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Darnell Archey's brilliant shooting and Brandon Miller's deft ball-handling Sunday swept 12th-seeded Butler into the round of 16 for the first time with a 79-71 stunner over Rick Pitino and Louisville in the East Regional.
The Horizon League team that plays in the gym where the ultimate underdog movie, Hoosiers, was filmed is writing a poignant script of its own with upsets of No. 5 Mississippi State and the fourth-seeded Cardinals (26-6).
Next, the Bulldogs (27-5) meet
top-seeded Oklahoma on Friday in Albany, N.Y.
Archey shot 8-of-9 on three-pointers — hitting all six in the second half — and tied his career high with 26 points to end Pitino's return to the NCAA tournament.
Butler, with an enrollment of about 4,000 — less than a fifth of Louisville's — made 14-of-22 three-pointers, including 9-of-13 in the second half, to erase an early 15-point deficit.
Reece Gaines scored 22 of his 26 points in the second half for Louisville.
Syracuse 68, Oklahoma State 56
BOSTON — Never count out
Carmelo Anthony and Syracuse's other freshmen.
And don't write off the Big East, either. The conference remained unbeaten in the NCAA tournament when Syracuse overcame an awful start to advance to the East Regional semifinals.
Third-seeded Syracuse (26-5) will be joined in the round of 16 by three other teams from the Big East, 8-0 in the tournament. The conference received only four bids to the NCAA, which excluded one of its division winners, Boston College.
No. 6 Oklahoma State (22-10) rushed to a 14-2 lead, running after nearly every miss by the Orangemen. But Anthony, Gerry McNamara and Billy Edelin, all freshmen, brought Syracuse back.
Auburn 68, Wake Forest 62
Edelin scored 20 points, and McNamara finished with 14 despite missing nearly six minutes to have a wound bandaged above his nose. Anthony, perhaps the nation's top freshman, had 13.
TAMPA, Fla. — Cliff Ellis can sing it proud. His Auburn Tigers really do belong in the NCAA tournament.
Feeding off their underdog star
tus one more time, the team that many felt shouldn't have been invited to the tourney stunned second-seeded Wake Forest yesterday.
Marquis Daniels led the
way, returning from a five-minute spell on the bench in foul trouble to score seven of his 18 points in the final four minutes.
Reserve Lewis Monroe scored Auburn's last four points from the foul line to finish with 12.
The 10th-seeded Tigers (22-
11) advanced to the round of 16 for the second time in five seasons under Ellis, a musician who's recorded several CDs that the coach likes to play in the locker room and on the team bus.
Auburn will face third-seeded Syracuse in the regional semifinals.
Freshman Justin Gray led Wake Forest (25-6) with a career-high 26 points. But the Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season champions were unable to overcome another subpar performance by Josh Howard, the ACC player of the year. He had 14 points and a team-high seven turnovers.
Cincinnati selects pitching rotation
The Associated Press
Jimmy Anderson is in the Cincinnati Reds' rotation, Kent Mercker is in the bullpen and Barry Larkin could wind up in the outfield.
The Reds firmed up their pitching staff yesterday by awarding Anderson a spot in the rotation and giving bullpen jobs to Mercker, Felix Heredia and Josias Manzanillo. Manager Bob Boone planned to play Larkin, his 38-year-old shortstop, in left field yesterday against Cleveland in his original lineup, but rain prompted Boone to shift Larkin back to the infield. Boone is leaning toward starting Larkin in center field today.
In his 16 seasons, Larkin has played three games at second base and the other 1,940 at shortstop. He's never played outfield — not even in a spring training game.
"I'll try to get him out there so it's not completely foreign if some catastrophe hits us," Boone said.
the April 1 opener at Houston instead of injured Denny Neagle
Boone is considering carrying 12 pitchers to start the season, leaving him short a position player. Larkin didn't mind his expanded job description, even though it meant learning on the job and taking a lot of grief from Ken Griffey Jr.
Colorado, meanwhile, set its rotation by moving NL Rookie of the Year Jason Jennings up to pitch
"I think I'm the emergency sixth or seventh outfielder." Larkin said, grinning. "But I think there's a reason. I've always played infield."
Neagle, bothered by a sore left elbow, will be pushed back to the fifth spot.
"It's something to be proud of," Jennings said. "It's just one game, but it's got a little more meaning to it."
Kansas City set its rotation, picking left-handers Chris George and Darrell May to join Runelvys Hernandez, Jeremy Affeldt and Miguel Asencio.
Expos 3, Orioles 0
At Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Zach Day virtually assured himself a spot in Montreal's starting rotation, pitching six innings of two-hit ball in a game shortened to seven innings by rain. Rick Helling, competing against Pat Hentgen for the final spot in Baltimore's rotation, allowed three runs, two earned, in six innings. Astros 2, Dodgers 1
At Vero Beach, Fla., Wade Miller gave up three hits in six shutout innings to beat Kevin Brown, who struck out seven in five innings, allowing two runs one earned — and three hits. Kazuhisa Ishii followed with four scoreless innings of two-hit ball. Indians 2, Reds 0
At Sarasota, Fla., Ricardo Rodriguez allowed four hits in six innings, and David Riske struck out the side in the ninth. Cleveland manager Eric Wedge told Riske and
infielder Casey Blake before the game that they'd made the club.
Twins 4, Devil Rays 3
At Fort Myers, Fla., Jacque Jones hit a three-run homer, and Rick Reed allowed three runs and eight hits in six innings. Ben Grieve went 3-for-4 for Tampa Bay, and Brent Abernathy hit a two-run double.
Mets 11, Braves 10
At Port St. Lucie, Fla., Al Leiter allowed six runs and 10 hits in 3 1-3 innings, giving up a homer to Atlanta pitcher Russ Ortiz.
Ortiz pitched shutout ball until the fifth, when Jeromy Burnitz hit a solo homer and Tony Clark hit a two-run drive.
White Sox 4, Rangers 0
At Tucson, Ariz., Jon Garland gave up six hits and five walks in six innings but pitched out of trouble. Texas starter John Thomson gave up all four runs — two earned — and eight hits in five innings with five strikeouts. Athletics 13. Mariners 6
At Peoria, Ariz. Barry Zito allowed five runs, six hits and five walks in 4 2-3 innings. Oakland scored eight runs in the ninth off minor leaguers Scott Atchison and Emiliano Fruto.
Giants 6, Cubs 0
At Scottsdale, Ariz., Damian Moss pitched six innings of three-hit ball. Ray Durham hit his first homer of the spring and Yorvit Torrealba drove in three runs. Barrie Bonds and Trey Lunsford also drive in runs for the Giants.
Rockies 5. Brewers 4
At Tucson, Todd Helton had three hits and Chris Richard's first homer of the spring provided the go-ahead run. Milwaukee's Glendon Rusch allowed one run and four hits in four innings with four strikeouts.
Diamondbacks (ss)11
At Surprise, Ariz., Mike Sweeney hit his sixth homer in 15 at-bats, his seventh overall, and Mike Tucker homered twice as Kansas City built an 11-10 lead. Arizona's Elmer Dessens gave up five homers in the first two innings, with Mendy Lopez, Mike DIFelice and Tucker hitting consecutive homers in the second.
Diamondbacks (ss) 7, Padres (ss) 7, tie
At Yuma, Ariz., a split-squad game that featured several Padres stars of the future and former major league pitchers trying to stick with the Diamondbacks was called after 10 innings. Doug Henry, David Cortes, Jerry Spradlin and Scott Service pitched for Arizona in the game, played in San Diego's former spring-training home. Padres (ss)5, Angels 1
At Tempe, Ariz., Oliver Perez pitched six scoreless innings. Gary Bennett went 2-for-3 and hit his first homer of the spring, a solo shot off starter Ramon Ortiz. Frankie Rodriguez and Troy Percival combined to strike out five of the final six Padres' hitters.
The Associated Press
Future uncertain for Mizzou stars
INDIANAPOLIS — Arthur Johnson and Rickey Paulding had said they would be back for their senior seasons at Missouri.
But after the Tigers were eliminated by Marquette in the second round of the NCAA tournament, they didn't sound so sure.
"We're going to address that when we get back to Columbia," Paulding said after scoring a career-high 36 points in Missouri's 101-92 overtime loss. "Right now, I'm just thinking about the game, not thinking about that."
On March 1, after a game against Kansas State in Manhattan, Paulding and Johnson both said they planned on coming back.
“(It’s) just something I have to talk about with my family and the coaching staff,” Paulding said Saturday. “Right now, it's the furthest thing from my mind.”
Johnson, whose projected NBA stock had not been as high as Paulding's, also said after the Kansas State game that he was coming back for his senior season.
"I've already answered that
But when pressed, Johnson said. "I'm just thinking about this loss right now. I haven't really thought about anything like that."
question." Johnson said Saturday, after scoring 28 points in Missouri's loss.
Missouri coach Quin Snyder didn't clear up the matter.
"We want them to do the best thing for them," Snyder said. "It changes week to week. It changes month to month, year to year.
"I want what they and their families want. They have to sit down and talk about it."
Both Paulding and Johnson, however, did look a bit toward next season, when Missouri could have five seniors.
"I think we showed toward the end of the season that we're a really, really good team." Pauldingsaid. "We'll be a pretty good group next year. We've got some good recruits coming in and we get (transfer) Jason Conley."
Added Johnson: "I had a good year this year, just coming from the hard (work) I put into it in the off-season. That's only going to get better with this off-season coming and next year."
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