The second round of the 2015 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament commenced on Thursday with sixteen games, four of them in the Midwest Region.
At Pittsburgh:
In the opener, Zach Auguste scored 25 points as the third-seeded Notre Dame Fighting Irish (30-5) held off the #14-seeded Northeastern Huskies (23-12) 69-65.
In the second contest, Kellen Dunham scored 20 points as the sixth-seeded Bulter Bulldogs (23-10) downed the eleventh-seeded Texas Longhorns (20-14) 56-48.
At Louisville, Kentucky:
A. J. Hammons scored 17 points and grabbed 10 rebounds as the eighth-seeded Cincinnati Bearcats (23-10) defeated the ninth-seeded Purdue Boilermakers (21-13) 66-65 in overtime. The Bearcats' Troy Caupain forced overtime with his buzzer-beating layup at the end of regulation.
Karl-Anthony Towns scored 21 points and grabbed 11 rebounds as the overall #1-seeded Kentucky Wildcats (35-0) pistolwhipped the sixteenth-seeded Hampton Pirates (17-18) 79-56, despite a 22-point, 10-rebound performance from the Pirates' Quinton Chievous.
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