GAMEDAY Mens Basketball
Princeton 59, Arizona 55
By JOSH DUBOW
AP Sports Writer
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Tosan Evbuomwan and Princeton used a late-game run to earn the school's first NCAA Tournament win in 25 years, topping No. 2 seed Arizona 59-55.
The 15th-seeded Tigers (22-9) scored the final nine points to finish the upset, holding the Pac-12 Tournament champion scoreless over the final 4:21.
Evbuomwan scored 15 points in Princeton's first tournament victory since beating UNLV in 1998 when current coach Mitch Henderson was a player for the Tigers.
Princeton advanced to play seventh-seeded Missouri in the second round of the South Region. The Tigers beat Utah State 76-65.
Azuolas Tubelis scored 21 points for the Wildcats (28-7), who haven't won a tournament game in consecutive years since 2014-15.
March 16, 2023
| Princeton | ||||||||||||
| Player | Pos | Min | FG-FGA | FT-FTA | 3P-3PA | OR-TR | Ast | Blk | Stl | TO | PF | Pts |
| T. Evbuomwan | F | 36 | 7-15 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0-7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 15 |
| C. Pierce | F | 34 | 2-6 | 2-3 | 0-4 | 2-8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| K. Kellman | F | 14 | 4-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 8 |
| M. Allocco | G | 38 | 3-12 | 0-0 | 0-3 | 1-3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| R. Langborg | G | 31 | 4-13 | 0-0 | 0-6 | 1-2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| Z. Martini | 29 | 3-7 | 0-0 | 1-5 | 2-7 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | |
| B. Peters | 15 | 3-6 | 0-0 | 3-5 | 0-3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 | |
| X. Lee | 2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| Totals | 199 | 26-64 (.406) |
3-5 (.600) |
4-25 (.160) |
9-38 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 59 | |
| Arizona | ||||||||||||
| Player | Pos | Min | FG-FGA | FT-FTA | 3P-3PA | OR-TR | Ast | Blk | Stl | TO | PF | Pts |
| A. Tubelis | F | 37 | 9-20 | 3-4 | 1-2 | 1-5 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 22 |
| C. Henderson Jr. | F | 27 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| O. Ballo | C | 28 | 6-10 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 3-12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13 |
| K. Kriisa | G | 36 | 1-7 | 0-0 | 1-7 | 0-1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| C. Ramey | G | 35 | 4-10 | 0-0 | 0-3 | 1-5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| P. Larsson | 21 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | |
| K. Boswell | 13 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | |
| H. Veesaar | 2 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Totals | 199 | 24-57 (.421) |
4-7 (.571) |
3-16 (.188) |
7-37 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 14 | 55 | |
