Jayden Gardner recorded 23 points and 12 rebounds as No. 13 Virginia slammed Clemson 76-56 in Friday’s semifinal round of the ACC tournament in Greensboro, N.C.

Armaan Franklin added 16 points and Kihei Clark chipped in 13 for the second-seeded Cavaliers (25-6), who continued to play without Ben Vander Plas. Their starting forward suffered a season-ending broken hand earlier this week.

Kadin Shedrick once again saw increased playing time for Virginia, and he scored eight points and pulled down seven rebounds. As a team, Virginia shot 50 percent from the field and committed only six turnovers.

The Cavaliers will face fourth-seeded Duke — an upset winner over top-seeded Miami — in Saturday’s ACC tournament title game.

Hunter Tyson led the Tigers (23-10) with 15 points on 4-of-8 3-point shooting. PJ Hall contributed 13 points and 10 rebounds, while Brevin Galloway chipped in with 12 points. Clemson hit just 35.8 percent of its shots from the floor and made just 7-of-23 3-pointers.

Gardner made back-to-back baskets to give Virginia a 26-18 lead with about seven minutes left in the first half, although Clemson got within 29-25 on a 3-pointer by Tyson about three minutes later.

The Cavaliers began to create some separation with an 8-0 run before halftime. Franklin scored the first four points on a pair of layups, and Gardner added two buckets down the stretch as Virginia led 37-25 at the break.

The Cavaliers rode that momentum into the second half, beginning the session with a 13-2 push. Gardner converted two layups in the first three minutes of the half, and Clark drained a 3-pointer shortly thereafter.

Shedrick’s two free throws created a 50-27 margin with 14:48 to play.

Clemson got within 56-40 with 9:40 to go, but Franklin’s 3-pointer sent the lead back to 19 points.

The Tigers got no closer than 65-51 down the stretch.

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Ezra Manjon scored 25 points and Vanderbilt defeated No. 23 Kentucky for the second time in nine days, 80-73 in the SEC tournament quarterfinals Friday night in Nashville, Tenn.

Tyrin Lawrence and Jordan Wright added 18 points each for the sixth-seeded Commodores (20-13), who won for the fifth straight game and 10th time in 11 games. They will face No. 2 seed Texas A&M, which defeated Arkansas 68-61, in the semifinals Saturday.

Antonio Reeves scored 22 points before fouling out, Jacob Toppin had 21 points and 11 rebounds and Oscar Tshiebwe added 19 points and 15 rebounds to lead the third-seeded Wildcats (21-11).

Vanderbilt started the second half with a 6-2 run to open a 45-36 lead. The lead grew to 12 before Kentucky twice trimmed it to six.

The Commodores rebuilt the lead to 11 midway through the half, but the Wildcats scored the next eight points.

Manjon’s 3-pointer pushed the lead to 66-60 before Kentucky closed within four on four occasions.

But the Wildcats couldn’t get closer and Lawrence’s jumper gave Vanderbilt a 75-69 lead with 1:11 left. The Commodores added five free throws in the final minute.

Vanderbilt, which lost to visiting Kentucky 69-53 on Jan. 24, defeated the host Wildcats 68-66 in the regular-season finale March 1.

Reeves made back-to-back 3-pointers to complete a 12-0 run that gave the Wildcats a 14-4 lead.

Manjon scored the final five points in an 8-0 run that pulled Vanderbilt within one point, but Kentucky answered with five straight for a 19-12 lead.

Lawrence’s layup got the Commodores within one point, but Toppin answered with five straight points that gave the Wildcats a 26-20 lead.

Vanderbilt got within one point before Kentucky scored the next six points, then went scoreless for the final three minutes.

A 3-pointer by Paul Lewis started a 12-0 run and a 3-pointer by Wright ended it to give the Commodores a 39-34 halftime lead.

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Trayce Jackson-Davis finished with 24 points, nine rebounds and seven assists to lead the Indiana Hoosiers to a 70-60 victory over the Maryland Terrapins on Friday night in a Big Ten tournament quarterfinal in Chicago, Ill.

The third-seeded Hoosiers (22-10) will next take on the No. 10-seed, Penn State, in the semifinals on Saturday, with the winner facing either Purdue or Ohio State in the tournament championship on Sunday afternoon.

Indiana, which advanced to the Big Ten semifinals for the second consecutive season, lost its lone matchup this season against Penn State, 85-66, in University Park, Pa., on Jan. 11.

Maryland (21-12), the No. 6 seed, will turn its attention to the NCAA Tournament as the Terrapins are expected to make the field of 68.

Hakim Hart led Maryland with 16 points and four assists. The Terrapins, who defeated the Hoosiers 66-55 in College Park, Md., on Jan. 31, looked like they might do it again when they put together an 11-0 run, taking advantage of Indiana’s five-minute scoring drought midway through the first half.

Jackson-Davis played in All-American form throughout the contest, helping Indiana erase an early eight-point deficit. He also collected four blocks and three steals.

Trailing 43-39, Indiana used a 15-0 run powered by Jackson-Davis to build am 11-point lead. The Terrapins answered with a 3-pointer by Donald Carey and a layup from Hart to cut the deficit back to six and keep themselves in the game.

But Jalen Hood-Schifino hit a 3-pointer with 2:07 left to put Indiana ahead by nine. Hood-Schifino finished with 19 points, six rebounds and three blocks, while Miller Kopp scored 10 points.

Jahmir Young finished with 12 points for Maryland, but struggled from the field, shooting only 3 of 15. Carey scored 11 points and Donta Scott had 10 points and five rebounds.

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Souley Boum scored 23 points and added five rebounds and six assists Friday night for No. 15 Xavier, which advanced to the Big East tournament championship game with an 82-60 win over No. 24 Creighton in New York.

Xavier, the second seed, advanced to face top-seeded Marquette in Saturday’s championship game. The No. 6 Golden Eagles edged No. 11 Connecticut, 70-68, in Friday’s first semifinal.

The championship game appearance is the first for Marquette and the second for Xavier, which fell to Villanova, 69-52, in 2015. A first-time champion hasn’t won the Big East since West Virginia did so in 2010.

Colby Jones (14 points, 10 rebounds) had a double-double Friday night for Xavier (25-8), which has won five straight. Jack Nunge had 17 points and seven rebounds while Desmond Claude scored 11 points off the bench for the Musketeers.

Xavier held Creighton to 37.5 percent shooting (21 of 56).

Ryan Kalkbrenner scored 18 points while Baylor Scheierman had 15 points for Creighton (21-12), which fell in each of the last two Big East tournament championship games. Trey Alexander added 12 points for the Blue Jays.

The shooting effort was the second worst in a Big East game this season for Creighton, which shot 32.8 percent (20 of 61) against Connecticut on Jan. 7.

Creighton scored the first five points before Xavier took the lead for good with an 11-4 run capped by a layup by Adam Kunkel with 15:22 left. The Musketeers took their first double-digit lead at 31-17 following a 14-1 run in which Boum scored eight points. The Blue Jays were 0-for-4 from the field with six turnovers in that stretch.

Creighton got within single digits once more on a 3-pointer by Alexander with 4:00 left. Xavier led 40-26 at the half and led by at least 13 points throughout the second half. The final margin marked the largest advantage for the Musketeers.

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Tyger Campbell scored a career-high 28 points and took over during a key stretch after another UCLA starter was injured as the No. 2-ranked Bruins advanced to the Pac-12 tournament title game with a 75-56 victory over Oregon on Friday night in Las Vegas.

Jaime Jaquez Jr. had 18 points and 10 rebounds for top-seeded UCLA (29-4), which played the final 16:16 without shot-blocking big man Adem Bona, who suffered a left shoulder injury while diving for a loose ball. The Bruins were already playing their second game without Jaylen Clark, the Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year.

UCLA awaits the winner of the Arizona-Arizona State game late Friday night.

Fourth-seeded Oregon (19-14) trailed by eight when Bona left the game and quickly climbed within 46-43 before Campbell took control. Using his dribble to create opportunities, he made four consecutive jumpers and scored nine points over a span of 2:35 to put his team up 57-46 at the 8:05 mark.

The Ducks, needing a victory to keep alive at-large hopes for the NCAA Tournament, never got closer than seven points after that. UCLA closed on a 17-5 run.

Campbell, who poured in 20 points in the second half, finished with six assists. David Singleton added 12 points for UCLA, which is seeking its first conference tournament championship since 2014.

Will Richardson and Quincy Guerrier each scored 10 points for Oregon. N’Faly Dante posted eight points and 10 rebounds.

UCLA scored on five consecutive possessions early in the second half, capped by 3-pointers from Singleton and Jaquez, to give the Bruins a 44-36 lead before Bona, the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year, suffered his shoulder injury. After being attended to by medical personnel, he left the court with a member of the medical staff holding his left arm in place.

Bona returned to the bench during a timeout with 11:11 to go.

Neither team led by more than five in the first half, although UCLA never trailed in the final 10 minutes. The Bruins went up by four points on Amari Bailey’s fast-break dunk with 36 seconds to go, but Richardson answered with a driving jumper in the lane to make the score 32-30 at halftime.

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Henry Coleman III scored 16 points and led a furious second-half comeback as No. 18 Texas A&M rallied past Arkansas 67-61 Friday night in the Southeastern Conference tournament quarterfinals in Nashville, Tenn.

The Aggies will play sixth-seeded Vanderbilt in Saturday’s second semifinal after the Commodores beat third-seeded and 23rd-ranked Kentucky 80-73.

Trailing by 13 at halftime, the second-seeded Aggies (24-8) got 11 points from Coleman, including going 5-of-5 at the foul line, in the second half’s first eight minutes.

The Aggies raced out on a 17-6 run to trim it to 44-42 at 12:06. Julius Marble’s jumper at 7:42 put them up for good at 52-51 as the Aggies went on to win for the ninth time in their past 10 games.

Wade Taylor IV had a game-high 18 points while Coleman collected 11 rebounds. Tyrece Radford and Dexter Dennis had 11 points apiece for the Aggies, who outscored the Razorbacks 42-23 in the second half.

Texas A&M improved to 23-0 this season when allowing 66 points or fewer. The Aggies finished the game shooting 42.1 percent from the floor and owned a 43-26 rebounding edge.

Tenth-seeded Arkansas (20-13) got 16 points from Nick Smith Jr. and 15 from Makhi Mitchell.

In the teams’ third meeting this season and 167th all time, Arkansas got nine points from Smith in the first six minutes to lead 11-8, but the Aggies’ biggest concern was point guard Taylor, who committed two fouls in the first 5:19 of the game.

The sophomore didn’t have more foul difficulties, but Arkansas increased its lead to 29-17 with 4:44 to play. The Aggies’ advantage in the paint allowed them to cut it to 29-23 with 2:24 left.

As the half ended, Jordan Walsh banked in a trey at the buzzer to complete a 9-2 run and put the Razorbacks up 38-25, primarily behind a strong 13-point output by Smith.

The Razorbacks made 13 of 24 shots (54.2 percent) overall from the field and 5 of 12 from deep (41.7 percent). Arkansas blocked nine shots, made five steals and held the Aggies to 36.7 shooting (11 of 30) in the half.

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Kyle Filipowski scored 17 points and had plenty of help as No. 21 Duke avenged a 22-point loss from last month by defeating No. 14 Miami 85-78 in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament semifinals Friday night at Greensboro, N.C.

Dariq Whitehead scored 16 points off the bench, Tyrese Proctor supplied 15 points and Mark Mitchell had 13 points as the top four scorers for the Blue Devils were freshmen. Jeremy Roach had 13 points.

Duke (25-8), which has won eight games in a row, face second-seeded and 13th-ranked Virginia in the final after the Cavaliers topped third-seeded Clemson 76-56. The Blue Devils are in the tournament final for the second year in a row and go for their first title since 2019.

Isaiah Wong, the ACC Player of the Year, scored 22 points, for top-seeded Miami (25-7), though he sat out stretches because of foul trouble. Jordan Miller posted 17 points, Nijel Pack had 11 points, and Wooga Poplar and Bensley Joseph both provided 10 points, but the Hurricanes missed their final five shots from the field.

The teams split two regular-season matchups, with Duke winning by two at home in January before Miami’s blowout result.

Duke held a slim lead for much of the second half Friday night. Roach’s 3-pointer with less than two minutes left stretched the gap to 78-71. It was his first successful 3 on three attempts.

Whitehead’s basket after the Blue Devils broke Miami’s press made it 80-73 at the one-minute mark before Anthony Walker’s three-point play for the Hurricanes. The Blue Devils made five free throws to clinch the outcome.

Whitehead made two 3-pointers and twice — once in each half — was fouled on 3-point attempts and made all six free throws resulting from those infractions. Duke was 21-for-25 on free throws.

Miami played most of the game without power forward Norchad Omier, who exited 66 seconds into the contest with an injured right ankle. While securing a defensive rebound, Omier came down awkwardly on Duke center Dereck Lively’s foot. Omier was helped off the court.

Duke led 41-36 at halftime, aided by 4-for-6 shooting from 3-point range but hurt by eight turnovers.

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Jalen Wilson collected 25 points, 10 rebounds and three steals to lift top-seeded Kansas to a 71-58 victory over fifth-seeded Iowa State on Friday in a Big 12 tournament semifinal game in Kansas City, Mo.

Wilson, the Big 12 Conference Player of the Year, recorded his 12th double-double of the season after making 8 of 14 shots from the floor, including 3 of 7 from 3-point range.

Gradey Dick scored 15 points and Dajuan Harris contributed 11 points, six assists and four steals for the Jayhawks (27-6), who posted their ninth win in 10 games.

Kansas advances to the championship game on Saturday to face second-seeded Texas. The Longhorns beat sixth-seeded TCU 66-60.

KJ Adams Jr. had eight points and Kevin McCullar Jr. added six before exiting in the second half due to back spasms.

The Jayhawks shot a robust 52.3 percent from the floor (23 of 44) under the direction of assistant Norm Roberts, who handled the coaching duties for Kansas with Bill Self still recuperating from a medical procedure.

Jaren Holmes scored 16 points and Robert Jones added 11 for the Cyclones (19-13), who committed a season-high 22 turnovers.

Iowa State scored 14 of the first 19 points of the second half to take its first lead of the game at 39-38. Kansas answered with a 24-11 run, including eight points by Dick. He hit a 3-pointer and converted a three-point play in the burst.

Wilson bolted out of the blocks by scoring 13 points to stake Kansas to a 19-12 lead. He drained each of his first three 3-point attempts and added a pair of baskets in that sequence.

Iowa State trimmed its deficit to four late in the first half before the Jayhawks doubled that advantage in short order. Wilson made a layup and Adams added an emphatic dunk to give Kansas a 33-25 lead at halftime.

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All-Big Ten guard Jalen Pickett scored six of his 15 points in overtime as 10th-seeded Penn State earned a 67-65 victory over second-seeded Northwestern in Big Ten quarterfinal action Friday night in Chicago.

The Nittany Lions (21-12) claimed their second overtime win over Northwestern (21-11) in 10 days as Seth Lundy provided a game-high-tying 16 points while Andrew Funk added 14 points and Kanye Clary contributed 11 off the bench.

Penn State, which secured its fifth Big Ten tournament semifinal berth, will play the winner of Friday’s last quarterfinal between No. 3 seed Indiana and No. 6 seed Maryland.

All-Big Ten guard Boo Buie paced Northwestern with 16 points and four assists while Brooks Barnhizer notched 15 points and a game-high 11 rebounds off the bench.

The Wildcats shot just 31.8 percent from the field and 25 percent from 3-point range, yet they had a chance to win at the overtime buzzer. With 4.7 seconds left, Buie deliberately missed a free throw. The ball pinged through the lane and into Chase Audige’s hands outside the arc. The Northwestern guard fired an off-balance 3-pointer that hit the inside of the rim and rolled off at the horn.

Lundy forced overtime with an off-balance 10-footer with 37 seconds left in regulation, as Buie and Funk missed shots to take the lead in the waning seconds. Pickett opened overtime with a step-back 3-pointer — his only such attempt of the game.

Northwestern claimed its first overtime lead on Audige’s pullup jumper in the lane with 1:16 to go, but Lundy answered with a 3-pointer to regain a 64-62 edge with 46 seconds on the clock.

Neither team allowed the other’s star any space to operate in the frontcourt early. The Wildcats misfired on 11 of their first 13 shots — including five layups — while the Nittany Lions missed 10 of their first 12.

Both teams’ offensive efficiency improved the rest of the half. Penn State reeled off eight straight points to take a 25-21 lead on Clary’s layup with 1:47 to go, but Nick Martinelli cashed a 3-pointer and Buie took Pickett off the dribble for a layup to give Northwestern a 26-25 edge at the break.

Funk scored 11 points in the first seven minutes of the second half to help stake Penn State to a 45-38 lead — the largest of the game. Northwestern reeled off nine consecutive points to regain a 47-45 edge with 6:15 left. Barnhizer started the run with a 3-pointer and a driving reverse layup.

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Chase Ross hit the tiebreaking 3-pointer with 6:14 remaining and Marquette dominated defensively in the final minutes to advance to the Big East tournament championship game with a hard-fought 70-68 victory over No. 11 UConn Friday night in New York.

The top-seeded Golden Eagles (27-6) won their eighth straight to earn a matchup with second-seeded Xavier in Saturday’s title game. The Musketeers routed Creighton 82-60 in the other semifinal game.

Marquette advanced to its first title game as a Big East member despite scoring three points in the final six-plus minutes of a back-and-forth affair.

Ross scored his only points 20 seconds after fourth-seeded UConn’s Alex Karaban converted a putback for a 64-64 tie. Ross went to the right corner and cleanly hit the 3 as UConn’s Jordan Hawkins was slow to defend the shot.

After the clutch shot, Olivier-Maxence Prosper made a 3 for a 70-66 lead with 3:42 remaining. The Huskies were within 70-68 on Adama Sanogo’s basket with 2:38 remaining, but neither team scored the rest of the way and the game ended when Hawkins airballed a 3 at the buzzer.

Tyler Kolek scored 14 of his 17 points in the first half while battling foul trouble. Key reserve David Joplin also finished with 17 while Kam Jones contributed 14 and Prosper chipped in 11.

Sanogo led the Huskies (25-8) with 19 points while Karaban and Nahiem Alleyne contributed 10 apiece. Hawkins was held to five points on 2-of-11 shooting, including 1-of-8 from behind the arc.

A back-and-forth opening half featured eight lead changes along with four ties. The half ended in a 38-38 tie when Tristen Newton found Karaban for an open corner 3 with four seconds left.

Marquette opened a 48-42 lead when Kolek connected with Stevie Mitchell for a layup with 16:55, resulting in UConn using a 30-second timeout. The lead reached 56-46 when Joplin sank three free throws with 14:45 left, but the Huskies were within 58-57 on a layup by Clingan with 10:01 left and then forged a 60-60 tie on Joey Calcaterra’s 3-pointer with 9:26 to go.

Marquette snapped the tie when Jones buried a deep 3 from the top of the key over Calcaterra and Alleyne with 7:54 remaining. Karaban’s putback forged a 64-64 deadlock with 6:34 remaining.

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