On Wednesday, ahead of Houston’s Thursday night game against No. 2 overall behind Alabama despite the uncertainty around its first first-team all-American since Hakeem Olajuwon. Houston guard Marcus Sasser, the player of the year in the American Athletic Conference, suffered a groin injury in the semifinals of the conference tournament. tournament are dealing with significant injuries to key players. Evan Easterling Injuries may play a starring role.ĪLBANY - Some of the top teams in the men’s N.C.A.A. “Because other teams aren’t able to do that, just take away one player, we’re able to have other options,” Phelia said. But Michigan will enter with its top three scorers - Brown, Phelia and Kiser - back together. Kiser expects a physical game against U.N.L.V., which enters the tournament having won 22 consecutive games. “So I think we’re coming back stronger from it.” “A lot of people got experience that maybe they wouldn’t have if Laila was still there,” Emily Kiser, a graduate forward who averages 16.2 points and 7.1 rebounds per game, said in a news conference. Greta Kampschroeder and Cameron Williams also increased their roles. The sophomore guard Jordan Hobbs started every game in February and posted three double-figure scoring games. on Friday at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.īut the team sees positives to the time missed by its leaders. 6 seed, forcing it to travel to Louisiana State’s campus, where it will take on 11th-seeded U.N.L.V. But Michigan closed the month with three losses in four games, including a road loss to sub-.500 Wisconsin. In late February, the Division I selection committee regarded Michigan as a top-16 seed, which would have allowed the Wolverines to host the first and second rounds on campus in Ann Arbor. “Make them take tough threes, force them into bad shots,” Hodge added. We tried to force them to the basket to make them make two, make the big man score. “Our approach was to pressure full court,” Missouri guard D’Moi Hodge said. For the game, the Tigers held Ashworth to 2 for 10 from 3-point land. Utah State was 0 for 13 before the junior guard Steven Ashworth, who is sixth in the nation in 3-point percentage (.443), finally swished one with 17:51 remaining. Missouri’s pressure defense stymied an Aggies team that ranked fifth in the nation in 3-point field-goal percentage, holding them to 0 for 11 in the first half and just 4 for 24 for the game. 7 seed Tigers, a team seen as a potential upset victim in the first round of the men’s N.C.A.A. Just as soon as they found openings in 3-point territory, the thinking went, the 10th-seeded Aggies were going to sprint past Missouri.īut that never happened. SACRAMENTO - Utah State was hanging around. Missouri’s defense clamped down on Utah State. U.N.C.-Asheville - Northwestern can reach its first Sweet 16 in school history with a victory on Saturday. Set to play the winner of the game that followed here at the Golden 1 Center - U.C.L.A. Then, the Wildcats slipped past Vanderbilt in the first round, 68-66, before falling to Gonzaga. The feeling for Northwestern was similar to its first tournament appearance in 2017. The moment you lose, it’s done.”īy Thursday night, it was over the Broncos finished 24-10 and were headed home. I want to keep this group together as long as I can keep this group together. “It would mean so much for our fans,” he said, adding, “I want it so bad for our players, to keep them going. The Broncos are 0-4 under Coach Leon Rice, who spoke passionately before their practice a day earlier about what a difference a March win would make to his program. Boise State, despite outrebounding Northwestern, dropped to 0-9 in its N.C.A.A. tournament appearance, Northwestern set itself up to make its deepest run ever into the month of March.įor the Broncos, a run is still waiting. SACRAMENTO - With a 75-67 win over Boise State in just its second N.C.A.A.
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