Sunday can be a candy day for half the groups enjoying, because the winners of those N.C.A.A. event video games will safe their spots within the spherical of 16. Comply with together with the bracket and reside scores, and take a look at our picks for the video games we don’t wish to miss (groups organized by seed; all occasions Japanese):
Males’s Event
No. 3 Xavier vs. No. 11 Pittsburgh
12:10 p.m., CBS
Xavier appeared asleep for many of its first-round sport towards No. 14-seeded Kennesaw State. The Musketeers trailed by 13 with slightly below 10 minutes to play earlier than lastly waking up; they scored the following 15 factors and held on for a 72-67 win. Pitt narrowly escaped its play-in sport towards Mississippi State to make the sector of 64, but it surely had no such bother towards No. 6-seeded Iowa State. The Panthers opened the sport on a 22-4 run and held the Cyclones to only 23.3 % taking pictures within the 59-41 win. They’ll look to observe within the footsteps of two different Eleventh-seeded groups that began within the First 4 and made the Remaining 4: V.C.U. in 2011 and U.C.L.A. in 2021.
No. 3 Kansas State vs. No. 6 Kentucky
2:40 p.m., CBS
Issues weren’t fairly as straightforward for Kansas State on Friday because the workforce may need favored, with No. 14-seeded Montana State hanging round till the ultimate couple of minutes. However finally, the mixture of ahead Keyontae Johnson (18 factors, 8 rebounds) and Markquis Nowell (17 factors, 14 assists) was an excessive amount of to beat. It additionally took Kentucky a while in its matchup with No. 11-seeded Windfall to realize management, however the squad had one thing the Friars didn’t: Oscar Tshiebwe. The senior ahead grabbed 25 rebounds in Kentucky’s 61-53 win, establishing this all-Wildcat assembly within the second spherical.
No. 2 Marquette vs. No. 7 Michigan State
5:15 p.m., CBS
Marquette used a balanced offensive assault in its first-round sport to dispatch No. 15-seeded Vermont, 78-61, with 5 gamers in double figures. The win was the primary within the N.C.A.A. event for the Golden Eagles since 2013, after they reached the spherical of 8. Michigan State’s win on Friday over No. 10-seeded Southern California was its fifteenth in that very same interval, by which the Spartans went to 2 Remaining Fours (although didn’t win a sport in both one). Michigan State misplaced an early lead towards the Trojans however recovered for a 72-62 win.
No. 9 Florida Atlantic vs. No. 16 Fairleigh Dickinson
7:45 p.m., TruTV
After Fairleigh Dickinson’s gorgeous upset of Purdue, a No. 1 seed, we’ve been absorbing details about the varsity in Teaneck, N.J. The Knights gained solely 4 video games final season and didn’t win their convention event this yr; they wanted to win a First 4 sport earlier than they even had an opportunity to face Purdue; they’re the shortest workforce in Division I. However irrespective of: F.D.U. owns the second win by a No. 16 seed over a No. 1 seed in males’s event historical past, and now it has an opportunity to get additional than any 16 seed ever has. Standing in its means is Florida Atlantic, which survived a back-and-forth sport towards Memphis by hitting the go-ahead basket with 2.5 seconds left.
Girls’s Event
No. 3 Notre Dame vs. No. 11 Mississippi State
3:30 p.m., ESPN
Mississippi State constructed on its win within the First 4 with an 81-66 defeat of No. 6 Creighton. The Bulldogs had been dealing with a darling from final yr’s event, however they took management early and have become the bottom seed to win on Friday. Notre Dame additionally acquired out to a scorching begin, scoring the primary 16 factors in its 82-56 win over Southern Utah. The Combating Irish can be with out their star level guard, Olivia Miles, for the remainder of the event due to a knee harm, however they’d loads of contributions of their first-round sport: Lauren Ebo posted a double-double, with 14 factors and 10 rebounds, and Maddy Westbeld scored 20 factors.
No. 2 Maryland vs. No. 7 Arizona
5:30 p.m., ESPN
Maryland made gentle work of No. 15-seeded Holy Cross within the first spherical, leaping out to a 23-4 begin en path to the 93-61 victory. The Terrapins acquired double-digit scoring efforts from 5 gamers, led by 18 off the bench from guard Brinae Alexander. Arizona Coach Adia Barnes has her workforce again within the spherical of 32 for the third consecutive yr after a 75-62 win over West Virginia on Friday. Cate Reese scored 25, and Esmery Martinez had 13 factors and 12 rebounds enjoying towards her former workforce. The Wildcats misplaced final yr within the second spherical, however the yr earlier than, they made it to the Remaining 4.
No. 2 Utah vs. No. 10 Princeton
7 p.m., ESPN2
Princeton wanted almost each second of Friday’s sport to tug off the upset. The Tigers acquired a 3-pointer from Grace Stone with 4.7 seconds left to finish their comeback win over seventh-seeded North Carolina State, which was held and not using a level for the ultimate 5:43 of the sport. Princeton has made the spherical of 32 for the second consecutive yr. It can face Utah, which hit the century mark Friday in a 103-77 win over Gardner-Webb. The Utes had been led by ahead Alissa Pili’s 33 factors, a profession excessive for the switch from Southern California.
No. 3 L.S.U. vs. No. 6 Michigan
7:30 p.m., ESPN
L.S.U. took some time to jell offensively it its 73-50 win over 14th-seeded Hawaii on Friday, however even chilly taking pictures couldn’t decelerate the Tigers. Ahead Angel Reese scored 34 factors and added 15 rebounds for her twenty ninth double-double on the season. Michigan was scorching out of the gate in its first-round sport towards U.N.L.V., main 17-9 after the primary quarter. Ahead Emily Kiser and guard Maddie Nolan every had 18 factors for the Wolverines, whereas guard Leigha Brown poured in 17.
Supply: NY Times
