February 01, 2012 17:59:53 United kingdom

Brandon Paul had eighteen points as Illinois survived a miserable shooting night time to upset No. nine Michigan State.

The Preventing Illini hit just a shade underneath 33%, but that was much better than the Spartans whose 14-of-58 was a spectacularly bad 24%. Only a 43-30 rebounding edge kept Michigan Condition in the contest right up until Paul strike the profitable totally free throws with forty five seconds to go in the video game.

There had been no this sort of troubles for the leading ranked Wildcats from Kentucky who smoked Tennessee 69-forty four at the Rupp Arena in Lexington.  Anthony Davis had eighteen details and eight boards as Kentucky moved to 809 in the SEC and 22-1 total.

No. five North Carolina noticed Tyler Zeller seize 18 rebounds, like 9 on the offensive stop, to go with eighteen points as the Tar Heels took care of Wake Forest 68-53. The senior ahead was only 5-of-thirteen from the discipline, but a best eight-of-8 from the line to guide North Carolina to their fourth consecutive victory.

Illinois are 51.00 to win the NCAAB Championship this period while Michigan Condition can be backed at 23.00.

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