Korie Lucious made a three-point shot at the buzzer to lift Michigan State past Maryland 85-83 in the NCAA's basketball tournament second round Sunday. Midwest region fifth seed Michigan State, which lost starting guard Kalin Lucas to a leg injury, had led by 16 points in the second half over fourth seed Maryland, but trailed by one with six seconds left before Lucious converted the three-pointer. Michigan State will meet ninth seed Northern Iowa in the next round. The West region top seed Syracuse, which is still without injured center Arinze Onuaku, had a much easier time in an 87-65 rout of Gonzaga and will now meet fifth seed Butler, which beat Murray State Saturday. In the South, Nolan Smith scored 20 points to help the Duke Blue Devils to a 68-53 victory over California. Duke will now meet fourth seed Purdue which beat fifth seed Texas A&M 63-61 in overtime. In the day's biggest upset, East fourth seed Wisconsin was beaten 87-69 by the 12th-seeded Cornell after Louis Dale scored 26 points and Ryan Wittman 24. Cornell now meets top-seeded Kentucky Thursday. East second seed West Virginia defeated 10th seed Missouri 68-59 to set up a Sweet 16 match against the 11th-seeded Washington Huskies. Jordan Crawford scored 27 points for West sixth seed Xavier in their 71-68 victory over third seeded Pittsburgh. Xavier now meet second seed Kansas State in the next round.
