The Masculine Four Four is finished after Houston and Auburn both won the Elite Eight tournament on the NCAA male basketball tournament on Sunday.
Auburn, seeded, won the South Region and qualified for the second Final Four of the program by holding the second seeded from Michigan State 70-64 and denying the Spartan coach Tom Izzo, which would have been his ninth Final Four since 1999.
Earlier Sunday, Houston won the Midwest region by beating Tennessee 69-50.
Next weekend in San Antonio, Duke will face Houston in the national semi-finals, while Florida will face Auburn in an All-Sec match.
Each team was the seeded of its region, which has made it the first time since 2008, and only the second time in the history of the tournament, that the four heads of standard n ° 1 passed in the Final Four.
Auburn survived a fear in the second half when striker John Broome, a candidate for the national player of the year, left for the locker room with 10:37 to play after his clumsy fall.
At the time, Broome had 22 points and 12 rebounds, but even with him, the Spartans could not cut their deficit less than eight points while he was assessed.
The radiographs were negative and he returned with five minutes to play to excite the applause of the Auburn fans inside the Arena of the Atlanta State Farm. Quickly, he gathered a rebound in one hand, then made a 3 -point pointer at the other end for an Auburn advance in 12 points.
Broome finished with a summit of 25 points and 14 rebounds, and Auburn advanced despite its compensation and making only 28% of its 3 points and 11 of its 20 free throws.
The tigers were superb with their death, however, helping 16 of their 26 goals on the ground and obtained 18 points combined on the bench of Chaney Johnson and Tahaad Pettiford.
Stronger Jaxon Kohler led Michigan State with 17 points and 11 rebounds.
