Sweet 16: GREENSBORO, N.C. -- The top-ranked Tar Heels used their superior speed and skill to toss aside and Antawn Jamison had 20 points and 14 rebounds in a 73-58 victory in the East Regional semifinals on Thursday night.

"I'm one of those guys that love the big games. I love if you lose -- everything is gone," Jamison said. "This is when I really have fun and my teammates do the same thing.

"We play a lot of teams really gunning after us. When the stakes get high that's when I really relax a lot more."

The top-seeded Tar Heels (33-3) moved within one victory of the single-season school record for wins and a fifth Final Four trip this decade, beating the slower Spartans almost every step of the way.

Second round: HARTFORD, Conn. -- Michigan State had Mateen Cleaves and some pretty good defense. Princeton had one of its worst shooting games of its best season ever.

The former is on the way to the third round of the NCAA tournament. The latter heads home heartbroken but with the respect few teams from its league have ever had.

Cleaves, the Big Ten player of the year, had 27 points on 9-for-13 shooting, nine rebounds and five assists as the fourth-seeded Spartans beat Princeton 63-56 Saturday in the second round of the East Regional.

First round: HARTFORD, Conn. -- Mateen Cleaves didn't let foul trouble foil him in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

Cleaves, called for three fouls in the first half while guarding 5-foot-5 phenom Earl Boykins, played without fear in the second half to lead Michigan State to a 83-71 victory over Eastern Michigan in the East Regional on Thursday.