15-Seed Saint Peter’s Advances To Sweet 16, One-Seed Baylor Goes Down

ncaaIn a wild Saturday of school basketball, the primary one seed of the match went down, and March Insanity formally has its Cinderella story.

To begin off the day, No. 1 seed Baylor overcame a 25-point second-half deficit, earlier than falling to North Carolina 93-86 in extra time.

Baylor, the defending nationwide champions, staged a livid rally, occurring a 38-13 run on the 10:08 mark of the second half to ship the sport into extra time. Baylor pressured 21 turnovers on the day, together with 9 within the closing 10:08.

“They persistently began to press us, and that bothered us,” North Carolina head coach Hubert Davis said after the sport. “It sped us up, and made us make uncharacteristic performs. It made us flip the ball over. I additionally felt at occasions in stress conditions, we misplaced our composure. I really feel like we helped them. However Baylor’s an amazing group. They’re the defending nationwide champions and didn’t wish to go house. They stepped up their effort, however we stepped up our effort as nicely.”

The Tar Heels jumped out to a fast lead in extra time on a three-pointer from Dontrez Kinds, and had been 6-8 from the free throw within the further interval to advance to the Candy 16. Sophomore guard R.J. Davis was spectacular for North Carolina, pouring in 30 factors, including six assists and 5 rebounds.

North Carolina senior ahead Brady Manek had 26 factors earlier than being ejected within the second half for an elbow that was dominated a flagrant two.

Within the East area, two days after knocking out two-seed Kentucky, little-known St. Peter’s of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Convention took down 7-seed Murray State to grow to be simply the third 15-seed to advance to the Candy 16.

The Peacocks held a 13-point second half lead earlier than the Racers made a run and lower the result in two with 4:07 left. Junior guard Doug Ebert had 13 off the bench for St. Peter’s, together with three huge buckets within the sport’s closing 5 minutes.

“I informed these guys all 12 months, ‘No one works tougher than us.’ The stuff we put these guys by way of, that is straightforward. Observe is hard. That is straightforward,” Peacocks head coach Shaheen Holloway said after the sport.

Saint Peter’s is a faculty with simply 2,300 college students from Jersey Metropolis, New Jersey, and can face the winner of Sunday’s sport between Texas and Purdue.

The match’s primary total seed, the Gonzaga Bulldogs, overcame a 10-point halftime deficit to Memphis, beating the Tigers 82-78 to advance to the second weekend of the match.

Junior ahead Drew Timme had 25 factors on 10-16 capturing from the sector, placing the Zags on his again with 21 second-half factors.

“They did job within the first half, enjoying bodily, bringing a double early,” Timme stated after the sport. “Coach was like ‘We want you. You gotta get it it doesn’t matter what.’ So, that’s the sort of simply the mindset we performed with.”

Gonzaga advances to play four-seed Arkansas.

Joe Morgan is the Sports activities Reporter for The Every day Wire. Most not too long ago, Morgan coated the Clippers, Lakers and the NBA for Sporting Information. Ship your sports activities inquiries to sports [email protected].

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