NCAA Midwest Region | Siena stuns Vanderbilt, 83-62

TAMPA, Fla. — Privately, some Siena players wondered in recent days if their counterparts on the Vanderbilt roster knew any of their names.

If the Commodores didn't, they surely do now.

Kenny Hasbrouck and Tay Fisher personally saw to that, and the Saints have another colossal upset to add to their tiny school's NCAA tournament legacy.

Hasbrouck scored 30 points, Fisher added 19 on 6-for-6 shooting from three-point range, and 13th-seeded Siena stunned No. 4 Vanderbilt 83-62 Friday night in the first round of the Midwest Regional. The Saints (23-10) never trailed, became the first Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference team to reach the second round since Manhattan in 2004, and will play Villanova on Sunday.

"I really don't consider it an upset," Fisher said. "I have confidence in my team, and I knew we could hang with anybody in the country."

A.J. Ogilvy scored 18 points for Vanderbilt (26-8), which got 13 from Southeastern Conference player of the year Shan Foster — who became the 22nd player in SEC history to eclipse 2,000 points — and 10 from Ross Neltner.

The Commodores came into the tournament more than a little miffed that they were widely picked to be a first-round upset victim and insisted they wouldn't look past Siena.

They couldn't stop Siena, either.

"All season long, I didn't get this team to play defensively the way it had to play on a consistent basis for us to win, the way we wanted to win," Vandy coach Kevin Stallings said. "Again, 26-8 is not a terrible year. But we just never were consistent defensively and again, that's my responsibility."

The Commodores got two straight baskets from Keegan Bell and drew within 50-43 with 13:20 to play, but never got any closer the rest of the way. Vanderbilt never got its perimeter game going, shooting 4 for 20 from three-point range, and didn't exploit its size advantage inside.

When Alex Gordon airballed a three-point try with 1:25 left and Vandy in a 19-point hole, the Commodores knew it was over and stopped fouling, allowing the celebration to begin in earnest.

Villanova 75, Clemson 69

TAMPA, Fla. — Scottie Reynolds scored 21 points, Corey Fisher added 17, and the 12th-seeded Wildcats gave the Tampa pod its fourth upset in as many games.

I'm sure this is going to be talked about," Villanova coach Jay Wright said. "It's incredible what happened here."

Villanova, which has more wins as a lower-seeded team in the tournament than any program since 1979, overcame an 18-point deficit for this win.

The Wildcats (21-12) trailed 36-18 with 5 minutes to play in the first half. But they got hot from three-point range — Reynolds made his first three after the break — and slowly sliced into the big lead.

Fisher was 2 for 3 from behind the arc and 9 of 10 from the free-throw line.

Reynolds' biggest shot was an off-balance three-pointer with Cliff Hammonds in his face just before the shot clock expired. Hammonds fouled him on the play, then dropped his head in disbelief after the ball banked off the backboard and through the hoop.

Reynolds missed the free throw, but his bucket gave Villanova its first lead of the game, 50-49 with 11:56 left.

"He's good, there's no doubt about it," Clemson coach Oliver Purnell said.

The fifth-seeded Tigers (24-10) trailed 64-57 with 3:44 remaining, but Terrence Oglesby made five consecutive free throws — three after he was fouled on a three-pointer and two more after Wright was whistled for a technical.

Clemson's Demontez Stitt tied it at 66 with two more free throws with 1:55 to go, but the Wildcats retook the lead by making 9 of 10 from the stripe in the final 1:37.

Georgetown 66,

Maryland-Baltimore County 47

RALEIGH, N.C. — Roy Hibbert kept tipping a rebound off the rim and back to himself. None of Maryland-Baltimore County's undersized players could grab it from Georgetown's giant.

Not long after that, the Hoyas put the game well out of the Retrievers' reach, too.

"Coach wants me to go out and play aggressive, so I did my part — try to get rebounds, and try to dominate as much as I can when I get the ball," Hibbert said. "Make good passes, and make good decisions, and I think I did that."

Hibbert went over and around smaller UMBC, finishing with 13 points to lead No. 2 seed Georgetown past No. 15 seed UMBC in the first round of the Midwest Regional.

"Roy is such a [force] down low, a lot of teams focus the defense around him," guard Jonathan Wallace said. "With him just doing his job, taking up space, allows us, us perimeter players, to really spot up and knock down shots."

Wallace added 13 points and Austin Freeman finished with 11 for the Hoyas (28-5).

Georgetown shot 51 percent, held UMBC to 32 percent shooting and kept the Retrievers scoreless for a 7-minute stretch of the first half. The Hoyas held leading scorer Ray Barbosa to six points — nearly 11 below his average — on 2-of-11 shooting.

Darryl Proctor scored 16 points and Brian Hodges added 11 for America East champion UMBC (24-9).