Guard Gabe York came off the bench to knock down five 3-pointers and lift fifth-ranked Arizona to a 73-58 victory over Ohio State in an NCAA Tournament third-round game Saturday at Moda Center.
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Undefeated and No. 1-ranked Kentucky’s chase for perfection continues. The Wildcats (36-0) got 13 points from guard Aaron Harrison and limited No. 8-seeded Cincinnati to 32 percent field goal shooting in a 64-51 Midwest Region third-round victory on Saturday in the KFC Yum! Center.
Center Tony Parker scored a career-best 28 points and added 12 rebounds on Saturday, leading No. 11-seeded UCLA to a 92-75 South Region third-round victory over No. 14 Alabama-Birmingham in the KFC Yum! Center.
The Review-Journal’s Adam Hill, Kelly Stewart and Matt Youmans compete against handicappers Bruce Marshall, Paul Stone and Ken Thomson in a contest covering NCAA Tournament games.
This is what UCLA is supposed to do in the NCAA tournament. Win.
Iowa State used an overpowering second half against North Carolina Central to avoid the kind of upset that has tripped up other highly seeded teams in this NCAA tournament. Then came the bad news for the Cyclones — or, really, the bad break.
Kentucky center Willie Cauley-Stein got a whole lot of grief from his teammates for a comment he made ahead of his team’s game against Kansas State, when he brazenly said the No. 8 seed Wildcats intended to “shock the world” in the NCAA tournament. Well, they’ll at least have a chance to play the Shockers.
Virginia spent the first half Friday night flirting with losing in a historic upset and the second half playing the style that carried the Cavaliers to a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament.
The billion dollar dream is over. A second day of upsets ended any chance of someone having a perfect NCAA tournament bracket in Warren Buffett’s $1 billion challenge.
Meet your new NCAA tournament darlings: The Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks. Trailing most of the second half after a meltdown against Virginia Commonwealth’s relentless pressure, the gritty ‘Jacks tied the game on Desmond Haymon’s improbable four-play play with 3.6 seconds left in regulation and survived in overtime for a 77-75 win over VCU on Friday night.