{"id":70130,"date":"2026-03-26T22:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T03:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/ncaa-tournament-no-9-seed-iowa-upset-nebraska-to-continue-fairytale-run\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T22:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T03:55:11","slug":"ncaa-tournament-no-9-seed-iowa-upset-nebraska-to-continue-fairytale-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/ncaa-tournament-no-9-seed-iowa-upset-nebraska-to-continue-fairytale-run\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Tournament: No 9 seed Iowa upset Nebraska to continue fairytale run"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Hawkeyes had already beaten No 1 Florida<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Alvaro Folgueiras shines again for Iowa<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>No 11 Texas almost shock No 2 Purdue<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alvaro Folgueiras converted a critical three-point play when Nebraska only had four defenders on the floor, and ninth-seeded Iowa continued their unpredictable NCAA Tournament run under first-year coach Ben McCollum, beating Nebraska 77-71 in the Sweet Sixteen on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett Stirtz scored 20 points and Folgueiras had 16 for the Hawkeyes (24-12), who <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\">knocked off top-seeded Florida<\/a> in the second round on Folgueiras\u2019 three-pointer in the closing seconds.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/26\/ncaa-tournament-no-9-seed-iowa-upset-nebraska-to-continue-fairytale-run\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hawkeyes had already beaten No 1 Florida Alvaro Folgueiras shines again for Iowa No 11 Texas almost shock No 2 Purdue Alvaro Folgueiras converted a critical three-point play when Nebraska only had four defenders on the floor, and ninth-seeded Iowa continued their unpredictable NCAA Tournament run under first-year coach Ben McCollum, beating Nebraska 77-71 in &#8230; <a title=\"NCAA Tournament: No 9 seed Iowa upset Nebraska to continue fairytale run\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/ncaa-tournament-no-9-seed-iowa-upset-nebraska-to-continue-fairytale-run\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NCAA Tournament: No 9 seed Iowa upset Nebraska to continue fairytale run\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70130","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=70130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}