TAMPA, Fla. — Privately, some Siena players wondered in recent days if their counterparts on the Vanderbilt roster knew any of their names.
If the Commodores didn't, they surely do now.
Kenny Hasbrouck and Tay Fisher personally saw to that, and the Saints have another colossal upset to add to their tiny school's NCAA tournament legacy.
Hasbrouck scored 30 points, Fisher added 19 on 6-for-6 shooting from 3-point range, and 13th-seeded Siena stunned No. 4 Vanderbilt 83-62 Friday night in the first round of the Midwest Regional. The Saints (23-10) never trailed, became the first Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference team to reach the second round since Manhattan in 2004, and will play either Villanova or Clemson on Sunday.
"I really don't consider it an upset," Fisher said. "I have confidence in my team and I knew we could hang with anybody in the country."
Until now, Siena's program was best-known for a first-round upset of Stanford in 1989 — a 14 seed over a 3. This one might have been just as shocking, considering it came against an SEC team in Vanderbilt that reached the round of 16 last year and had aspirations of doing at least that much this year.
A.J. Ogilvy scored 18 points for Vanderbilt (26-8), which got 13 from SEC player of the year Shan Foster — who became the 22nd player in SEC history to eclipse 2,000 points — and 10 from Ross Neltner. The Commodores came into the tournament more than a little miffed that they were widely picked to be a first-round upset victim and insisted they wouldn't look past Siena.
DAVIDSON 82, GONZAGA 76: At Raleigh, N.C., Stephen Curry scored 30 of his 40 points in the second half and hit the tie-breaking 3-pointer with just over a minute left, leading 10th-seeded Davidson over Gonzaga.
Curry hit 8 of 10 3-pointers, and his two free throws with 14.5 seconds left iced it for the Wildcats (27-6), who won their first NCAA game since Lefty Driesell was coach in the 1960s.
Jason Richards added 15 points for Davidson, which extended the nation's longest winning streak to 23 games. Andrew Lovedale had 12 points, and one of his 13 rebounds came on the offensive glass, which led to Curry's deciding 3-pointer.
GEORGETOWN 66, UMBC 47: At Raleigh, N.C., Roy Hibbert went over and around undersized UMBC all day, finishing with 13 points and leading the second-seeded Hoyas past the 15th-seeded Retrievers.
Jonathan Wallace added 13 points on 5-of-10 shooting and Austin Freeman finished with 11 for the Hoyas (28-5), who shot 51 percent and held UMBC scoreless for a 7-minute stretch.
Darryl Proctor scored 16 points and Brian Hodges added 11 for America East champion UMBC (24-9), which didn't have a starter taller than 6-foot-9 to defend the 7-foot-2 Hibbert.
VILLANOVA 75, CLEMSON 69: At Tampa, Fla., Scottie Reynolds and Corey Fisher kept Tampa's upset streak intact.
Reynolds scored 21 points, Fisher added 17 and the 12th-seeded Wildcats gave this NCAA tournament pod its fourth upset in as many games.
Villanova, which has more wins as a lower-seeded team in the tournament than any program since 1979, overcame an 18-point deficit for this win.
The Wildcats trailed 36-18 with 5 minutes to play in the first half. But they got hot from 3-point range — Reynolds made his first three after the break — and slowly sliced into the big lead.
Fisher was 2-for-3 from behind the arc and 9-of-10 from the free-throw line.
Reynolds' biggest shot was an off-balance 3-pointer with Cliff Hammonds in his face just before the shot clock expired. Hammonds fouled him on the play, then dropped his head in disbelief after the ball banked off the backboard and through the hoop.
Reynolds missed the free throw, but his bucket gave Villanova its first lead of the game, 50-49 with 11:56 remaining.
Clemson nearly folded from there, looking every bit like a team that hadn't been in the NCAA tournament in 10 years.