Jaden Bradley’s buzzer-beater lifts Arizona past Iowa State 82-80 in Big 12 semis
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Arizona’s Jaden Bradley answered a tying 3-pointer by Iowa State guard Tamin Lipsey with a fall-away jumper on the buzzer, sending the second-ranked Wildcats to an 82-80 victory over the No. 7 Cyclones in the Big 12 Tournament semifinals Friday evening.
Bradley completed with 15 factors, and Anthony Dell’Orso matched a career-best with six 3-pointers and scored 26 factors for the match’s prime seed. The Wildcats (31-2) superior to play fifth-ranked Houston in Saturday evening’s championship recreation.
Ivan Kharchenkov additionally had 17 factors for Arizona. Tobe Awaka added 10 factors and 10 rebounds.
It seemed as if the sport was headed to additional time after Lipsey, who had been 1 for 10 from the sector, drilled a 3-pointer from the wing with 15.2 seconds to go. Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd selected to not name a timeout and Bradley calmly walked the ball up the ground, then drove to his proper and hit the winner earlier than his teammates jumped from the bench on prime of him.
Milan Momcilovic matched a career-high eight 3-pointers and scored 28 factors for the No. 5 seed Cyclones (27-7). All-Big 12 ahead Joshua Jefferson had 21 factors, Killyan Toure added 12 and Lipsey completed with eight factors and 7 assists.
NO. 1 DUKE 73, CLEMSON 61
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Cameron Boozer had 24 factors, 14 rebounds and 5 assists and Duke ran out to a 19-point halftime lead and held on to beat Clemson to advance to the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament championship recreation.
Cayden Boozer, who’s beginning for the injured Caleb Foster, set a profession excessive with 16 factors and Nikolas Khamenia chipped in with 14 factors for the Blue Devils.
Duke (31-2) will play for its second straight ACC Tournament title and third in the final 4 years on Saturday evening towards No. 10 Virginia, an 84-62 winner over Miami in the opposite semifinal.
RJ Godfrey had 18 factors for Clemson (24-10).
Cameron Boozer, the ACC player of the year, confirmed off his various skillset, scoring from the low put up, mid-range and from deep the place he knocked down three 3s. He even ran the purpose at instances and was dominant on the boards, serving to Duke outrebound Clemson 41-27.
NO. 3 MICHIGAN 71, OHIO ST. 67
CHICAGO (AP) — Aday Mara scored 13 of his 17 factors in the second half, serving to Michigan maintain off Bruce Thornton and Ohio State for a victory in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals.
Elliot Cadeau had 15 factors, seven assists and three steals for Michigan in its fifth consecutive win. Trey McKenney scored 12 factors, and Morez Johnson Jr. completed with 11.
Mara anchored a robust defensive effort that shut down Ohio State in the ultimate minutes. It was the primary recreation of the match for the top-seeded Wolverines (30-2), whereas the Buckeyes (21-12) superior with a 72-69 victory over Iowa on Thursday.
Michigan goes for its second straight Big Ten tourney title and fifth general. It will face No. 23 Wisconsin on Saturday after the Badgers rallied for a 91-88 additional time win over No. 9 Illinois in the second quarterfinal of the day.
Thornton scored 22 factors for Ohio State, and Devin Royal had 13. It was the Buckeyes’ third lack of the season towards the Wolverines.
Ohio State grabbed its first lead of the sport when Royal’s 3-pointer from the highest of the important thing made it 61-60 with 5:40 left.
Mara’s layup lifted Michigan to a 67-64 benefit with 2:56 to go. Royal and Thornton then missed jumpers for Ohio State earlier than Yaxel Lendeborg made a free throw for the Wolverines with 1:24 remaining.
The Buckeyes pulled inside two on Royal’s two foul photographs in the ultimate seconds, however Lendeborg responded with two free throws to assist shut it out.
Lendeborg, the Big Ten participant of the 12 months, was held to 6 factors. But he additionally had six assists and 5 rebounds.
NO. 4 FLORIDA 71, KENTUCKY 63
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Alex Condon scored 22 factors and grabbed 10 rebounds, and Florida took step one towards defending its Southeastern Conference Tournament title by beating Kentucky in the quarterfinals.
The Gators (26-6) by no means trailed and had been tied solely as soon as whereas profitable their twelfth straight recreation. The regular-season SEC champions, who’re in search of a sixth match title general, will play No. 22 Vanderbilt in Saturday’s semifinals.
Thomas Haugh added 13 factors for Florida, and Xaivian Lee had 11.
Kentucky (21-13) now has another loss all-time (32) than titles (31) in this match. The ninth-seeded Wildcats performed their third recreation in as many days after opening the match Wednesday morning, a primary for a program that final received this occasion in 2018.
Denzel Aberdeen led Kentucky with 17 factors, reserve Mouhamed Dioubate scored 14 and Otega Oweh added 10.
NO. 5 HOUSTON 69, NO. 14 KANSAS 47
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kingston Flemings scored 21 factors, fellow freshman Chris Cenac Jr. had 17 factors and 14 rebounds, and Houston rolled past poor-shooting and lackluster Kansas in the semifinals of the Big 12 Tournament.
The second-seeded Cougars (28-5) held the third-seeded Jayhawks with out a discipline aim for greater than 10 minutes at level in the sport, in the end breezing into one other championship matchup with second-ranked Arizona on Saturday evening.
Houston beat the Wildcats 72-64 final 12 months for its first Big 12 Tournament title.
Darryn Peterson had 14 factors to guide the Jayhawks (23-10), who had crushed the Cougars in their solely regular-season matchup. But the Jayhawks had been a complete lot higher that evening in Allen Fieldhouse than they had been at T-Mobile Center, the place they had been 6 for 31 from the sector in the second half and shot 24.6% general in their lowest-scoring recreation of the season.
NO. 6 UCONN 67, GEORGETOWN 51
NEW YORK (AP) — Braylon Mullins scored 15 of his 21 factors in the primary half, Jayden Ross hit a few momentum-stunting 3-pointers in the second, and UConn defeated Georgetown to arrange a showdown of the highest two seeds in the Big East Tournament closing.
The second-seeded Huskies (29-4) will face regular-season convention champion and Thirteenth-ranked St. John’s in the title recreation Saturday evening after the Red Storm beat Seton Hall 78-68 in the opposite semifinal.
Like St. John’s, UConn has yet to trail in both of its first two video games this week at Madison Square Garden. Mullins scored 5 of the workforce’s first seven factors to go up 7-0, and the closest Eleventh-seeded Georgetown (16-18) received after that was down three on the 7 1/2-minute mark.
UConn led by 11 at halftime, regardless of not trying a free throw to that time, and completed with assists on 21 of its 28 discipline targets. Without main scorer KJ Lewis, who was ruled out for the season with a left ankle harm, the Hoyas had been in the end overmatched by a stacked opponent they performed tight in January and again in February.
UCLA 88, NO. 8 MICHIGAN STATE 84
CHICAGO (AP) — Donovan Dent had 23 factors and 12 assists, Trent Perry added 22 factors and UCLA held off Michigan State in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals regardless of shedding star Tyler Bilodeau to a leg harm.
Bilodeau needed to be helped off the courtroom late in the primary half and spent the second on the sideline along with his proper knee wrapped. The Bruins led by 15 early in the second half and withstood a number of massive pushes down the stretch to advance to a semifinal matchup with No. 18 Purdue, which beat No. 11 Nebraska 74-58.
They had been clinging to an 82-80 lead when Brandon Williams scored on a fast-break layup to make it a four-point recreation with 25 seconds remaining. Carson Cooper made a layup for Michigan State with 12 seconds left. UCLA’s Trent Perry instantly answered with two free throws.
Jeremy Fears Jr. then drove for a layup to chop it to 86-84 with six seconds remaining. But Perry sealed the win with two free throws.
NO. 10 VIRGINIA 84, MIAMI 62
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Virginia beat Miami to advance to the ACC Tournament championship recreation for the primary time since 2023.
Mailk Thomas scored 9 of his 15 factors in the second half for the Cavaliers, who improved to 29-4 underneath first-year coach Ryan Odom.
Tru Washington scored 13 factors and Shelton Henderson added 12 for Miami, which shot simply 39% from the sector and was outrebounded 35-24.
Virginia broke open a tightly contested defensive recreation with a 13-2 run over the ultimate 2:47 of the primary half for a 38-23 lead on the break. Chance Mallory closed out the run with a working 3-pointer to beat the buzzer following a Miami turnover.
The Hurricanes by no means recovered.
The lead grew to 18 factors six minutes into the second half as Miami struggled to seek out lanes to assault the basket towards the taller Cavaliers. Miami couldn’t hit from deep, lacking 10 of its first 11 photographs from behind the 3-point line.
NO. 18 PURDUE 74, NO. 11 NEBRASKA 58
CHICAGO (AP) — Fletcher Loyer scored 19 factors, Braden Smith collected 10 extra assists and Purdue beat Nebraska in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals.
C.J. Cox and Oscar Cluff every had 12 factors for the Boilermakers, and Trey Kaufman-Renn completed with 10 factors and 9 rebounds.
Smith set a Big Ten Tournament document and matched a profession excessive with 16 assists in an 81-68 victory over Northwestern on Thursday. The senior guard wants 22 extra assists to interrupt Bobby Hurley’s NCAA document of 1,076 assists in 140 video games for Duke from 1989-93.
Purdue (25-8) superior to the Big Ten semifinals for the fourth time in the final 5 years, bouncing again properly after closing the common season with 4 losses in six video games. It will play UCLA on Saturday.
Pryce Sandford scored 15 factors for Nebraska, which dropped to 6-14 all-time in the Big Ten tourney. Rienk Mast completed with 11.
NO. 13 ST. JOHN’S 78, SETON HALL 68
NEW YORK (AP) — Zuby Ejiofor scored 20 factors and St. John’s beat Seton Hall to achieve the Big East Tournament title recreation for the second consecutive season.
Joson Sanon added 15 factors off the bench for the defending champion Red Storm (27-6), who will face sixth-ranked and second-seeded UConn on Saturday evening at Madison Square Garden.
St. John’s, outright regular-season champions every of the past two years, has by no means received back-to-back Big East Tournament crowns. The program has superior to the semifinals in all three seasons underneath Hall of Fame coach Rick Pitino after failing to take action in any respect from 2001-23.
Bryce Hopkins had 13 factors and 7 rebounds for the Johnnies, who improved to 10-1 as the highest seed in this occasion. Dillon Mitchell supplied 13 factors, six rebounds and 5 assists.
Budd Clark paced the fourth-seeded Pirates (21-12) with 17 factors and 11 assists. Seton Hall was making an attempt to achieve the ultimate for the primary time since a 74-72 loss to Villanova in 2019.
St. John’s has received six straight matchups in the Hudson River rivalry, its longest streak since profitable 15 in a row from 1982-88.
MISSISSIPPI 80, NO. 15 ALABAMA 79
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — AJ Storr scored 17 factors, Ilias Kamardine added 16 and Fifteenth-seeded Mississippi upset second-seeded Alabama in the Southeastern Conference Tournament quarterfinals.
Mississippi (15-19) received for the third time in three days in the match after shedding 12 of the ultimate 13 regular-season video games. The Rebels superior to the semifinals Saturday towards No. 17 Arkansas.
Labaron Philon led Alabama (23-9) with 28 factors. Aden Holloway added 18 factors and Aiden Sherrell had 14. Philon was 5 for seven from 3-point vary and shot 9 of 16 general.
Philon reduce Mississippi’s lead to a degree with two free throws with 13.4 seconds remaining. Mississippi’s Eduardo Klafke missed the entrance finish of a 1-and-1 with 9.4 seconds remaining. Alabama went the opposite manner on the rebound, however turned the ball over underneath its personal basket.
NO. 17 ARKANSAS 82, OKLAHOMA 79
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Darius Acuff Jr. scored 37 factors and Arkansas held off Oklahoma to achieve the Southeastern Conference Tournament semifinals.
The third-seeded Razorbacks (24-8) received their third straight general and can play No. 15 seed Mississippi in the semifinals after the (*12*) earlier Friday evening.
Trevon Brazile added 12 factors for Arkansas. Meleek Thomas, who got here in averaging 15.4 factors, was 2-of-10 capturing and completed with eight factors.
The Razorbacks had been the final workforce to play at this match, whereas this was Oklahoma’s third recreation in as many nights. The recreation featured 16 lead modifications and 11 ties, and Acuff, the SEC’s scoring chief and league’s player and freshman of the year, had 21 in the primary half to maintain Arkansas inside 39-37 at halftime.
Neither workforce led by greater than 4 a lot of the second half, and Dayton Forsythe’s layup tied it for the final time at 67 with 5:38 left. Malique Ewin’s dunk put Arkansas forward to stick with 5:17 left. The Razorbacks scored 9 of the following 11, and Acuff’s 3 with 2:27 remaining gave them their greatest lead at 76-69.
The Sooners had a closing likelihood after Acuff missed a second free throw with 10 seconds left. Nijel Pack’s 3 missed and Arkansas received the ball with 0.6 seconds remaining.
NO. 23 WISCONSIN 91, NO. 9 ILLINOIS 88, OT
CHICAGO (AP) — Nick Boyd scored a career-high 38 factors, John Blackwell added 31 and Wisconsin rallied from 15 down in the second half to beat Illinois in additional time in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals.
It was tied at 80 in additional time when Boyd scored in the paint and Austin Rapp nailed a 3 to offer Wisconsin a five-point lead with 2:33 remaining.
The Badgers had been up by 4 with a few minute left when Boyd rebounded a missed 3 by Rapp. That led to 2 free throws for Blackwell, making it 87-81 with 46 seconds left.
Illinois received inside 90-88 on David Mirkovic’s layup with six seconds remaining. Wisconsin’s Braeden Carrington then missed a free throw and hit the second to make it a three-point recreation earlier than Illinois’ Keaton Wagler missed a protracted 3 on the buzzer.
The Badgers (24-9) superior to the semifinals towards No. 3 Michigan on Saturday. The Wolverines, in search of their second straight Big Ten Tournament title, held off Ohio State 71-67.
Boyd surpassed his earlier excessive of 36 factors in a win towards Providence on Nov. 27. Blackwell, coming off a career-best 34 a day earlier towards Washington, grew to become Wisconsin’s all-time main scorer in Big Ten Tournament video games with 144 factors.
NO. 22 VANDERBILT 75, NO. 25 TENNESSEE 68
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Duke Miles scored a season-high 30 factors as Vanderbilt beat Tennessee to advance to the Southeastern Conference Tournament semifinals.
The fourth-seeded Commodores (25-7) got here in with its highest seeding since profitable the 2012 SEC Tournament. They will play regular-season SEC champ Florida, a 71-63 winner over Kentucky, on Saturday.
Tyler Tanner added 19 factors for the Commodores, who received their third straight.
No. 25 Tennessee (22-11) misplaced to Vanderbilt for the second time in per week and leaves properly wanting the match title recreation the place the Vols misplaced to Florida final 12 months.
Ja’Kobi Gillespie led Tennessee with 21 factors. Nate Ament, who had 27 points in the second round, missed his first eight photographs. He completed with 12 factors and 11 rebounds. J.P. Estrella added 12 factors and Jaylen Carey 10.
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