Jaedon LeDee recorded 32 points and eight rebounds to lead San Diego State to a 69-65 victory over UAB in East Region first-round play Friday at Spokane, Wash. Lamont Butler added 15 points and four steals for the fifth-seeded Aztecs (25-10), who are looking for another deep run after losing to UConn in last season’s NCAA title game. Efrem “Butta” Johnson made five 3-pointers and scored 19 points for the 12th-seeded Blazers (23-12). However, Johnson

MEMPHIS — What happened in Las Vegas stayed in Las Vegas. New Mexico’s brilliant four-game, four-day run to the Mountain West tournament title last week didn’t transfer to its first-round game in the West Region of the NCAA Tournament. Sixth-seeded Clemson got a game-high 21 points from Chase Hunter on Friday and led by as many as 23 points in the second half of a 77-56 rout of the 11th-seeded Lobos. First-team All-Atlantic Coast Conference

INDIANAPOLIS — Tyler Kolek returned from a three-week absence and fell just four rebounds shy of a triple-double to help South Region No. 2 seed Marquette pull away in the second half for a 87-69 win over No. 15 Western Kentucky on Friday. Kolek, who finished with 18 points, 11 assists and six rebounds, showed no ill effects from an oblique injury suffered in the second half of Marquette’s win over Providence on Feb. 28.

NEW YORK — Donovan Clingan scored 12 of his 19 points in the first half for top-seeded UConn, which began the defense of its national championship with a wire-to-wire 91-52 win over No. 16 Stetson in an East Regional first-round game Friday afternoon at Barclays Center. Cam Spencer had 15 points, including 13 in the first half, for UConn (32-3), which will oppose No. 9 Northwestern in a second-round game Sunday. The Wildcats beat Florida

MEMPHIS — It might have been a late-morning start Friday, but third-seeded Baylor was wide-awake and ready to go for its NCAA Tournament West Region first round game. Four players scored in double figures and the Bears canned 16 of 30 3-pointers to dispatch 14th-seeded Colgate 92-67 at FedEx Forum. “Hopefully, we saved a couple of made 3s for the next game because 16 of 30 is pretty efficient,” Baylor coach Scott Drew told reporters

NEW YORK — Ryan Langborg scored 12 points in overtime Friday afternoon for No. 9 Northwestern, which squandered a nine-point second-half lead before recovering to beat No. 8 Florida Atlantic 77-65 in an East Region first-round game at Barclays Center. Brooks Barnhizer forced overtime by hitting a floater with nine seconds left for Northwestern (22-11), which will face the winner of the game between top seed UConn and No. 16 Stetson in a second-round game

Hunter Dickinson registered 19 points, 20 rebounds and four blocked shots to help Kansas escape an upset bid and post a 93-89 victory over Samford on Thursday night in a Midwest Region first-round game at Salt Lake City. KJ Adams Jr. scored 20 points and Nicolas Timberlake added 19 points for fourth-seeded Kansas (23-10). Johnny Furphy added 16 points and eight rebounds and Dajuan Harris Jr. had 13 points and seven assists for the Jayhawks,

Isaac Jones recorded 20 points and 11 rebounds and Isaiah Watts made the go-ahead shot to help Washington State post a 66-61 victory over Drake in an East Region first-round contest on Thursday night at Omaha, Neb. Jaylen Wells added 17 points and nine rebounds as the seventh-seeded Cougars (25-9) won an NCAA Tournament game for the first time since 2008. Atin Wright scored 20 points for the 10th-seeded Bulldogs (28-7). Tucker DeVries had 14

PITTSBURGH — Ben Middlebrooks scored a career-high 21 points, Mohamed Diarra added a career-best 17 points plus 12 rebounds and No. 11 seed North Carolina State continued its surprising March with an 80-67 takedown of No. 6 Texas Tech in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Thursday night. DJ Horne tallied 16 points, six rebounds and five assists and D.J. Burns Jr. scored 16 for the Wolfpack (23-14), who only made it this