{"id":671821,"date":"2026-03-22T02:29:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T02:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/671821\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T02:29:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T02:29:20","slug":"texas-beats-gonzaga-goes-from-first-four-to-sweet-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/671821\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas beats Gonzaga, goes from First Four to Sweet 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2117995\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2117995\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/texasstyle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2117995\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Longhorns took out Gonzaga to advance to the Sweet 16.<\/p>\n<p>PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) \u2014 Jordan Pope and Matas Vokieaitis each scored 17 points, Camden Heide hit a game-sealing 3-pointer and Texas became the first team in five years to go from the\u00a0NCAA Tournament\u2019s\u00a0First Four to the Sweet 16, beating Gonzaga 74-68 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>First-year coach Sean Miller\u2019s 11th-seeded Longhorns (21-14), who lost five of six entering the tournament and looked underwhelming in their First Four win over N.C. State, will face either No. 2 seed Purdue or No. 7 seed Miami on Thursday in the West Region semifinals San Jose, California.<\/p>\n<p>The last First Four team to reach the Sweet 16 was UCLA, which made it all the way to the Final Four in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Graham Ike led third-seeded Gonzaga (31-4) with 25 points, but the Bulldogs struggled to generate much secondary scoring.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Mark Few\u2019s team bowed out in the second round for the second straight year after reaching the Sweet 16 in nine consecutive tournaments, a run that included two losses in the national title game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Longhorns took out Gonzaga to advance to the Sweet 16. PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) \u2014 Jordan Pope and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,6,12,84972,1138],"class_list":["post-671821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba-draft","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-nba-draft","tag-ncaa-tournament-2026","tag-second-round"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116270477252125323","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}