Florida Atlantic did not go head first into the muddy mosh pit that is Tennessee basketball, but it left the sand on the beach and stuck its toe in the dirt enough.
Then the Owls flew away with a 62-55 victory Thursday night in New York City to advance to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament.
No. 9 seed FAU (34-3) will play No. 3 seed Kansas State (26-9) on Saturday in the NCAA East Regional championship game in Madison Square Garden for the right to advance to the Final Four next week in Houston.
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The Owls will face No. 3 Kansas State in the Elite Eight.
No. 9 Florida Atlantic continued to dominate the East Region of the 2023 NCAA men’s tournament after upsetting No. 4 Tennessee 62–55 on Thursday night in the Sweet 16.
After trailing by as many as nine points in the first half, the Owls came back charging in the second half. FAU took its first lead of the game (other than leading 3–2 at the contest’s start) with 9:50 minutes left and never looked back. The Owls scored 40 points in the second half after only scoring 22 in the first half.
A strong contender for best ending to a game this March Madness, Gonzaga’s narrow win over UCLA (3) Thursday night was a star-making finish, namely for Zags guard Julian Strawther.
UCLA had a lead over the Bulldogs until the nine-minute mark of the second half when Gonzaga (2) completed a nine-point run to gain their first lead of the period (61-59).
(Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)
(Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)
In the final minutes, the game’s ending kept switching momentum between Gonzaga’s strong lead and UCLA’s comeback efforts.
The Owls have won three NCAA tournament games in the span of a week and improbably clinched a berth in the Elite Eight in the process.
Charles Barkley punctuated Thursday’s March Madness slate by dunking over all the NCAA’s new president, along with the Democratic and Republican parties.
“Our politicians are awful people,” Barkley said during a break in the action on CBS’s tournament coverage.
Well, he’s not wrong…
Before the Round Mound of Rebound went after both red and blue, he opted to box out Charlie Baker, who recently took over as NCAA president.
“Those people are awful people.”
Charles Barkley has never been one to shy away from letting people know exactly what he thinks about anything and everything.
That continued Thursday night when he slammed NCAA President Charlie Baker’s idea about talking to politicians on ways to help college athletes, their families and schools with NIL guidelines.
Greg Gumbel and Clark Kellogg sat down with Baker during Thursday night’s NCAA tournament pregame show and the former Massachusetts governor talked about going to get some help from people in Washington D.C.
Memphis Jamirah Shutes appeared to punch Elissa Brett in the postgame handshake line.
“I know chronologically how old I am. But I don’t function like an 80-year-old man.
The coach and star point guard appeared to be arguing before Nowell found a cutting Keyontae Johnson for the flashy finish.
In the midst of one of the greatest performances in men’s NCAA tournament history, one play caused waves as the signature moment.
With less than a minute left in overtime and the teams knotted at 92, Kansas State senior point guard Markquis Nowell was headed toward a record-setting performance. From just inside the center court logo, the senior point guard threw a lob that was sent home for a reverse dunk by a cutting Keyontae Johnson.
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