NCAA Tournament Day 3: Kansas falters, Gonzaga advances to ninth-straight Sweet 16

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NCAA Tournament Day 3: Kansas falters, Gonzaga advances to ninth-straight Sweet 16
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The field is now reduced to 32 teams. Winners of Saturday and Sunday's games secure spots in next week's Sweet 16.

The chaos of the first two days at the NCAA Tournament is behind us. There were upsets, highlighted by and . There were enthralling performances, from to . The field is now reduced to 32 teams. Winners of Saturday and Sunday’s games secure spots in next week’s Sweet 16. dominant in second half

Woof. What an outing by the Zags. Down one point at halftime, Gonzaga comes out in the second half and obliterates , 89-68. Zags shoot 61 percent from the field and put on an offensive showcase. Kansas, at one point, had four straight 3’s to end the first half and start the second. That was short-lived. Gonzaga, with its bevy of versatile big men, looks like it will be a handful for and No. 1-seeded Purdue in the Sweet 16 — assuming Purdue beats tomorrow night.

The self-appointed bracketologists around the country all asked a question that permeated throughout the realm of college basketball before this year’s NCAA Tournament started: can we trust Arizona? March hasn’t been exactly kind to one of the most storied programs in the sport in recent years. Despite consistently having a roster each year worthy of deep, meaningful runs in the tournament, Arizona has seen its postseason dreams upended at the hands of higher seeds.

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