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Iowa Upsets Nebraska in Sweet 16 - Postgame Reaction | March Madness 2026 · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: He had a great one tonight also on TVs, a
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  Speaker 1: class between Big Ten schools ninety Iowa looking to return
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  Speaker 1: to the Elite eight for the first time in almost
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  Speaker 1: forty years and forcing Nebraska trying to get there for
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  Speaker 1: the very first time.
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  Speaker 2: Boy, I tell you, Sandford was excellent again. He had
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  Speaker 2: twenty five He made six threes. This was back and forth,
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  Speaker 2: back and forth. Finnett's starts. Spray's the three first lead
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  Speaker 2: of the ball game for Iowa at that point, big
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  Speaker 2: time playing a breakdown defensively by Nebraska offensive player that's
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  Speaker 2: for Garris behind the defense, hoop and armed fifteen to
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  Speaker 2: six run by Iowa to close out that game and
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  Speaker 2: move on to its first Elite eight appearance since nineteen
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  Speaker 2: eighty seven.
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  Speaker 3: He's you know what this was? Was that Roy Marble?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that probably is around that team.
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  Speaker 3: That was a really good basketball game. It really was
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  Speaker 3: a jump shooting contest. I mean, and then to me,
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  Speaker 3: Nebraska went cold, But it was really a jump shooting content.
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  Speaker 3: It was beautiful to watch them when was shooting that thing.
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  Speaker 3: It was beautiful to watch, but they couldn't finish down
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  Speaker 3: the stretch. Nebraska and the amazing staff we have here
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  Speaker 3: Nebraska only had four players on the court on that
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  Speaker 3: one long pass, which we didn't even notice it. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: which is first of all, that that can't happen. It's
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  Speaker 3: one thing to go cold and twenty eight percent the
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  Speaker 3: second half. It's another thing to make errors like that.
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  Speaker 3: Like I'm not I'm not sure how that happens, to
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  Speaker 3: be honest with you. I mean, and listen, get a
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  Speaker 3: kid from our credit for noticing it, right, I mean, first,
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  Speaker 3: I guarantee he didn't know they had four players on
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  Speaker 3: the court. Yeah, but yeah, but that that was a
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  Speaker 3: very well played basketball game. But Nebraska, man, they had
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  Speaker 3: a hell of a season. Shout out to Fred Harberg
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  Speaker 3: won the guy from our era. But that coach at
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  Speaker 3: our Ben McCollum, he's won. I saw, is it Chris
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  Speaker 3: talk on CBS Hontwork. He was talking. I was watching
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  Speaker 3: the show. You're talking about how important coaching is, and
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  Speaker 3: me and Kenny Uh we talk about all time. I
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  Speaker 3: think coaching is really important for sure. And this man,
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  Speaker 3: I think they say he won four national champions.
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  Speaker 2: Division two Northwest.
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  Speaker 3: I don't give a damn where you coach. Basketball is basketball.
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  Speaker 3: If you win that many championship, you know what you're doing.
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  Speaker 3: So shout out to the our coach mccallumm.
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  Speaker 1: He's an Iowa guy by the way.
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  Speaker 3: That but I tell people, well, he won four championship.
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  Speaker 3: If you can coach like a lot of guys, winning
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  Speaker 3: is winning winning, especially in basketball. Basketball to me, and
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  Speaker 3: we talk about the whole time, basketball is the easiest sport, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: in terms of war. Yeah, I was gonna ask you,
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  Speaker 3: like how you play the game? Like, there's only the
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  Speaker 3: basics of the game. The basics of the game are passing, rebounding, defense.
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  Speaker 3: What kind of offense you run? You always talk about
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  Speaker 3: style of play. You can never be a good team.
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  Speaker 3: Un let's you have a style of play, it might
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  Speaker 3: not work all the time. You gotta have a style identical.
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  Speaker 3: We gotta have an identity.
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  Speaker 4: Well, what you just described sound a little complicated, but
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  Speaker 4: I think I think jump shooting what you what you hit?
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  Speaker 4: Nebraska in this game never made the jump shot uncomfortable
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  Speaker 4: for Iowa. Iowa actually never made the jump shot uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 4: So I was like, Okay, who's going to in the
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  Speaker 4: last three minutes of the game get those comfortable threes
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  Speaker 4: and be able to connect? And that is when when
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  Speaker 4: that is what Houston and the next round of other
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  Speaker 4: people were looking and saying, we have to make that
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  Speaker 4: jump shooters uncomfortable and if you could do that, then
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  Speaker 4: you're going to have a chance on beating Iowa.
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  Speaker 2: Poise finished by the Hawkeys down the stretch. They gotta
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  Speaker 2: done make plays and shots and they're on to the elite.
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  Speaker 1: It's how you respond to pressure, Okay,