No. 15 Princeton shocks No. 2 Arizona in NCAA tournament

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Tosan Evbuomwan and Princeton used a late-game run to earn the school's first NCAA tournament win in 25 years, topping No. 2 seed Arizona 59-55 on Thursday.

The 15th-seeded Tigers (22-9) scored the final nine points to finish the upset, holding the Pac-12 tournament champion scoreless over the final 4:21. The 55 points were a season-low for the Wildcats.

Evbuomwan scored 15 points in Princeton's first tournament victory since beating UNLV in 1998 when current coach Mitch Henderson was a player for the Tigers.

Princeton won as a 16-point underdog, the largest upset victory by an Ivy League team since the NCAA tournament expanded in 1985, according to ESPN Stats & Information research. That record was previously held by Harvard, which beat New Mexico as a 10.5-point underdog in 2013.

Princeton advances to play seventh-seeded Missouri in the second round of the South Region. The Tigers beat Utah State 76-65.

Azuolas Tubelis scored 21 points for the Wildcats (28-7), who haven't won a tournament game in consecutive years since 2014-15.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.