The Colorado Buffaloes and UConn Huskies both advanced to the Sweet Sixteen on Monday. Here are our recaps of their second-round games:
No. 6 seed Colorado Buffaloes over No. 3 seed Duke Blue Devils, 61-53 (OT)
Aaronette Vonleh made an incredible layup while falling down after an offensive rebound to extend the Buffaloes’ lead to five at the 1:33 mark of overtime and the Blue Devils were never able to recover.
Colorado overcame 10 steals by Celeste Taylor, who nearly had a quadruple-double with eight points, 10 rebounds and eight assits.
Duke scored first in OT on a Shayeann Day-Wilson free throw, but Frida Formann answered with a short fadeaway that was heavily contested on the left baseline. Vonleh scored the next four points on layups to make it 56-51 Buffaloes and Colorado led by at least four the rest of the way.
Day-Wilson missed a wide-open three that would have given the Blue Devils the lead with five seconds remaining in regulation. A Jaylyn Sherrod layup had tied the game for the Buffaloes with 34 ticks left.
Quay Miller led the Buffaloes in points (17), rebounds (14) and assists (three), while Sherrod finished with 14 points, six boards, three helpers and two steals and Vonleh finished with 12 points and six boards.
Duke received 14 points and two steals…
