Jeremy Roach on-court reunion after No. 9 Baylor outlasted No. 8 Mississippi State in the first game of the NCAA Tournament at Lenovo Center in Raleigh on Friday. Duke won its first-round game with ease.

Robert Wright scored 19 points, V.J. Edgecombe added 16 and No. 9 seed Baylor squeaked past No. 8 seed Mississippi State 75-72 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

But Baylor’s V.J. Edgecombe, a Bahamas native who played his last two years of high school ball for Long Island Lutheran in Brookville, sank two clutch free throws with 9.3 seconds remaining to give the Bears the 75-72 lead.