The second spherical of the 2026 males’s basketball event kicked off on Saturday, sending its first eight groups to the Candy 16. It was one other day the place it largely adopted the chalk and produced fairly a couple of lopsided outcomes.
But it surely additionally nonetheless supplied a number of the drama and shut calls that basketball followers need from March Insanity.
Winner: The perfect Nebraska basketball season ever
It doesn’t matter what they do the remainder of this event, that is already one of the best basketball season within the historical past of the Nebraska program. And it retains getting higher. After profitable their first NCAA event sport on Thursday, the Cornhuskers received their second event sport ever on Saturday in what might need been the sport of the event up to now.
Their 74-72 win over Vanderbilt was a chaotic, back-and-forth saga that featured the Cornhuskers taking the lead with 2.2 seconds to play, after which watching as a desperation half-court heave from Vanderbilt was within the basket… solely to rim out.
