Santa Clara almost slew a basketball giant. Then March Madness happened. It took head coach Herb Sendek a decade guiding the Broncos to snap the program's 30-year NCAA Tournament drought. Santa ...

Editor's note: Keep up with all of Friday's action in USA TODAY Sports' live blog for all 16 first-round games today here. Just like Day 1, Day 2 of the Men's NCAA Tournament got started with a bang.

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Kentucky snagged victory from the jaws of defeat in its 89-84 overtime win against Santa Clara Friday at the Enterprise Center. Kentucky guard Otega Oweh made a layup to tie the game at 70-70 with ...

You'll be seeing this shot in "One Shining Moment." Kentucky star Otega Oweh banked in a miracle 3-pointer at the buzzer to send Friday's first-round NCAA Tournament game against Santa Clara to ...

Kentucky set the college basketball world ablaze with Otega Oweh’s stunning buzzer-beater Friday. But the final possession of regulation almost didn’t play out the way it did. After Santa Clara’s ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Otega Oweh rescued Kentucky with a buzzer-beater from just inside half court to force overtime, then hit the tiebreaking free throws in the extra period as the seventh-seeded Wildcats ...

The Kentucky-Santa Clara NCAA Tournament game was absolute cinema on Friday. It looked like Santa Clara was going to win the game in regulation after Allen Graves hit a three-pointer with 2.4 seconds ...

The first round of the NCAA Tournament is complete, and we will turn our attention to the second round this weekend. Florida, Arizona, Iowa State, UConn, Virginia, Kansas, Purdue, Alabama and St. John ...

Kentucky guards Otega Oweh, right, and Denzel Aberdeen celebrate their overtime win over Santa Clara in the first round of the NCAA men's tournament at Enterprise Center in St. Louis on Friday, March ...