Louisville persevered through a nasty, Theismann-esque injury to a key role player (Kevin Ware) to take a three-point lead into halftime. It proceeded to maul Duke midway through the second half to clinch Rick Pitino's 7th Final Four appearance, and third with the Louisville Cardinals.

Ohio State's shot chart from its 70-66 loss to Wichita State in the Elite 8 may be considered NSFW.

That's just gross, Jim Boeheim.

There's an orange version of Big Nut and he cheers for the Gators.

No. 2 Ohio State will tip off at 7:05 p.m. ET Saturday in the West Regional final against No. 9 Wichita State. At stake is a berth in the Final Four.

GIFs: LaQuinton Ross buries a bomb to give Ohio State a 73-70 win over Arizona and a berth into the Elite 8. Plus Drew Carey throwing up O-H-I-O and celebrations all around.

Join Eleven Warriors for an open thread for Thursday night's Sweet 16 action in the East and West regions of the NCAA Tournament. Marquette-Miami, Arizona-Ohio State, Syracuse-Indiana and La Salle-Wichita State are on tap.

30 Buckeye footballers were named OSU Scholar-Athletes Thursday, recognized for earning a grade point average of 3.00 or better for the academic year. Only the swimming team (34) had more Scholar-Athletes on the men's side and only one other sport, women's rowing (37), had more than Meyer's team.