that, less than two hours earlier, Philadelphia seemed to have a definite path for them. One shot after another, one opportunity after another, the Bears looked like the team most expected to advance through Dickie's Arena.
"We knew we weren't going to give up as a team, and we decided to put a lot of pressure and stay there," said Adam Flagler, a baler guard. "So once we got caught in these diamonds and nets, we were able to get some stops and look a little easier, and that's why we started running."
Hubert Davis said Boiler's late success in crushing North Carolina had two consequences: it forced the tar heels to accelerate and led to turnover. "They didn't want to go home," he said of Baylor.
Finally, with less than 16 seconds left, the Bears leveled the game at 80, where the score would last until overtime.
3 Pointers of Styles U.N.C. to start overtime. Regain control Beckett made a free throw. Baylor effectively left 78 tacks, with Tar-Hales rising to 6 after free throws and layups by both teams.
Then, though, the time dwindled further, and the score didn't change much, with Baylor, who won part of the Big 12 Conferences' regular season title, wasting the opportunity to save him an afternoon and a season. Could be taken closer to. "At the end of the day, it's hard to put shots in this second game, and we both don't have deep benches and usually numbers will probably support that," said Baylor coach Scott Drew. "But they had two boys who came out of the gate and shot him hard."
Drew said he thought his team had shown "the heart of a champion" by returning.But North Carolina, a team that will probably be forgotten for a while, became scheduled to play in March.
Gonzaga, under 10 at halftime, returned against Memphis.
Drew Timme, right, is leading Gonzaga's return against D'Andre Williams and Memphis. Credits ... Ezra Shaw / Getty Images
Top-ranked Gonzaga escaped late Saturday night out of fear, emerged from a double-digit deficit and then stopped a formidable Memphis team to survive in the N.C.A.A. Men's basketball tournament with a 72-78 victory in the second round.
In the second half, Drew Timme led Gonzaga to a comeback, winning with 25 points, 14 rebounds and 4 assists, while point guard Andrew Nimbard added 23 points, including four free throws in the last minute. Were included.
Even after Gonzaga's 76-69 lead, the Tigers held their own after seemingly taking control. Jalen Duren threw a sting down, and after Timmy dropped a jumper short, DeAndre Williams hit a jumper in the lane to draw Memphis 76-73. Racer Bolton added a free throw to extend Gonzaga's lead to five in 42 seconds.
Lester Quinones responded with a quick 3-pointer and Memphis fouled Nembhard, who drowned both free throws - a night when the Zags were unusually shaky on the line, with only 13 of 24 free throws. Gonzaga is set to play fourth-seeded Arkansas in the Western Regional semifinals in San Francisco on Thursday. This is the seventh consecutive season the Zags have arrived on the second weekend of the tournament.
Zygos, who is at the top overall, has barely seen this part for two rounds. With 13 minutes left in their first round game, they trailed 54-52 by 16th seeded Georgia State and beat the Panthers with a late blitz to win comfortably. He also looked different on Saturday, losing in the transfer and struggling to get the ball in the paint against the long, athletic Tigers.
When Alex Lumex bolted the length of the court and pointed to Josh Mint, who sank the floater on the big, Memphis ran off the court with a 41-31 lead at half time.
The Zags came back and fixed their internal scoring vacuum the way they did on Thursday - feeding the team. He scored 21 points in the second half, leaving the charge behind. And when Chet Holmgren sank a jumper with 12:53, Gonzaga also drew 51.
The St. Peter's Surprise Run will take place on the second weekend of the tournament. Matthew Lee celebrates St. Peter's advance to the Round of 16. Murray State's Tree Hannibal was parting for a sting. St. Peter's forward KC Ndefo ran after him down the court, jumped for a clean block, then spread out in the crowd of Murray State chairs sitting under the basket.
These 15th seed peacocks can fly better than you think. All the way to the Round of 16 tournament in N.C.A.A. The play showed the defensive determination of the 6-foot-7, 195-pound forward Ndefo, who anchored the team, which advanced to the March race with a 70-60 victory over No. 7 Seed Murray State in Indianapolis.
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St. Peters coach Shaheen Holloway said in a televised interview, "I'm glad for these guys, I'm soaking it right now." "It's an amazing vibe."
St. Peters' victory came after a spectacular upset by No. 2 seed Kentucky, against another school in the state of Kentucky.
Ndefo was brilliant for the Peacocks (21-11) with 17 points, 10 rebounds, 6 blocks and 3 assists. Junior guard Doug Edert, whose mustache impressed his own Twitter account, added 13 points, including a huge 3-pointer, which increased St. Peter's lead to 5 points in the final minutes. ۔
Murray State, which beat San Francisco in overtime in the first round for its 21st consecutive victory, has not lost in Auburn since December 22. Moore is only the third 15th seed to reach the last 16 after the Florida Gulf Coast in 2013 and the Oral Roberts in 2021. He will meet the winner of Sunday's game between No. 3 Purdue and No. 6 Texas at Wells Fargo on Friday. Center in Philadelphia, where they will definitely draw a large local crowd.
It is the first school in New Jersey since Seattle Hall in 2000 to move that far. The Peacocks never won the N.C.A.A. Tournament game before beating Kentucky, which has won eight national championships.
St. Peter's - a small Jesuit school of about 2,300 students in the heart of Jersey City, two miles west of New York City - has now won nine games in a row and 10 of its last 11. On campus, students watched the game. Larger screen than the nickname Run Baby Run. Members of the University's Spirit Squad took a 10-hour bus ride to Indiana Police to watch the game so they could personally cheer the team on.
Murray State's two stars, Jay Williams and Tun Brown, combined to score seven of 26 goals against St. Peters' stingy defense. After keeping Kentucky at 43% shooting, Peacock limited the racers to 35%. The Racers now have five chances to reach the Final 16, and they have failed to get there. Michigan got enough magic in time to beat Tennessee.
Eli Brooks of Michigan defended a shot from John Flickerson of Tennessee during the second round. Put aside all the pitfalls of this Michigan season - the ugly clash in Wisconsin and the subsequent suspension, severe losses, immediate exit from the Big Ten conference tournament - because the Wolverines are suddenly winning when it counts. Michigan, the No. 11 seed in the Southern Territory, beat third-seeded Tennessee 76-68 with a late increase in the Indiana Police on Saturday.
Tennessee, which had successfully won the Southeastern Conference Tournament, never ordered the game the way it wanted to. His lead never exceeded 6 points, and he conceded 16 of his 18 3-point attempts. Michigan, who will play next in San Antonio, was hardly setting a record behind the Arc, where he scored 6 for 16, but those points proved to be important. So did the free throw: Eight of Michigan's last 10 points came from the line.
Hunter Dickinson, Michigan's starting center, had 27 points and 11 rebounds to lead the Wolverines. Eli Brooks added 23 more points to Michigan in a game with a dozen lead changes.
Michigan showed weaknesses, though, turning the ball 15 times, more than double the number of volunteers, and averaging 20 Tennessee points.
Kansas, another No. 1, feared Creighton. Jensen Wilson of Kansas shoots the ball against Creighton. Credit ... Ron Jenkins / Getty
Baylor may have lost, but the Big 12 Conference is happy to have avoided two defeats: Kansas, a league stalwart and second-seeded seed of the tournament, beat Crayton 79-72.
But the J. Hawks, whose roster boasts seven seniors and who led a maximum of 9 points on Saturday, sometimes seemed to whine in Chicago, where they would play next. Trey Alexander, a newcomer to Creighton, hit a long 3-pointer on Remy Martin, leaving his team just 3 behind. KeyShawn Feazell scored on Alex O'Connell's dribble penetration pass to further reduce the deficit. 73-72.
A wrong pass from Alexander gave Uchai Igbaji the Big 12 Player of the Year, ending Saturday with 15 points and eight rebounds, a chance to steal and score and reclaim Kansas' lead.
Timely defense prevented Creighton, who was playing without his defensive anchor after an injury on Thursday, from scoring again, while Kansas used four free throws to increase their tally to 79.
Kansas will face Providence in the Round of 16.
U.C.L.A. Defending the sheep is destroying St. Mary's.
U.C.L.A. Two days after Akron was limited to 53, St. Mary's was put on 56 points. Mick Cronin, U.C.L.A. The coach came to Westwood, determined to focus on defense. And although Jaime Jaquez Jr., Johnny Juzang, Jules Bernard and Tyger Campbell can shine aggressively, the Bruins do their best when they are flirting without the ball.
The Bruins' defense gave them a memorable run from the first four to the final four last year, and it led them to two wins of the same destination on Saturday when they rolled St. Mary's, 72-56.
St. Mary's accelerated 7 of their first 10 field goal attempts and took a 7-point lead. Then, in the first half after the U.C.L.A, during the Huddle Under 12:00 timeout, the game turned upside down - certainly not by chance.
The Broncos clamped down, stopping the Giles at 3 for 16 during the remaining half, and extended that defensive effort into the rest of the game. As the second half deepened, the pressure on St. Mary's continued to mount. Gaels seemed to be spending from time to time.
The biggest hurdle for the U.C.L.A came with 6:58 left when Jaquez, who has fought sprain ankles in the past, twisted his right ankle while fighting for rebound.
He hasn't played the rest of the game, and his availability will be a major story as the Broncos move on to play North Carolina in Philadelphia on Friday. This will be U.C.L.A's fifth Suite 16 exhibition in the last nine years. The match-up, which includes two schools that have combined for 17 national titles, will undoubtedly be one of the marquee games this weekend.
After playing in the shadow of Gonzaga for years at the West Coast Conference, Giles (26-8) noted that he had joined the U.C.L.A. Can be a difficult competitor for Completely destroying Indiana in the first round game on Thursday night. Pleased with 34-5 at the end of the first half, they won easily 82-53.
But Indiana, and a few others, play the kind of rough defense that Cronin demands. U.C.L.A. (27-7) This season is now 22-0 when the opponents are less than 66 points.
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