The number 10 seed in the Midwest Region Davidson (27-6) defeated number 7 seeded Gonzaga 82 to 76. Gonzaga has gone from being a Cinderella team in past NCAA Tournaments to being a power in Division I basketball to now being the conquest of a new Cinderella team the Davidson Wildcats. Davidson got into the NCAA Tournament by winning the Southern Conference Tournament.

American University will play its first-ever NCAA Division I Tournament game as the 15 seed in the East. The Eagles will play against the second seeded Volunteers of Tennessee in the field of 65 on Friday, March 21 in Birmingham, Ala. at 11:15 a.m. CST; 12:15 p.m. EST.

No. 1 seed Tennessee advances in the SEC Basketball Tournament on Friday after squeezing out a victory against South Carolina, 89-87.

Having earned their fourth SEC Western Division title in the last six seasons and posting their seventh 20-win campaign of the past decade, the top-seeded Mississippi State Bulldogs (21-9, 12-4) will begin competition at the 2008 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament in Game 7 Friday evening by taking on the winner of Thursday's first-round contest between Florida and Alabama.

Campus today is even quieter. Many of my colleagues are at the ACC Tournament to watch our Deacs. They lost to FSU 70-60 today. I know this is not the way anyone wanted our season to end, particularly after the heartbreak of losing Skip Prosser in July. But our team will bounce back, and so will we.

Adam Emmenecker, the benchwarmer turned league MVP for No. 20 at Drake University's men's basketball team, had trouble believing the fans were chanting those three letters for him.

Mario Chalmers led Kansas (KU Basketball team) with 18 points and made two key defensive plays in the final minutes to lift the third-ranked Jayhawks to a 76-70 win at Missouri in Big 12 basketball action here Saturday night.