{"id":836085,"date":"2026-03-27T03:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T03:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/836085\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T03:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T03:40:21","slug":"nebraska-only-puts-4-players-on-court-in-late-blunder-vs-iowa-a-miscommunication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/836085\/","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska only puts 4 players on court in late blunder vs. Iowa: \u2018A miscommunication\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Down three points to rival Iowa with less than a minute left, fourth-seeded Nebraska committed a jaw-dropping blunder that cost the Huskers a chance to advance to the Elite Eight.<\/p>\n<p>Following a timeout with 58.8 seconds left, Nebraska somehow sent out only four players on defense. Inbounding under his own basket, Iowa\u2019s Kael Combs launched a pass to the opposite key, where a wide-open Alvaro Folgueiras went up for an easy layup and drew the foul. Folgueiras made his free throw to put the ninth-seeded Hawkeyes up 74-68 en route to a 77-71 victory that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7150698\/2026\/03\/26\/iowa-nebraska-march-madness-score-result-takeaways\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sent No. 9 seed Iowa to its first Elite Eight since 1987<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a miscommunication, and I\u2019m the head coach, so put that one on me,\u201d Nebraska coach Fred Hoiberg said afterward.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FOLGUEIRAS CATCHES THEM OFF GUARD \ud83d\ude33<\/p>\n<p>Nebraska only had 4 defenders on the floor. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6ayu6HjMiB\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/6ayu6HjMiB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NCAA March Madness (@MarchMadnessMBB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarchMadnessMBB\/status\/2037339999679435105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 27, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The snafu was so shocking that the TBS announcers did not notice what happened until they saw the second replay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWait a minute! I think Nebraska only had four defenders on the floor. \u2026 That is a major breakdown,\u201d said analyst Stan Van Gundy.<\/p>\n<p>Nebraska earned the first two NCAA Tournament victories in school history to reach Thursday\u2019s game in Houston. Adding to the Huskers\u2019 heartbreak, they led for more than three-quarters of the game. Iowa did not take its first lead until the final 2:10. The teams exchanged six 3-pointers over a five-minute stretch leading up to the Folgueiras play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt stings,\u201d said Hoiberg. \u201cThis one hurts about as much as any I\u2019ve ever been part of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once the dust settles, though, Nebraska will celebrate a historic season in which the Huskers set a school record for wins (28), went 15-5 in the Big Ten and finally ended the program\u2019s NCAA Tournament wins drought by beating Troy and Vanderbilt.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Iowa (24-12), which knocked out No. 1 seed Florida in the second round, will play Saturday for a chance at its first Final Four since 1980 in coach Ben McCollum\u2019s first season.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Down three points to rival Iowa with less than a minute left, fourth-seeded Nebraska committed a jaw-dropping blunder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,1286,5480,49,48,4604],"class_list":["post-836085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-iowa-hawkeyes","tag-mens-college-basketball","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-nebraska-cornhuskers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116299066622598760","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}