ATLANTA-Johni Broome collected 25 points and 14 rebounds, and Auburn took command with 17 points unanswered in the first half to beat Michigan State 70-64 Sunday and finish a n ° 1 series scan that heads for the Final Four.
Auburn (32-5) obtained its second final trip Four, while the state of Michigan (30-7) failed to send the coach Tom Izzo to his ninth national semi-final.
The only previous appearance of Auburn, the only Final Four, came in 2019, also under coach Bruce Pearl.
The champion of the Southern Tigers region, the Global seeded of the NCAA tournament, has become the last of the heads n ° 1 to qualify for the last four – joining the Florida, Duke and Houston.
This is the first time that all the best heads have reached the Final Four since 2008, which was the only previous year of all the semi-finalists No. 1 since the tournament went to 64 teams in 1985.
