NCAA ROUNDUP | Other Jacksonville games

Florida 76, South Alabama 50
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Florida's latest attempt to survive the first weekend of the tournament got off to a shaky start. Then Lee Humphrey got going, and the rest was easy. Humphrey scored 20 points, including 12 on four 3-pointers in the second half, and the third-seeded Gators beat 14th-seeded South Alabama in front of a partisan crowd. Florida extended its winning streak to six games and advanced to the second round of the Minneapolis Regional, where it will play 11th-seeded Wisconsin-Milwaukee Saturday. Fueled by the boisterous crowd -- Florida played about 75 miles from Gainesville -- the Gators turned a six-point lead into a rout after halftime. They did it with a flurry of dunks and 3-pointers. Joakim Noah and Al Horford combined for 30 points and 21 rebounds and dominated inside, not surprising considering Florida's significant size advantage. But the biggest shots of the game came from Humphrey, who finished 6-of-8 from behind the arc. He hit two 3-pointers in the opening minutes of the second half. His second came from way behind the line and followed another 3-pointer from Taurean Green. Noah and Horford took over from there, helping push the lead to 14 midway through the second half. Humphrey put it out of reach with two more 3s. The first extended the advantage to 57-40, the second made it 60-45. The Gators (28-6) cruised the rest of the way, leaving little left worth watching aside from the midcourt greeting between longtime friends Billy Donovan and John Pelphrey. South Alabama (24-7), meanwhile, lost its fifth in a row in the NCAA tournament. The Sun Belt Conference tournament champions made the field for the first time in seven years. Leandro Buboltz made led the Jaguars with 14 points, most of them coming on four 3-pointers. Mario Jointer added 10 points and seven rebounds.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Florida's latest attempt to survive the first weekend of the tournament got off to a shaky start. Then Lee Humphrey got going, and the rest was easy. Humphrey scored 20 points, including 12 on four 3-pointers in the second half, and the third-seeded Gators beat 14th-seeded South Alabama in front of a partisan crowd. Florida extended its winning streak to six games and advanced to the second round of the Minneapolis Regional, where it will play 11th-seeded Wisconsin-Milwaukee Saturday. Fueled by the boisterous crowd -- Florida played about 75 miles from Gainesville -- the Gators turned a six-point lead into a rout after halftime. They did it with a flurry of dunks and 3-pointers. Joakim Noah and Al Horford combined for 30 points and 21 rebounds and dominated inside, not surprising considering Florida's significant size advantage. But the biggest shots of the game came from Humphrey, who finished 6-of-8 from behind the arc. He hit two 3-pointers in the opening minutes of the second half. His second came from way behind the line and followed another 3-pointer from Taurean Green. Noah and Horford took over from there, helping push the lead to 14 midway through the second half. Humphrey put it out of reach with two more 3s. The first extended the advantage to 57-40, the second made it 60-45. The Gators (28-6) cruised the rest of the way, leaving little left worth watching aside from the midcourt greeting between longtime friends Billy Donovan and John Pelphrey. South Alabama (24-7), meanwhile, lost its fifth in a row in the NCAA tournament. The Sun Belt Conference tournament champions made the field for the first time in seven years. Leandro Buboltz made led the Jaguars with 14 points, most of them coming on four 3-pointers. Mario Jointer added 10 points and seven rebounds.
LSU 80, Iona 64
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Glen Davis scored 17 of his 22 points in the second half and the fourth-seeded Southeastern Conference regular season champions overcame a sluggish start to advance. Davis, a 6-foot-9, 310-pound sophomore nicknamed "Big Baby," took over after missing eight of his first nine shots and being held to five points in the opening half. The SEC player of the year finished 7-of-15 from the field and had 13 rebounds -- six of them after halftime. Steve Burtt and Ricky Soliver, the highest-scoring guard tandem in Division I, did all they could to keep No. 13 seed Iona (23-8) in the game. Burtt had 23 points and Soliver 14 in their final college contests, but were a combined 2-for-14 on 3-point attempts. Darrel Mitchell scored 19 for the fourth-seeded Tigers (24-8).