UNDATED (AP) – After 52 NCAA Tournament games, the Sweet 16 is set.Oregon was the last team to punch its ticket as the second round of the NCAA Tournament ended with a flurry of frantic finishes. Now it’s on to the regional semifinals that start on Thursday.
The round of 16 will include the following matchups by region:
In the South, it’s No. 1 Kansas vs. No. 5 Maryland and No. 3 Miami vs. No. 2 Villanova.
In the West, it’s No. 1 seed Oregon vs No. 4 seed Duke and No. 3 Texas A&M vs. No. 2 Oklahoma.
The East has No. 1 North Carolina vs. No. 5 Indiana and No. 6 Notre Dame vs. No. 7 Wisconsin.
And the Midwest has No. 1 Virginia vs. No. 4 Iowa State and No. 11 Gonzaga vs. No. 10 Syracuse.
Here’s how Sunday’s winners got to the Sweet 16:
Bronson Koenig has made a memory of a lifetime. The Wisconsin guard came off a last-second screen and buried a game-winning 3-pointer from the corner to give the seventh-seeded Badgers a 66-63 win over Xavier to send them into the Sweet 16 against Notre Dame on Friday.
Koenig got the inbound pass in front of his own bench and buried the fallaway shot, sending the jubilant Badgers streaming onto the court and into another Sweet 16.
In other round of 32 games:
– Third seed Texas A&M defeated Northern Iowa with an amazing comeback to win in double overtime, 92-88. Northern Iowa led by 12 with 44 seconds left in regulation before the Aggies went on a 14-2 tear down the stretch. Texas A&M was led by Alex Caruso’s 25. Danuel House missed his first nine shots but finished with 22 — all after halftime for the Aggies, who play Oklahoma next.
– Buddy Hield scored 19 of his 36 points in the final eight minutes to help No. 2 seed Oklahoma hold off No. 10 seed VCU 85-81 to advance to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament for the second straight year.
– Oregon, top seed in the West, survived a huge scare by Number-11 seed St. Joseph’s, 69-64. Dillon Brooks refused to let top-seed Oregon and the Pac-12 Conference be eliminated on the first weekend. He poured in 25 to send the Ducks into the Sweet 16 against Duke.
– Syracuse is in the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2013. The Orange eliminated 15-seed Middle Tennessee 75-50. Michael Gbinije poured in 23 points, Tyler Lydon added 14 and the Orange. Six of the teams in the Sweet 16 are from the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Orange will play Gonzaga next.
– Maryland, which recently left the ACC for the Big Ten, advanced to play Kansas in the round of 16. It’s the first trip to the Sweet 16 for Maryland in 13 years. The Terps wore down Hawaii 73-60. The Terps won despite making just 1 of 18 shots from 3-point land. Melo Trimble led the Terps with 24. Maryland plays Kansas next.
– Villanova secured a trip to Louisville and a spot in Sweet 16 play with a win over Iowa, 87-68. Villanova shot just over 59 percent from the field and hit 10 of 19 3-pointers. Guard Josh Hart led the attack with 19 points. The result of the game was never in question as the Wildcats led 54-29 at the half. Villanova plays Miami next.
– In the second game in New York in East Regional play Notre Dame advanced to Philadelphia with a hard-fought 76-75 win over Stephen F. Austin. Rex Pflueger won the game with a tip-in with 1.5 seconds left to send the Irish to their second straight Sweet 16.
— The Atlantic Coast Conference is the big winner with six of the 16 teams in the Sweet 16. Duke, Miami, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Virginia and Syracuse represent the most of any conference ever in the Sweet 16. The ACC is 12-1.
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