Texas A&M stuns No. 15 Arkansas in SEC semifinals

Quenton Jackson scored 20 points and eighthseeded Texas A&M took down a ranked opponent for the second straight day, stunning No. 15 Arkansas 82-64 on Saturday to reach the championship game of the SEC Tournament in Tampa, Fla.

Jackson also had six assists, five rebounds and four steals to pace the Aggies (23-11), who have revived their NCAA Tournament hopes by winning eight of nine games since ending a month-long, eight-game losing streak in February.

The Aggies upset fourthranked Auburn 67-62 in Friday's quarterfinals.

Stanley Umude led the Razorbacks (25-8) with 20 points, but leading scorer JD Notae was limited to five points — nearly 14 below his average — on 2-of-8 shooting.

NO. 9 TENNESSEE 69, NO. 5 KENTUCKY 62 >> Kennedy Chandler scored 19 points and the Volunteers reached the SEC Tournament final for the third time in five years.

Tennessee (25-7) won for the 11th time in 12 games.

Josiah-Jordan James finished with 10 points, four rebounds and three assists for the second-seeded Vols.

The Wildcats (26-7) missed four 3-pointers in the final minute and shot a measly 34.4% from the field and missed 18 of 20 from behind the arc.

Keion Brooks led the way for Kentucky, finishing with 19 points. Oscar Tshiebwe had 13 points and 11 rebounds to notch his 15th consecutive double-double and 27th of the season, breaking the single-season mark set by Kentucky great Dan Issel in 1969-70.

NO. 6 KANSAS 74, NO. 14 TEXAS TECH 65 >> David McCormack had 18 points and 11 rebounds and Ochai Agbaji added 16 points as the Jayhawks (27-6) beat the Red Raiders (25-9) for their 12th Big 12 Tournament title. NO. 8 VILLANOVA 54, CREIGHTON 48 >> Collin Gillespie, who scored 17 points, buried consecutive 3-pointers late in the game to put the Wildcats (26-7) ahead for good, and they went on to win the Big East Tournament championship at Madison Square Garden.

Ryan Kalkbrenner scored 19, but the Bluejays (2211) again left MSG emptyhanded. Creighton has now lost four Big East championship games, in 2014, 2017, and last season to Georgetown.

NO. 9 PURDUE 75, MICHIGAN STATE 70 >> Jaden Ivey had 22 points and nine rebounds and Eric Hunter Jr. made two back-breaking 3-pointers late and the Boilermakers reached the Big Ten Tournament title game.

Third-seeded Purdue (267) will face Iowa today.

AJ Hoggard finished with 17 points and 10 assists for the Spartans (22-12). NO. 18 HOUSTON 86, TULANE 66 >> Tyler Edwards had 20 points with six 3-pointers and big man Josh Carlton added 16 points as the Cogars advanced to their fourth consecutive American Athletic Conference title game.

Houston (28-5) matched its win total from last season, when it won its first AAC tournament title and made it to the Final Four.

Jaylen Forbes scored 19 for the Green Wave (14-15). NO. 24 IOWA 80, INDIANA 77 >> Jordan Bohannon banked in a 3-pointer from just inside the midcourt logo with 0.8 seconds left to beat the ninth-seeded Hoosiers in the Big Ten Tournament semifinals.

Keegan Murray scored 32 points for the Hawkeyes (25-9), who will play for their first tourney crown since 2006.

Trayce Jackson-Davis finished with 31 points and 10 rebounds for Indiana (2013).

BOISE STATE 53, SAN DIEGO STATE 52 >> Tyson Degenhart scored 13 points to help the Broncos (27-7) win the Mountain West Conference Tournament title in Las Vegas.

The Aztecs had the ball with 28 seconds left, but Matt Bradley and Trey Pulliam both missed shots as time wound down.

San Diego State (23-8) was led by Bradley, who finished with 17 points and seven rebounds. VERMONT 82, UMBC 43

Ryan Davis scored 20 points, Ben Shungu added 19 and the No. 1 seed Catamounts (28-5) beat the second-seeded Retrievers (1814) to complete a dominant America East season with their fourth conference tournament title in six years. HOWARD 61, NORFOLK STATE 44 >> Destiny Howell scored a career-high 25 points and the Bison captured their first Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference tournament championship and first NCAA Tournament berth in 21 years, beating the Spartans on their home court.

Howard (20-9) earned its 20th win for the first time since the 2001 squad went to the NCAA tourney. Howard earned back-toback MEAC regular-season championships and reached the conference tournament finals for the second straight year.

Norfolk State (17-11) missed its first 16 3-point attempts and finished 2 of 24 from long range (8.3%).

Women

SAN JOSE STATE FIRES COACH

San Jose State fired women's basketball coach Jamie Craighead Turner, athletic director Jeff Konya announced in a news release.

Craighead Turner was the head coach for nine seasons in San Jose, with the Spartans going 89-160 overall and 54-93 in Mountain West Conference play. In 2021-22, San Jose State went 5-25 overall and 2-16 in the Mountain West, an in-conference record that doesn't include a 39-point loss to Colorado State on Sunday in the first round of the Mountain West tournament.

Craighead Turner had her best season cut short by the coronavirus pandemic, as her 2019-20 team finished 19-12 overall and 12-6 in conference, the first time San Jose State ended a season with a winning record overall since 2004-05. The Spartans would've surely participated in the Women's National Invitational Tournament had the pandemic not ended the season prior to postseason play.