March Madness live updates, scores, bracket, highlights: Wofford vs. Tennessee, Drake vs. Missouri in NCAA tournament

Wofford is still showing some fight after 3-pointers from Jeremy Lorenz and Corey Tripp. Tennessee still leads 52-43 with just under 13 minutes remaining in the second half.

Yale is still hanging around, but is going to need something different in the second half if it wants to pull off the upset. The rebounding battle has been surprisingly even at 16-15 Aggies, but Texas A&M is also shooting 17-of-29 from the field and has 12 points off Yale turnovers.

Texas A&M’s Pharrel Payne leads all scorers off the bench with 10 points, while the program’s all-time leading scorer Wade Taylor IV firmly ended the first half with a 3-pointer.

So far, so good from one of the marquee matchups of the first round.

Arkansas leads Kansas, 47-44, after an entertaining first half of an up-and-down game featuring Hall of Fame coaches John Calipari and Bill Self.

D.J. Wagner, who followed Calipari from Kentucky to Arkansas, has 12 points and three assists, while Jonas Aidoo leads the Razorbacks with 16 points.

Zeke Mayo has 13 points for Kansas in a perfect half from the field (4 for 4) that included three made 3-pointers. Hunter Dickinson has 11 points and six rebounds for the Jayhawks.

Arkansas’ Boogie Fland thought he had a breakaway dunk. He thought wrong.

Kansas’ AJ Storr chased him down an rejected the dunk effort at the rim with a clean block that sent Fland flying to the floor. Fland touched the ball last, and Kansas regained possession after the play.

40-40 tie late in the first half. Great game so far.

Yale was a somewhat trendy 4-13 upset pick, but it’s Texas A&M with the advantage so far. Not helping the underdogs: seven turnovers to one for the Aggies.

The Bulldogs, who rolled through the MVC with just a single loss, will try to knock off Missouri next in Wichita. They’ve not won a NCAA tournament game since 1971, though the bracket looked very different back then.

Zeke Mayo is off to a hot start. He’s 4 for 4 from the field and just gave Kansas a 31-30 lead with his third made 3-pointer in three attempts. He and his Kansas teammate Hunter Dickinson each have 11 points.

Tennessee and Wofford should be even if you look at the shooting stats. The Terriers are shooting 42% from the floor (42% on 3s). The Vols are 46% (33% from 3).

However, Tennessee has seven offensive rebounds leading to seven second-chance points. The Vols also have six free throws (shooting 5-of-6) to three for the Terriers (all misses).

Chaz Lanier leads all scorers with 14 points, followed by seven from Jahmai Mashack and Zakai Zeigler. Corey Tripp is Wofford’s leading scorer with seven points.

Kansas-Arkansas has been a fun watch early. Both offenses are clicking, and Kansas holds a 26-25 edge with 7:30 remaining in the first half.

Freshman Kansas forward Flory Bidunga has one of the highlights of the game with a dunk in traffic that gave Kansas a 21-19 lead.

The Aggies’ offense would be mediocre if it weren’t for a nation-leading 42% offensive-rebounding rate. So they’re probably happy to be leading Yale 9-5 at the first timeout despite getting outrebounded 5-4, with nothing on the offensive glass.

Wofford has two more 3-pointers and is shooting 40% from long range. But it hasn’t been enough to stay with Tennessee, who has picked up the pace with Jahmai Mashack and Chaz Lanier running up and down the court.

Lanier has a game-high 13 points, hitting 3-of-6 from 3, while Mashack has seven. The Vols need 29-18 with 5:49 remaining in the first half.

One of the marquee marquee matchups of the first round is underway with a hot start from Arkansas. John Calipari’s 10th-seeded Razorbacks have jumped out to a 9-5 lead over No. 7 seed Kansas.

The Jayhawks are looking to regain the form that made them the nation’s No. 1 team early in the season. Calipari’s looking to exorcise his NCAA tournament demons from Kentucky and get Arkansas past the first round in his first season as the program’s head coach.

Tennessee has outscored Wofford 9-2 since the game’s first timeout with Chaz Lanier scoring two baskets and Zakai Zeigler nailing a 3-pointer. The Vols now lead 17-8 as Wofford coach Dwight Perry calls timeout.

Thursday’s second wave of NCAA tournament games begins with No. 2 Tennessee facing No. 15 Wofford from Rupp Arena in the Midwest Region.

So far, the Terriers’ 3-point shooting is keeping them close to the Vols. Kahmare Holmes and Justin Bailey have each hit shots from long range. Chaz Lanier, Jahmai Mashack and Zakai Zeigler have each scored for Tennessee.

The Vols have an 8-6 lead at the 15:09 mark of the first half and a TV timeout.

For the first time since 2014, BYU has won an NCAA tournament game. The Cougars held on late to grab the nine-point win over the Rams while shooting almost 51% from the field as a team.

BYU will now take on No. 3 Wisconsin in the second round on Saturday. If the Cougars can grab the win, it’ll be their first time into the Sweet 16 since the Jimmer Fredette era.

A record 7.4 million people found TruTV the past two days to tune in to the First Four. That’s up 20% over last year, and set a new record under the traditional format. About 3.6 million people watched the two games on Tuesday, and then almost 4 million watched on Wednesday.

Xavier’s win over Texas was the most-watched of the four games, with about 2.4 million people watching.

As Gonzaga confidently holds on to a lead of 20-plus points over Georgia, the team’s three-point shooting is driving it’s performance. Gonzaga is currently 10-for-14 on three-pointers, a 71.4% accuracy rate. Georgia, meanwhile, is 2-for-17.

Nolan Hickman holds four of Gonzaga’s three-pointers, going four-of-five beyond the arc, while Khalif Battle holds three triples, with six attempts.

Will Wade has officially pulled off the upset. The Cowboys, who held Clemson to just 13 points in the first half, held on in the final minutes to grab the two-point win — which is the program’s first ever NCAA tournament victory.

They’ll now take on Purdue in the next round. The Boilermakers beat High Point by 12 points earlier on Thursday.