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Damyean Dotson, left, and Oregon beat Markel Brown and Oklahoma State in the Round of 64 on Thursday.
SAN JOSE, Calif. — First Oregon, then California. Just like that, men's basketball in the Pacific-12 Conference does not seem so measly after all.
Handed No. 12 seeds, but sent to the same site to open the N.C.A.A. tournament, Oregon and Cal provided back-to-back upsets of fifth-seeded opponents Thursday to advance to the Round of 32.
Oregon walloped Oklahoma State, 68-55, to set up a game against fourth-seeded St. Louis on Saturday.
Cal, fueled by a partisan crowd just a short drive from its Berkeley campus, slid past Nevada-Las Vegas, 64-61. The Golden Bears will play Syracuse on Saturday.
The Pac-12 was given nothing higher than a No. 6 seed among its five representatives in the N.C.A.A. tournament. But the Ducks and the Bears looked capable of pushing further into the bracket, and sixth-seeded Arizona beat Belmont, 81-64, giving the Pac-12 a 3-0 record on Thursday.
"If we play with confidence, like we have been, we're a scary team," the Oregon senior forward E. J. Singler said.
Both Oregon and Cal won with strong guard play and substandard games by the opposing team's N.B.A.-quality stars.
Oklahoma State's Marcus Smart, a muscular, do-everything guard considered among the best freshmen in the country, had 14 points, 9 rebounds and 4 assists. But he and his teammates struggled to combat the speed and shooting touch of Oregon's own dynamic freshman guards.
Damyean Dotson led Oregon with 17 points, while his backcourt partner, Dominic Artis, had 13. Arsalan Kazemi, a 6-7 senior, had 11 points and a game-high 17 rebounds, including a buzzer-beating putback that gave Oregon a 37-26 halftime lead. Oklahoma State never climbed within single digits again.
Cal had a tougher time shaking U.N.L.V., who beat the Bears by 1 in Berkeley in December. U.N.L.V.'s Anthony Bennett, a brawny 6-8 freshman who averaged 19 points during the season and had 25 against Cal in December, was held to 3 first-half points and 15 for the game.
Cal's Allen Crabbe, a 6-6 junior, led the Bears with 19 points. Missed free throws by Cal allowed U.N.L.V. to narrow the deficit to 2 in the final 10 seconds, but the Bears made just enough to pull the upset.
ARIZONA 81, BELMONT 64 In this uneven college basketball season filled with upsets and defined by inconsistency, perennially scrappy Belmont seemed primed for its first N.C.A.A. tournament victory, primed to bust a bracket, as many have long predicted.
But not Thursday. Not against Arizona, a sixth seed in the West Region, a team near the end of its own uneven season. The Wildcats (26-7) dominated the Bruins (26-7) wire to wire in their tournament opener in Salt Lake City.
It was the sixth N.C.A.A. appearance for Belmont, the No. 11 seed, without a victory. For Arizona, a team that won its first 14 games but lost four conference games in February alone, it was a step in the right direction, into the round of 32.
The Wildcats will play Harvard, the 14th seed. The Belmont game seemed like a warm-up. Mark Lyons led Arizona with 23 points.
Belmont entered this game ranked fourth in the country in shooting percentage, at 49.4 percent. But the Bruins did not shoot well in the first half, making 7 of 27 shots from the field and only 2 of 13 attempts from 3-point range. Of those field goals, the sharpshooter Ian Clark made five.
For a team that made the third-most 3-pointers in Division I since 2006, it was a disaster, the worst-case scenario. The Wildcats, though, had something to do with that.
It was a matter of distance. Belmont took jump shots. Arizona pounded the ball inside. It scored more points in the paint (8-6) and more second-chance points (8-0) in the first half. It also outrebounded the Bruins by what looked like a misprint: 27-9. Those totals only increased as the game went on, as did Arizona's lead.
Belmont mounted a short-lived comeback in the second half. Lyons drove the middle and threw down a thunderous dunk, and then it was onward for the Wildcats. GREG BISHOP
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