Rough 1st day for underdogs in Charlotte

The Washington Huskies were less than 2 minutes away from making it four routs in four games in Charlotte.

Then Georgia came up with a late rally that generated the closest thing to a fantastic finish here.

The margin was tighter, but the result was the same.

And in the end, it was a rough day for the underdogs at the Charlotte Bobcats’ arena: Four games, four wins by the teams wearing white uniforms.

Michigan started an upset-free day with a huge second-half push and routed Tennessee 75-45. Duke followed that by an even more dominant showing against Hampton, rolling to an 87-45 victory.

North Carolina had a moderate early scare but held off Long Island 102-87, before Washington edged Georgia 68-65 in the finale.

Indeed, for most of the day, the favorites made it look easy in the Queen City, where the first three games were decided by an average of 29 points.

Then came the nightcap and a frantic finish by Georgia that came up just short against the Huskies (24-10).

Isaiah Thomas scored 19 points and made a clutch defensive play to hold off Georgia (21-12), which trailed by 10 with 2 minutes left but made things interesting in the closing seconds.

Trey Thompkins hit a 3-pointer with 5.4 seconds remaining to make it 67-65. With 3.7 seconds left, Georgia fouled C.J. Wilcox, who made the first free throw but missed the second. Jeremy Price grabbed the rebound for Georgia and flung the ball downcourt, and Thomas got a hand on the pass. Travis Leslie snatched it and hoisted an awkward 3 that bounced high off the glass after the buzzer.

“I tried to throw up a lucky shot, but it just didn’t fall,” Leslie said.

Duke (31-4), the No. 1 seed in the West, never trailed and nearly doubled up the outmanned Pirates, opening the game on a 16-4 run and scoring 14 straight points to push its lead well into the 20s.

And once Kyrie Irving got comfortable on the court again, after more than three months on the sideline, the flashy freshman put on quite a show.

Irving — out since Dec. 4 with an injured big toe on his right foot — came up with his signature highlight when he stole an inbound pass, sped downcourt, jumped for a right-handed layup and then switched to his left in mid-air. The helpless Hampton defender under the basket never stood a chance.

He also knocked down 3-pointers on consecutive possessions in the final 2 minutes to finish off the Pirates (24-9), who didn’t have a double-figure scorer.

“I haven’t played in three months, so this game was really nerve-racking,” Irving said. “But once I got the butterflies out, I started to play really well.”

That sent the Blue Devils into the third round to face No. 8 seed Michigan (21-13), which coasted past Tennessee behind 14 points and 10 rebounds from Zack Novak.

Novak hit two 3-pointers while the Wolverines scored the first 16 points of the second half to break open a tight game and cruise to only their second NCAA win since 1998.

“We’re having so much fun we just want to keep it going,” Novak said.

Michigan became the first team to win an NCAA tournament game without hitting a free throw (0-1), and the Wolverines did it largely by shooting 52 percent from the field and holding a 36-26 rebounding edge against the bigger Volunteers.

Tennessee’s Tobias Harris scored 19 points on perfect shooting in the first half to keep the game tight, then missed all five of his attempts in the second and failed to score after halftime. The Volunteers were outscored 42-16 after the break.

“We just didn’t play with heart out there,” Harris said.

Tennessee (19-15) ended the year by losing eight of 12, and now enters an uncertain offseason with coach Bruce Pearl’s future is in question after he admitted lying to NCAA investigators. Athletic director Mike Hamilton, who had strongly supported his coach, wavered this week in a radio interview in which he said “the jury is still out” on whether Pearl will return.

Local favorite North Carolina (27-7) faced some resistance early in this one. The East’s No. 2 seed never trailed, but was stuck in a 33-all tie with 15th-seeded Long Island with 5 minutes left before halftime.

And then the Tar Heels got things clicking.

Harrison Barnes scored 12 points during the 20-6 run that put North Carolina up comfortably. Barnes’ dunk with 48 seconds before the break made it 53-39, and the Tar Heels held off a late rally by the Blackbirds (27-6) to win their seventh straight NCAA tournament game.

North Carolina hasn’t lost in the tournament since the 2008 Final Four; after coach Roy Williams’ team won the 2009 national title, it stumbled to a dismal 2010 in which it missed the field of 65 entirely. Tyler Zeller scored 32 points, John Henson finished with 28 and Barnes had 24.

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The Fat Man dreams of running the L.A. Marathon

Kelly Gneiting, a sumo wrestler, weighs 405 pounds. On Sunday he hopes to set a Guinness record by being the heaviest person to cross the finish line.

Kelly Gneiting took up sumo wrestling in the late 1990s and won three U.S. titles. Running a marathon has been a goal since grade school. (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times / March 7, 2011)

Reporting from Fort Defiance, Ariz. — Two miles down, four to go. Pain consumes him, but the Fat Man will not quit. His immense legs churn. His sweaty, barrel-size chest heaves, and the sound of his labored breathing fills the gathering dusk.

He is jogging slowly — very slowly — up a hill on a two-lane road above Fort Defiance, where he lives on the Navajo reservation in northeastern Arizona. Puddles along the roadway are turning icy. Trucks speed by, a few short feet from his wide shoulders.

Some people might turn back.

Not a chance, the Fat Man says, reciting a Bible verse and declaring he will never give in. "With what I'm facing," he says, "I have to prove to myself I can do this." He has never run up this hill before. "Just gonna keep my head down. If I look up…it'll be too much."

Photos: 400-pound marathoner

With a trace of humor and no small amount of pride, Kelly Gneiting, 40, calls himself the Fat Man. He weighs 405 pounds and is not embarrassed by an ounce of it. He stands out. He is one of a very few white people on the reservation. He is 6 feet tall with a 60-inch waist. That makes him 5 feet around the middle. His fleshy body is devoid of angles.

Even so, he is an athlete, and he is hardly shy about saying how good he is. "I honestly think I'm one of the best athletes in the world," he says. Bold overstatement, maybe, but this man who weighs nearly a quarter ton can do the splits, then bend at the waist and shoulders until his forehead touches the ground. He can reel off four consecutive sets of 25 pushups.

The Fat Man is a three-time national champion sumo wrestler.

Now he has willed himself into something far more unlikely: He has become a long-distance runner. On Sunday, at the 26th Los Angeles Marathon, he wants to set a Guinness world record. Of the roughly 25,000 entrants, most of them honed into taut and sinewy shape, he hopes to be the heaviest to cross the finish line.

By far.

If he does, he says he will be sending a message to a society obsessed with being thin. "Big people," he says, "can do the unimaginable."

When he talks, and he so loves to talk, Gneiting has a habit of marking the milestones in his life by weight.

"In high school, I was 190 pounds, so I know what it is to be thin," he says, eating a late lunch at a Denny's a few hours before his evening run. Oblivious to patrons craning their necks to look at him, he orders a mushroom cheeseburger with what appears to be half a pound of beef, thick-cut French fries, a fried chicken sandwich, and a second helping of thick cut fries.

"In college, I was on the wrestling team, and just over 200," he says. "I was fit then. Still am. The doctor says I've got good blood pressure. My resting heart rate is 60 beats per minute. I always have had one weakness: food."

Born and raised in eastern Idaho, the second child of a banker father and a homemaker mother, he kept his weakness largely in check during a two-year Mormon mission and his first years at Ricks College in Idaho. Then everything changed.

"I married my wife at 205 pounds," he says, sliding the fried chicken sandwich into a hand so massive hand it nearly disappears. "Suddenly, jeez, I didn't need to attract anyone. I just kind of let myself go. "

Twelve years ago, Gneiting and his wife, Karen, had the first of their five children. Around then, they also hit hard financial times. Eating (gorging, really; he once downed eight Big Macs at a sitting) relieved his stress. "The next thing you know," says his father, Gary Gneiting, "Kelly was physically a different person."

Karen, unable to find a job, stayed home with the kids. Gneiting couldn't find much of anything other than minimum-wage jobs like baling hay.

Soon he hovered around 350 pounds. He was seeing how cruel people could be.

"I would apply to jobs and people would see me and it was like they were wondering, 'Do we really want this monster walking around the office all day?' " he says. "Some people were just really shallow. Here's an example. I was at a store and this guy right near me says to his friend: "Look at how freakin' fat that guy is." I'm like: "Dude, I am right here in front of you, c'mon." When you're this size, it's strange, but it's like you can be invisible.

"I just got to where it didn't matter to me what people think, I am going to live my life."

Gneiting is a dreamer. Running 26.2 miles is a goal he's harbored since grade school. But someday he would also like to hike from the Dead Sea to Mt. Everest. He would like to swim the English Channel, because, he says, he floats like a cork. He would like to play in the NFL for the Philadelphia Eagles, and recently sent a resume in hopes of a tryout. He hasn't heard back.

In the late '90s, he discovered sumo wrestling after watching a tournament on ESPN. He marveled at the confidence of men who looked much like he did but had a bravado, even though they competed practically naked. It wasn't long before he was entering tournaments. He lost badly at first, but kept at it.

"In sumo," he says, "there's an advantage to being big, of course. That's when I actually made it over 400 pounds. My wife kept saying, 'Hey, being so big isn't healthy.' I think what she was really saying was, 'You are unattractive.' But we're still married, so maybe I'm not all that bad."

In 2005, four years after his first match, Gneiting won a U.S. Sumo Federation title. He repeated in 2006 and again in 2007.

By then, he was working as a long-haul trucker, ferrying cheese and potatoes. Driving the country in his big rig, he kept thinking about his boyhood wish to run a marathon. He admits he had doubts.

"Finally, I just said to myself, 'I don't care if I am going to have to crawl to the finish, I don't care if I am going to end up handicapped afterward, I am going to finish a marathon'....At the time I weighed 425."

The 2008 L.A. Marathon was his first race of any kind. With almost no training, he lumbered through the course — stopping, sitting, walking for the final half, but he finished in just under 12 hours — nearly 10 hours after the first runners. It was thrilling, but stunningly painful. His size 13 feet, hammered for hours under his weight, were swollen, badly blistered and purple with bruises. He vowed that he would never run again.

By last November, he had lost his trucking job after he was involved in an accident, he says, and was living on the reservation, working as a statistician at the Fort Defiance Indian Hospital. Even though he'd rarely see his family — Karen and the kids stayed behind in Idaho — he had to pay his family's bills.

He came to the reservation nearly broke. He couldn't afford a car and rented a sparse room. He rode a single-speed Huffy bicycle six miles to the hospital.

"I killed the bike in two months' time," he says, deadpan. "The pedal broke off. It was my weight."

The bike died, but Gneiting gained a new perspective. If he could bike to work every day, why couldn't he try running again?

"Honestly, by then, I needed the marathon," he says. "There wasn't much else to point to in life....My family, every night I don't have them to come home to."

He has trained this time with an obsessive zeal he didn't have before, taking only Sundays off . He uses the stair climber at the hospital gym. He jogs after work or on Saturday mornings, often on the thin shoulder of reservation highways, tuning out the gawkers who stare at the 400-pound man in his tight black track suit.

As he lumbers on, he thinks of his wife and kids and how he wants them to be proud, how he wants his kids to see that being big doesn't mean dreams have to die.

When he runs the marathon this time, he hopes he'll stop less, walk less and finish sooner.

He also has another goal, too: the Guinness Book of World Records, something he hadn't known about in 2008. Guinness will ask him to step on a scale just before the race, to provide photographic evidence of his journey and proof from race officials that he finished. Fulfill these requirements and Guinness will make him a record-holder: Heaviest runner to finish a marathon.

"I'll have something very few thin people out there can say about themselves," Gneiting says. "I'll have made a little history."

On the recent nighttime run, though, he doesn't inspire much confidence at first.

Every step is a shuffle, every breath a bellowing wheeze.

But then, in the middle of the pitch-dark desert, as the hill steepens and the temperature drops, he keeps going, big neck bent, big body leaning forward, one foot in front of the other.

"No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God," he says, muttering a favorite Bible phrase as he nears the crest. "I take that to mean, don't quit. Ever."

He has pushed for over an hour, but he makes it to the hilltop without a break. He promptly turns around. An hour more, 3 miles more, and he is at the bottom of the hill.

"If I can do this, I can do Los Angeles," the Fat Man gasps. "I'm going to finish that race, and better than before, you'll see."

kurt.streeter@latimes.com

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A supermoon must lead to super-effects on the body, right? Right?

Just imagine a supermoon's effects on the body. Really. Just imagine. (Robert Durell / Los Angeles Times)

If a full moon affects the human body, then a supermoon surely would send those effects into overdrive, leading to even more pregnancies, epileptic seizures, surgery screw-ups, suicides, assaults and various other types of biological havoc. Surely, it would.

The operative word, of course, is "if." And the Skeptic's Dictionary begins a nice distillation of moon-related folklore this way:

"The full moon has been linked to crime, suicide, mental illness, disasters, accidents, birthrates, fertility, and werewolves, among other things. Some people even buy and sell stocks according to phases of the moon, a method probably as successful as many others. Numerous studies have tried to find lunar effects. So far, the studies have failed to establish much of interest."

RELATED: 'Supermoon' rising this weekend

The essay then offers highlights from research on the many purported links between the moon's phases and human behavior. Such a distillation is worth reading as we head into the much-heralded "supermoon" weekend.

This story from LiveScience takes a similar tack with similar results. Writer Robert Roy Britt notes:

"When strange things happen at full moon, people notice the "coincidental" big bright orb in the sky and wonder. When strange things happen during the rest of the month, well, they're just considered strange, and people don't tie them to celestial events."

Britt, however, does not debunk the werewolf connection. That must mean it's true.

Copyright © 2011, Los Angeles Times

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Radiation from Fukushima plant detected in Sacramento, EPA says

A minuscule amount of radiation from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor in Japan was detected in Sacramento but at such a low level that it posed no threat to human health, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Friday afternoon.

One station in Sacramento detected "minuscule quantities" of a radioactive isotope, xenon-133, that scientists said they believed came from the reactors at the stricken Fukushima plant.

Photos: In Japan, life amid crisis

But the level detected would result in a "dose rate approximately one-millionth of the dose rate that a person normally receives from rocks, bricks, the sun and other natural sources," according to an EPA statement.

Xenon-133 is a radioactive gas created during nuclear fission.

The detection of the xenon-133 came from a radiation monitoring system run by the U.S. Department of Energy able to "detect tiny quantities of radioisotopes that might indicate an underground nuclear test on the other side of the world," the statement said. "These detectors are extremely sensitive and can detect minute amounts of radioactive materials."

A separate detection system run by the EPA, known as RadNet, also has shown no harmful levels of radiation coming to the United States. The system was developed in the 1950s during the Cold War.

"As far as our monitors go, we have not detected any increases beyond what you'd expect historically," said Philip Fine, atmospheric-measurements manager of the South Coast Air Quality Management District, the smog control agency for Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.

Experts have anticipated small amounts of radioactive isotopes from the stricken Fukushima Daiichi power plant to blow over to California as soon as Friday but said they expected that the radiation to be well within safe limits.

The South Coast Air Quality Management District has detectors in Anaheim, Fontana and Riverside monitoring airborne radiation; the California Department of Public Health operates a fourth detector in the downtown Los Angeles area.

Officials on Thursday said whatever radiation wafted into the atmosphere would be greatly diluted by the time it travels 5,000 miles to California.

"The basic physics and basic science really tells us that there can't be any risk or harm to anyone here in the United States, or Hawaii, or any of the other [U.S.] territories," Gregory Jaczko, chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said Thursday.

There is no sign that harmful levels of radiation are drifting into Tokyo or other large cities in Japan, according to the United Nations and World Health Organization officials.

The EPA said U.S. air monitors detected trace amounts of radioactive particles in 1986, after the explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. But the amounts detected were one-thousandth the level of what a typical person would absorb from natural sources in one year.

ron.lin@latimes.com

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No. 11 seed Marquette upsets Xavier Musketeers 66-55

Marquette turned out to be Xavier's worst nightmare.

The 11th-seeded Golden Eagles stymied the sixth-seeded Musketeers with a stingy defense that denied them offensive rhythm in a 66-55 NCAA Tournament second-round upset Friday at Quicken Loans Arena

The Mrly fouls, missed shots and turnovers and trailed by as many as 18 points.

The Golden Eagles ensured that Tu Holloway didn't score a point for the first 27:37 – not from the field, and not from his trademark place on the free-throw line.

When asked what they did to him defensively, the point guard said he didn't know.

"I can't really figure that out. I guess I was just missing shots today," Holloway said.

With Holloway smothered and Mark Lyons limited because of foul trouble, XU was forced to turn to the post. Kenny Frease rattled off eight first-half points, including a pair of jump shots, and Andrew Taylor scored six points in eight minutes.

Coach Chris Mack said Marquette's intent was to force Holloway to give up the ball. While XU has faced pressure teams before, usually Lyons is on the floor and defuses pressure.

Dante Jackson, Jeff Robinson and the rest of the perimeter personnel are good players, Mack said, but not necessarily the type that break down the defense with the basketball.

"So it gave us a tough way to go in the first half and I thought that was really the difference in the game – our inability to handle their pressure in the first half," Mack said. "I thought we did a better job in the second half, but certainly not one where we could overcome a 13-point deficit at halftime."

In the days leading to the game, Mack spoke at length about keeping the driving Golden Eagles out of the lane while avoiding fouling because the team led the Big East in made free throws.

Darius Johnson-Odom was at the stripe just 63 seconds into the game.

Holloway, meanwhile, averaged 7.5 made free throws entering the contest. He didn't get to the stripe until 3:12 remained.

Marquette never strayed from its relentless play and led 47-29 with 13:27 left in the game. A Johnson-Odom 3-pointer capped a 6-0 run.

XU briefly rallied. The team went on a 7-0 tear that included Holloway's first basket of the game, a 3-pointer with 12:12 left, and cut the deficit to 11. A Robinson tip narrowed it to eight points at the 8:42 mark.

But Marquette scored back-to-back baskets as part of a run that extended its lead, and XU was never able to jump ahead.

Taylor had a career performance in his final game. He went 7-for-8 from the field and 2-for-2 from the stripe for a career-high 16 points.

"I think they really focused on pressuring our guards and late in the game that really opened things up for Kenny and I," Taylor said. "I've got to give all the credit in the world to Marquette. They played hard. They deserved it."

Frease added 12 points and five rebounds, Jackson scored 10 points, and Jamel McLean had a team-high nine rebounds.

Holloway finished with five points.

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Hundreds flee as fighting rages around Libya's Benghazi

Fighting raged around Libya's rebel stronghold of Benghazi Saturday, with air strikes, shelling and anti-aircraft fire rocking the Mediterranean city as a war plane went down in flames.

Hundreds were seen fleeing the city eastwards amid unconfirmed reports that forces loyal to Libyan strongman Moamer Kadhafi had entered the western suburbs of the city of more than one million people.

Tank fire was also heard from the south of the city as rebel fighters ran through the streets flashing V for victory signs and crying "Allahu Akbar", or "God is greatest".

The southern edge of Benghazi early morning suffered at least two air strikes and sustained shelling, sending thick smoke into the sky, an AFP reporter said.

A warplane was seen coming came down in a residential area of Benghazi with flames emerging from the rear fuselage, triggering celebratory gunfire from the rebels.

The pilot ejected from the aircraft, which was identified as a Russian-built MiG-23 fighter as used by the Libyan air force. However a number of military units defected to the rebellion soon after the revolt broke out.

The two air strikes occurred within 20 minutes of each other, but the planes responsible could not be immediately identified.

A series of small explosions, possibly from Katyusha rockets, also produced at least seven smaller columns of black smoke south of the city.

Very heavy traffic clogged the road eastwards but rebel checkpoints were still manned and fighters screamed defiance against Kadhafi, as a large plume of smoke was seen rising from the city behind them.

A man with a green flag standing in the road shouted, "Kadhafi will die, Kadhafi will die."

Opposition media outlets said Benghazi was coming under attack from the west, as the

the government for its part said its armed forces were under attack west of Benghazi and had responded in self-defence.

"The gangs of Al-Qaeda attacked the units of the Libyan armed forces stationed to the west of Benghazi," a statement carried by the official Jana news agency said, using Tripoli's term for the insurgents.

The statement accused the rebels of using "a helicopter and a fighter jet to bomb the Libyan armed forces in blatant violation of the no-fly zone imposed by the UN Security Council."

On Friday evening, residents of Benghazi had braced for an imminent attack, after reports Kadhafi's troops were just 50 kilometres (30 miles) south of the city and planning an evening assault.

In Tripoli, Libya's deputy foreign minister had responded by denying any plans to attack the rebel bastion and said the government forces would not breach the ceasefire.

"The armed forces are now located outside the city of Benghazi and we have no intention of entering Benghazi," Khaled Kaaim told reporters.

Kaaim also called for the immediate deployment of foreign observers, saying otherwise "the accusations and counter-accusations will not stop."

France was hosting Saturday what it said would be a "decisive" summit with the European Union, Arab League and African Union, as well as UN chief Ban Ki-moon, on taking UN-sanctioned military action in Libya.

France's ambassador to the United Nations, Gerard Araud, said he expected military intervention within hours of the summit.

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Dukan Diet coming to America. Keep the olive oil in the cupboard

The Dukan Diet is the new twist on the Atkins Diet. It's rumored that Dukan is currently the diet choice for the next princess of England, Kate Middleton.

Created by the French nutritionist, Dr. Pierre Dukan, like Dr. Atkins' famous diet, the Dukan Diet is high-protein, low-fat mixed with oat bran and lots and lots of water. Controversially, fruit is verbotten for the first two steps, as is olive oil. However, and this is where the diet shows its French pedigree, wine and dessert are d'accord.

The Booster Shots blog laid out the four steps of the Dukan Diet that must be approached in order.

-- Attack phase: Eat only pure proteins in lean meats, lean cured meats, seafood, eggs, fat-free dairy products.

-- Weight-loss phase: Add vegetables to the protein choices.

-- Stabilization phase: Add fruit, bread, cheese and even pasta.

-- Eat whatever you want, whenever you want. You’ll never be fat again.

The 69-year-old doctor and author claims he was paid an advance of more than $1 million for the North American rights to his book. The author of 19 books that has already sold 3.5 million copies in French and has had his work translated into 14 languages.

And about the comparisons to Dr. Atkins? Dr. Dukan told the New York Times that he has "a lot of respect for Atkins. He was a legend in his time." But nowadays "Atkins is dead."

Ooh la la!

-- Tony Pierce

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NCAA Tournament Scores: 2011 March Madness Round 1 Recap

Day 1 of the 2011 NCAA tournament is in the books (Click HERE for printable bracket). There were some incredible finishes, buzzer beaters and shocking upsets. No. 6 St. John's fell. Tom Izzo and his Spartans made an early exit. Jimmer Ferdette led BYU to a tough first round victory. Scroll down to see a recap of the first round.

EAST REGION

No. 3 Syracuse 77 - No. 14 Indiana State 60
No. 7 Washington 68 - No. 10 Georgia 65
No. 11 Marquette 66 - No. 6 Xavier 55
No. 2 North Carolina 102 - No. 15 Long Island 87
No. 1 Ohio State 75 - No. 16 UTSA 46
No. 8 George Mason 61 - No. 9 Villanova 57
No. 5 West Virginia 84 - No. 11 Clemson 76
No. 4 Kentucky 59 - No. 13 Princeton 57

WEST REGION

No. 5 Arizona 77 - No. 12 Memphis 75
No. 1 Duke 87 0 No. 16 Hampton 45
No. 4 Texas 85 - No. 13 Oakland 81
No. 8 Michigan 75 - No. 9 Tennessee 45
No. 3 UConn 81 - No. 14 Bucknell 52
No. 6 Cincinnati 78 - No. 11 Missouri 63
No. 7 Temple 66 - No. 10 Penn State 64
No. 2 San Diego State 68 - No. 15 Northern Colorado 50

SOUTHEAST REGION

No. 1 Pittsburgh 74 - No. 16 UNC-Asheville 51
No. 8 Butler 60 - No. 9 Old Dominion 58
No. 5 Kansas State 73 - No. 12 Utah State 68
No. 4 Wisconsin 72 - No. 13 Belmont 58
No. 11 Gonzaga 86 - No. 6 St. John's 71
No. 3 BYU 74 - No. 14 Wofford 66
No. 7 UCLA 78 - No. 10 Michigan State 76
No. 2 Florida 79 - No. 15 UC Santa Barbara 51

SOUTHWEST REGION

No. 9 Illinois 73 - No. 8 UNLV 62
No. 11 VCU 74- No. 6 Georgetown 56
No. 3 Purdue 65 - No. 14 St. Peter's 43
No. 1 Kansas 72 - No. 16 Boston University 53
No. 10 Florida State 57 - No. 7 Texas A&M 50
No. 2 Notre Dame 69 - No. 15 Akron 56
No. 13 Morehead State 62 - No. 4 Louisville 61
No. 12 Richmond 69 - No. 5 Vanderbilt 66
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