No. 15 Princeton’s Ancient March Madness Upset of No. 2 Arizona Astounds CBB Followers
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That crew from the Ivy League is transferring on.
The 15th-seeded Princeton Tigers defeated the 2nd-seeded Arizona Wildcats 59-55 Thursday within the principle spherical of the boys’s NCAA tournament for what turned into as soon as arguably the most attention-grabbing upset of the day following No. 13 Furman’s 68-67 fetch over No. 4 Virginia.
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Princeton entered halftime down 31-30 and rallied for 29 aspects within the 2nd half to defeat a Wildcats crew that saw junior forward Azuolas Tubelis rating 22 aspects. Except for Tubelis, the remainder of Arizona’s roster turned into as soon as disappointing as junior center Oumar Ballo turned into as soon as the crew’s 2nd-leading scorer with factual 13 aspects.
The Tigers, within the intervening time, purchased a fixed effort from almost every player on their roster. Senior forward Tosan Evbuomwan led the crew with 15 aspects, and six completely different gamers on their roster scored on the least six aspects.
Following the game, college basketball fans would possibly perhaps well perhaps no longer relief but section how frightened they were by Princeton’s mountainous fetch:
Arizona reached the Sweet 16 closing twelve months but hasn’t made it previous that spherical since the 2014-15 season when it reached the Elite Eight.
Princeton, within the intervening time, is within the NCAA tournament for the principle time since 2017. Entering Thursday, the Tigers hadn’t made it previous the principle spherical since 1999. Now they’ll purchase on No. 7 seed Missouri.
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