Third-seeded Michigan will be without several key cogs on Saturday afternoon when it faces second-seeded Vanderbilt in an NIT second-round game at Nashville, Tenn.

Guards Kobe Bufkin (ankle), Jett Howard (ankle) and Isaiah Barnes (leg) have been ruled out versus the Commodores (21-14).

Guards Dug McDaniel and Joey Baker likely will be tasked with shouldering more of the load for the Wolverines (18-15) on Saturday.

Bufkin recorded 23 points, eight rebounds and five assists for Michigan in its 90-80 first-round win over Toledo on Tuesday. It was Bufkin’s third showing of 23 points or more in his last five games, including a career-high 28 scored on Feb. 26 in an 87-79 overtime win over Wisconsin.

Bufkin has averaged 14.0 points, 4.5 rebounds and 2.9 assists in 33 games this season.

Howard, who did not play against Toledo, has contributed 14.2 points, 2.8 rebounds and 2.0 assists in 29 games this season. Barnes has chipped in 1.1 points and 1.1 rebounds in 15 games.

–Field Level Media

Kansas head coach Bill Self will miss his team’s second-round game of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday, less than a week after he was discharged from the hospital following a heart procedure.

Norm Roberts will lead the No. 1 Jayhawks (28-7) against No. 8 Arkansas (21-13) in West Region action in Des Moines, Iowa.

Roberts will be coaching his fifth straight game. The Jayhawks defeated No. 16 Howard 96-68 on Thursday.

Self has been active in team practices.

On March 8, Self went to the hospital “complaining of chest tightness and balance concerns,” the school said previously.

Self, 60, underwent a standard heart catheterization and had two stents placed for treatment of blocked arteries. The school denied late last week that Self had a heart attack.

Either Kansas or Arkansas will advance to meet the winner of the game between No. 4 UConn and No. 5 St. Mary’s next weekend in the Sweet 16 at Las Vegas.

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Trayce Jackson-Davis posted a double-double of 24 points and 11 rebounds and Race Thompson had 20 points and nine boards to lift Indiana to a 71-60 victory against Kent State in a Midwest Region first-round game on Friday in Albany, N.Y.

The No. 4 seed Hoosiers advanced to face fifth-seeded Miami in the second round Sunday. The Hurricanes closed their 63-56 first-round victory against Drake on a 16-1 run.

“They were tremendous tonight,” Indiana coach Mike Woodson said of Jackson-Davis and Thompson.

The Hoosiers (23-11) hardly found themselves in similar peril. The 13th-seeded Golden Flashes trailed by as many as 16 points and didn’t hold the advantage after the 15:14 mark of the first half. The Mid-American Conference tournament champions had a six-game winning streak snapped.

Kent State went just 7-for-21 from beyond the arc and shot 31.9 percent from the field compared to 46.8 percent for Indiana.

“Our defense, it was a total team effort from everyone,” Woodson said.

The Golden Flashes boasted a 42-39 edge on the boards but were outscored 46-26 in the paint.

Sincere Carry led Kent State with 15 points, while Chris Payton and VonCameron Davis contributed 10 apiece. Malique Jacobs added eight points, nine rebounds and seven assists for the Golden Flashes (28-7).

Miller Kopp scored 13 points while connecting on three of the Hoosiers’ five 3-pointers. Jackson-Davis added team highs with five assists and five blocks.

Indiana took a 35-27 lead into halftime behind balanced scoring from Thompson (13 points) and Jackson-Davis (10).

The Hoosiers shot 44.8 percent in the half while establishing their force inside, picking up 20 points in the paint. The Golden Flashes stayed afloat, however, corralling 10 offensive rebounds before the break. Carry led the team with nine first-half points, overcoming 3-for-11 shooting.

The programs met in the NCAA Tournament for the third time this millennium. The then- 13th-seeded Golden Flashes scored a first-round upset in 2001 before the Hoosiers regrouped the following season, topping Kent State in a regional final en route to the national title game.

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JaKobe Coles sank a floater in the lane with 1.5 seconds left to deliver sixth-seeded TCU a thrilling 72-70 victory over 11th-seeded Arizona State in first-round NCAA Tournament West Region action on Friday in Denver.

The Horned Frogs (22-12) trailed for most of the second half before ending the game on a 15-5 run fueled by an injured Mike Miles Jr., Damion Baugh and Coles. TCU will play No. 3 seed Gonzaga in the second round on Sunday.

Baugh rattled home a corner 3-pointer for TCU to tie the game for the second time of the second half, 67-67, with 1:50 to play. Neither team scored again until Baugh made two foul shots with 34 seconds left. TCU’s Xavier Cork blocked Frankie Collins’ layup attempt, and Miles went just 1 of 2 from the line to increase the Horned Frogs’ lead to three.

That allowed the Sun Devils’ DJ Horne the opportunity to tie the game 70-70 on a straightaway 3-pointer.

TCU had 12.4 seconds left to get the last shot. Coles received a pass behind the arc, he made a move right and drove in to get his floater.

“I knew they was probably gonna double Mike (Miles Jr.) and I was the second option,” Coles said on the TV broadcast. “My shot was really flat today and I knew I was trying to get that last one a little bit in the air.”

Arizona State neglected to use the final timeout it had, instead missing a heave from well beyond half-court.

Miles scored a game-best 26 points, 16 coming in the first half before he appeared to aggravate a right knee he hyperextended earlier this season. Chuck O’Bannon had 15 points and Baugh and Coles finished with 11 apiece.

Horne went 4-for-5 from the arc en route to a team-high 17 points for Arizona State (23-13), which had throttled Nevada in the First Four to reach the round of 64. Warren Washington had 11 points and a team-leading eight rebounds, and Desmond Cambridge Jr. scored 10 points.

The Sun Devils fell behind early but took their first lead at 20-19 on Luther Muhammad’s triple with 9:55 left in the half.

Arizona State took two four-point leads before Miles tried to wrest back momentum with a fastbreak dunk off Miller’s steal. But Alonzo Gaffney pushed Miles in the back, causing him to land awkwardly and eventually hobble toward the tunnel in pain.

Miles subbed back in before the end of the half but was clearly limited by the pain.

“Shoutout to our trainer Matt (Herrill), man. He got me right,” Miles said of playing through pain. “Got us in the locker room, I had something to calm down, get back out here, and I was gonna go back regardless. I wanted to help my team. This is a big tournament, I’m a big-time player, so that’s what it’s about.”

Horne made a 3-pointer and Gaffney made one free throw to lift Arizona State to a 44-37 halftime edge.

The Sun Devils were up by 11 with 16:34 to go before the Horned Frogs rallied.

–Field Level Media