Men’s NCAA Tournament : SDSU reaches Final Four with a thrilling victory over Creighton

Interestingly starting around 1970, there will be three schools showing up at the men’s NCAA Competition following triumphs by No. San Diego State University, ranked No. 5, and Miami, a 5 seed, on Sunday.

With a close 57-56 victory over No. 1, San Diego State University secured the program’s first ever Final Four appearance. Creighton, a six-seed, at the KFC Yum! Kentucky’s Louisville-based center.

With 1.2 seconds remaining in the game, Bluejays guard Ryan Nembhard was penalized for a foul on Aztecs guard Darrion Trammell, tying the score at 56. As Trammell rose to make the shot, replays showed Nembhard’s left hand on his right hip.

The Aztecs would take the lead after Trammell made both of his free throws, missing the first one.

“The moment it wasn’t too big for me to do everything I’ve been through,” Trammell said in the postgame news conference. “I feel like the opportunity was just set there for me. It was God’s timing and I just had to believe in that and just having that confidence that, yeah, I missed the first one but I definitely wasn’t going to miss the second one.”

In the post-game press conference, Nembhard commented on the foul call, “It’s a tough feeling. We worked so hard all year and it comes down to a play like that. I don’t know I think we could’ve done a little bit more to make it a game that didn’t have to go down to that but it’s a tough way to lose.”

SDSU will take on No. On Saturday, April 1, nine-seed Florida Atlantic will face off against two teams that have never competed in the Final Four before.

In the interim, the No. Miami, the fifth seed, came back in the second half to defeat No. 2 cultivated Texas 88-81 to progress to the program’s very first Last Four in NCAA competition history.

Before the Hurricanes went on a 12-2 run to tie the game at 72, the Longhorns took a 13-point lead with less than 15 minutes left. The Hurricanes won the game with a 9-2 run in the final minute after exchanging several buckets.

Jordan Miller, a guard for Miami, scored 27 points, going 7-7 from the field and 13-13 from the foul line.

Miller stated to the CBS broadcast regarding the team’s comeback victory, “No one wanted to go home.” “We came together, we stuck together, we showed really good perseverance and the will, the will to just win and get there.”

The matchup between the Hurricanes and No. 4 seed UConn in Houston, Texas on Saturday, April 1.

Since seeding began in 1979, no team in the men’s NCAA tournament this year has been higher than No. 4 is currently in the Final Four.

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