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NCAA tournament live: Miami fighting off an upset bid, Duke winning in a rout


Chris Lykes and Miami were tied at the half with Loyola-Chicago. (Steve Mitchell/USA TODAY Sports)

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The NCAA tournament is barely into its late afternoon slate of games and already, one matchup has gone to over time (Rhode Island vs. Oklahoma) and a mid-major has taken a college basketball blue blood (UNC-Greensboro vs. Gonzaga) to the brink.

Could the next such suspenseful game be developing? No. 6-seed Miami and No.-11 seed Loyola-Chicago were knotted up at 28 apiece at halftime.

Freshman center Cameron Krutwig led the Ramblers (28-5) with eight first-half points. No one from Miami (22-9) was even close to heating up. Freshman phenom Lonnie Walker IV had eight points on 2-of-6 shooting. Point guard Chris Lykes, a product of Gonzaga College High School in Northwest, D.C., earned a start and had five first-half points.

Miami could have been in even more trouble after 20 minutes without this runner from Dejan Vasiljevic at the buzzer.

Is this March Madness’s latest upset in the making?

Duke blowing out Iona at the half

The Blue Devils (26-7) were ahead of 15th-seeded Iona, 53-39, at the break. Three Duke starters were already in double figures at halftime, including star forward Marvin Bagley III, who had 14 points on 6-of-8 shooting.

Grayson Allen (11 points, 5 assists) knocked down this smooth three-pointer at the buzzer to tilt the Devils over the half-century mark.

Guard Zach Lewis led Iona with 10 first-half points.

Kansas pulls away from Penn

No. 1-seed Kansas treaded in some pretty hot water for a while letting No. 16-seed Pennsylvania hang around their first-round matchup in Wichita

But the Jayhawks (28-7) pulled away late for a 76-60 win behind 29 points from Devonte Graham. Kansas will face the winner of Seton Hall and North Carolina State.

A.J. Brodeur and Caleb Wood each scored 14 points for the Quakers (24-9), who kept the game in single-digits until late, when the Jayhawks’ Mitch Lightfoot took over the paint. Free throws also killed Penn, which went 5-of-14 from the line.

Gonzaga avoids a meltdown vs. UNC-Greensboro

From Tim Bontemps in Boise, Idaho: The Gonzaga Bulldogs came within a few possessions of winning last season’s national championship. Thursday afternoon, they came just as close to seeing their hopes of another Final Four run end on the NCAA tournament’s opening day.

Thanks to a three-pointer from the right wing by redshirt freshman Zach Norvell Jr. with 20.8 seconds remaining, the fourth-seeded Bulldogs survived an upset scare from No. 13 seed UNC-Greensboro, winning 68-64 here at Taco Bell Arena.

Gonzaga (31-4) found itself in trouble when Jordy Kuiper tipped in a missed shot to make it 64-62 in favor of the Spartans (27-8) with 1:47 remaining. It was the culmination of a series of aggressive attacks of the interior of Gonzaga’s defense, and briefly allowed UNCG to look like it would win.

Instead, it proved to be Greensboro’s final basket of the game.

While the Spartans played free and easy throughout an entertaining game that saw eight ties and three lead changes, an ambitious, failed attempted alley-oop from guard Demetrius Troy with 1:05 remaining kept them from extend their lead past one possession. The mistake proved costly when Gonzaga’s Josh Perkins tied the game with 51 seconds remaining.

After Greensboro’s Francis Alonso badly missed a runner off the right side of the backboard, Norvell’s jumper put Gonzaga ahead for good. The Spartans had two chances to tie, but Alonso was called for an offensive foul for pushing off a defender, and after Rui Hachimura missed two free throws, Marvin Smith’s three-pointer rattled in and out to officially snuff out Greensboro’s upset dreams.

Rhode Island prevails over Young and Oklahoma in OT

If that Oklahoma-Rhode Island game is an omen for the rest of March Madness, you’re going to rip your hair out by the time the month is over.

Rhode Island prevailed in the definition of a nail-biter, 83-78, in overtime, in Pittsburgh. Oklahoma star freshman Trae Young scored 28 points on 9-of-18 shooting. Four Rams scored in double figures, led by 16 points from guard E.C. Matthews, who hit a 24-foot three-pointer with 30 seconds left in the extra session to put the Rams (26-7) up by five and seal the game.

The Sooners (18-14) led 35-31 at the half, but seventh-seeded Rhode Island ripped off a 10-0 run to grab a lead midway through the second half. From there, Young and the Rams’ defense pitched a battle that frequently spanned all 94 feet of the floor.

Jared Terrell, who apparently didn’t know he could dribble in closer, hit a three-pointer from within the midcourt logo to tie the game at 44 with 16 minutes to play.

But Young answered, and got hot late in the game. Eighteen of his points came in the second half.

He nailed a deep three-pointer and then two free throws to tie the game late. Rhode Island’s Jeff Dowtin missed a layup at the other end, and Stanford Robinson grabbed the rebound, but his putback attempt rolled off the rim as the horn sounded.

“We’re a resilient team,” Matthews said in a TV interview afterward. “We’ve been through this the whole year.”

Also, Rhody’s bench was into it:

Tennessee blows out Wright State: Third-seeded Tennessee got a double-double from Admiral Schofield and 14 points from Grant Williams in a dominating 73-47 win over Wright State. The third-seeded Vols (26-8) led by 11 at halftime, and cruised in the second half. They will face either the winner of No. 6 Miami and No. 11 Loyola Chicago in Saturday’s second round.

Sir Charles gets a quick jump: Tip-off was still minutes away when Charles Barkley uttered his first controversial comment of the day.

Blabbing on CBS’s pregame show Thursday, Barkley opined that Arizona’s “DeAndre Ayton is the best college basketball player I’ve seen in 25 years.” Clark Kellogg agreed, but Kenny Smith brought a bit of balance to the conversation, reminding everyone of Anthony Davis.

Remember, the tournament’s first round hadn’t even started. Whee.

La Bamba: Mo Bamba, Texas’s 6-foot-11 big man with the nearly eight-foot wingspan, on Thursday again said that his toe is 100 percent healthy ahead of Friday afternoon’s game against seventh-seeded Nevada. Bamba, a freshman, led the Big 12 in rebounding and blocks and is seen as a likely NBA lottery pick in this year’s draft.

Bamba missed three games with a sprained big toe before returning to play 14 minutes in Texas’s Big 12 tournament loss to Texas Tech.

A full-strength Bamba could be a problem for the Wolf Pack, which does not have a player taller than 6-7.

“Unfortunately, when he sustained the injury in mid-February, it slowed him down some, but he’s healthier now than he’s been since he sustained that injury and hopefully on Friday he’ll be able to go full speed and full go,” Longhorns Coach Shaka Smart said this week. “We’re excited about that. When you look at his development, he’s made major strides and now that we’re in mid-March, it’s the time to play the best basketball of his freshman year.”

Schedule

Afternoon schedule (All times Eastern):

  • 12:15 p.m. No. 7 Rhode Island vs. No. 10 Oklahoma (CBS)
  • 12:40 p.m. No. 3 Tennessee vs. No. 14 Wright State (truTV)
  • 1:30 p.m. No. 4 Gonzaga vs. No. 13 UNCG (TNT)
  • 2 p.m. No. 1 Kansas vs. No. 16 Penn (TBS)
  • 2:45 p.m. No. 2 Duke vs. No. 15 Iona (CBS)
  • 3:10 p.m. No. 6 Miami vs. No. 11 Loyola Chicago (truTV)
  • 4 p.m. No. 5 Ohio State vs. No. 12 South Dakota State (TNT)
  • 4:30 p.m. No. 8 Seton Hall vs. No. 9 N.C. State (TBS)

Evening schedule (All times Eastern):

  • 6:50 p.m. No. 1 Villanova vs. No. 16 Radford (TNT)
  • 7:10 p.m. No. 5 Kentucky vs. No. 12 Davidson (CBS)
  • 7:20 p.m. No. 6 Houston vs. No. 11 San Diego State (TBS)
  • 7:27 p.m. No. 3 Texas Tech vs. No. 14 Stephen F. Austin (truTV)
  • 9:20 p.m. No. 8 Virginia Tech vs. No. 9 Alabama (TNT)
  • 9:40 p.m. No. 4 Arizona vs. No. 13 Buffalo (CBS)
  • 9:50 p.m. No. 3 Michigan vs. No. 14 Montana (TBS)
  • 9:57 p.m. No. 6 Florida vs. No. 11 St. Bonaventure (truTV)

Top story lines

— The most important thing you’ll need to know over the first two days of the tournament — the absolute most essential information is how to find truTV, the Turner channel that assumes a lofty status along with CBS, TNT and TBS for this part of the March Madness. Here’s everything you need to know about how to quickly find it.

— This week’s play-in winners are Radford, Texas Southern, St. Bonaventure and Syracuse. Radford faces Villanova; Texas Southern plays Xavier; St. Bonaventure plays Florida; and Syracuse faces TCU. And as John Feinstein writes, Radford isn’t letting the long odds kill its vibe.

— Kansas just won its NCAA-record 14th straight conference title and is a No. 1 seed for the eighth time in 15 years under Bill Self. (Read more on Big 12 player of the year Devonte’ Graham, who plays a beautiful but understated game.)

— Miami is in its third straight tournament, and the school is already in love with 5-foot-7 Chris Lykes. Next up: All of college basketball.

— Kentucky Coach John Calipari didn’t seem thrilled with his team’s draw —  or with being sent to Boise.

— There will be no team in this year’s field with more scrutiny and attention than Arizona, thanks to the ongoing FBI investigation of college basketball corruption. Some people think the FBI is cleaning up college basketball, but critics claim the bureau is wasting its time. And Jerry Brewer argues that March Madness is the sport’s greatest hypocrisy and best hope of salvation.

— Michigan is again peaking at the right time, with a tenacious defensive identity and another Big Ten tournament title.

— Forget about Kentucky and Arizona, Virginia, still has the easiest road to the Final Four. The Cavaliers face UMBC, which is embracing a “nothing to lose” attitude,” in the first round. And, unsurprisingly, the three best bets to win the NCAA tournament include Virginia, as well as Villanova and Duke. Here is a roundup of other expert picks.

— Barack Obama isn’t letting a little thing like being out of office keep him from his annual “Barack-etology” brackets. Spoiler: he has Michigan State winning the men’s title and UConn (again) winning the women’s championship.

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