Caleb Asberry scored 15 points to lead Oklahoma State to a 57-49 win over Oklahoma in the opening round of the Big 12 tournament on Wednesday in Kansas City, Mo.

The seventh-seeded Cowboys (18-14), who saw their NCAA Tournament hopes take a hit when they endured a five-game losing streak late in the season, will oppose second-seeded Texas on Thursday in the quarterfinals.

Oklahoma State was swept by the Longhorns (23-8) in two regular-season games.

The 10th-seeded Sooners likely are done for the season at 15-17, the program’s first sub-.500 finish since 2016-17.

All three of Asberry’s 3-pointers came in the second half, including his final trey with 5:32 remaining that kicked off a 9-0, game-clinching run.

Asberry scored 13 in the second half.

Bryce Thompson contributed 12 points for Oklahoma State, and John-Michael Wright had 10. Tyreek Smith led the Cowboys with 14 rebounds while Moussa Cisse added 11. Oklahoma State produced a 49-39 edge on the glass while completing a three-game season sweep of the Sooners.

Oklahoma’s top two scorers, Grant Sherfield and Tanner Groves, both struggled to get much going on offense.

The duo combined to go 6 of 28 from the floor and 1 of 12 from beyond the arc.

Groves led the Sooners with 13 points and 12 rebounds. Sherfield had just two points until scoring six in the final two minutes with the outcome already decided.

The Cowboys looked destined to put the game away quickly, taking a double-digit lead in the first 10 minutes with a 14-0 run.

However, the Sooners punched right back, ripping off a 12-0 run of their own later in the half to trim a deficit that was as big as 14 down to two.

Oklahoma missed its last eight shots before the break, but Oklahoma State couldn’t take much advantage, finishing in a 2-of-12 slump itself while taking a 26-20 lead into halftime

The Sooners were just 3 of 13 on layups in the first half, and they shot 21.9 percent from the floor before the break. The Cowboys hit 38.7 percent from the field prior to halftime.

Overall on the night, Oklahoma State finished at 35 percent, Oklahoma at 25 percent.

–Field Level Media

Terquavion Smith scored 30 points as sixth-seeded North Carolina State beat 11th-seeded Virginia Tech 97-77 in the second round of the ACC tournament on Wednesday night in Greensboro, N.C.

It was NC State’s most points against an ACC opponent this season, and the Wolfpack will play in the quarterfinals for the first time since 2019. They would have in 2020, but the game was canceled because of the pandemic.

NC State (23-9) will face third-seeded Clemson (22-9) on Thursday night.

NC State’s win also means that all four of North Carolina’s ACC teams – including North Carolina, Duke and Wake Forest — are in the quarterfinals for the first time since 2006.

Virginia Tech (19-14), last year’s conference tournament champion, likely will be relegated to the NIT.

Smith shot 11-of-13 from the floor and added eight rebounds and three assists. Jarkel Joiner contributed 20 points, 10 assists and seven rebounds, while Ebenezer Dowuona chipped in 11 points, five boards and two blocks, and Jack Clark tallied 11 points.

Justyn Mutts led the Hokies with 15 points and five rebounds. Rodney Rice had 17 points and Grant Basile added 11.

NC State jumped out to an 8-2 lead to start the game, and then pulled away for a double-digit advantage with a 15-6 run over a six-minute span that ended with just over eight minutes left in the first half. Smith scored seven points during the burst.

A layup by Basile trimmed Virginia Tech’s deficit to 15 with 3:35 to play before the break, but the Wolfpack went on a 12-spurt to close out the half and lead 53-26. Dowuona scored five of those points.

Virginia Tech never got closer than 19 in the second half.

The Wolfpack shot a season-best 61.9 percent from the floor.

Starting NC State forward Greg Gantt left the game in the first half with an apparent leg injury. He returned to the bench in the second half on crutches.

NC State lost twice to Clemson in the regular season, 78-64 in Clemson and 96-71 in Raleigh, N.C. on Feb. 25. Both teams could use wins to bolster their resumes toward making the NCAA Tournament.

–Field Level Media

Texas Tech head basketball coach Mark Adams resigned on Wednesday, three days after the university suspended him for making a comment toward a player the university described as “inappropriate, unacceptable and racially insensitive.”

Texas Tech announced the move shortly after the Red Raiders lost 78-62 to West Virginia in the first round of the Big 12 tournament in Kansas City, Mo.

According to the news release by the university, athletic director Kirby Hocutt conducted an inquiry during Adams’ suspension and determined “the racially insensitive comment was unintentional and an isolated incident.”

Nonetheless, Adams and the program parted ways, with Adams saying in the same news release, “My lifelong goal was to help and be a positive influence on my players, and to be a part of the Texas Tech men’s basketball team. However, both the university and I believe this incident has become a distraction.”

Adams, 66, was 43-25 in two seasons at his alma mater. Last season, he led the Red Raiders to the NCAA Tournament and was named the Big 12 Coach of the Year by The Associated Press.

Assistant coach Corey Williams served as interim coach in Adams’ place. There was no immediate word on Williams’ status with the program or if he would be considered for the full-time position.

The Red Raiders finished the season 16-16.

–Field Level Media

Brandon Angel scored 16 points and collected 12 rebounds to lead No. 10 seed Stanford to a 73-62 victory over No. 7 seed Utah on Wednesday in the first round of the Pac-12 tournament in Las Vegas.

Maxime Raynaud chipped in 12 points and nine rebounds for the Cardinal. Harrison Ingram scored 15 points and Spencer Jones added 12.

Stanford (14-18) will face second-seeded Arizona in the quarterfinals on Thursday.

The Cardinal were relentless in attacking the basket and totaled 38 points in the paint. Stanford had 17 assists on 26 made baskets while committing only four turnovers.

Branden Carlson scored 27 points and collected 10 rebounds to lead Utah. Gabe Madsen added 13 points and Lazar Stefanovic chipped in 10 for the Utes.

Utah (17-15) suffered its sixth straight loss. The Utes committed 12 turnovers and shot just 37.9 percent from the field.

Stanford used a 14-2 run to take control early in the first half. Angel and Raynaud made back-to-back baskets to ignite the run that gave the Cardinal an 18-7 lead. Utah got off to a sluggish start on offense, missing eight of its first 10 shots.

Madsen finally got the Utes going with back-to-back baskets. His third basket of the game, a 3-pointer, trimmed Stanford’s lead to 22-20. Utah could not fully erase the deficit before the Cardinal heated up a second time.

Jones nailed a 3-pointer as part of a personal 7-0 run that extended Stanford’s lead to 29-20.

The Cardinal stayed a step ahead, in part, by taking care of the ball. Stanford committed just one turnover before halftime and went into the break up 34-27.

Utah did not threaten the Cardinal’s lead after halftime. Stanford led by double digits much of the way, building its largest lead at 63-48 when Michael O’Connell made a layup to cap a flurry of five consecutive baskets for the Cardinal.

–Field Level Media

Dawson Garcia had 18 points and 13 rebounds to lead Minnesota to a 78-75 win over Nebraska in a first-round Big Ten tournament game in Chicago on Wednesday.

Ta’Lon Cooper added 16 points and 12 assists for the Golden Gophers (9-21).

Keisei Tominaga scored 23 points and Sam Griesel had 16 points and 12 rebounds in defeat for Nebraska (16-16).

Minnesota held a 74-71 lead with 27.1 seconds remaining, but Tominaga hit a layup with 20.5 seconds left to make it 74-73.

Cooper then hit two free throws with 18.4 seconds left to give Minnesota a 76-73 lead before Griesel hit two free throws with 12.7 seconds remaining to cut Minnesota’s lead to 76-75.

Cooper was again fouled with 7.2 seconds left, and he made one free throw to put Minnesota up 77-75.

Nebraska pushed the ball down the floor, but Griesel lost the ball out of bounds with 1.3 seconds remaining.

Following a free throw by Jaden Henley that gave Minnesota a 78-75 lead, Tominaga had one last chance to tie, but his half-court shot hit the heel of the rim and bounced off as time expired.

Leading 70-67 with 3:23 left, Minnesota took a 73-67 after three free throws by Henley with 3:01 remaining.

Nebraska responded, cutting Minnesota’s lead to 73-71 with 1:41 left after back-to-back baskets by Griesel.

With 9:01 remaining and Minnesota up 60-53, Minnesota’s second-leading scorer Jamison Battle fouled out of the game, and Golden Gophers head coach Ben Johnson got a technical foul arguing the call.

Nebraska then cut Minnesota’s lead to 60-57 after hitting the two technical foul free throws and two more free throws.

After leading 37-33 at halftime, Minnesota took a 50-39 lead with 15:57 remaining in the game after a 3-pointer by Henley.

The Golden Gophers led by as many as nine points in the first half at 34-25 with 3:14 remaining until halftime before Nebraska answered with six straight points to make it 34-31 with 1:21 to go in the first half.

–Field Level Media

Freshman Shawn Phillips Jr.’s tiebreaking one-handed jam off a missed layup with 1:09 left lifted 14th-seeded LSU to a 72-67 victory over 11th-seeded Georgia in the first round of the SEC tournament on Wednesday in Nashville.

Phillips, who hadn’t scored more than four points in a game this season and averaged less than a point per game, finished with a season-high 13 points and 10 rebounds for the Tigers (14-18).

KJ Williams added 18 points and eight rebounds for LSU, which faces sixth-seeded Vanderbilt (18-13) in a second-round game on Thursday.

Trae Hannibal had his first career double-double with 14 points and 11 rebounds, while Adam Miller finished with 10 points for the Tigers, who ended a three-game losing streak with just their second win in the past 19 games.

Georgia (16-16), which dropped its sixth straight game, was led by Braelen Bridges and Justin Hill, who had 13 points apiece.

Terry Roberts had 12 points and six rebounds, while Jabri Abdur-Rahim and Kario Oquendo each scored 10 points for the Bulldogs.

Trailing 48-38 with 15:53 left, Georgia gradually chipped away at the Tigers’ lead and took a 59-57 advantage on Abdur-Rahim’s two free throws with 4:16 to play.

After Williams’ two free throws tied the game at 59 with 4:07 left, Justin Hill hit a pair of free throws to regain the lead for Georgia with 3:15 to go.

Miller gave LSU a 63-61 advantage with a four-point play with 3:02 left before Williams sank two more free throws to make it a four-point game with 2:19 remaining.

Roberts’ 3-pointer trimmed the lead to 65-64 with 2:08 left, but Phillips’ two free throws made it a three-point game with 1:45 left.

Hill’ three-point play pulled the Bulldogs even at 67 with 1:33 remaining before Phillips’ one-handed jam off Hannibal’s missed lay-up gave the Tigers a 69-67 lead with 1:09 to go.

Phillips blocked Bridges’ layup with 54 seconds left and Williams’ jumper extended the lead to 71-67 with 22.7 seconds remaining.

After Georgia took an 11-10 lead on Roberts’ 3-pointer with 12:04 left in the first half, the Tigers took over the game. LSU held the Bulldogs to just four field goals the rest of the half, enabling the Tigers to take a 42-30 halftime advantage.

–Field Level Media

Cam Whitmore had 19 points and 10 rebounds, Justin Moore scored 13 points and sixth-seeded Villanova defeated 11th-seeded Georgetown 80-48 on Wednesday in the first round of the Big East tournament in New York.

Brandon Slater, Mark Armstrong and Brendan Hausen each added 10 points for the Wildcats (17-15), who will now face third-seeded Creighton (20-11) in the quarterfinals on Thursday.

Primo Spears led Georgetown with 17 points, seven assists and five rebounds. Jay Heath added eight points and eight rebounds but shot 3 of 14 from the field. Brandon Murray also contributed eight points.

The Hoyas (7-25) shot 19 of 56 from the field, including 3 of 20 from 3-point territory. They lost their final four games and 10 of their last 11.

Whitmore knocked down a 3-pointer with 13:17 remaining in the second half and Villanova went ahead 54-29.

The Wildcats kept the pressure on when Slater completed a three-point play with 11:00 left for a 58-33 advantage.

Heath missed eight of his first nine shots but hit a runner in the lane on Georgetown’s next trip.

Hausen made a deep trey with 6:22 to go for a commanding 68-40 Villanova lead.

Georgetown never threatened the rest of the game and found itself on the wrong end of a 9-2 run over the final 3 1/2 minutes.

Villanova used an early 14-0 run to go ahead 20-8.

When Whitmore drove to the basket and scored with 6:43 left in the first half, the Wildcats led 31-13 following an 11-0 spurt.

Spears hit a difficult shot in the lane on Georgetown’s next possession.

Villanova surged to a 41-20 lead at halftime thanks in large part to 12 points from Moore on 4-of-6 shooting from 3-point territory.

Spears paced the Hoyas with nine points before the break, but Georgetown made just 9 of 27 shots (33.3 percent) from the field and got just two points from its bench.

–Field Level Media