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Tar Heels pull off biggest rally of season
Brandan Wright and top-seeded North Carolina almost waited too long to make their move. Down by 16 points early in the second half, the Tar Heels suddenly shifted into another gear and pulled off their biggest rally of the season, startling Southern California 74-64 Friday night in the East Regional semifinals. “It was a fantastic comeback to say the least,” Tar Heels coach Roy Williams said. “I have a great deal of confidence in my team. … I knew we wouldn’t give up.”
Porter grabs 33, leads Ducks
Tajuan Porter, the little guy nobody wanted, has Oregon one game away from the Final Four. The 5-foot-6 freshman tied an NCAA regional record with eight 3-pointers and finished with 33 points, and Oregon withstood a frantic comeback to top seventh-seeded UNLV 76-72 on Friday in the Midwest Regional. The third-seeded Ducks advanced to play top-seeded Florida on Sunday.
Jayhawk baseball squad falls to OSU
The Oklahoma State Cowboys trounced KU to the tune of a 14-4 victory on the diamond.
KU and UCLA prepare for big day
Friday afternoon, both the Jayhawks and the Bruins held closed practices to prepare for a match-up of the region’s top two seeds.
Trip to Final Four would be first for Coach Self
After 16 appearances, KU is no stranger to the Final Four. However, for current KU coach Bill Self, it would be a first for his coaching career.
KU set to ‘Bear’ down against the Bruins of UCLA
6News took a trip to KU’s Museum of Natural History to see what we could learn about the UCLA mascot, the Bruin.
Both Lawrence and KU police will have extra officers on duty
If the Jayhawks manage to pull out a victory over UCLA, city officials expect downtown Lawrence to errupt in celebration.
The ‘Madness’ continues to escalate
KU’s road to the Final Four in Atlanta goes through UCLA. Tip-off for the showdown is 24 hours away and 6News reporter Mark Fagan caught up with some KU fans in San Jose on the brink of the big dance’s biggest stage.
Georgetown sqeezes out another win
Jeff Green squeezed between two defenders and Georgetown squeezed out a win. Green spun and banked in a short, off-balance shot with 2.5 seconds to play and the Hoyas earned a harder-than expected 66-65 victory over Vanderbilt in the East Regional semifinals on Friday night. The victory was the seventh straight and 18th in 19 games for second-seeded Georgetown (29-6) and put the Hoyas in the regional final for the first time in 11 years.
Horford helps Gators scrape by Butler
Florida started slowly - again - and staved off another challenge with a late surge. If these Gators are going to repeat, it seems they’re going to do it the hard way. Al Horford had 16 points, seven rebounds and a key block in the final minute to help the top-seeded Gators hold off undersized Butler 65-57 Friday night. The Gators (32-5), trying to become the first team since Duke in 1992 to win consecutive national titles, advanced to the Midwest Regional on Sunday against the Oregon-UNLV winner.
90 solid seconds with…UCLA junior Arron Afflalo
During the NCAA Tournament, KUSports.com editor Ryan Greene will spend 90 quality seconds with a member of the team getting set to face KU. In today’s episode, Ryan chats with UCLA junior Arron Afflalo, a 6-foot-5 wing who was this season’s Pac-10 Player of the Year. He’s averaging a team-best 16.7 points per game this season and scored a game-high 17 in Thursday’s 64-55 Sweet Sixteen win over Pittsburgh.
15 seconds of … what do we do now?
Moments after outlasting Southern Illinois to reach the Elite Eight in this year’s NCAA Tournament, Kansas basketball players settled into their folding chairs in the locker room to answer questions about the Salukis’ defense, Brandon Rush’s efficient sharpshooting and Rodrick Stewart’s inspired play. Then they told us what they’d be doing on the off day, the one before taking on UCLA in the regional finals Saturday.
15 seconds of … gloating
'Hawks fans love California
Temperatures in the 70s, no humidity to speak of and, well, several hundred Jayhawks willing to rub it in a bit for the folks back home.
Extra Minutes: Kansas 61, Southern Illinois 58
Tying up loose ends from Thursday’s anything-but-pretty KU Sweet Sixteen win over Southern Illinois. The 61 points the Jayhawks scored was their second-lowest total of the year, but KU was able to compensate with efficient shooting and matching SIU’s defensive intensity late in the game.
Keegan: Keegan: Jackson, Stewart spark KU
Sure, it was the main man, Brandon Rush, who snapped awake just in time Thursday inside HP Pavilion to take over offensively late in Kansas University’s 61-58 survival job against college basketball’s ultimate fighters, the Southern Illinois University Salukis.
Gym rat Byars leads Vandy to Sweet 16
After three somewhat disappointing seasons, Vanderbilt’s Derrick Byars set his alarm clock for 5:30 a.m. in the offseason and went to work.
Painful loss helps motivate Trojans
Harvey Adger will be at home in Baton Rouge, La., watching on television, wondering what might have been.
Fans: Patience, perseverance important for scoring tickets
Take it from Chris Kaufman, Rich Littrell and Chris Green.
Smith leaving UK for Minnesota
Embattled coach ends 10-year tenure at Kentucky
With Kentucky fans dogging him after another disappointing finish, Tubby Smith is bolting the bluegrass for Minnesota.
A real dog fight
KU survives battle with Salukis, advances to Elite Eight
Barbara Lauter knows her Jayhawks are still a game away from the Final Four, and three games from an elusive national title.
UCLA tops Pitt to set up showdown
Who’s ready for another NCAA Tournament game laced with history?
Commentary: SIU effective, not ugly
A funny thing happened at San Jose’s HP Pavilion Thursday night - a Missouri Valley Conference game broke out.
Still standing
KU outscraps SIU, joins Elite Eight
Brandon Rush didn’t feel jubilation after winning the biggest game of his college basketball career. “I feel relief,” Rush, Kansas University’s sophomore forward, gasped after the No. 1-seeded Jayhawks somehow survived a 6-for-13 free-throw effort down the stretch to clip ball-hawking, defensive-minded No. 4 seed Southern Illinois, 61-58, in an NCAA West Regional Sweet 16 game Thursday night in HP Pavilion.
Kansas basketball notebook
No. 1 seed Kansas University has advanced to an Elite Eight meeting against No. 2-seeded UCLA, a 64-55 winner over Pitt on Thursday night.
Salukis falter down stretch
'We ran out of time'
In a close, low-scoring basketball game, little, late hiccups can end a season. Just ask Southern Illinois.
Tonight’s capsules
A look at tonight’s four Sweet 16 games:
KU struggled from three-point land
To hit the three first requires being able to launch the three.
Supporting cast lifts Ohio State
Lewis, Conley lead Buckeyes' late charge
Maybe now folks will realize there’s more to Ohio State than Greg Oden.
Anderson’s heroics vex A&M
Memphis returns to Elite Eight
Antonio Anderson isn’t the player Memphis would have picked to go the line with a chance to advance to another NCAA regional final.
Florida, Butler meet again
In 2000, Gators needed OT buzzer-beater to win
On 2000’s “One Shining Moment” video, the annual recap of each NCAA Tournament, Florida’s Mike Miller blows past Oklahoma State’s Doug Gottlieb to sink a layup. And there’s Miller again, at the bottom of a Gator pile, celebrating the most pivotal shot in Florida basketball history.
Two J-W reporters earn APSE honors
Journal-World sports editor Tom Keegan submitted one of the top five breaking news stories in 2006, according to the Associated Press Sports Editors. Keegan took second in the under-40,000 circulation classification.
Krugers’ latest relocation pans out
His entire childhood, Kevin Kruger was at the mercy of his father’s career decisions, which took the family from Edinburg, Texas, to Manhattan, Kan., Gainesville, Fla., Champaign, Ill., and Atlanta.