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Trey Kaufman-Renn had 22 points and 15 rebounds, and the Purdue Boilermakers used a fast start to roll to a 76-62 win over McNeese in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

Fletcher Loyer added 15 points. C.J. Cox finished with 11 points for the Boilermakers, who advanced through the Midwest Region to the Sweet 16 for the second straight season.

The Boilermakers will meet the winner of top-seeded Houston and eighth-seeded Gonzaga in the regional semifinal. Matt Painter is headed to his eighth Sweet 16 in 16 NCAA Tournament appearances as Purdue's coach.

Sincere Parker had 17 points to lead McNeese on Saturday.

John Calipari is heading back to the Sweet 16 after sending a second straight Hall of Famer home from the NCAA Tournament’s “Region of Coaches.”

One game after knocking out good friend Bill Self and the Kansas Jayhawks, Calipari's 10th-seeded Arkansas Razorbacks beat longtime nemesis Rick Pitino and St. John's 75-66 on Saturday.

Billy Richmond III scored 16 points and Karter Knox had 15 for Arkansas.

Zuby Ejiofor had 23 points and 12 rebounds for Big East champion St. John's.

Michigan is going back to the Sweet 16 a year after a 24-loss season, using Roddy Gayle’s surge to beat Texas A&M 91-79 in the NCAA Tournament.

Gayle scored 21 of his season-high 26 points in the second half to help the restocked Wolverines overcome a 10-point deficit and advance to Atlanta to face the Auburn-Creighton winner in the South Region.

Vladislav Goldin had 23 points and 12 rebounds as fifth-seeded Michigan overcame another big day for Pharrel Payne, who led Texas A&M with 26 points on 10-of-13 shooting.

The Wolverines, who made a surprising run to the Big Ten tournament title, won for the fifth time in nine days.

Darrion Williams scored a season-high 28 points, JT Toppin had 25 points and 12 rebounds, and No. 3 seed Texas Tech beat No. 11 seed Drake 77-64 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

Elijah Hawkins added 16 points for the Red Raiders, who will play No. 10 seed Arkansas in the West Region semifinals Thursday night in San Francisco.

Bennett Stirtz scored 21 points and Daniel Abreu added 15 for Drake.

The Bulldogs were outscored 50-20 inside by the bigger, stronger Red Raiders, and had their eight-game winning streak come to an end.

Auburn coach Bruce Pearl said a trip to the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament was no sure thing.

Experienced Creighton made his top-seeded team work for it before the Tigers found their defensive mojo in the second half and closed out the ninth-seeded Bluejays 82-70 on Saturday night to reach the Sweet 16.

Tahaad Pettiford scored 16 of his 23 points after halftime and Chad Baker-Mazara added 17 points for Auburn, which held Creighton scoreless for more than six minutes during a 10-0 second-half run.

The No. 1 overall seed in the tournament, Auburn moves on to the South Region semifinals in Atlanta next weekend, where it will face No. 5 seed Michigan.

BYU withstood a ferocious charge from Wisconsin’s John Tonje to hold off the Badgers for a 91-89 victory that sends the program to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2011.

Tonje finished with 37 points, including eight during a desperate comeback down the stretch, but trailing by two, he shot a fadeaway airball just before the buzzer that allowed the sixth-seeded Cougars to escape.

Tonje was the first player to crack 30 points this year in March Madness.

Richie Saunders scored 25 for the sixth-seeded Cougars.

LJ Cryer matched a career-high with 30 points, including two free throws with 14.2 seconds left, and No. 1 seed Houston held on to beat eighth-seeded Gonzaga 81-76 on Saturday night to reach the Sweet 16 for the sixth straight NCAA Tournament.

J’Wan Roberts added 18 points, and Milos Uzan made two last free throws with 2.1 seconds left to give the Cougars their 15th straight win and push them into a regional semifinal against fourth-seeded Purdue on Friday night in Indianapolis.

Graham Ike finished with 27 points and Khalif Battle had 17 for the Bulldogs, who had a streak of nine straight Sweet 16s come to an end.

Chaz Lanier made four 3-pointers and finished with 20 points as No. 2 seed Tennessee advanced to a program-record third straight Sweet 16, beating seventh-seeded UCLA 67-58 in the NCAA Tournament.

The Volunteers will play either sixth-seeded Illinois or No. 3 seed Kentucky in the Midwest Region semifinal Friday in Indianapolis. Lanier also set the Tennessee single-season record for 3s with 120.

He topped the mark of 118 by Chris Lofton in 2007-08. UCLA made its earliest exit from the tournament in the six-year tenure of coach Mick Cronin.