Marquette Golden Eagles vs Colorado Buffaloes: Sweet Sixteen Highlights

March Madness is the greatest sporting event of the year

And today in this video, we are going to recap Day 4, the second day of the round of 32

By the end of this video, our Sweet 16 will be set. Day 3 gave us the very rare occurrence of every single favorite winning

and with four double-digit seeds playing today, I'm hoping we'll get some chaos

Game 1, 2-seed Marquette versus 10-seed Colorado. Star point guard Tyler Kolick looks completely healthy after being out for six games to finish

the season and with him healthy the Golden Eagles are 24-6 on the season. I told you guys yesterday

that Colorado is going to make this tough on Marquette and they did just that. They have three

absolute dogs in KJ Simpson and Tristan Da Silva who are late first round projected picks

and freshman Cody Williams who is going as high as the top five in mock drafts. He's also the

younger brother of Oklahoma City's Jalen Williams. Marquette would get out to an 11-point lead in the

first half, shooting an insane 68% from the field on 19 for 28 shooting, but the Buffaloes came

roaring back in the second half, taking the lead with 14.42 to go. Marquette's leading scorer Cam

Jones would pick up his fourth foul with 7.46 to go in the game. A nice take by J.P. Simpson would

make it a one-point game with 2.38 to go. After a couple empty possessions for each team, Tyler

Kolick would hit a clutch jumper with 54 seconds left making it 79 to 76 but Cody Williams would

only go one for two from the line with 20 seconds to go and David Joplin would make both of his

free throws sending the Golden Eagles to the Sweet 16 81 to 77 avenging their second round

exit from last season punching their ticket to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2013

Simply put, Tyler Kolick is the best point guard in the country. He played all 40 minutes in this game, went 10 for 14 from the field

21 points, 11 assists, and 5 boards, making Kolick just the third player to have two games of 10 plus points

10 plus assists, and 5 plus rebounds in the NCAA tournament since 1984

Colorado fails to reach the Sweet 16 for the first time since 1969

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Game 2, number 1 seed Purdue vs 8 seed Utah State. The Aggies won their first tournament game since 2001 and are seeking their first Sweet

16 appearance since 1970. They would battle early in this one, being down only 1 point with 6 minutes to go in

the half but the Boilermakers would go on a 14 run finishing the half up 16 and from then it just wasn a close game Purdue dominates 106 Purdue margin of victory of 39 points in the round of 32

according to StatHead, is the largest since the year 2000. Rewatching film from this game

Edie just demands so much attention, especially when he gets touches in the paint, and Utah State

just didn't have anybody to put on him. Their best player, Great Osabor, was on him, who's 6'8"

And as you can see, Edie is making him work every single possession

and he's just so undersized. Zach Edie would finish with 23 and 14 in just 27 minutes

going 8 for 11 from the field. Role player Trey Kaufman-Wren was huge in this game as well

scoring 18 points. Edie also became just the first player since Luau Cinder in 1968

to have 50 plus points, 35 plus rebounds, and 65% from the field

in their first two NCAA tournament games. And the Boilermakers continue their revenge tour

If you didn't watch the day two recap video, I mentioned that Purdue lost to Fairleigh Dickinson

a 16 seed last season. Back in 2018, when Virginia became the first one seed

to lose to a 16, they'd follow up the next season by winning the national championship

Could the Boilermakers somehow accomplish the same feat? Purdue is back in the Sweet 16

In 2022, they would get upset by St. Peter's, a 15 seed

And in 2019, they would advance to the Elite Eight on the back of Carson Edwards' legendary

tourney run. But don't worry, we'll preview their Sweet 16 matchup in my Sweet 16 video coming out Tuesday

Game three of the day, four seed Duke versus 12 seed James Madison

Terrence Edwards, James Madison's best player and leading scorer, would pick up two fouls

in the first couple minutes of this game, but I'm not sure it would have mattered that much

This one was all Duke, especially freshman guard Jared McCain, who finished with 30 points on 10 for 15 from the field

eight for 11 from three. He scored his 30th point with 11 minutes or so to go

in the second half. And from there, it was a blowout. This was James Madison's first tournament appearance

since 2013 and their first time winning a game in the round of 64 since 1983

but they failed to make the Sweet 16 for the first time in school history

Jared McCain's 30 points was just the second time a Duke freshman has scored 30 or more

in the NCAA tournament, with Zion Williamson doing so against UCF in 2019

McCain also did not commit a turnover, making him the first freshman in the NCAA tournament

since it expanded in 1985 to score 30 points and commit zero turnovers

Game 4, 3-seed Baylor versus 6-seed Clemson. If you have told me that Clemson was going to be in the Sweet 16 before the tournament started

I would have laughed at you and potentially bankrupt myself betting against them

Not only did they defeat popular Sweet 16 pick New Mexico in the first round

but they led wire to wire in their defeat of the Baylor Bears 72-64

Baylor was down by as much as 16 with six minutes to go before they would make their run

cutting it to just a two-point game with 2.18 left on the clock. Star freshman wing Jacoby Walter, who is projected to go very high in the NBA draft

went to the line down to 66-64 with 37 seconds left before missing both free throws

The Clemson Tigers advanced to their first Sweet 16 since 2018 and their fourth ever in program history

This also marks the third straight season that Baylor has been upset in the round of 32 as a three-seed or better

I understand they had that incredible run in 2021, winning a national title

March Madness is chaos These things happen with programs over a two to three year span but they got to get back to the sweet 16 or the Elite Eight next year They just had far too much talent to continually be doing this over the past three years

We'll dive more into Clemson in the Sweet 16 video coming the middle of this week

Game 5, 12 seed Grand Canyon versus 4 seed Alabama. I made it quite known that Tyon Grant Foster is one of my favorite players in this tournament, especially with his backstory I explained in day 2

But this was the ugliest game of the tournament by far. Both teams were out of control, fouling a ton, and neither team could hit a shot

GCU shot 32% from the field, and Alabama shot 37%. I was impressed by how GCU handled Alabama on defense

They really did stifle them. Alabama is almost never scoring 72 points in a game

They're one of the best offenses in the country. But Grand Canyon got to the free throw line 37 times and only made 23 of them

Down 55-50 with 7 minutes to go. GCU would go on an 8-0 run, powered by a tie-on Grant Foster and one layup

and then a Grant Foster jumper, giving them a 3-point lead, but Alabama would punch right back, going on a 7-0 run themselves, extending the lead to 4

But it was the way they went on a 7-0 run that I have a huge problem with for Grand Canyon

Mark Sears misses a 3, Alabama offensive rebound, GCU fouls. Alabama only makes one of two, gets an offensive board, misses a three, gets an offensive board

there's a foul on GCU, they make one free throw, offensive rebound, and one layup

That's a five-point possession right there late in a game that just absolutely cannot happen

Alabama wins this one 72-61. I have to give credit to the Crimson Tide. I was pretty critical

of them in my previous video, and while I think the reasons I stated were valid, they've made

their second straight Sweet 16, and they proved they can win games even when their shots aren't

falling. Mark Sears was massive for them finishing with 26 and they would finish with an insane 20

offensive rebounds. Grand Canyon also could get absolutely nothing going in their half-court

offense. It was pretty ridiculous actually. Their execution was awful. They were pretty much only

scoring in transition or Grant Foster in isolation. And as much as I wanted to believe in GCU, it never

felt like they were going to win this game. They did win their first ever NCAA tournament game in

program history this season so they have a lot to build on for the future game six number one

overall seed yukon versus northwestern not much to say here yukon absolutely dominated especially

in that first half outscoring the wildcats 40 to 18 and although northwestern would outscore the

huskies in the second half 40 to 35 it's just way too little too late against the best team in the

tournament yukon shot 54 from the field but only 13 from three going three for 22 which is super

uncharacteristic of them. Boo Booey struggled in this game going two for 15 from the field with

only nine points, finishing a storied career for Northwestern, bringing them to their only two

NCAA tournaments in school history. Also, I want to say I want zero part of playing UConn in this

tournament. They are terrifying. And Dan Hurley had this to say about the committee. He's pissed

off. I think that the committee has tried to make this as difficult as they can on us. We know what

they had in mind and it just, you know, it's more fuel on the fire. Game seven of the day was my

favorite, but it didn't get that interesting until the end. Nine seed Texas A&M versus number one

seed Houston. These schools are only about 90 minutes away from each other. Houston has the

best defense in the country, but I predicted in my last video, Texas A&M was going to make it

tough on them. The Aggie star, Wade Taylor, would have a very rough shooting night going 5 for 26

in the game but down 81 to 71 with 148 left on the clock Buzz Williams elected to play the foul game and it worked to a tee Houston would miss two of their first four free throws and turn the ball over putting it to a five game with 112 left

on the clock LJ Cryer would then foul Wade Taylor on a three fouling him out Emmanuel Sharp would

miss one of two free throws and Texas A&M would get a layup cutting it to three points at this

point they could play straight up just need to get one stop and they would do so after Jamal

Shedd gets blocked on this jumper. There's a crazy sequence to end the game with multiple

offensive rebounds, and with a second left, Anderson Garcia would hit a three as time expired

sending this game to overtime. He's only attempted 23s on the year, making his ninth

It was an incredible moment. Houston guard Emmanuel Sharp would have a career-high 30 points

in this game on the back of seven threes, but he would foul out to begin overtime, joining LJ

Cryer on the bench and leaving Jamal Shed to will his team to a victory in overtime. Shed would do

just that with this incredible layup to go up four with 30 seconds left. He would play every minute

of the game until fouling out himself with 18 seconds left. Wade Taylor makes both free throws

cutting it to three, and then Texas A&M fouls walk on Ryan Elvin, who was put in the game because

Houston had four starters followed out. Elvin has played a combined 173 minutes in his four-year

Houston career, and somehow he finds himself in the game going to the free throw line with

everything to lose. Naturally, he misses the first shot long, but recovers and makes the second one

sealing this victory for Houston in an absolutely gutsy performance from both teams. According to

ESPN, this is just the fifth time and the second in the modern era that four players have followed

out and a team has won a game in ncaa tournament history a&m would shoot 45 free throws in this

game which is the most in an ncaa tournament game since 2022 and this happened just seven times

since 2000 yet they would only make 29 of those free throws they also had 26 offense rebounds in

this game the most since 2018 when michigan state also had 26 and as much credit as i give to texas

A&M for lengthening this game and going from being down 11 with 90 seconds to go to overtime

You also have to give a ton of credit to the Houston Cougars for keeping their composure

and finishing this game in overtime. So many teams would have folded. All of the momentum was against

them. They had four starters followed out. Just an incredibly gutsy performance and probably my

favorite game on this slate today. Game 8, the final game of the second round, 13 seed Yale

versus five seed san diego state this game was disgusting yale got absolutely destroyed credit

sdsu they have the ninth best defense in the ncaa according to ken palm and they held yale to 21

points in the first half jayden ledee was massive for them again scoring 26 points having nine boards

on nine for 12 from the field but yeah i don't have much to say about this game besides that and

And that concludes our second round of March Madness Day 4 recap

12 of the top 16 seeds advanced to the Sweet 16 this year

giving us our 7th lowest seed total in NCAA tournament history. But boy oh boy are there some fun matchups in the Sweet 16

that I will be covering in my Sweet 16 video coming out in a day or two

I really hope you enjoyed this series. If you missed the first three days, you can check out those videos here

I would love any comments on how you'd like to make these videos better. We also do NBA videos on the channel, but I've been having a blast making these March

Madness videos for you guys. I hope you enjoy. And as always, we'll see you on the hardwood