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Camden Heide’s first points of the NCAA tournament’s second round were really, really, really big.
Heide hit a 3-pointer with 14.7 seconds to go to give No. 11 Texas a four-point lead in the Longhorns’ 74-68 upset win over No. 3 Gonzaga to advance to the Sweet 16. Texas is the sixth team to play in the First Four and advance to the Sweet 16 since the NCAA implemented the play-in games in 2011.
Texas has won three games in five days. On Tuesday, the Longhorns beat NC State in a game between two of the last teams in the 68-team field. That earned Texas a matchup with No. 6 BYU and potential top 2026 NBA Draft pick AJ Dybantsa. Even though Dybantsa dropped 35, the Longhorns were in control in the second half.
Saturday, Texas and Gonzaga delivered a close game — and an upset — that college basketball fans had been yearning for. No underdog had won during Friday’s 16 first-round games and all four favorites won in the second round before Texas and Gonzaga’s game began.
Leave it to one of the biggest athletic departments in college sports to play the role of spoiler. And in more ways than one. Texas’ win busted the remaining perfect brackets in Yahoo Sports’ Bracket Mayhem.
Neither team led by double digits in a game that was as close as the score indicated throughout its entirety. Heide’s shot came after Gonzaga star Graham Ike cut the lead to one with a dunk with 40 seconds remaining.
The Longhorns called a timeout with 32 seconds to go before Heide was open in the corner for the bucket. After Mario Saint-Supery’s desperate 3-pointer missed, Texas added onto its final margin with a bucket by center Matas Vokietaitis.
A year ago, Texas was eliminated in the First Four by Xavier. The man coaching the Musketeers that night was Sean Miller. The former Arizona coach is now at Texas, as the Longhorns are in the Sweet 16 for the first time since they were a No. 2 seed under Chris Beard in 2023.
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Heide hit a 3-pointer with 14.7 seconds to go to give No. 11 Texas a four-point lead in the Longhorns’ 74-68 upset win over No. 3 Gonzaga to advance to the Sweet 16. Texas is the sixth team to play in the First Four and advance to the Sweet 16 since the NCAA implemented the play-in games in 2011.
Texas has won three games in five days. On Tuesday, the Longhorns beat NC State in a game between two of the last teams in the 68-team field. That earned Texas a matchup with No. 6 BYU and potential top 2026 NBA Draft pick AJ Dybantsa. Even though Dybantsa dropped 35, the Longhorns were in control in the second half.
Saturday, Texas and Gonzaga delivered a close game — and an upset — that college basketball fans had been yearning for. No underdog had won during Friday’s 16 first-round games and all four favorites won in the second round before Texas and Gonzaga’s game began.
Leave it to one of the biggest athletic departments in college sports to play the role of spoiler. And in more ways than one. Texas’ win busted the remaining perfect brackets in Yahoo Sports’ Bracket Mayhem.
Neither team led by double digits in a game that was as close as the score indicated throughout its entirety. Heide’s shot came after Gonzaga star Graham Ike cut the lead to one with a dunk with 40 seconds remaining.
The Longhorns called a timeout with 32 seconds to go before Heide was open in the corner for the bucket. After Mario Saint-Supery’s desperate 3-pointer missed, Texas added onto its final margin with a bucket by center Matas Vokietaitis.
A year ago, Texas was eliminated in the First Four by Xavier. The man coaching the Musketeers that night was Sean Miller. The former Arizona coach is now at Texas, as the Longhorns are in the Sweet 16 for the first time since they were a No. 2 seed under Chris Beard in 2023.
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