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Baylor knocked off 10th-seeded Saint Mary’s 72-49 on Friday night behind 28 points from LaceDarius Dunn and an exemplary all-around effort from Tweety Carter.

Ali Farokhmanesh’s 20-footer stretched a 1-point lead to 4, and the Panthers held on for a surprise upset.

The first ticket to the round of 16 will be punched when second-seeded Villanova tussles with West Coast Conference champion Saint Mary's at 1:05 p.m. ET on Saturday. They'll be followed by a couple of upset-minded teams trying to keep the magic moving: 13th-seeded Murray State takes on fifth-seeded Butler, and 14th seed Ohio plays No. 6 seed Tennessee.

Looking ahead at the second day of the N.C.A.A. tournament.

At last the Texas Longhorns can relax. No longer do they have to spend their days on edge, force-feeding themselves the notion that their season remained salvageable. No longer do they have to convince anyone ...

Follow the NCAA basketball tournament live as 32 teams take to the court today.

WashPost: Thursday and Friday can't get here fast enough because the NCAA tournament is wide, wide open. If we've learned anything over these first two weeks of March, it's that not all that much separates the best from the rest.

The selection committee made its choices. Now, it's America's turn. The country's biggest office pool, otherwise known as March Madness, serves up the usual smorgasbord of choices, starting with Kansas, the overall top seed in the 65-team NCAA tournament bracket released Sunday.

Kelvin Lewis scored 28 points and Houston surged past No. 25 UTEP down the stretch to claim its first NCAA tournament berth in 18 years with an 81-73 victory in the Conference USA tournament title game that snapped the Miners' 16-game winning streak.

Cole Aldrich had 12 points and 18 rebounds, and No. 1 Kansas became the third team to reach 2,000 wins by pulling out an 80-68 victory over scrappy Texas Tech on Thursday in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 tournament....