NEW YORK — Syracuse outlasted Connecticut in the second-longest Division I game ever, capping a Big East tournament quarterfinal doubleheader in which the second- and third-ranked teams in the country both lost.

Andy Rautins hit a three-pointer 10 seconds into the sixth overtime Thursday night, giving the Orange their first lead since regulation and they went on to a 127-117 victory over the third-ranked Huskies.

Much earlier in the evening, West Virginia beat No. 2 Pittsburgh 74-60, meaning that instead of a much-anticipated third meeting between two teams that held the No. 1 ranking this season in the semifinals it will be sixth-seeded and 18th-ranked Syracuse and the seventh-seeded Mountaineers.

The game finished one overtime short of the record set in Cincinnati’s 75-73 victory over Bradley on Dec. 21, 1981.

Top-seeded and fifth-ranked Louisville will meet fourth-seeded and 10th-ranked Villanova in the other semifinal.

There were some staggering numbers besides the overtimes. The game started at 9:36 p.m. and ended at 1:22 a.m. local time

Jonny Flynn had 34 points and 11 assists for the Orange (25-8), playing 67 of the 70 minutes, the most of any player. Paul Harris had 29 points and 22 rebounds, while Eric Devendorf had 22 points and Rautins had 20, all but two on three-pointers.

A.J. Price had 33 points and 10 assists for the Huskies (27-4), while Stanley Robinson had 28 points and was one of three Connecticut players with 14 rebounds.

“I have never been prouder of a team than I am tonight,” Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim said. “They just kept fighting, … hanging in there and toughing it out and fighting.”

In other top-25 and Pac-10 games on Thursday:

West Virginia 74

No. 2 Pittsburgh 60

NEW YORK — Freshman Devin Ebanks scored a career-high 20 points to lead West Virginia (23-10) to knock out the defending Big East champ in the quarterfinals.

No. 4 Memphis 51

Tulane 41

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Shawn Taggart scored 19 points, and Memphis (29-3) extended the nation’s longest winning streak to 23 straight in the Conference USA quarterfinals.

No. 5 Louisville 73

Providence 55

NEW YORK — Earl Clark had 24 points and 10 rebounds, and the Cardinals nearly forced Providence into setting a Big East tournament record for turnovers in a quarterfinal victory.

Oklahoma State 71

No. 6 Oklahoma 70

OKLAHOMA CITY — James Anderson hit two free throws with 2.3 seconds left to complete the Cowboys’ (22-10) upset of Oklahoma in the Big 12 tournament quarterfinals.

No. 10 Villanova 76

No. 21 Marquette 75

NEW YORK — Dwayne Anderson’s last-second layup — his only basket — fell in as the buzzer sounded for the Wildcats (26-6) in a Big East quarterfinal.

Baylor 71

No. 11 Kansas 64

OKLAHOMA CITY — LaceDarius Dunn hit six three-pointers and scored 24 points to help the Bears (19-13) rally after blowing a 17-point lead.

No. 13 Washington 85

Stanford 73

LOS ANGELES — Jon Brockman scored 20 points and Isaiah Thomas sparked a decisive second-half spurt with nine points as Washington (25-7) advanced to play Arizona state in the Pac-10 tournament semifinals.

No. 14 Missouri 81

Texas Tech 60

OKLAHOMA CITY — DeMarre Carroll scored 19 points and Missouri (26-6) used a pair of second-half spurts to avoid an upset in the Big 12 quarterfinals.

No. 15 UCLA 64

Washington State 53

LOS ANGELES — Darren Collison scored 15 points and the Bruins (25-7) advanced to today’s Pac-10 semifinals against crosstown rival Southern California.

Georgia Tech 86

No. 17 Clemson 81

ATLANTA — Lewis Clinch set a career high with 32 points and last-place Georgia Tech (12-18) pulled off an upset in the first round of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament.

No. 19 Xavier 66

Saint Louis 47

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — B.J. Raymond had 18 points, and C.J. Anderson added 15 for top-seeded Xavier (25-6, 13-4) in the Atlantic-10 quarterfinals.

No. 23 Arizona State 68

Arizona 56

LOS ANGELES — Pac-10 player of the year James Harden had 27 points and eight rebounds to help the Sun Devils (23-8) advance to the Pac-10 tourney semifinals and put Arizona’s streak of 24 straight NCAA tournament appearances in jeopardy.

No. 25 BYU 80

Air Force 69

LAS VEGAS — Jimmer Fredette scored 21 points and Jonathan Tavernari had 19 points and 11 rebounds for BYU (22-9) in the Mountain West quarterfinals.

USC 79

California 75

LOS ANGELES — Taj Gibson had 21 points and 16 rebounds, Daniel Hackett made four free throws in the last 3.8 seconds, and Southern California (19-12) never trailed in beating Cal in the quarterfinals of the Pac-10 tournament.