{"id":69713,"date":"2026-03-22T22:08:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T03:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/no-9-iowa-shock-reigning-champions-florida-in-final-seconds-to-seal-march-madness-upset\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T22:08:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T03:08:41","slug":"no-9-iowa-shock-reigning-champions-florida-in-final-seconds-to-seal-march-madness-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/no-9-iowa-shock-reigning-champions-florida-in-final-seconds-to-seal-march-madness-upset\/","title":{"rendered":"No 9 Iowa shock reigning champions Florida in final seconds to seal March Madness upset"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Alvaro Folgueiras nails three-pointer in final seconds<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Gators are first No seed to exit this year\u2019s tournament<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alvaro Folgueiras nailed a three-pointer with 4.5 seconds remaining and Iowa eliminated the defending national champion, Florida, sending Gators home with a 73-72 victory on Sunday in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Under first-year coach Ben McCollum, Iowa reached the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2015, while Florida (27-8) became the first No 1 seed to be knocked out of this year\u2019s March Madness.<\/p>\n<p> The ninth-seeded Hawkeyes (23-12) wasted a 12-point lead in the second half but rallied in the final minutes. They will face No 4 seed Nebraska in the South Region semi-finals on Thursday night in Houston.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/22\/no-9-iowa-shock-reigning-champions-florida-in-final-seconds-to-seal-march-madness-upset\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alvaro Folgueiras nails three-pointer in final seconds Gators are first No seed to exit this year\u2019s tournament Alvaro Folgueiras nailed a three-pointer with 4.5 seconds remaining and Iowa eliminated the defending national champion, Florida, sending Gators home with a 73-72 victory on Sunday in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Under first-year coach Ben &#8230; <a title=\"No 9 Iowa shock reigning champions Florida in final seconds to seal March Madness upset\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/no-9-iowa-shock-reigning-champions-florida-in-final-seconds-to-seal-march-madness-upset\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about No 9 Iowa shock reigning champions Florida in final seconds to seal March Madness upset\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}