NCAA:
West Regional

San Diego 70, Connecticut 69 — San Diego's Rob Jones didn't even bother leaving his feet when the ball was tossed up to start the game.

The 6-foot-6 forward knew he didn't have a chance against Connecticut's 7-foot-3 center, Hasheem Thabeet.

When the same thing happened to begin overtime, Jones jumped so high he nearly got the tip — a clear indication of how confident the Toreros had become. They were even more fearless in the final seconds.

De'Jon Jackson hit the biggest shot in school history — a long jumper with 1.2 seconds left in overtime — and 13th-seeded San Diego beat No. 4 seed Connecticut Friday in the first round in Tampa, Fla.

''The thing I put on the board: Don't let them get a sniff that we're two equal teams,'' UConn coach Jim Calhoun said. ''We allowed them to believe that it wasn't going to be what everybody said it was going to be.''

Instead, UConn is heading home much earlier than expected. The Huskies (24-9) hadn't lost in the first round since 1979 and never during Calhoun's 22 seasons. San Diego (22-13), meanwhile, got its first tournament victory in four tries.

Brandon Johnson had 18 points, five rebounds, four assists and three steals. Gyno Pomare had 22 points on 10-of-12 shooting. Together, they gave UConn all it could handle, especially after leading scorer A.J. Price left the game with a knee injury.

But both of San Diego's stars fouled out in overtime.

Jackson picked up the slack. He drove right on Jerome Dyson, stopped a step inside the arc, then sank the biggest shot of his career.

UConn had one final chance, but Jackson intercepted the inbound pass.

''This feeling right now, I can't even explain it,'' Jackson said. ''It's like the best feeling I've had in my life.''

Jeff Adrien had 18 points and 12 rebounds for UConn, which ended an inconsistent season with another up-and-down performance.

The Huskies had an excuse in this one. They played most of the game without Price, who Calhoun said might have torn his anterior cruciate ligament.

The junior point guard landed awkwardly on his knee while driving to the basket with 9:39 to play in the first half. He was carried off the floor, examined on the bench and then helped to the locker room for tests. He briefly returned to the bench on crutches, but wasn't around for the start of the second half.

Western Kentucky 101, Drake 99 — Ty Rogers hit a long 3-pointer with three defenders in his face and no time on the clock, and 12th-seeded Western Kentucky stunned Drake in overtime in Tampa, Fla.

The fifth-seeded Bulldogs (28-5) overcame a 16-point deficit in the final eight minutes of regulation and led 99-98 after Jonathan Cox's two free throws with 5.7 seconds to play.

But Tyrone Brazelton raced across midcourt and kicked it to Rogers, whose 26-footer from the wing gave the Hilltoppers (28-6) their first tournament victory since 1995. Brazelton finished with a career-high 33 points.

Cox had 29 points and 16 rebounds for Drake.

Rogers' final shot was the 30th 3-pointer of the game, breaking the NCAA mark set by West Virginia and Louisville two years ago.

Western Kentucky and Drake combined for 70 3-point attempts, also breaking the record of 66 set by UCLA and Cincinnati in 2002.

Brazelton said the winning play was designed to get the ball to the rim — since the Hilltoppers trailed only by one. But coming out of the timeout, Rogers told Brazelton he had a slightly different plan in mind.

''He said, 'Don't be afraid to kick it to me,' '' Brazelton said.

And he wasn't. Brazelton crossed halfcourt, zigged to his right and threw a perfect pass right to Rogers' hands.

''It kind of worked out good,'' Rogers said, in the understatement of the tournament so far.

Midwest Regional

Siena 83, Vanderbilt 62 — Kenny Hasbrouck scored 30 points, Tay Fisher added 19 on 6-for-6 shooting from 3-point range, and 13th-seeded Siena stunned No. 4 Vanderbilt in Tampa, Fla. The Saints (23-10) never trailed and became the first Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference team to reach the second round since Manhattan in 2004.

Until now, Siena's program was best-known for a first-round upset of Stanford in 1989 — a 14 seed over a 3. This one might have been just as shocking, considering it came against a Southeastern Conference team in Vanderbilt that reached the round of 16 last year.

A.J. Ogilvy scored 18 points for Vanderbilt (26-8), which got 13 from SEC player of the year Shan Foster — who became the 22nd player in SEC history to eclipse the 2,000-point career mark — and 10 from Ross Neltner. The Commodores came into the tournament more than a little miffed that they were widely picked to be a first-round upset victim and insisted they wouldn't look past Siena.

Vanderbilt simply couldn't stop Siena, though.

The Commodores got two straight baskets from Keegan Bell and drew within 50-43 with 13:20 to play, but never got any closer the rest of the way. Vanderbilt never got its perimeter game going, shooting 4-for-20 from 3-point range, and didn't exploit its size advantage inside.

When Alex Gordon airballed a 3-point try with 1:25 left and Vanderbilt in a 19-point hole, the Commodores knew it was over and stopped fouling, allowing the Siena celebration to begin in earnest.

Villanova 75, Clemson 69 — Scottoe Reynolds scored 21 points, Corey Fisher added 17 and 12th-seeded Villanova upset No. 5 seed Clemson in Tampa, Fla. Villanova overcame an 18-point deficit for this win.

The Wildcats trailed 36-18 with 5 minutes to play in the first half. But they got hot from 3-point range — Reynolds made his first three after the break — and slowly sliced into the big lead. Fisher was 2-for-3 from behind the arc and 9-of-10 from the free-throw line.

A basket by Reynolds gave Villanova its first lead of the game, 50-49 with 11:56 remaining. But Villanova helped the Tigers get back in it.

Clemson's Demontez Stitt tied it at 66 with two more free throws with 1:55 to go, but the Wildcats retook the lead by making 9-of-10 from the stripe over the final 1:37.

Davidson 82, Gonzaga 76 — Stephen Curry scored 30 of his 40 points in the second half and hit the tie-breaking 3-pointer with just over a minute left, leading 10th-seeded Davidson to a win over Gonzaga in Raleigh, N.C.

Curry hit 8-of-10 3-pointers, and his two free throws with 14.5 seconds left iced it for the Wildcats (27-6), who won their first NCAA game since Lefty Driesell was coach in the 1960s.

Jason Richards added 15 points for Davidson, which extended the nation's longest winning streak to 23 games. Andrew Lovedale had 12 points, and one of his 13 rebounds came on the offensive glass, which led to Curry's deciding 3-pointer.

Davidson advanced to play the region's second seed, Georgetown, on Sunday.

Freshman Steve Gray hit seven 3-pointers and scored 21 points for Gonzaga (25-8), which blew 11-point leads in both halves to make a first-round exit for the second straight year.

Georgetown 66, UMBC 47 — Roy Hibbert went over and around the undersized University of Maryland-Baltimore County all day, finishing with 13 points and leading the second-seeded Hoyas past the 15th-seeded Retrievers in Raleigh, N.C.

Jonathan Wallace added 13 points on 5-of-10 shooting, and Austin Freeman finished with 11 for the Hoyas (28-5), who shot 51 percent and held UMBC scoreless for a seven-minute stretch.

Darryl Proctor scored 16 points and Brian Hodges added 11 for America East champion UMBC (24-9), which didn't have a starter taller than 6-foot-9 to defend the 7-foot-2 Hibbert.

East Regional

Tennessee 72, American 57 — JaJuan Smith finished with 19 points, Wayne Chism added 16 to lead Tennessee in Birmingham, Ala.

Ahead 53-51 with 5:45 left, Tennessee (30-4) escaped from a team making its NCAA Tournament debut. The Vols held the 15th-seeded Eagles to only one basket the rest of the way.

Garrison Carr, the MVP of the Patriot League Tournament, poured in 24 points for American (21-12), even though the Vols threw five different defenders at him.

Butler 81, South Alabama 61 — Pete Campbell hit eight 3-pointers and scored 26 points in Birmingham, Ala., and the Bulldogs won their fourth straight first-round game to set a school record for wins.

The Bulldogs (30-3) were a No. 7 seed and a popular first-round upset on many brackets. But the 10th-seeded Jaguars (26-7) couldn't live up to their much-criticized at-large bid.

All anyone wanted to talk about before the game was the matchup of starting guards, and A.J. Graves of Butler and South Alabama's Daon Merritt didn't disappoint. Graves had 18 points and Merritt scored 14 points.

Oklahoma 72, St. Joseph's 64 — David Godbold scored a career-high 25 points, including the Sooners' first 11 of the second half, and they survived a late rally for a win over Saint Joseph's in Birmingham, Ala.

Godbold and the Sooners (23-11), who had a 25-year postseason streak end last season, built a 19-point lead and watched most of it dissipate.

Garrett Williamson's putback for the Hawks made it 65-61 with 3:31 to play. Quiet most of the game, Oklahoma's star freshman Blake Griffin scored back-to-back baskets inside to double the lead with just over 2 minutes left.

North Carolina 113, Mount St. Mary's 74 — Tyler Hansbrough and Ty Lawson each had 21 points to help top-seeded North Carolina cruise by Mount St. Mary's in Raleigh, N.C.

Wayne Ellington added 16 points for the Tar Heels (33-2).

The Tar Heels scored the first seven points. They led 60-41 at halftime, cracked the 100-point mark with more than 41/2 minutes remaining and finished with 29 fast-break points.

North Carolina shot 61 percent, took a 48-22 rebounding advantage and finished with 26 second-chance points against the undersized Mountaineers (19-15).

Arkansas 86, Indiana 72 — Sonny Weems kept shooting, and Darian Townes was there to clean up when he missed. They helped Arkansas finally earn a second game in the NCAA Tournament while bringing a swift end to Indiana's tumultuous season in Raleigh, N.C.

Weems scored a career-high 31 points, Townes added 17 points and 12 rebounds and the ninth-seeded Razorbacks beat eighth-seeded Indiana.

Weems hit 12-of-14 shots for Arkansas (23-11), which shot 54 percent and snapped a five-game losing streak in NCAA Tournament games.

Louisville 79, Boise State 61 — A scramble, a steal and suddenly Louisville had a three-on-none break that Derrick Caracter finished off with a vicious dunk.

Coach Rick Pitino and his team turned this into a one-sided affair from the start, routing Boise State in Birmingham, Ala.

The third-seeded Cardinals rushed to a 10-1 lead and Caracter's slam made it 42-26 late in the first half.

South Regional

Texas 74, Austin Peay 54 — A.J. Abrams scored 26 points, and along with Connor Atchley and Dexter Pittman nearly outscored Austin Peay on their own in a first-round victory by Texas (29-6) in North Little Rock, Ark.

Abrams was 6-of-10 from 3-point range, Atchley added 12 points and Pittman had 11.

Ernest Fields led the Governors (24-10) with 14 points. Todd Babington added 11.

Miami 78, Saint Mary's 64 — Jack McClinton scored a career-high 38 points — 32 during a brilliant second half — to send seventh-seeded Miami past the Saints in North Little Rock, Ark.

The Hurricanes (23-10) trailed 32-27 at intermission, but went on a 25-5 run shortly afterward. McClinton scored 10 straight points early in that stretch. Later, after the Gaels (25-7) pulled within eight, McClinton calmly sank an open 3 from the left corner.

Mississippi State 76, Oregon 69 — Charles Rhodes scored a career-high 34 points and the eighth-seeded Bulldogs came back from a 13-point second-half deficit to beat the Ducks (18-14) in North Little Rock, Ark.

Mississippi State trailed 41-28 after Malik Hairston's 3-pointer at the start of the second half, but Oregon didn't make another 3 until the final seconds, finishing 9-for-38 overall. Barry Stewart's third 3 pulled the Bulldogs within one at 52-51. Rhodes then put Mississippi State (23-10) ahead with a dunk, and the Bulldogs finally took control.

Memphis 87, Texas-Arlington 63 — For a few glorious minutes, Texas-Arlington was living the dream. After 49 years of playing basketball, the commuter school was not only in its first NCAA Tournament, it was actually leading top-seeded Memphis. Too bad the game was only 3 minutes old.

Chris Douglas-Roberts' layup sparked a 15-2 run that effectively ended any hopes Texas-Arlington had for the upset, and Memphis cruised to a victory in North Little Rock, Ark.

NIT

Florida 82, Creighton 54 — Nick Calathes' triple-double — 11 points, 13 rebounds and 11 assists — led host Florida (23-11) over Creighton (22-11), moving the defending two-time national champions into next week's quarterfinals. Florida used a 14-0 spurt midway through the first half to take a 29-12 lead on its way to a 39-19 halftime lead.
— Associated Press