No. 1 total seed and remaining 12 months’s runner-up Gonzaga used to be disenchanted by means of No. 4 seed Arkansas 74-68, prior to every other No. 1 seed, Arizona, misplaced to No. 5 seed Houston 72-60 in a while after.
With protecting champion and the opposite best seed Baylor already knocked out, the one No. 1 seed left is Kansas.
Arkansas’ development to the Elite 8 of the boys’s NCAA event is their 2nd in a row, however simply their 3rd since 1995.
After stunning Gonzaga and advancing to the following spherical the place they will face Duke, Razorbacks’ head trainer Eric Musselman informed CBS: “Thanks to everyone that mentioned we had no likelihood.”
“We grinded in our prep. I give those guys a ton of credit score. We took a four-hour flight after touring from Buffalo to Fayetteville for twenty-four hours to right here, after which we went instantly to an hour and 45-minute apply,” Musselman mentioned.
“Can not praise those guys and all of the workforce sufficient for the way in which that they purchase in to recreation preparation. It is most certainly the best factor I have ever been part of that they only roughly do what we ask.”
For Houston, they led wire-to-wire towards Arizona, scoring the primary basket and not trailing towards the Wildcats.
Jamal Shead led the way in which for the Cougars with 21 issues, with Kyler Edwards hitting 5 three-pointers as he added 19 issues.
Dalen Terry led scoring for Arizona with 17 issues. Houston will now face Villanova on Saturday within the Elite 8.
