Mike Miller bounced in the winning basket as time expired Friday to give Florida a 69-68 overtime win against Butler. His heroics sent the Gators, seeded fifth, on to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The distraught Bulldogs were left to ponder missed opportunities.

“I’ve never been in a locker room where the emotion level has been like it was,” said Florida head coach Billy Donovan, adding that half his team was in tears after the dramatic finish. “We have sympathy for Butler, but we go on and live to play another day.”

The Gators will face Illinois at 2:30 p.m. Sunday after the Illini’s 68-58 victory over Pennsylvania in Friday’s opener. Sunday’s second game will pit Kansas against Duke after the Jayhawks needed overtime to dispatch DePaul 81-77 and the Blue Devils got past Lamar, 82-55.

Florida (25-7) trailed by one point with 8.1 seconds to play in the overtime after Butler’s LaVall Jordan missed two free throws. Gator Teddy Dupay pushed the ball up the court and passed off to Miller, who drove down the lane and tossed a runner toward the rim. The ball settled through the hoop as the buzzer sounded, setting off a wild celebration under the Gators’ basket.

“We work on that every day,” Miller said. “Ted did a great job penetrating and getting me the ball. I knew I had four seconds and that’s plenty of time to create something. I just floated something up and am lucky enough it went in.”

Except for the small section of Florida fans in Lawrence Joel Coliseum, the crowd rained down boos as it had for much of the physical game. The underdogs got the crowd behind them early and trailed just 31-29 at halftime.

Butler twice led by as many as seven points late in the second half, at 53-46 on an Andrew Graves 3-pointer and 56-49 when Joel Cornette hit a jumper with four minutes to play.

But Miller hit a 3 and two free throws to trim the lead and a Kenyan Weaks layup tied the game at 58-all with 51 seconds to go in regulation. Butler’s Scott Robisch and Florida’s Udonis Haslem each canned two free throws in the final seconds to send it to overtime.

Once there, Butler led by three points with 31.1 seconds to play when Graves nailed a long 3 with the shot clock running down. But Weaks responded with a layup, Jordan missed the free throws and Miller broke the Bulldogs’ hearts.

“The biggest thing is that Drew and I have been here together for four years and have developed a friendship that no one can ever break,” said a still-tearful Mike Marshall well after he and fellow senior Graves saw their careers end. “Knowing that we’re going to go our separate ways is the biggest thing that happened here today.”

Kansas 81, DePaul 77, OT

DePaul built a six-point lead in overtime with 2:23 remaining and didn’t score again, giving the eighth-seeded Jawhawks a ticket into Sunday’s second round.

The Jayhawks accounted for the game’s final 10 points. Trailing 77-71, Jeff Boschee hit a 3-pointer, Nick Collison made one free throw and Kenny Gregory slammed home the finish on a breakaway to tie the game. A Nick Bradford layup put Kansas up 79-77 with 47.4 seconds remaining.

DePaul’s Bobby Simmons missed two free throws with 27.3 to play, and after Collison made 1-of-2 for an 80-77 lead, Bradford blocked Quentin Richardson’s 3-point attempt in the closing seconds to preserve the win.

“I got down on my knees in the huddle and begged them for a defensive stop about five times in a row and that’s what they did,” Kansas head coach Roy Williams said. “These kids haven’t had the smoothest ride but they did come up big today down the stretch when they had to on the defensive end.”

Kenny Gregory starred for Kansas, hitting 11-of-12 field goals for 22 points. Collison added 13 points and 10 rebounds, while Bradford scored 14 and Eric Chenowith 10 points off the bench.

Richardson, heavily recruited by Williams before choosing DePaul, scored 21 points but made only 6 of 17 field-goal attempts. Paul McPherson also scored 21 for the No. 9 Blue Demons, who finished their season 21-12.

“The last two minutes of the game we had great opportunities, we had good looks, got the shots we wanted, had possession of the ball,” DePaul head coach Pat Kennedy said. “We also had a few key turnovers and a few key misses. We had our opportunities, we just couldn’t close it.”

Illinois 68, Penn 58

Michael Jordan faced a double team he couldn’t beat Friday.

Foul trouble and Illinois’ stifling defense held Penn’s senior guard to just eight points as the fourth-seeded Illini pulled away for a win.

Jordan’s eight points marked his third lowest total of the season. He opened the year with five points against Kentucky, then scored seven two games later against Penn State. The Quakers lost both games.

The Illini (22-9) jumped out to an 18-8 lead with 12 minutes to play in the first half. To that point, Jordan had no points and two turnovers, but his day was about to get a lot worse. In a 26-second span, Jordan was whistled for three fouls.

“I have never gotten three fouls that quickly before,” Jordan said. “I should have backed off. I tried to play aggressive defense and they chose to call those fouls on those possessions.”

Illini guards Sergio McClain and Frankie Williams did the job on Jordan when he got off the bench. Behind their great perimeter defense, Jordan finished 3-for-10 from the floor. The eight points is half his season scoring average.

Illinois only led 34-29 at halftime after No. 13 Penn (21-8) reeled off a 10-3 run in the final minutes. Williams, who scored a career-high 21 points, converted two layups early in the second half and drained two free throws to put the Illini up 47-40 with 14 minutes to play.

A Cleotis Brown dunk off a Williams feed extended the lead to nine points, and Marcus Griffin’s layup made it 57-46 with eight minutes remaining. Illinois made 9-of-12 free throws down the stretch and the Quakers couldn’t close to more than seven points of the lead.