Auburn to Final Four above MSU in the middle of Broome injury

Atlanta – with 10:27 to play in the first half Auburn‘with 70-64 victories over Michigan In the elite eight on Sundays, John Broome Connected to the 3-report from the wing and prolonged for tigers.

The crowd returned after Broome’s shot gave his team a 15-point lead and ended 17-0 running. When National Player’s candidate celebrated the year near Midcourt, he was surrounded by his teammates.

“I’m doing it!” Broome screamed at the beginning of his 25-point, 14-Reebound effort. His teammates tapped and agreed with him.

Until then, it seemed as if the game could have ended, because it was clear that Auburn had the best player on the pitch.

But with 10:37 to play in the game, the SEC player sat alone under the basket and grabbed his right elbow. When attempting to block Frankie FidlerBroome seemed to have grabbed when he tried to protect when he fell, at the same time landing on his left knee and on the right elbow.

Then he left the courtyard and the dressing room with Auburn training staff, seemed to look at his teammates and said, “I’m done.”

Thousands of fans Auburn descended to the state farm and caused the building to feel like a home game. But after Broome’s injury, even though Auburn maintained leadership, the atmosphere changed when the fans wondered if Broome would return.

With 5:29, which went, however, went through the tunnel and checked back. And with 4:38 to play, Broome hit the 3-pointer to give Auburn another double-digit lead.

The Tigers fans screamed and everything seemed fine with Broome back on the pitch. The X -rays on the elbow were negative, the school and Auburn’s persecution announced his first national title.

“It was a scary moment,” Broome said. “I went down but my team had my back.”

Auburn’s victory over the second Michigan state also meant that all this year’s seeds No. 1 advanced to Final Four, joining the tigers Florida, Duke and Houston. This is the first time that all the best seeds have reached Final Four since 2008, which was the only previous year of all semifinalists on the seeders No. 1 since the beginning of the 1979 sowing.

With the leadership of 23-8 at the beginning of the game, Auburn registered 176 points per 100 assets, numbers more suitable for “space pits” than the elite eight game. However, the Michigan state threw countermeasures. Under the coach Tom Izzo, the Spartans always do it. Izzo has never lost their opponents SEC at the NCAA tournament before Sunday’s game. The Spartans never looked like and had a chance to reduce Auburn’s lead to five points with one minute to play after the turnover.

But they ended up playing with the Auburn program, which lost only one game during the 90 -day section this season. Face in the face of the team that locked the highest overall seed and dominated SEC, not the one who slept two weeks before the NCAA tournament.

This expansion 1-3 before choosing Sunday caused doubts and tigers’ bets when Duke became a favorite to win the National Championship. Even coach Bruce Pearl acknowledged that his team took step back.

The synchronization pearl desires and his team has been lost for a moment in the dominant section against Michigan And then the Michigan state in Atlanta. Miles Kelly He was a catalyst in key sharpness. Denver Jones He made big shots. Tahaad pettiford appeared as one of the best freshmen in America.

But it was Broome who reminded the university basketball world on Sunday that the National Player conversation was a two -member race throughout the season, led his team to the second final four performances in the school’s history.

Auburn will face Florida in the All-Sec semifinals on Saturday in San Antonio. Florida was open as a 2.5-point favorite over Auburn.

Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.