{"id":37308,"date":"2025-03-29T06:36:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T06:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/top-seed-auburn-claw-back-to-join-msu-tennessee-and-houston-in-elite-eight\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T06:36:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T06:36:03","slug":"top-seed-auburn-claw-back-to-join-msu-tennessee-and-houston-in-elite-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/top-seed-auburn-claw-back-to-join-msu-tennessee-and-houston-in-elite-eight\/","title":{"rendered":"Top seed Auburn claw back to join MSU, Tennessee and Houston in Elite Eight"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Auburn fight back to beat Michigan 78-65 in Sweet 16<\/li>\n<li>Michigan State, Tennessee and Houston also prevail<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Freshman Tahaad Pettiford and senior Denver Jones turned in dazzling performances when it mattered most, rallying top-seeded Auburn to a 78-65 victory over Michigan in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers (31-5) wiped out a nine-point deficit in the second half, outscoring No. 5 seed Michigan 39-17 over the final 12 and a half minutes to advance to the Elite Eight for only the third time in school history. They also became the fourth Southeastern Conference team to reach a regional final, with the SEC joining the Atlantic Coast Conference (2016) and Big East (2009) as the only leagues to do that.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/mar\/29\/sweet-16-friday-games-scores-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auburn fight back to beat Michigan 78-65 in Sweet 16 Michigan State, Tennessee and Houston also prevail Freshman Tahaad Pettiford and senior Denver Jones turned in dazzling performances when it mattered most, rallying top-seeded Auburn to a 78-65 victory over Michigan in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament on Friday night. The Tigers (31-5) &#8230; <a title=\"Top seed Auburn claw back to join MSU, Tennessee and Houston in Elite Eight\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/top-seed-auburn-claw-back-to-join-msu-tennessee-and-houston-in-elite-eight\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Top seed Auburn claw back to join MSU, Tennessee and Houston in Elite Eight\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}