COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP

Wednesday’s NCAA men’s tournament game

Grambling State 88, Montana State 81 (OT):

In Dayton, Ohio, Jimel Cofer scored all 19 of his points in the second half and overtime as Grambling State rallied from a 14-point deficit for its first NCAA tournament win in program history in the First Four on Wednesday night.

The Southwestern Athletic Conference champion Tigers (21-14) advance as the No. 16 seed in the Midwest Region to play No. 1 seed Purdue on Friday night in Indianapolis.

Robert Ford III made his fifth 3-pointer of the game to tie the game at 78 for the Big Sky Conference tournament champions with 2:02 left in overtime, but Grambling iced the game from the free throw line with eight straight points.

Montana State (17-18) went 1 of 6 in the final 1:27.

Burnett and Jourdan Smith had 18 points apiece for the Tigers.

Wednesday’s NCAA women’s tournament game

Presbyterian 49, Sacred Heart 42: In Columbia, South Carolina, Mara Neira made sure Presbyterian’s first-ever NCAA tournament game was memorable, scoring 14 points, including two free throws with 26.1 seconds left.

The Big South Tournament champions earned a Friday rematch with top-ranked South Carolina, which administered a 99-29 beatdown on this same floor on Dec. 16.

Bryanna Brady added 12 points for Presbyterian (21-14), which had to beat three higher seeds in the Big South tourney to extend its season. Tilda Sjokvist, the Big South tourney

MVP, had eight points, six assists, four rebounds, two steals and a block. Although Sjokvist was 3-of-13 shooting, she had a clutch jumper with 1:18 to play for a 45-40 lead.

Northeast Conference Player of the Year Ny’Ceara Pryor scored 12 points with seven rebounds, seven steals and four assists for Sacred Heart, but she was 3 of 19 from the field. Sierra Johnson added 10 points.

Clark a unanimous AP All-American

Iowa star Caitlin Clark was unanimously voted as an Associated Press All-American after averaging 31.9 points per game. The other first-team selections: Stanford’s Cameron Brink, USC’s JuJu Watkins, UConn’s Paige Bueckers and Notre Dame’s Hannah Hidalgo.