Jeremy Underwood came off the bench to score 19 points, leading North Carolina A&T past 21-loss Liberty, 73-72, on Tuesday at the First Four in Dayton, Ohio, ending an NCAA winless streak at nine games.

The Flames — only the second team ever to make the NCAA Tournament with 20 losses — had a chance to win it. John Caleb Sanders drove coast to coast and flipped up a lefthanded layup in heavy congestion that just missed. A&T (20-16) rebounded and, while Sanders rolled in anguish on the baseline, began to celebrate an end to more than 30 years of disappointment.