In another tight game, Iowa managed to tie the game with 5 minutes to play at 65 when Alvaro Foiguieras hit a three-pointer. And then both teams went cold. Neither team scored for almost 3 minutes.

With about 2 minutes left, Iowa’s Bennett Stirtz drove to the lane and kicked it back out to Cooper Koch at the top of the key. He then passed it back out to Stirtz who had rolled out to the wing, and Stirtz hit the three-pointer to give the Hawkeyes the lead.

Nebraska tried to match the three-pointer, but Rienk Mast’s three-pointer from the wing missed and Iowa’s Alvaro Foiguieras rose over everyone to get the rebound. Stirtz would once again drive to the basket and kick it back out to the top of the key – this time to Foiguieras. And Foiguieras found Tate Sage wide open in the corner, who calmly hit the three-pointer to give the Hawkeyes a 6 point lead.

Pryce Sandfort would take a deep three-pointer that missed and rolled off to the corner. Nebraska’s Braden Frager would chase the ball down, take a dribble out to the three-point line, and make the shot from the corner to give the Cornhuskers life.

But on the in-bounds play after a timeout, Karl Combs bombed the ball down the court to Foiguieras who hit the break away lay-up and got fouled. His made free-throw would extend the lead back to six.

Sandfort would miss another free throw from the top of the key causing Nebraska to start to have to foul to try to extend the game – but they still had fouls to give. This turned out to be important as the Hawkeyes did a great job of getting the ball in and avoiding the defenders coming in to foul until Tate Sage found Foiguieras in the corner, and the junior forward drove the baseline for a dunk to make the lead 8.

Nebraska would miss a few more three-pointers, Iowa would hit a free throw, and Pryce Sandfort would hit a meaningless three-pointer with a couple seconds left on the clock as Iowa would advance to the South Regional Final with a 77-71 upset victory.

You don’t see a lot of 9 seeds make it to the Elite 8 – they are getting hot at the right time of the year. Congratulations to the Hawkeyes!!!!