UNDATED (AP) — Kansas and Villanova are celebrating another conference title.
Kansas has won the Big 12 Tournament championship for the 12th time.
David McCormack returned from a one-game injury absence to deliver 18 points and 11 rebounds in the sixth-ranked Jayhawks’ 74-65 win over No. 14 Texas A&M. Ochai Agbaji (OH’-chy ahg-BAH’-zhee) was among five Kansas players to score in double figures, finishing with 16 and seven rebounds. Christian Braun added 14 points for the Jayhawks, who have won 16 conference tournament titles.
Ninth-ranked Villanova is the Big East champion for the fourth time since 2015 following a 54-48 victory over Creighton. Collin Gillespie buried consecutive 3-pointers late in the game to put the Wildcats ahead for good.
Gillespie led the Wildcats with 17 points and Justin Moore had 16 in a night when points were tough to come by until the furious final minutes.
Ryan Kalkbrenner scored 19, but the Bluejays again left Madison Square Garden empty-handed.
Virginia Tech has prevented coach Mike Krzyzewski (shuh-SHEHF’-skee) from earning one final ACC Tournament title.
Hunter Cattoor scored a career-high 31 points and the seventh-seeded Hokies won the tournament for the first time, 82-67 versus Duke. The Hokies became just the second ACC to take the crown with four wins in four days.
The Hokies also are the worst seeded team to win the most-storied conference tournament in college basketball.
Paolo Banchero (bahn-KEHR’-oh) scored 20 points for Duke, which shot 4 for 20 from 3-point range and allowed the Hokies to make 50% of their shots.
The Pac-12 title belongs to second-ranked Arizona after the Wildcats went on a 22-5 run to take a 63-58 lead in an 84-76 decision over No. 13 UCLA. Bennedict Mathurin (MATH’-uh-rihn) pumped in 27 points and the Wildcats won without point guard Kerr Kriisa due to a sprained right ankle suffered in the quarterfinals against Stanford.
The Bruins went into a lengthy offensive funk after going up 53-41.
The SEC title game will have ninth-ranked Tennessee against surprising Texas A&M.
The Vols advanced to the final for the third time in five years as Kennedy Chandler scored 19 points and Zakai Zeigler added 11 in their 69-62 downing of fifth-ranked Kentucky. Chandler made 8 of 16 shots and provided big buckets whenever the Wildcats closed the gap down the stretch.
Kentucky shot a measly 34.4% from the field and missed 18 of 20 from behind the arc.
The Aggies took down a ranked opponent for the second straight day, posting an 82-64 win against No. 15 Arkansas. Quenton Jackson scored 20 points and provided six assists, five rebounds, and four steals for Texas A&M, which has won eight of nine since an eight-game losing streak.
Ninth-ranked Purdue will take on No. 24 Iowa in the Big Ten championship game on Sunday.
Jaden Ivey had 22 points and 19 rebounds to help the Boilermakers beat Michigan State, 75-70. Eric Hunter Jr. made consecutive 3-pointers after the Spartans pulled within 57-54.
Trevion Williams furnished 15 points and seven rebounds to the win, which puts Purdue in the championship game for the first time since 2018.
Iowa pulled out an 80-77 win over Indiana as Jordan Bohannon banked in a 3-pointer from just inside the midcourt logo with 0.8 seconds left. Keegan Murray scored 32 points as the Hawkeyes, who haven’t won the Big Ten tourney since 2006. Bohannon added 18 points, including three 3-pointers in the final 2:27 after the Hoosiers went ahead by four.
In other conference tournament action:
— Kyler Edwards had 20 points with six 3-pointers and 18th-ranked Houston advanced to its fourth consecutive American Athletic Conference championship game with an 86-66 semifinal win over Tulane. Josh Carlton added 16 points for the Cougars, whose 28 victories matches the total by their 2021 Final Four team.
