NCAA tournament, first round: Top-seeded Kansas rolls past Lehigh, 90-74

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Marcus Morris scored 26 points, Sherron Collins added 18 and No. 1-overall-seeded Kansas survived a 90-74 win over scrappy Lehigh in the Midwest Regional tonight in Oklahoma City.

Kansas (33-2) fell into its season-long pattern of playing in spurts, giving No. 16-seeded Lehigh (22-11) hope of making college basketball history.

The Jayhawks led by just six in the first half and didn’t pull away until midway through the second to keep from becoming the greatest Goliath to be crossed off the brackets on a wild opening day of the NCAA tournament.

Tyrel Reed added four big three-pointers for Kansas as it moves on to face gritty Northern Iowa in a second-round game that suddenly seems much more daunting.

Lehigh made its fourth NCAA appearance a memorable one, putting a scare into the nation’s No. 1 team.

-- Associated Press