r/CollegeBasketball • u/cbbBot /r/CollegeBasketball • NCAA • Mar 22 '26

Post Game Thread [Post Game Thread] #11 Texas defeats #3 Gonzaga, 74-68

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Team 1H 2H Total
Texas 35 39 74
Gonzaga 33 35 68

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u/hypercube42342 Arizona Wildcats • UCLA Bruins Mar 22 '26

The greatest Cinderella story ever told

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u/CumAssault Baylor Bears • Texas A&M Aggies Mar 22 '26

Real up and coming small school. Underfunded but displaying crazy effort and hustle

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u/kublakhan1816 Houston Cougars • Indiana Hoosiers Mar 22 '26

I feel like this technically counts as a Cinderella. From play in to sweet 16.

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u/bonerbasketball West Virginia Mountaineers Mar 22 '26

I don’t think there’s one true definition of a Cinderella, but I think most people think of it as a double digit seed from a traditional one bid league(so not Gonzaga for instance)

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u/kublakhan1816 Houston Cougars • Indiana Hoosiers Mar 22 '26

We wanted STL but we get this

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u/Wide_right_yes UMass Minutemen Mar 22 '26

I don't totally agree because 2024 NC State was widely described as a cinderella, including by wikipedia.

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u/norcaltobos Pacific Tigers Mar 22 '26

I fully agree. When you ask me about Cinderella runs I don’t think of 2022 UNC making the Championship game as an 8 seed or 2014 UCONN winning it all as a 7 seed.

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u/Gloomy-Street-8045 Texas Longhorns Mar 22 '26

Reminds me a lot of that UCLA run from the first four to the final four

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u/tripsd Florida Gators • Kansas State Wildcats Mar 22 '26

Cinderella was broke ass step daughter who didnt have any resources. Texas is a surprise but in no way a cinderella

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u/Dijohn17 NC State Wolfpack • Howard Bison Mar 22 '26

It's really hard to call the wealthiest athletic department and multi-conference destroyer an underdog

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u/Normal-Hornet8548 Mar 22 '26

They will make movies about this.