March Madness announced its arrival with authority Friday afternoon at the American Athletic Conference tournament, as the University of Connecticutdefeated the University of Cincinnati 104-97 in quadruple-overtime to set up a semifinal date against Temple University.
In a frenzied back-and-forth affair at Amway Center in Orlando, Florida, the Bearcats and Huskies traded buckets in ways that conjured up memories of Syracuse's six-overtime defeat of UConn at the 2009 Big East tournament.
After neither side could break through during each of the first two overtimes, Cincinnati's Kevin Johnson drilled what appeared to be a game-winning three-pointer with 0.