March 2005 in Sports - 17 March 2005

17 March 2005

• Football (soccer): UEFA Cup Round of 16, second leg (advancing teams in bold):
  • CSKA Moscow 2 – 0 Partizan Belgrade (UEFA.com)
  • Sporting Lisbon 1 – 0 Middlesbrough (UEFA.com)
  • Parma 1 – 0 Sevilla (UEFA.com)
  • Auxerre 0 – 0 Lille (UEFA.com)
  • Real Zaragoza 2 – 2 Austria Vienna (decided on away goals) (UEFA.com)
• Basketball – NCAA Tournament, first round (regional seeds included; advancing teams in bold):
  • Albuquerque Regional:
    • Pacific (8) 79, Pittsburgh (9) 71 (AP/ESPN)
    • Washington (1) 88, Montana (16) 77 (AP/ESPN)
    • Wake Forest (2) 70, Chattanooga (15) 54 (AP/ESPN)
    • Gonzaga (3) 74, Winthrop (14) 64 (AP/ESPN)
    • West Virginia (7) 63, Creighton (10) 61 (AP/ESPN)
    • Texas Tech (6) 78, UCLA (11) 66 (AP/ESPN)
  • Austin Regional:
    • Kentucky (2) 72, Eastern Kentucky (15) 64 (AP/ESPN)
    • Oklahoma (3) 84, Niagara (14) 67 (AP/ESPN)
    • Cincinnati (7) 76, Iowa (10) 64 (AP/ESPN)
    • Utah (6) 60, UTEP (11) 54 (AP/ESPN)
  • Chicago Regional:
    • Alabama (5) 73, Milwaukee (12) 83 (AP/ESPN)
    • Boston College (4) 85, Penn (13) 65 (AP/ESPN)
    • Texas (8) 57, Nevada (9) 61 (AP/ESPN)
    • Arizona (3) 66, Utah State (14) 53 (AP/ESPN)
    • Illinois (1) 67, Fairleigh Dickinson (16) 55 (AP/ESPN)
    • LSU (6) 68, UAB (11) 82 (AP/ESPN)