It’s officially Madness. After First Four games on Tuesday and Wednesday, the first full day of the NCAA tournament played out on Thursday with 16 men’s games spread out over 12 hours.
The Jayhawks hold on after a late scare from the Bulldogs. Kansas finishes with five players with 13+ points. Hunter Dickinson leads the way with 19 points and 20 rebounds. The controversial foul call at the end will surely haunt Samford.
The red hot 11th-seeded Wolfpack stay hot with an upset win over 6th-seeded Texas Tech. That makes 6 seeds 0-3 today as Tech joins BYU and Oregon as losers on that seed line.
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Samford is making a comeback! Kansas was up 63-41 at one point.
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Final: Washington State 66, Drake 61
Washington State rallies and beats Drake in the first round. Isaac Jones' 20 points leads the way for the Cougars. Wazzu advances to face Iowa State the second round.
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Washington State takes the lead on a this clutch 3 by Isaiah Watts! Cougars lead Drake 61-59 with 34.8 seconds to play
We're well into the final window of the night. Tennessee is on easy street at halftime, but the other three games are competitive early.
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John Calipari on what went wrong for Kentucky: "We made some critical mistakes at critical times again today. When you have a really young team and look at where the mistakes come from, they were freshmen." pic.twitter.com/JoLJVuGDXv
Jack Gohlke hits 10 (!) 3-pointers and scores 32 points to lead the Golden Grizzlies to a massive upset of the Wildcats in the first round! John Calipari's squad suffers another in a long list of disappointing early-tournament exits.
When Terez Paylor put together the very first All-Juice Team in 2015, 10 of those 22 players are expected to still be on NFL rosters in 2024. We can only hope this year's team honors Terez's memory with that kind of hit rate.
Chelsea's loss to Barcelona in the Women's Champions League semifinals came with one positive side effect, from an American perspective: Emma Hayes will take the USWNT head coaching job a week sooner.