Saturday, March 23, 2019

NCAA East: Bayou Bengals, Spartans Advance To Sweet Sixteen

The NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament's Round of 32 commenced on Saturday with eight games, two of them in the East Region.

At VyStar Veterans Memorial Stadium, Jacksonville, Florida:

Skylar Mays scored 16 points while Tremont Waters (who added 12) scored the game-winning basket with 1.6 seconds remaining as the third-seeded LSU Tigers (28-6) held off the sixth-seeded Maryland Terrapins (23-11) 69-67.



At Wells Fargo Arena, Des Moines, Iowa:

Xavier Tillman scored 14 points as the second-seeded Michigan State Spartans (30-6) spread the scoring abound as they defeated the tenth-seeded Minnesota Golden Gophers (22-14) 70-50, despite 27 points from the Gophers' Amir Coffey.

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