A major national-championship contender was eliminated from March Madness in the second round on Saturday.

No. 10 seed Arkansas bounced No. 2 St. John’s 75-66 in Providence, R.I., to reach the Sweet 16 of the 2025 NCAA tournament. It was the end of the line for Rick Pitino and the Red Storm, who were ranked No. 5 in the season-ending Associated Press poll.

Billy Richmond scored 16 points and grabbed nine rebounds for John Calipari’s Razorbacks, who pulled off their second straight upset in the 2025 tournament. Arkansas (22-13) beat No. 7 seed Kansas in the first round on Thursday.

Karter Knox added 15 points and Johnell Davis 13 for Arkansas, which meets the Texas Tech-Drake winner in a Sweet 16 game next Thursday in San Francisco. It’s the fourth Sweet 16 berth in five years for the Razorbacks, but first under Calipari, who took over this season after 15 years at Kentucky.

The game was a matchup of Hall-of-Fame coaches, longtime friends who have met several times in the NCAA tournament. Most famously, Pitino’s Kentucky team beat Calipari’s UMass squad in the 1996 Final Four on its way to a national championship.

Zuby Ejiofor had a double-double with 23 points and 12 rebounds for St. John’s, which ends its season at 31-5. The Red Storm shot just 28% from the field and made only two of 22 three-point attempts.

R.J. Luis in particular had a rough game for St. John’s, scoring just nine points on 3-for-17 shooting. A second-team All-American and the Big East Player of the Year, Luis spent the last two minutes of the game on the bench despite the Razorbacks leading by just two scores until the final seconds.