SPORTS
Thursday, March 15, 2018
Men’s NCAA Tournament
Syracuse rallies for win over Arizona St
Associated Press
First Four
DAYTON, Ohio — The last team
to make the NCAA Tournament gets
to play at least one more. Credit Syra-
cuse's fabulous freshman forward and
its legendary zone defense for getting a
cringe-worthy win.
Freshman Oshae Brissett had his
13th double-double while leading
Syracuse's second-half comeback, and
the Orange — the last team to make
the NCAA Tournament — held on for
a 60-56 victory over Arizona State on
Wednesday night in the First Four.
The 11th-seeded Orange plays No. 6
seed TCU (21-11) on Friday in Detroit
in the Midwest Region.
Syracuse (21-13) had to sweat out
Selection Sunday and wound up as the
last one to make the bracket, relegated
to the First Four. The Orange prevailed
in a matchup of teams that started fast
and then faded onto the tournament
bubble.
"Our offense struggles," coach
Jim Boeheim said. "But I thought our
defense has been good all year and
that's where we hang our hats, on the
defensive end."
Arizona State (20-12) opened
the season with 12 wins, including
victories over tournament No. 1 seeds
Xavier and Kansas. The Sun Devils
went 8-12 the rest of the way, and their
high-powered offense got shut down in
their biggest game.
Arizona State scored a season low
in points — only the third time it's
been held under 70 all season. The Sun
Devils' previous low was 64 points.
"Usually we're scoring 56 in a half,
and we ended up with 56," coach
#11 Syracuse
#11 Arizona St
60
56
Bobby Hurley said. "So there were
limited possessions. It was a rock fight,
and we just didn't make enough shots."
Brissett overcame a hard fall in the
first half, scored 23 points and had 12
rebounds. He had a three-point play
and a step-back jumper as the Orange
overcame a seven-point deficit with 7
minutes left.
"I knew he was going to get back
up," said Tyus Battle, whose 3-pointer
put Syracuse ahead to stay. "He's hit
some huge shots. He's done that count-
less times this year."
With a chance to take the lead,
Arizona State's Shannon Evans II
missed a 3-pointer with 2 seconds to
go. Frank Howard got the rebound,
was fouled and made both free throws
to clinch it. Kodi Justice had 15 points
for Arizona State, which hasn't won an
NCAA Tournament game since 2009.
UP NEXT
Syracuse hopes to duplicate its 2016
tournament run. The Orange was a No.
10 seed and reached the national semi-
finals, where it lost to North Carolina.
Texas Southern routs NC
Central 64-46
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — Texas
Southern got its first ever NCAA
Tournament win, a 64-46 rout of North
Carolina Central in a First Four game
on Wednesday night.
Damontrae Jefferson, a 5-foot-7
guard, scored 25 points and grabbed
eight rebounds to lift No. 16 seed
Texas Southern (16-19), which became
the first team with a losing record to
win a tournament game. The Tigers
started the season 0-13 against a rough
schedule and didn't win a game until
Jan. 1. Now they move on face No. 1
seed Xavier on Friday.
A historically black college in
Houston, Texas Southern slipped
into the First Four by getting hot
and winning the Southwest Athletic
College Tournament. The Tigers then
were paired with Mid-Eastern Athletic
Conference Tournament winner N.C.
Central, another historically black
school that was making its second
straight appearance in Dayton for a
play-in game with a completely new
starting lineup.
Both the conferences get an auto-
matic bid every year but rarely have to
play each other.
N.C. Central (19-16) was led by
Raasean Davis with 19 points, part of a
starting five that included a pair of true
freshmen guards and a walk-on.
Texas Southern led by 10 at the
half on Jefferson's 17 points. The
sophomore, who along with Miami's
Chris Lykes is the shortest player in the
tournament, tied the score at 10 with a
jumper, then fed an alley-oop pass to
Trayvon Reed for a monster dunk and
followed with a layup to cap an 8-0
run. The Tigers wouldn't relinquish the
lead.
UP NEXT:
Texas Southern plays No. 1 Xavier
in Pittsburgh on Friday.
East Oregonian
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TOURNAMENT: A lot of
good matchups in West
Continued from 1B
Other things to watch in
the West region Thursday:
DIOP VS. THE DAUMI-
NATOR: The matchup
between No. 5 Ohio State and
No. 12 South Dakota State
features two of the country’s
best forwards.
It pits Big Ten player of the
year Keita Bates-Diop (19.4
points, 8.8 rebounds) against
Summit League Player of
the Year Mike Daum (23 and
10), aka “The Dauminator.”
Daum is one of only three
Division I players to average
a double-double this season.
The 5 vs. 12 upset has
become so common it can’t
really be seen as an upset
anymore. Especially not
in this case. This game has
been targeted by no fewer
than a dozen pundits as ripe
for a Jackrabbits win. South
Dakota State is in its third
straight tournament. Last
year, it came in as a 16 seed
and was playing nose-to-nose
with Gonzaga for 35 minutes
before falling 66-46.
This year: “Obviously,
expectations
are
really
different for us,” Daum said.
“We’re a group of guys who
play really well together.”
COUGARS, AZTECS
DANCE AGAIN: In Wichita,
sixth-seeded Houston (26-7)
will make its first NCAA
Tournament appearance since
2010 when it faces No. 11
seed San Diego State (22-10).
The once-proud Cougars
have been to five Final Fours,
including three straight by
the Phi Slama Jama teams of
1982-84, but have not won
a game in the tournament
since that last foray. But their
coach, Kelvin Sampson, has
some experience making
deep runs, including a Final
Four trip when he was with
Oklahoma.
San Diego State is back in
the tournament under Brian
Dutcher, who’s in his first
season in charge but is no
stranger to this stage. He was
on Steve Fisher’s bench for
eight previous NCAA trips.
ROLLING WOLVER-
INES: Michigan earned
the No. 3 seed in the West
Region after five straight
wins to cap the regular season
and four wins in four days to
win a second straight Big Ten
Tournament title.
The streaking Wolverines
(28-7) will face No. 14 seed
Montana on Thursday night
in Wichita.
Michigan is certainly
familiar with this stage,
featuring four players who
were part of its Sweet 16 team
a year ago. Among them are
Moe Wagner, one of the tour-
nament’s breakout stars, and
Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rah-
kman, who also played in the
the previous season.
DUCKS: Hope to still be playing on March 30 at the Final Four in Columbus
Continued from 1B
“As soon as we took the
lead in the conference we
were the team that everyone
was gunning for, and this
group answered the challenge
and they did it again in the
Pac-12 tournament. I think
we’re going to be ready.”
The Ducks traveled
approximately 11,652 miles
during last year’s NCAA
Tournament. Oregon, a No.
10 seed, upset No. 7 Temple
and No. 2 Duke at Cameron
Indoor Arena in Durham,
N.C., before taking down
No. 3 Maryland in Bridge-
port, Conn.
Graves will use his own
team’s journey to remind
them that No. 7 Green Bay
and No. 10 Minnesota, the
two teams that meet in the
other first-round game Friday
in Eugene, are also capable
of surviving and advancing
to next weekend’s madness
in Spokane.
“We have the luxury of
knowing we better come
ready to play because we
were in that same situation
last year,” Graves said. “As
a 10 we had to beat a seven
and then beat a two, so we’ve
been through it. We know at
this point any game you can
get beat if you don’t bring it.
“I think we’re going to be
ready and focused.”
Oregon’s players were
given last week off to rest
and study after winning the
conference tournament with
a 77-57 victory over Stanford
in the March 4 title game in
Seattle.
Graves and his staff
soaked up the selection show
with some of the team’s
biggest fans Monday before
diving into film study of
Seattle and the two possible
second-round opponents.
The Redhawks (18-14)
earned an automatic bid by
winning the WAC Tourna-
ment. This is the program’s
first trip to the NCAA Tour-
nament.
Seattle’s leading scorer,
Alexis Montgomery, is from
Beaverton.
“My dad was hoping we
would play Oregon because
it’s only an hour and a half
drive away, so we should
have lots of support and
lots of good energy coming
from
the
Northwest,”
Montgomery told the Seattle
Times. “It’s super exciting. I
can’t really describe it with
words. We’re super grateful
we just have the opportunity
to play more than the regular
season.”
The Ducks and the long
shots from Seattle both have
a chance to make a run at the
Final Four without leaving
the Pacific Northwest. The
regional’s Sweet 16 is March
24 and the Elite Eight is
March 26 at Spokane Arena.
“There’s a ton of advan-
tages, but we’ve worked
really hard to gain those
advantages. That’s the way
the system works,” Graves
said of hosting the first
two rounds and potentially
returning to Spokane, where
he was the longtime coach
at Gonzaga. “We played 15
games against teams in the
top 50. That’s as many as
anybody, and we won 11 of
those.
“This team has been
tested, no doubt, against
national level and national
championship level teams.”
If the Ducks were to
advance to the Final Four,
which would require beating
No. 3 Ohio State and No.
1 Notre Dame if the seeds
hold, they would likely run
into UConn again in the
national semifinals on March
30 in Columbus, Ohio.
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