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NCAA Latest: Grinding along, Michigan State leads SyracuseBy The Associated PressThe Latest on the second round of the NCAA Tournament (all times Eastern):4:35 p.m.Michigan State can't get any distance from Syracuse. The second-round games is grinding along in Detroit, with neither team shooting better than 40 percent from the...

AP Basketball WriterLoyola-Chicago savoring sweet NCAAs after grassroots rebuildBy STEPHEN HAWKINSDALLAS (AP) Porter Moser wants his Loyola-Chicago players to savor every moment of the NCAA Tournament. It took the Ramblers a long time, and last-moment shots in consecutive games, to go from what he termed a ''grassroots rebuild''...

NCAA Latest: Michigan State takes halftime lead with wild 3By The Associated PressThe Latest on the second round of the NCAA Tournament (all times Eastern):3:51 p.m.The first half was Syracuse's kind of game. The Orange and Michigan State slogged along on the offensive end, missing a bunch of shots...

UMBC called 'Surgeon General approved' after upsetBALTIMORE (AP) Plenty of college basketball fans were happy that the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, pulled off a stunning upset of No. 1 seed Virginia, but one UMBC alumnus beamed about the win on Facebook.U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams posted a...

AP Sports WriterXavier suspects Florida State wants revenge in NCAA rematchBy TERESA M. WALKERNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Dwayne Bacon, Jonathan Isaac and Xavier Rathan-Mayes all are gone, the first two drafted into the NBA. Florida State has only one starter back from a year ago when the Seminoles' expected...

AP Sports WriterUMBC wins on social media during NCAA Tournament upsetBy STEPHEN WHYNOThe University of Maryland-Baltimore County didn't just beat Virginia in the first victory by a 16th seed over a top seed in the NCAA Tournament.The UMBC Athletics Twitter account put a friendly beating on CBS Sports analyst...

AP Sports WriterCould Purdue star Hass play through broken elbow in NCAAs?By NOAH TRISTERDETROIT (AP) A day after Isaac Haas' season was declared over, there's now a bit of mystery surrounding the status of Purdue's star center.That could be encouraging news for the second-seeded Boilermakers, who announced Friday...

NCAA Latest: Kentucky pulls away late, beats Buffalo 95-75By The Associated PressThe Latest on the second round of the NCAA Tournament (all times Eastern):---7:35 p.m.Kentucky put an end to any upset talk on its watch Saturday, getting 27 points and a near-perfect shooting game from Shai Gilgeous-Alexander in a...

AP Sports WriterUMBC basks in 15 minutes of fame as Cinderella of the NCAABy JENNA FRYERCHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) As the sun rose on the Saturday morning celebration of their unprecedented NCAA Tournament upset, Ryan Odom implored his suddenly-famous basketball team to get some sleep.It was time for family...

NCAA Latest: Top-seeded Kansas and Seton Hall underwayBy The Associated PressThe Latest on the second round of the NCAA Tournament (all times Eastern):7:15 p.m.Top-seeded Kansas and No. 8 seed Seton Hall have tipped off in Wichita, where the winner will earn a Sweet 16 trip to Omaha, Nebraska, to...

AP Basketball WriterDave Odom tied to college basketball's biggest upsetsBy JOHN MARSHALLBOISE, Idaho (AP) Dave Odom sat in the stands as his son, Ryan, and the history-making UMBC Retrievers took down a giant.Thirty-six years earlier, Dave Odom witnessed another David conquer a Goliath from a bench in Hawaii.Father...

AP Sports WriterButler-Purdue, Marshall-West Virginia duels on tap in EastBy BERNIE WILSONSAN DIEGO (AP) The East Region bracket is serving up two in-state rivalries on Sunday, one testy and complicated and the other one much less so.In a Hoosier State showdown, No. 2 seed Purdue (29-6) faces No....