Elite Eight roundup: Florida rallies past Texas Tech; Duke shuts down Alabama

Chalk reigned supreme once again on Saturday as a pair of No. 1 seeds — Florida and Duke — punched their tickets to the Final Four in San Antonio. 

The Gators completed a thrilling comeback against the third-seeded Texas Tech Red Raiders, who had done the same in the Sweet 16 against John Calipari's Arkansas team. Following that game, Duke's freshman trio of Cooper Flagg, Kon Knueppel and Khaman Maluach put together a memorable defensive performance against Alabama's top-ranked offense to advance to the program's 18th Final Four.

Here is everything to know following Saturday's Elite Eight action:

The crowd rose to its feet with less than eight minutes to play as Alabama cut Duke's lead down to seven points. Jon Scheyer's young Blue Devils team was feeling the pressure. How would they handle it?

Cooper Flagg had the initial answer, knocking down a baseline jumper over Mark Sears. Khaman Maluach proceeded to stuff home an emphatic dunk to push Duke's lead to 69-58. Just as the Tide appeared to find their stride, the Blue Devils showed their evolution from a team that suffered a pair of early-season heartbreaking losses to Kentucky and Kansas, to a team that looks unbeatable heading into the Final Four.

Those early defeats have given way to a team that continues to display a killer instirct and has more than lived up to the hype since the calendar turned to March. And when the final buzzer sounded Saturday night, it was the Blue Devils who stamped their ticket to San Antoinio with a dominant 85-65 victory over Alabama. 

The Blue Devils did it with defense, holding the Crimson Tide scoreless for a four-minute stretch and going on a 7-0 run after their lead was cut to 65-58. Duke held Sears to just six points on 2-of-12