On a night when a No. 1 seed went down, Miami (FL) helped produced arguably an much more stunning consequence. Due to its 63-56 win over Drake on Friday, the No. 12-seed will advance to the Spherical of 32 for the primary time since 2018.
It is turn into an annual custom attempting to find out which No. 5-seed ought to be on upset alert within the NCAA Match. This yr, Miami, Duke, Saint Mary’s and San Diego State all had been tasked with avoiding the upset and all handed the take a look at.
The Hurricanes had a very good scare in opposition to the Bulldogs as Drake constructed an eight-point lead with underneath 5 minutes to go due to back-to-back threes from senior guard Sardaar Calhoun.