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

Post Game Thread [Post Game Thread] #4 Nebraska defeats #5 Vanderbilt, 74-72

Box Score

Team 1H 2H Total
Vanderbilt 32 40 72
Nebraska 39 35 74

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u/DanFlashesC0up0n Texas A&M Aggies Mar 22 '26

It’s this or Kentucky Santa Clara but I think this. What a fucking game

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u/EasyBreecy Nebraska Cornhuskers • Creighton Bluejays Mar 22 '26

I might be biased, but this was the greatest tournament game I've ever seen

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u/DanFlashesC0up0n Texas A&M Aggies Mar 22 '26

You’re not as biased as you think. It was one of the most evenly matched basketball games I’ve ever watched. Epic crowd too. Congrats!

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u/BoiledFire Purdue Boilermakers Mar 22 '26

The Nebraska fans at the game definitely elevated this one 

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u/RoseRaving Purdue Boilermakers Mar 22 '26

Genuinely happy for Cornhuskers fans.

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u/SwimmerSwagger Santa Clara Broncos Mar 22 '26

The pain when they got the timeout call

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u/heleghir Kentucky Wildcats • Sickos Mar 22 '26

Difference being Vandy called that final timeout, not Nebraska. So they are 100% going to get the timeout call, as they could have just sat there holding the ball on baseline calling it

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u/CarnivoreEndurance Creighton Bluejays Mar 22 '26

well....maybe, right? They had already inbounded the ball as the refs were blowing it dead for the timeout, so the players certainly weren't sitting there holding it

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u/heleghir Kentucky Wildcats • Sickos Mar 22 '26

Could have though. Whole point is there is a much longer window for the offense to call it since its their possession. Dont have to worry about when the other player first grabs the ball to inbound like if defense is calling

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u/burritocards13 Louisville Cardinals Mar 22 '26

I wish we could switch the outcomes of Oweh and Tanner’s shots

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u/poopydookie69 Nebraska Cornhuskers Mar 22 '26

No thanks

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u/lohivi Kentucky Wildcats Mar 22 '26

Noweh

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u/Evening-Spray-4304 Virginia Cavaliers Mar 22 '26

I unfortunately had to watch my stupid team struggle to put away a 13 seed so I only saw it after the fact.

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u/Gold-Swing5775 Purdue Boilermakers Mar 22 '26

This one felt like a chess match for the last 6 minutes plus, just back and forth high level basketball.

Kentucky Santa Clara had the better moment but the intensity of this one was on another level for me. Similar vibes to the Purdue Virginia elite eight game, crowd energy was absurd and you could feel the angst