2026 NCAA Tournament Thread

[WilliamsArenaGuy]

BRING THE MOTHER F'N RUCKUS

My daughter is going to ISU next year. They are now my team after the Gophers. Go Clones!

 

[RockChalk]

Last four on the bottom are: Iowa, St. John's (?), Michigan and Texas (?)

The bottom right with the sole KU player is St. Johns (Zuby Ejiofor) Played his Freshman year at KU then transferred to play for Pitino.

 

[GophersInIowa]

Family Guy fans will enjoy this.

 

[GophersInIowa]

 

[Spottedmuskie]

Cam Heide has the whole Purdue playbook here, could be interesting

 

[Border Gopher]

So Michigan State vs UConn in both men’s hockey and basketball today? Both in the round of 16?

Edit: I guess the basketball game is tomorrow

 

[GophersInIowa]

 

[Spottedmuskie]

60% of Iowa's starters are black

40% of Nebraska's starters are white americans

 

[GophersInIowa]

As usual, the NCAA doesn’t know how to set game times. Two close games going down to the wire at the same time.

 

[Gilthorp57]

Nebby in trouble

 

[stocker08]

Corndemonium

This is the whitest game of college basketball I've ever seen.

 

[Ski-U-Ham]

Nebraska only had 4 guys on the court coming out of a timeout on defense and gave up a 3 point play?!?

 

[GophersInIowa]

Nebraska only had 4 guys on the court coming out of a timeout on defense and gave up a 3?!?

Insane

 

[stocker08]

Corn keeps winning.

 

[WindyCityGopher]

Insane

That’s one of the biggest brain farts I’ve ever seen in a big game.

 

[Gilthorp57]

That’s one of the biggest brain farts I’ve ever seen in a big game.

You deserve to lose if that happens, especially with teams having 100 coaches on staff....

 

[GophersInIowa]

Insane

 

[Unregistered User]

Illinois outscoring Houston 20-4 after 8 minutes gone in the second half

 

[Gold Vision]

Insane

Iowa has a fantastic power play.

 

[GophersInIowa]

Houston looks awful. The Big Ten has a chance to have 4 or even 5 teams in the E8.

 

[Bayfield Gopher]

Houston D pressure is relentless. Illini must make FT and Boswell is struggling.

 

[theTurning]

Being in the tournament seems awesome I’d love to be a part of it someday.

 

[LongLiveMilesTarver]

Illinois vs Iowa to go to the final 4.

 

[Bayfield Gopher]

Illini handled the D pressure well. Hard to imagine the Gophers would have done.

 

[Obi-Wan Okogie]

Big Ten is out here spreading cheeks!

 

[howeda7]

Nebraska only had 4 guys on the court coming out of a timeout on defense and gave up a 3 point play?!?

There's a reason Nebraska is the only B1G University not in the AAU.

 

[WindyCityGopher]

Illinois vs Iowa to go to the final 4.

Very strange seeding of Iowa by the committee. I can’t recall a team having to beat two consecutive conference opponents to make it through the regional to get to the Final Four. And, if Iowa and Michigan State both advance, they’ll play in the national semifinal, and Iowa could then play Michigan or Purdue in the finals. So, of the 6 games Iowa would need to win in the tournament for a championship, they could conceivably play their last four games against conference foes. That’s beyond improbable.

 

[spermophilus]

That’s one of the biggest brain farts I’ve ever seen in a big game.

Take one of Chilly’s 12 men on the field in the NFC Championship in ‘09, add it to The Mayor’s “4 on the floor” in ‘26, and equilibrium - from 2 of the biggest blunders of basics in big moments - in the universe is restored.

Mind-numbing.

 

[GophersInIowa]

 

[FinnGopher]

He doesn't play defense and he shoots everytime he touches the ball. Hard to foul or turnover the ball.