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March Madness live updates, scores, bracket: Duke, Cooper Flagg vs. Baylor; Florida ousts UConn in men’s NCAA tournament
- Baylor’s getting buckets but not the stops that it needs. It’s shaved just two points off its deficit with a 10-8 run to start the second half and trails, 55-40 at the first TV break of the half.
- This is not going to cut it. Baylor needs to figure out how to stop Duke or will watch its season come to an end.
- The second half is underway after Duke’s late-half blitz to take control against Baylor. Can the Bears answer after digging a 47-30 halftime hole?
- What a finish to the first half for the Blue Devils! Cooper Flagg and Tyrese Proctor are leading the way with a combined 26 points, but they’re getting contributions from everyone.
- As a whole, Duke is shooting 65% from the field and attacking the rim with conviction. It’s led to 19 first-half free throws, and the Blue Devils have made 16 of them.
- The Blue Devils are rolling just before halftime. The latest surge has put them up 45-30 with a minute left in the first half.
- Baylor’s Dubravcic appeared to hook Duke’s Patrick Ngongba under the basket, so Duke got a pair of free throws and the ball to extend their lead again.
- The Blue Devils are starting to create some separation just before halftime. Cooper Flagg just hit a 3-pointer to put them up 40-30.
- Dan Hurley put his emotions on display after UConn’s loss to Florida earlier in Raleigh — in more ways than one.
- He held back tears in a postgame interview with CBS. He also shared some choice, heated words with Baylor in the tunnel, apparently unhappy with the officiating.
- Tyrese Proctor’s now 3 of 4 from deep. He was 6 of 8 from 3 in the first round. His latest 3 extended Duke’s lead to 28-24. The Blue Devils extended the lead again to 31-24 before a timeout with 4:23 remaining in the half.
- Cooper Flagg has two fouls, neither of them good. He picked up his first early in the backcourt and just picked up his second on a charge. He’s headed to the bench with 6:42 remaining in the half.
- The good news for Duke? Kon Knueppel is Flagg’s replacement off the bench.
- Duke’s the juggernaut playing close to home. But Baylor’s not shrinking to the moment. The Bears have a 24-23 lead at the TV timeout with 7:39 remaining in the first half. Baylor’s shooting 50% from the field and from 3 (3 of 6) and controlling the boards early with an 11-6 rebounding advantage.
- Duke’s relying heavily on the 3 early with 8 of its 13 field goal attempts from long distance. The Blue Devils are 3 of 8 from deep and 4 of 5 from inside the arc.
- Elite athleticism is part of why VJ Edgecombe’s a projected lottery pick.
- Duke junior Tyrese Proctor is off to a scorching start to the NCAA tournament. Proctor was 6 for 8 from 3 in Duke’s first-round win over Mount Saint Mary’s. He’s 2 for 3 from deep early against Baylor as Duke takes a 15-13 edge into the second TV timeout.
- UConn coach Dan Hurley was still fighting back tears when he spoke to reporters after his team’s narrow 77-75 loss to Florida.
- When asked why he was so emotional, Hurley pointed to UConn’s tumultuous season and to how close the Huskies came to advancing to the NCAA tournament’s second weekend.
- “There’s a lot of emotion, man,” Hurley said. “Players play with it. I coach with it. And you’re always f—— drained when it’s over.”
- UConn led by as many as six points in the second half and did not relinquish the lead until a Walter Clayton Jr. 3-pointer with less than three minutes to go. Had the Huskies been able to hold on, they would have advanced to a West Regional that would not have included either top seed Florida or No. 2 seed St. John’s.
- “To be that close to getting to a Sweet 16 and knowing that the 2 seed lost yesterday, this bracket could have really opened up for us,” Hurley said.
- Cooper Flagg got poked in the right eye before the latest timeout, but remains in the game. He received treatment on the sideline during the break and is squinting as action resumes, but he’s out there.
- As expected 20 miles from Durham, the crowd in Raleigh favors Duke. The Blue Devils lead, 7-6 at the first TV timeout.
- Duke struck first with a Tyrese Proctor 3, but Cooper Flagg picked up a bad early foul deep in the backcourt on the ensuing inbounds pass.
- After a great Florida-UConn game, Duke and Baylor are ready to tip off in Raleigh with a Sweet 16 berth on the line.
- The Blue Devils are back in action in the next game of the afternoon window. We saw the return of Cooper Flagg in their blowout win over Mount Saint Mary’s on Friday, and it went off without a hitch.
- Flagg finished with 14 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 blocks in just 22 minutes, putting to rest any concern that his sprained left ankle would impact him in the NCAA tournament.
- Duke is a 12.5-point favorite and the Over/Under is set at 145.5.
