Gonzaga's 90-80 victory ends Davis' Indiana career

The third-seeded Zags advanced to the third round for the first time since 2001.
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SALT LAKE CITY -- There's a lot more to Gonzaga than Adam Morrison and his wispy mustache. Good thing for the Zags, because they needed the whole package to get past Indiana and its vast collection of 3-point shooters.
The Zags proved they're much more than a one-man show Saturday in the second round of the tournament, defeating the Hoosiers 90-80 and making coach Mike Davis' resignation official despite getting only 14 points from their scraggly haired superstar.
With Indiana defenders taking turns draping themselves over the mustachioed Morrison, J.P. Batista had 20 points and nine rebounds, Erroll Knight had 11 points and Sean Mallon had a career game with 15 points and 10 rebounds.
Moving on
The victory got the third-seeded Bulldogs (29-3) out of the first weekend of the tournament for the first time since 2001. Davis, meanwhile, will head back and start packing his desk despite a super effort from the sixth-seeded Hoosiers (19-12).
Next up for Gonzaga a trip to Oakland, which means another chance for Morrison to show he's the best player in the country, not Duke's J.J. Redick.
Morrison certainly didn't have it all going in this one. He shot 5-for-17, marking only the sixth time this season he's been held under 20. He was frustrated, much as he was in the first-round win against Xavier, and it boiled over early in the second half when he started jawing with Roderick Wilmont, who was harassing him all game long.
Morrison and Wilmont each got hit with technicals, though it was another T, 22 seconds later on Indiana center Marco Killingsworth, that completely changed this game.
The technical, right after a personal foul, gave Killingsworth four fouls and put him on the bench -- turning Indiana's strategy into a 3-or-nothing game. The Hoosiers hit a bunch -- 13 to be exact -- in the second half and kept the game in reach for most of it.
Boston College 69, Montana 56
SALT LAKE CITY -- Boston College finally found a way out of the second round of the NCAA tournament.
Several ways, actually.
The Eagles were too big, fast and strong for 12th-seeded Montana and beat the adopted home team in the Minneapolis Regional.
Craig Smith had 22 points and 16 rebounds, pulling down eight on offense and putting most of them back for easy layups against the undersized Grizzlies (24-7). Jared Dudley scored 20 and Tyrese Rice was strong from the outside, making four of six 3-pointers and scoring 14 points.
Boston College's last six appearances in the tournament had ended within the first two rounds. The last time the Eagles made it to the round of 16 was 1994, when they lost to Florida in the regional finals. They await the winner of today's Villanova-Arizona game.
The fourth-seeded Eagles (28-7) won the rebounding battle 44-29 and had too much for the Grizzlies, who were coming off their first NCAA tournament victory since 1975. Montana was clearly the favorite of the fans who filled the Huntsman Center, but hopes of an upset unraveled as Smith went on an 8-0 run by himself at the end of the first half, then the Eagles put away the Grizzlies early in the second.
Several Boston College starters remained in at the end despite the lopsided score and were booed as they left the court. One threw a sweatband into the crowd and a fan threw it right back like a visitor's home run at Wrigley Field.
Montana's Kevin Criswell had three points, 13 below his average, and BC held Andrew Strait to 11 points -- five below his average.