SALT LAKE CITY — So there was Harvard, in its second consecutive N.C.A.A. tournament after a stretch without an appearance from 1947. Now, all Harvard needed was a win.
Despite the loss of two of its better players before the season because of a widespread academic scandal, despite an Ivy League season that came down to the final weekend, Harvard led heavily favored New Mexico late on Thursday. Like, really late. Like, all the way until the scoreboard read zeroes straight across.
So there was Harvard, winner of an N.C.A.A. tournament game for the first time. The Crimson upset the Lobos, 68-62, at EnergySolutions Arena in one of the latest finishes on Thursday night, on the first day of full action in the tournament. It was, if not a seismic upset, a big one.
When it ended, Harvard's players danced on the court as if they had just won the national title. The band played. The flags waved. The players skipped into the locker room. History was assured.
New Mexico (30-5), the No. 3 seed in the West Region, trailed at halftime but not by as much as the face of its coach indicated.
The Lobos play in a loud, raucous arena known as the Pit. It seemed as if they brought the Pit with them here — in their stomachs. At one point, the Lobos were shooting 9 percent from the floor, and they concluded the first half with 10 makes in 28 attempts. Their shooting improved only slightly in the second half, not enough to beat the Crimson.
Laurent Rivard led Harvard (19-10), seeded 14th, with 17 points.
History indicated it would be tough for Harvard to close the game out. Since 2000, teams from the Ivy League were 2-13 in the N.C.A.A. tournament. Before Thursday.
OREGON 68, OKLAHOMA ST. 55 First Oregon, then California. Just like that, men's basketball in the Pacific-12 Conference does not seem so measly after all.
Handed No. 12 seeds, Oregon and Cal provided back-to-back upsets of fifth-seeded opponents in San Jose, Calif.
Oregon walloped Oklahoma State to set up a game against fourth-seeded St. Louis on Saturday. Cal, fueled by a partisan crowd just a short drive from its Berkeley campus, slid past Nevada-Las Vegas, 64-61. The Golden Bears awaited the winner of the late game between Syracuse and Montana.
Oklahoma State's Marcus Smart, considered among the best freshmen in the country, had 14 points, 9 rebounds and 4 assists. But he and his teammates struggled to combat the speed and shooting touch of Oregon's own dynamic freshman guards.
Damyean Dotson led Oregon with 17 points, while his backcourt partner, Dominic Artis, had 13. Arsalan Kazemi, a 6-7 senior, had a buzzer-beating putback that gave Oregon a 37-26 halftime lead. Oklahoma State never climbed within single digits again.
Cal had a tougher time shaking U.N.L.V., who beat the Bears by 1 in Berkeley in December. Missed free throws by Cal allowed U.N.L.V. to narrow the deficit to 2 in the final 10 seconds, but the Bears made just enough to pull the upset. JOHN BRANCH
COLORADO ST. 84, MISSOURI 72 Colorado State outmuscled and outhustled Missouri, riding 26 points from Dorian Green and a 36-18 rebounding advantage to a Midwest Region victory in Lexington, Ky. The eighth-seeded Rams led for the final 38 minutes, but they pulled away with a 17-4 second-half run to secure the program's first N.C.A.A. tournament triumph since 1989. BEN SHPIGEL
ST. LOUIS 64, NEW MEXICO ST. 64 Dwayne Evans had 24 points, and fourth-seeded St. Louis overwhelmed 13th-seeded New Mexico State (24-11) in San Jose behind a dominating defense.
Playing with a heavy heart since Coach Rick Majerus died in December, the Billikens (28-6) eclipsed the 1988-89 team's program record of 27 victories and are back where they were a year ago, in the round of 32.
"It was like Rick was up on top of the backboard slapping the ball out," Aggies Coach Marvin Menzies said. (AP)
ARIZONA 81, BELMONT 64 Mark Lyons scored 23 points, and sixth-seeded Arizona rolled past 11th-seeded Belmont in Salt Lake City.
The Wildcats (26-7) used their huge size advantage to shut down the Bruins (26-7), who are 0-6 in tournament games. Arizona held a 44-18 edge on the boards; outscored Belmont, 36-18, in the paint; and blocked five shots. (AP)
MEMPHIS 54, ST. MARY'S 52 Down by 5 with only a few seconds remaining in Auburn Hills, Mich., the senior Matthew Dellavedova and St. Mary's (28-7) nearly pulled off an N.C.A.A. tournament stunner.
Instead, Dellavedova's last-second shot sailed long, and sixth-seeded Memphis (31-4) moved on to the next round. (AP)
MICHIGAN 71, S. DAKOTA ST. 56 Glenn Robinson III scored 21 points, helping fourth-seeded Michigan overcome a rough night for Trey Burke in a win over 13th-seeded South Dakota State (25-10) in Auburn Hills.
Burke, the Wolverines' star point guard, made only two field goals and left the game briefly in the second half after a hard fall under the basket. He came back after that, but he finished with 6 points and was held in single digits for the first time all season.
Michigan (27-7) will face Virginia Commonwealth on Saturday. (AP)
V.C.U. 88, AKRON 42 Troy Daniels had 23 points, and V.C.U. (27-8) beat Akron in Auburn Hills in the most lopsided victory by a fifth-seeded team over a No. 12 in N.C.A.A. tournament history.
Akron (26-7) played without the suspended point guard Alex Abreul. In addition, the starting guard Brian Walsh and the reserve center Pat Forsythe were limited by the flu, and the reserve guard Deji Ibitayo was not even in uniform because of back spasms. (AP)
LOUISVILLE 79, N.C. A&T 48 Russ Smith scored 23 points and set a Louisville N.C.A.A. tournament record with a career-high eight steals, and the top-seeded Cardinals demolished North Carolina A&T (20-17) in Lexington. The Cardinals (30-5) finished with a season-high 20 steals. (AP)
MICHIGAN ST. 65, VALPARAISO 54 Derrick Nix had 23 points and a career-high 15 rebounds to help power third-seeded Michigan State past 14th-seeded Valparaiso (26-8) in Auburn Hills. (AP)
WICHITA ST. 73, PITTSBURGH 55 Malcolm Armstead scored 22 points, and ninth-seeded Wichita State (27-8) defeated eighth-seeded Pittsburgh (24-9) in Salt Lake City.
Tray Woodall, Pitt's leading scorer this season, was held to 2 points. (AP)
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