Alvaro Folgueiras drained a wide-open 3-pointer from the right corner with 4.5 seconds left to give Iowa a dramatic 73-72 victory over defending national champion Florida in a South Region second-round game at Tampa, Fla.

The top-seeded Gators’ Xaivian Lee (17 points) was unable to get a shot off in the final seconds after driving down the court, failing to complete an attempted pass to Thomas Haugh in front of the basket. That allowed first-year Iowa coach Ben McCollum to take the ninth-seeded Hawkeyes to the program’s first Sweet 16 since 1999, setting up an intra-Big Ten matchup Thursday in Houston vs. No. 4 seed Nebraska.

Tavian Banks had 20 points and six rebounds, and Folgueiras added 14 points for the Hawkeyes (23-12). Sharpshooter Bennett Stirtz added 13 points despite going 0-for-9 from 3-point range and Cooper Koch had 12 on four 3-pointers.

Alex Condon recorded 21 points and seven assists and Haugh added 19 points for Florida (27-8), which was even with Iowa in rebounds at 27 apiece despite leading the nation in rebounds per game.

WEST REGION

No. 1 Arizona 78, No. 9 Utah State 66

Jaden Bradley scored 12 of his 18 points in the second half as the catalyst for the Wildcats in holding off a wild comeback from the Aggies in second-round play in San Diego.

Arizona (34-2) advances to its third consecutive Sweet 16 and fourth in five years, and will meet No. 4 seed Arkansas on Thursday in San Jose, Calif. Motiejus Krivas finished with 11 points and 14 rebounds, nine of which came on the offensive glass. Koa Peat added another 10 rebounds to go with 14 points, helping the Wildcats to a pivotal 54-26 rebounding advantage. Brayden Burries scored 16 points.

Garry Clark’s 13 points led Utah State (29-7), MJ Collins Jr. finished with 12, Drake Allen 11 and Mason Falslev had eight.

No. 2 Purdue 79, No. 7 Miami 69

Fletcher Loyer scored a game-high 24 points on just seven shot attempts, lifting the Boilermakers to a win over the Hurricanes in the second round of the West Region in St. Louis.

Loyer made 6 of 7 shots from the field, including all four of his 3-point tries, and canned eight free throws without a miss as Purdue (29-8) earned a spot in the regional semifinals Thursday against 11th-seeded Texas (21-14).

Trey Kaufman-Renn added 19 points and nine rebounds for the Boilermakers, who hit 25 of 47 shots from the field and connected on 21 of 22 at the foul line. Freshman Shelton Henderson paced the Hurricanes (26-9) with 18 points, eight rebounds and four assists. Malik Reneau added 16 points and Tre Donaldson scored 13 but made only 4 of 15 attempts.

MIDWEST REGION

No. 2 Iowa State 82, No. 7 Kentucky 63

The short-handed Cyclones were without versatile star forward Joshua Jefferson but they had their feral defense, and that was more than enough to tame Kentucky, which coughed up 20 turnovers that led to 25 points during a beatdown in St. Louis.

With Jefferson out due to an ankle injury suffered during Friday’s 108-74 blowout over Tennessee State, the Cyclones (29-7) relied on veteran point guard Tamin Lipsey. He scored 17 of his game-high 26 points after halftime and added 10 assists, one more than the Wildcats had as a team. Milan Momcilovic added 20 points, while Nate Heise chipped in 12 and freshman Killyan Toure netted 10 points.

Denzel Aberdeen scored 20 points for Kentucky (22-14) and Otega Oweh added 18 and eight rebounds, but it wasn’t quite enough. The Wildcats shot decently from the field, making 46.7%, but only attempted 45 shots because of all of the turnovers.

No. 6 Tennessee 79, No. 3 Virginia 72

Ja’Kobi Gillespie put up 21 points and six assists, Bishop Boswell had 13 points and nine assists and the Volunteers took down the Cavaliers in a second-round matchup in Philadelphia to reach their fourth straight Sweet 16.

Tennessee (24-11), which will meet No. 2 seed Iowa State in the Midwest Region semifinals, also got 16 points from freshman Nate Ament after he played 18 scoreless minutes in the first round while working through an ankle sprain. Ament scored 13 in the second half, and teammates J.P. Estrella and Jaylen Carey scored 10 apiece.

Belgian freshman Thijs De Ridder powered Virginia’s comeback with 17 of his 22 points in the second half. Malik Thomas added 12 and Jacari White and Chance Mallory had 10 apiece for the Cavaliers (30-16), who doubled their win total from a year ago in Ryan Odom’s first season in charge.

No. 4 Alabama 90, No. 5 Texas Tech 65

Latrell Wrightsell scored 24 points and the Crimson Tide unleashed a relentless 3-point attack in blowing out the Red Raiders in Tampa, Fla.

Houston Mallette scored all 15 of his points on 3s, Amari Allen had 12 points despite missing his four 3-point attempts and Aiden Sherrell had 10 points. Labaron Philon Jr. contributed nine points and a career-high 12 assists. Alabama (25-9) is going to the Sweet 16 for the fourth year in a row, meeting top-seeded Michigan on Friday night in the Midwest Region at Chicago.

LeJuan Watts’ 16 points and seven rebounds led Texas Tech (23-11), while Donovan Atwell provided 12 points and Leon Horner had 10. The Red Raiders lost four of their final five games, with a once-promising season veering off track after the loss of star JT Toppin to a season-ending injury.

EAST REGION

No. 5 St. John’s 67, No. 4 Kansas 65

Dylan Darling’s first points of the Red Storm’s NCAA Tournament win over the Jayhawks came as the buzzer sounded, sending St. John’s to its first Sweet 16 since 1999.

St. John’s (30-6) never trailed in the second half and led by as many as 14 points before Kansas (24-11), behind Darryn Peterson’s 21-point effort, rallied to force a 65-65 tie. The Red Storm shot just 25 of 69 (36.2%) from the floor, while the Jayhawks went 24 of 54 (44.4%).

One difference for St. John’s was its 3-point shooting — specifically, Bryce Hopkins’ 3-point shooting. Hopkins scored a team-high 18 points, all on 6-of-9 shooting from long range. The rest of the Red Storm went 5 of 26 from deep. Peterson shot 3 of 8 from beyond the arc for Kansas, but the rest of the lineup combined for just two triples.

No. 2 UConn 73, No. 7 UCLA 57

Alex Karaban scored a career-high 27 points, freshman Braylon Mullins added 17 and the Huskies took down the Bruins to return to the Sweet 16.

UConn (31-5) will face No. 3 Michigan State in the East Region semifinals. The program is shooting for a third national title to cap Karaban’s four-year career, after eventual champion Florida eliminated the Huskies in the second round of the NCAA Tournament last year. Tarris Reed Jr. had 10 points and 13 boards but shot just 3 of 8 from the field. Jayden Ross had 11 points.

Xavier Booker had 12 points on 4-of-4 shooting in the first half to fuel UCLA (24-12), but he was held in check after that and finished with 13. Eric Dailey Jr. put up 12, Donovan Dent added 11 with nine assists and Skyy Clark also scored 11.

–Field Level Media

World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka won 10 of the last 12 games in dispatching Caty McNally 6-4, 6-2 in one hour, 25 minutes in a third-round match on Sunday night at the Miami Open.

Sabalenka of Belarus, coming off the BNP Paribas Open championship at Indian Wells, Calif., is defending her title in Miami Gardens, Fla.

It wasn’t all that easy, as Sabalenka blew a 4-2 lead in the first set for 4-4, then needed six deuces to hold serve — despite a 15-30 start — before breaking McNally’s serve for the third time to win the set.

Sabalenka converted 5 of 8 break points in the match, to 2 of 3 for McNally, and won 67.4% of her first serve points (29 of 43), to 55.3% (21 of 38) for her American opponent.

Next up for Sabalenka is No. 23 Qinwen Zheng of China, who had a much tougher match in beating 15th-seeded Madison Keys of the United States 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 in two hours, 17 minutes.

“The ball was just like a bomb for me at the beginning,” Zheng said of the early going against Keys. “I couldn’t react. I haven’t had this speed of match in a long time.”

Zheng would catch up, finishing with 31 winners — 23 in the last two sets — to Keys’ 15. Zheng had more aces (11-4) and fewer double faults (3-5). She converted four of 13 break-point opportunities, but Keys succeeded on just 2 of 12.

Sabalenka won the first six meetings against Zheng, who won two of the next three of nine total.

“I’ll focus on myself. I’ll focus on my game. I’ll try to stay focused from the first point ‘til the last,” Sabalenka said of playing Zheng. “She’s an incredible player. We played a lot of matches. I have a good record against her, but it doesn’t say anything. It’s always tough battles. I’m always looking forward to play her. It’s always a fight and I really enjoy it.”

Third-seeded Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan defeated No. 27 Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine 6-3, 6-4. No. 5 Jessica Pegula downed No. 26 Leah Fernandez of Canada 6-2, 6-2.

Other high seeds didn’t make it out of the round. No. 7 Jasmine Paolini of Italy was knocked out by No. 25 Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia 5-7, 6-2, 7-5. No. 9 Elina Svitolina of Ukaine fell to American Hailey Baptiste 6-3, 7-5. No. 11 Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia was eliminated by No. 34 Jaqueline Cristian of Romania 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (5).

Australia’s Talia Gibson, coming off of a quarterfinal run at Indian Wells where she earned her first three top-20 wins, notched her fifth on Sunday. Gibson, who beat Naomi Osaka in straight sets on Saturday, downed 18th-seeded Iva Jovic of the United States 6-2, 6-2 on Sunday.

Gibson did not face a break point while converting four of eight.

–Field Level Media

Ilya Sorokin stopped all 26 shots he faced and made Bo Horvat’s goal on the first shot of the game stand up Sunday night for the New York Islanders, who edged the Columbus Blue Jackets 1-0 in a game with Eastern Conference playoff implications in Elmont, N.Y.

The Islanders (40-26-5, 85 points) snapped a two-game losing streak, moved ahead of the idle Detroit Red Wings (84 points) for the second and final wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference and tied the Blue Jackets (37-21-11, 85 points) for third place in the Metropolitan Division, though Columbus has a game in hand.

The shutout was the seventh of the season for Sorokin and the 29th of his career, which extended his franchise record. He is tied for the franchise’s single-season record for shutouts with Glenn “Chico” Resch and Semyon Varlamov.

Jet Greaves recorded 21 saves for the Blue Jackets, whose 12-game point streak (8-0-4) ended.

Jets 3, Rangers 2 (SO)

Kyle Connor and Gabriel Vilardi scored in the first two rounds of the shootout and visiting Winnipeg ended a three-game losing streak with a victory over host New York.

Connor scored when he got a shot to trickle under rookie Dylan Garand’s pads and his shootout goal occurred after he had 11 shot attempts in regulation and overtime. Vilardi scored when he cut to the right and flicked a wrist shot by Garand. Backup goalie Eric Comrie stopped Vincent Trocheck and J.T. Miller in the shootout after making three saves during an interference penalty on Mark Scheifele in overtime. Adam Lowry and Vilardi scored in regulation for the Jets.

Tye Kartye and Mika Zibanejad scored tying goals in the second period as the Rangers lost their fourth straight. Garand made 35 saves in a solid NHL debut after being called up to replace backup goalie Jonathan Quick (upper-body injury).

Mammoth 4, Kings 3 (OT)

Nick Schmaltz scored his second goal of the game 1:46 into overtime and Utah beat Los Angeles in Salt Lake City.

Schmaltz entered the zone 2-on-1, kept the puck and beat Darcy Kuemper with a wrist shot. Lawson Crouse had two goals and an assist for the Mammoth, who have won three of four and hold the first wild-card spot in the Stanley Cup Playoffs from the Western Conference.

Quinton Byfield had a goal and an assist for the Kings, who have lost three straight and trail the Nashville Predators by two points for the second wild-card spot in the playoffs from the West.

Golden Knights 3, Stars 2

Reilly Smith scored the go-ahead goal with 3:38 remaining as Vegas snapped a three-game losing streak with a victory over host Dallas.

Smith, a healthy scratch the previous five games, swatted in a rebound of Mitch Marner’s shot from the right side of the crease into the top right corner of the net for the game-winner. Brayden McNabb and Ivan Barbashev also scored goals and Adin Hill finished with 13 saves for Vegas.

Wyatt Johnston set a franchise single-season record with his 23rd power-play goal and Justin Hryckowian also scored for Dallas, which suffered just its second regulation loss in the last 19 games (15-2-2). Casey DeSmith made 30 saves for the Stars, who had a four-game win streak against the Golden Knights snapped.

Ducks 6, Sabres 5 (OT)

Troy Terry scored twice, including the game-winner at 1:29 of overtime in a win for Anaheim against visiting Buffalo.

Beckett Sennecke, Chris Kreider and Jackson LaCombe each had a goal and an assist for the Ducks, who have won three of their past four games. Ville Husso made 24 saves.

Zach Benson and Owen Power each had a goal and an assist, and Alex Lyon made 27 saves for the Sabres, who had won four straight.

Avalanche 3, Capitals 2 (OT)

Brock Nelson scored the game-winning goal at 1:22 of overtime as Colorado rallied past host Washington.

Nelson won the game for the Avalanche when Martin Necas set him up for a slap shot past Logan Thompson. Gabriel Landeskog and Nicolas Roy also found the back of the net for Colorado, which became the first team to secure a spot in the Stanley Cup playoffs. Necas had two assists, and Mackenzie Blackwood made 20 saves.

Alex Ovechkin and Justin Sourdif scored, and Thompson made 21 saves for the Capitals, who had previously won two straight games and three of their last four.

Predators 3, Blackhawks 2 (OT)

Filip Forsberg scored twice, including the game-winner 1:05 into overtime, to lift surging Nashville past host Chicago for its fourth straight victory.

Forsberg finished with three points, adding an assist on Steven Stamkos’ game-tying goal at 9:43 of the third period on a goal in front of the net moments after a Nashville power play expired. Back in the lineup after a two-game absence with an upper-body injury, Predators goaltender Juuse Saros finished with 26 saves.

Nick Lardis and Connor Bedard found the net for the Blackhawks, who have lost four of five with two defeats in that stretch coming in overtime. Spencer Knight stopped 30 shots in the losing effort.

Hurricanes 5, Penguins 1

Seth Jarvis had a goal and two assists and Carolina went 3-for-5 on the power play in a win over host Pittsburgh.

Nikolaj Ehlers had a goal and an assist and Sebastian Aho, defenseman Jalen Chatfield and Mark Jankowski also scored for the Hurricanes, who have won four of their last five. Frederik Andersen made 18 saves.

Egor Chinakhov scored the lone goal for the Penguins, who had their four-game point streak (3-0-1) snapped and were playing the second of back-to-back games. They beat visiting Winnipeg 5-4 in a shootout on Saturday afternoon. Stuart Skinner stopped 21 shots for Pittsburgh.

Islanders 1, Blue Jackets 0

Ilya Sorokin stopped all 26 shots he faced and made Bo Horvat’s goal on the first shot of the game stand up New York, which edged Columbus in a game with Eastern Conference playoff implications in Elmont, N.Y.

The Islanders (85 points) moved ahead of the idle Detroit Red Wings (84 points) for the second and final wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference and tied the Blue Jackets for third place in the Metropolitan Division, though Columbus has a game in hand.

The shutout was the seventh of the season for Sorokin and the 29th of his career, which extended his franchise record. He is tied for the franchise’s single-season record for shutouts with Glenn “Chico” Resch and Semyon Varlamov. Jet Greaves recorded 21 saves for the Blue Jackets, whose 12-game point streak (8-0-4) ended.

Flames 4, Lightning 3 (OT)

Ryan Strome scored the winning goal in overtime as host Calgary beat Tampa Bay for its third consecutive win.

Victor Olofsson, Morgan Frost and Mikael Backlund also scored for the Flames (29-34-7, 65 points) and goaltender Devin Cooley made 32 saves. Calgary has won 54 consecutive games when scoring four or more goals, the fourth-longest streak in NHL history.

Ryan McDonagh, Darren Raddysh and Pontus Holmberg replied for the Lightning, who had a three-game winning streak snapped in the final outing of their four-game road swing. Goalie Jonas Johansson stopped 25 shots.

–Field Level Media