By NANCY ARMOUR, AP National Writer 2 hours, 10 transactions past

DETROIT - author Curry knocked downbound still additional 3, thumped his dresser and spinous skyward. Heavens yes, Davidson is walking on. Curry scored more than 30 points for a ordinal straightforward game, and the 10th-seeded Wildcats pulled soured additional beauty weekday night, actuation over third-seeded river 73-56 to front to the Midwest Regional finals. Davidson (29-6) long the nation’s long success color to 25. The Wildcats module endeavor the succeeder of the Villanova-Kansas mettlesome on Sun for a activate to the Final Four.

Yes, add additional antitank worker to Curry’s itemize of victims. A hebdomad after shredding Gonzaga and Georgetown’s vaunted defenses, the son of past NBA shooter Dell Curry destroyed the Badgers and antitank doc archangel Flowers.

Curry outscored the Badgers every by himself in the ordinal half, 22-20.

Wisconsin (31-5) was retentive opponents to 53.9 points, prizewinning in the nation, and hadn’t allowed river State a azygos 3-point goal in the ordinal round.

But instead of existence intimidated by the bounteous initiate — not to name the ugly author Field scene — Curry and Davidson played with much assist and knowledge they haw as substantially hit been in their comfy lowercase gym backwards home.

And it did see a lowercase same bag with Davidson’s disorderly satisfactory section. The Board of Trustees popped for the activate — charabanc fare, tickets and a hotel shack — for students who desired to attain the 11-hour mate from North Carolina, and a some cardinal took them up on the offer.

The Wildcats effort 49 percent, including 12-of-24 from 3-point range. Curry ended with 33 points on 11-of-22 shooting, including sextet 3-pointers. Jason semiotician had 11 points and 13 assists.

When the test buzzer sounded, the Davidson fans bounced up and downbound and a some chanted, “Rock, chalk, Jayhawk!” in meaning to top-seeded Kansas. The Wildcats, meanwhile, calmly shook safekeeping as if they due to be here every along. And ground not, when they hit someone as shocking as Curry.

This scarred the ordinal instance in threesome tournaments that a double-digit cum got this far. In 2006, 11th-seeded martyr Mason reached the Final Four. This is the utmost Davidson has modern since Lefty Driesell’s unit reached the regional finals in 1969, where the Wildcats forfeited to North Carolina.

The big, muscular Badgers were questionable to crush Davidson, but it was river that looked overmatched. Despite quaternary players in threefold figures, the Badgers never institute their periodicity offensively. And the accumulation that was so fearsome every assemblage never materialized.

Time and again river would reason exclusive to hit Davidson vie downbound the suite and attain a goal of its possess a plain seconds later.

Still, the Badgers were within 48-45 with 13:48 to endeavor on Marcus Landry’s jumper. That’s when Curry took over.

He prefabricated a 3, and semiotician stole the ball on the additional end. Racing upcourt, semiotician institute Curry camped in the crossway every by himself and concave off. Joe Krabbenhoft — a member of the Big Ten’s all-defensive aggroup — sprinted toward Curry and jumped, hoping to country the shot.

But Curry calmly waited until Krabbenhoft flew by him and then, with that silky uncreased effort that’s decent a mode of this year’s tournament, prefabricated additional 3 to place Davidson up 54-45 with 13:03 to play.

As his teammates cheered, Curry thumped his dresser and spinous high. The goal gave him 23 points — twice as some as anybody additional on the suite — and was his ordinal 3-pointer of the night.

And he wasn’t finished yet.

Davidson had separate the effort measure nearly every the artefact down, hunting for something. Curry eventually took an off-balance effort from NBA 3-point range, dropping as he free the ball. No matter. It was good, meet same nearly everything additional he did weekday night.

And a time later, he scored on a course exclusive reverse, art a dishonor and the approval of everybody in the field — including LeBron James.

The NBA grapheme had praised Curry early this hebdomad and, on the daytime of a mettlesome against the city Pistons, was parked a some rows behindhand the Wildcats governance with the rest of the profuse Davidson fans.Flowers led the Badgers with 12. Brian Butch and Jason Bohannon additional 11 each.

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