NCAA Midwest: Beavers Knock Off Vols To Advance; 'Cuse, Fighting Illini, OSU Cowboys, Rutgers, Houston, Loyola (Chicago), WVU Also Advance To Round Of 32

 Action from the Midwest Region of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament commenced on Friday with eight games with all starting times Pacific.

At Indiana Farmers Coliseum, Indianapolis:

Game #1

Kofi Cockburn scored 18 points while Ayo Dosunmu added 17(to go with his eleven rebounds) as the top-seeded Illinois Fighting Ililni (24-6) punched out the sixteenth-seeded Drexel Dragons (12-8) 78-49.

Game #2:

Avery Anderson III scored 21 points as the fourth-seeded Oklahoma State Cowboys (21-8) snuffed out the 13th-seeded Liberty Flames (23-6) 69-60.

At Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Indianapolis:

Game #1:

Roman Silva scored 16 points as the #12-seeded Oregon State Beavers (18-12), with four players scoring in double figures, notched their first NCAA Tourney victory since 1982 by knocking off the fifth-seeded Tennessee Volunteers (18-9) 70-56.

Game #2:

Jacob Young and Geo Baker each scored 13 points as the 10th-seeded Rutgers Scarlet Knights (16-11) defeated the seventh-seeded Clemson Tigers (16-8) 60-56 for their first tourney victory since 1983.

At Hinkle Fieldhouse, Indinapolis:

Game #1:

Lucas Williamson scored 21 points as the #8-seeded Loyola-Chicago Ramblers (25-4) Nashed the ninth-seeded Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (17-9) 71-60.

Game #2:

Buddy Boeheim scored 30 points as the 11th-seeded Syracuse Orangemen (17-9) overpowered the sixth-seeded San Diego State Aztecs (23-5) 78-62.

At Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis:

Miles McBride scored 30 points to help lead the third-seeded West Virginia Mountaineers (19-9) defeated Morehead State (23-8) 84-67.

Devon Cooper paced the fourteenth-seeded Eagles with 21 points.

At Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall, Bloomington:

Quenton Grimes scored 18 points as the second-seeded Houston Cougars (25-3), with six players scoring in double figures, demolished the fifteenth-seeded Cleveland State Vikings (19-8) 87-56.