— Arizona 79, Purdue 64
Wildcats outscored Purdue 48-26 in the second half.
Boilermakers shot 39% inside the arc.
Arizona was 20-22 on foul line, Purdue 8-13
Arizona is in its first Final Four since 2001.
— Illinois 71, Iowa 59
Iowa led 12-2 early; game was tied with 10:00 to play.
Illinois shot 61.1% inside arc, scored 1.30 ppp.
Illinois had 38-21 edge on the boards.
Illinois is in Final Four for first time since 2005.
— NIT Final Four is going to be at Butler’s Hinkle Fieldhouse, where the climactic scenes in the movie Hoosiers were filmed.
— Milwaukee Brewers OF Jackson Chourio broke his left hand, is on the injured list
— Tampa Bay Rays hit 16 singles in their first game; Seattle Mariners didn’t hit any singles in their first two games.
— Braves 6, Royals 2
Atlanta scored six runs in the bottom of ninth inning.
Dominic Smith hit a walk-off grand slam, less than two weeks after his mother died.
— Bronx 3, Giants 1- San Francisco has scored once in its first three games.
— Famous birthdays, March 29th
Walt Frazier, 81
Earl Campbell, 71
Billy Beane, 64
Elle Macpherson, 62
Brian Jordan, 59
Justin Tuck, 43
Chad Pinder, 34
Matt Olson, 32
— There were six extra inning games Saturday, a fun day of baseball.
— Guardians 6, Mariners 5 (10)
Chase DeLauter homered in the 10th inning; he is 2nd player ever (Trevor Story) with 4 HR’s in his first three major league games.
Seattle’s Luke Raley has homered in each of the first three games.
— Mets 4, Pirates 2 (11)
Luis Robert hit a walk-off homer for the Mets.
Game was scoreless after nine innings.
Pirates were 2-18 with runners in scoring position.
— Blue Jays 8, A’s 7 (11)
Toronto scored in the last seven innings of the game.
A’s led 6-2 in the 7th inning.
Shea Langeliers homered, had four RBI for Sacramento.
— Rangers 5, Phillies 4 (10)
Phillies tied game with three runs in bottom of 9th.
Corey Seager, Jake Burger both homered for Texas.
Jacob Latz threw four scoreless IP, in relief of injured Jacob deGrom (neck)
— Cardinals 6, Rays 5 (10)
Rookie JJ Wetherholt hit a walk-off single for St Louis.
Michael McGreevy threw six IP, didn’t allow a hit.
Tampa Bay tied game with four runs in ninth inning.
— Reds 6, Red Sox 5 (11)
Cincinnati led 5-3 after the sixth inning.
Wilyer Abreu homered, had two RBI for the Red Sox.
Home plate ump CB Bucknor had 8 pitches challenged; 6 of them were overturned.
