The clock has yet to strike midnight for the Oral Roberts Golden Eagles. They became the second 15-seed to ever reach the Sweet 16 with an 81-78 victory over seventh-seeded Florida.

Oral Roberts ended the game on a 25-11 after the Gators led by 11 points midway through the second half. DeShang Weaver put the Golden Eagles in front by two with a 3-pointer with just over two minutes remaining. The ORU defense then locked down the Florida offense by forcing two turnovers and preventing a clean look on a pair of triple tries in the final seconds.

“We talk about winning in March way back in November,” Oral Roberts head coach Paul Mills said. “I’ve always said that a player-coached team is better than a coach-coached team. And when those guys in that locker room are leading, I get to kind of sit back and enjoy it. My job is to invest in them as leaders, and then they eventually need to take over, and I think that’s what you saw here late.”

Kevin Obanor tallied a game-high 28 points, 11 rebounds and four steals. Max Abmas recorded 26 points and seven assists.

The Golden Eagles, who upset No. 2 Ohio State Friday, joined Florida Gulf Coast in 2013 as the only 15 seeds to win two games in the NCAA Tournament.

Houston also registered a comeback win in the final minutes. The second-seeded Cougars scored 10 of the final 12 points of the game to defeat No. 10 Rutgers 63-60. Tramon Mark gave Houston the lead on a three-point play with 24 seconds remaining. The Scarlet Knights turned it over on the ensuing possession, and Marcus Sasser made it a three-point game with a pair of free throws. Ron Harper Jr. had a good look at a 3-pointer at the buzzer, but the shot did not fall.

Earlier in the evening, No. 3 Arkansas edged No. 6 Texas Tech 68-66 to advance to the program’s first Sweet 16 since 1996. The Razorbacks scored seven straight points to take an eight-point lead with less than four minutes left. The Red Raiders answered with a 6-0 run of their own to pull back within two. In the final seconds, Texas Tech’s Kyler Edwards drove the lane but missed the potential game-tying layup, and Arkansas came away with the rebound.

No. 11 Syracuse edged No. 3 West Virginia 75-72 behind a big second half from Buddy Boeheim, who scored 22 of his 25 points in the second half. His father, hall-of-fame coach Jim Boeheim, has now reached the Sweet 16 for the 20^th time (the first came in 1977). The Orange reached the Final Four as a 10 seed in 2016 and advanced to the Sweet 16 as an 11 in 2018.

Eighth-seed Loyola-Chicago continued its run by knocking off No. 1 Illinois 71-58. The Ramblers, who reached the Final Four as an 11 seed, are now 15-5 in the NCAA Tournament all-time, which is the tied for the best winning percentage with Duke (75%). Before the game, 101-year-old team chaplain Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt led a prayer, in which she asked for their defense to limit Illinois to 30 percent from deep. The Illini made 28.6 percent of their 3-point attempts.

Rounding out the rest of the action from the day: top-seed Baylor defeated No. 9 Wisconsin 76-63. No. 12 Oregon State pulled away from fourth-seed Oklahoma State 80-70. The Pacific-12 Conference remains undefeated in this year’s tournament at 7-0. Five-seed Villanova moved past North Texas 84-61 behind a balanced scoring attack. Eight Wildcats knocked down at least one 3-pointer.