Alabama State basketball got its March Madness miracle with a First Four win over Saint Francis in the NCAA Tournament. Here's how it went down.

Alabama State men's basketball beat Saint Francis (PA) with an 85-foot pass and game-winning layup. Here's how they did it.

The Saint Francis Red Flash got stung by the Alabama State Hornets in the closing seconds to open the 2025 NCAA Tournament on Tuesday night. The Hornets kicked things off in the First Four with some madness in the final 3.4 seconds of the second half, taking a 70-68 win in improbable fashion in Dayton, Ohio.

American Johni Broome added 14 points and 11 rebounds, and No. 1 seed Auburn beat 16th-seeded Alabama State 83-63 on Thursday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

Alabama State won its First Four game on Tuesday with a buzzer-beating shot to earn a matchup against Auburn at Rupp Arena.

On Tuesday night, March Madness got going the only way it knows how: with a classic battle that came right down to the wire. Alabama State and St. Francis (PA) went at it in a battle of 16-seeds and a coveted NCAA Tournament win on the line. The Red Flash ...

With just a couple of seconds to go in regulation and the game tied at 68, Alabama State nailed a long pass down the court to set up a heroic layup from guard Amarr Knox to get his team two points ahead.

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Alabama State men’s basketball’s monumental First Four victory keeps getting sweeter. The Hornets’ electrifying last-second win drew significant attention, but its impact reaches far beyond basketball.

The four No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament escaped the second weekend of the Big Dance and are heading to the Final Four to cap one of the chalkiest NCAA Tournaments ever. It's the first time since 2008 and just the second time since the field expanded to 64 teams in 1985 that all four No.