NCAA South: Boilermakers (After OT Win Over Vols), Cavaliers (Who Snap Ducks' 10-Game Winning Streak) To Battle For Trip To Minneapolis

At KFC Yum! Center, Louisville, Kentucky:

Both games in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament's South Regional semifinals were contested on Thursday.

Semifinal #1:

Carsen Edwards scored 29 points while Ryan Cline added 27 as the third-seeded Purdue Boilermakers (26-9)upended second-seeded Tennessee (31-6) 99-94 in overtime.

Admiral Schofield and Grant Williams, who grabbed nine and seven rebounds respectively, each scored 21 points to top the Volunteers.

Semifinal #2:

Ty Jerome scored 13 points as the top-seeded Virginia Cavaliers (32-3) outlasted the 12th-seeded Oregon Ducks (25-13) 53-49, snapping the upstarts' ten-game winning streak.

Louis King topped the game Ducks with 16 points.

NCAA South: Vols, Cavs, Ducks Advance To Sweet Sixteen

Eight games were contested on Sunday, three of them in the South Regional, as the Round of 32 in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament concluded.

At Nationwide Arena, Columbus, Ohio:

Admiral Schofield and Grant Williams each scored 19 points as the second-seeded Tennessee Volunteers (31-5) recovered from blowing a 25-point lead and held off the tenth-seeded Iowa Hawkeyes (23-12) 83-77 in overtime.



At Colonial Life Arena, Columbia, South Carolina:

Mamadi Diakite scored 14 points and grabbed nine rebounds as the top-seeded Virginia Cavaliers (31-3) defeated the ninth-seeded Oklahoma Sooners (20-14) 63-51.



At SAP Center, San Jose, California:

Payton Pritchard scored 14 points as the twelfth-seeded Oregon Ducks (25-12) overpowered the thirteenth-seeded UC Irvine Anteaters (31-6) 73-54.

NCAA South: Boilermakers Dethrone Defending Champs

At XL Center, Hartford, Connecticut:

In the lone Saturday contest from the quarterfinal round of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament's South Regional, Carsen Edwards poured in 42 points as the third-seeded Purdue Boilermakers (25-9) blew out the sixth-seeded (and defending national champions) Villanova Wildcats (26-10) 87-61.

NCAA South: Hawkeyes, Vols, Sooners, Cavaliers, Anteaters, Ducks (Who Overpower Badgers) Advance

The NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament's Round of 64 concluded on Friday with 16 games, six of them in the South Region.

At Nationwide Arena, Columbus, Ohio:

Game #1:

Luka Garza scored 20 points while Joe Wieskamp added 19 as the tenth-seeded Iowa Hawkeyes (23-11) knocked off the seventh-seeded Cincinnati Bearcats (28-7) 79-72.

Game #2:

Admiral Schofield scored 19 points as the second-seeded Tennessee Volunteers (30-5) brushed off fifteenth-seeded Colgate (24-11) 77-70.

Jordan Burns topped the Raiders with 32 points.



At Colonial Life Arena, Columbia, South Carolina:

Game #1:

Christian James and Rashard Odomes each scored 20 points as the ninth-seeded Oklahoma Sooners (20-13) overpowered the eighth-seeded Ole Miss Rebels (20-13) 95-72.

Game #2:

De'Andre Hunter scored 23 points as the top-seeded Virginia Cavaliers (30-3) avoided a repeat of their historic upset defeat at the hands of the University of Maryland-Baltimore by taking care of business against sixteenth-seeded Gardner Webb (23-12), spoiling the Bulldogs' NCAA tourney debut 71-56.



At SAP Center, San Jose, California:

Game #1:

Max Hazzard and Evan Leonard each scored 19 points as the #13-seeded UC-Irvine Anteaters knocked off the #4-seeded Kansas State Wildcats 70-64 for their first-ever NCAA tourney victory.

The Anteaters have now won 17 straight games.

Game #2:

Payton Pritchard scored 19 points as the 12th-seeded Oregon Ducks (24-12) picked up their ninth straight victory after a 72-54 overpowering of the fifth-seeded Wisconsin Badgers (23-11).

NCAA South: Nova, Boilermakers Advance

At Hartford, Connecticut:

Two games in the South Region, both contested at the XL Center,  were played on Thursday in the Round of 64 of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.

Game #1:

Phil Booth scored 20 points as the sixth-seeded Villanova Wildcats (26-9) commenced their NCAA tourney title defense by holding off the eleventh-seeded Saint Mary's Gaels (22-12) 61-57.

Game #2:

Carsen Edwards scored 26 points as the third-seeded Purdue Boilermakers (24-9) got the measure of the #14-seeded Old Dominion Monarchs (26-9) 61-48.