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Purdue basketball: North Texas| First Round Game| NCAA
North Texas:
No. 13 seed North Texas pulled off a bracket-busting upset over the No. 4-seeded Boilermakers 78-69 in overtime on Friday in the men’s NCAA Tournament first round.
It’s North Texas’ first-ever NCAA tourney win and the second huge upset of a Big Ten power. Earlier Friday, No. 15 seed Oral Roberts knocked off No. 2 Ohio State to become the first Cinderella of March Madness.
The Mean Green (18-9) came out firing early and controlled the tempo all game, fueling off a stifling defense to send home one of the Big Ten’s most surging teams in Indianapolis – about an hour away from its West Lafayette campus. Purdue’s Mackey Arena is also hosting tournament games.
Thomas Bell (16 points) came up huge for North Texas as the game’s star on both offense and defense, scoring key buckets and delivering momentous blocks in overtime and at the end of regulation.
 North Texas | 32 | 29 | 17 | 78 |
 Purdue | 24 | 37 | 8 | 69 |
First Round Game:
Javion Hamlet scores 24 points and adds 11 rebounds for No. 13 seed North Texas (18-9). Thomas Bell and Mardrez McBride score 16 each.
Jaden Ivey scores 26 points for No. 4 seed Purdue (18-10) and Trevion Williams adds 14 points and 13 rebounds.
The Boilers go scoreless for the first 4:30 of overtime.
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NCAA:
No. 13 seed North Texas pulled off a bracket-busting upset over the No. 4-seeded Boilermakers 78-69 in overtime on Friday in the men’s NCAA Tournament first round.
It’s North Texas’ first-ever NCAA tourney win and the second huge upset of a Big Ten power. Earlier Friday, No. 15 seed Oral Roberts knocked off No. 2 Ohio State to become the first Cinderella of March Madness.
The Mean Green (18-9) came out firing early and controlled the tempo all game, fueling off a stifling defense to send home one of the Big Ten’s most surging teams in Indianapolis – about an hour away from its West Lafayette campus. Purdue’s Mackey Arena is also hosting tournament games.
Thomas Bell (16 points) came up huge for North Texas as the game’s star on both offense and defense, scoring key buckets and delivering momentous blocks in overtime and at the end of regulation.
