Amaya Battle hit a tiebreaking jump shot with 0.7 seconds left, lifting Minnesota past Mississippi 65-63 in the second round Sunday to send the Gophers to the Sweet 16 for the first time in 21 years.

Madison Booker scored a career-high 40 points in a dazzling display of shotmaking and No. 1 Texas rolled past No. 8 Oregon 100-58.

Dylan Darling's layup as time expired sent St. John's to its first Sweet 16 since 1999 with a 67-65 win over Kansas in the men's NCAA tournament.

The "Track Too Tough To Tame" tested Tyler Reddick in every way possible Sunday, and this year's top star in NASCAR naturally passed with flying colors for his fourth victory of the season.

On Sunday, there was one stat that couldn't be easily dismissed -- the margin of defeat. The Wildcats' 19-point loss in an 82-63 defeat against Iowa State was Kentucky's largest defeat in an NCAA tournament game since 1972.

Jessi Pierce, who covered the Wild as the correspondent for NHL.com for the past decade. and her three children were killed Saturday in a house fire in Minnesota.