NCAA Sports News

LAS VEGAS - Cameron Bairstow and Alex Kirk each scored 21 points to lead No. 20 New Mexico to a 93-77 victory over Fresno State in the Mountain West Conference tournament Thursday night.

"He just said, 'You wouldn't believe how amazing it is if you are not there to witness it,'" Andrew Wiggins recalled Thursday.

In a performance hardly indicative of their No. 19 ranking, the Tigers got down early, fell victim to bad defense on Connecticut's outside shooting and never had much of a chance losing 72-53 to the 21st-ranked Huskies on Thursday night.

And by the looks of it, he plans to put on a show. The nation's leading scorer delivered Thursday night with a dazzling shooting display in his Big East tournament debut, scoring a record 27 of his 35 points in the first half for No.

While a junk defense may have contained Cincinnati's Sean Kilpatrick, it left Kevin Johnson open for a key 3-pointer.

Unable to match Arizona's defensive intensity, Utah bowed out of the Pac-12 tournament in record-setting fashion, blown out 71-39 by the fourth-ranked Wildcats on Thursday to match the most lopsided loss in tournament history.

Ohio State's Lenzelle Smith Jr.,left, steals the ball from Purdue's Terone Johnson in the final seconds in the second half of game during the Big Ten Men's Basketball Tournament Thursday, March 13, 2014, at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.

Boris Bojanovsky took a pass from Okaro White and threw down a dunk with 0.4 seconds left to lift Florida State past Maryland 67-65 in Thursday's second round of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament.

He had a hard time trying to figure out how they had scored 85 points against Iowa State, shot better than 54 percent from the field - and still lost.

3 Villanova 64-63 in a thrilling Big East quarterfinal Thursday, a loss that could cost the Wildcats a No.

Mitchell's seventh-seeded Eagles got some key defensive stops and made 11 of 12 free throws in the final 1:18 to upset second-seeded Hampton 83-77 in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference tournament quarterfinals Wednesday night at the Scope Arena.

Baylor coach Scott Drew wanted to make sure his guys had fresh legs if they advanced in the Big 12 tournament, so he decided Wednesday night to go deeper into his bench.

Stanford shot 58 percent against the 11th-seeded Cougars and used a 16-4 run in the second half to take control of what had been a tight game.

Mar 12, 2014; New York, NY, USA; The Georgetown Hoyas players react from the bench against the DePaul Blue Demons in the first round of the Big East tournament at Madison Square Garden.

Marcus Smart left one last impression on Texas Tech, and in doing so made sure that Oklahoma State would get its high-profile showdown with Kansas in the Big 12 tournament.

The Eagles advanced to the NCAAs for the first time in five years, stymieing Boston with smothering defense and beating the top-seeded Terriers 55-36 Wednesday night in the Patriot League championship game.

Pass rusher DeMarcus Ware got a $30 million, three-year contract from the Denver Broncos on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after being released by the Dallas Cowboys.

Notre Dame head coach Mike Brey, right, and Eric Atkins, left, watch in the closing minutes of the second half of a first round NCAA college basketball game against Wake Forest at the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament in Greensboro, N.C., Wednesday, March 12, 2014.

On one hand, that would seem to make the sixth-ranked Cavaliers the favorites to cut down the nets at Greensboro Coliseum in North Carolina.

It comes after the regular season, which Izzo values, and before the NCAA tournament, where he has built his legacy as one of the best coaches in college basketball.