NCAA Basketball

The experienced Aztecs, in their sixth season under coach Brian Dutcher, will play the surprising East Region champion, ninth-seeded Florida Atlantic, on Saturday in Houston for a spot in the national title game.

Iowa (30-6) hadn’t been to the Final Four since Hall of Fame coach C. Vivian Stringer led the team to its lone appearance in 1993.

The top four seeds in the tournament were given to South Carolina, Indiana, Stanford and Virginia Tech.

Who’s going to win the national championship? The betting favorites earlier this week (in order): Alabama, Houston, UConn, UCLA, Creighton, and Texas, according to FanDuel Sportsbook.

Boeheim took Syracuse to the NCAA tournament on 35 occasions and advanced to the Final Four on five of those trips -- winning the national title in 2003.

The Gamecocks ran their streak to 36 consecutive weeks atop the Associated Press Top 25 women's basketball poll, matching Louisiana Tech for the second-longest run in the history of the poll, which dates to 1976.

Houston was No. 1 for the second straight week in the poll released Monday, receiving 49 first-place votes from a 62-person media panel.

In the first round of the NSIC Men's basketball tournament, the Augustana University men saw their season come to an end after losing to Bemidji State on Wednesday.

All activities on campus, including athletics, have been canceled for the next 48 hours in the wake of a fatal shooting there Monday night.

The Red Raiders erased a 23-point deficit after halftime to end an eight-game conference skid.