Saturday reax: Nebraska-Vandy = best 4/5 game ever? Darius Acuff Jr. shoots Arkansas to S16; Texas the only double-digit still alive
Eye On College Basketball
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🗓️ 22 March 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Matt Norlander, Adam Finkelstein and Isaac Trotter break down Saturday action in the 2nd round of the NCAA Tournament. The Michigan schools cruise and other title favorites are in action.
(0:00) Intro + a 3-man booth tonight!
(2:30) Nebraska & Vanderbilt deliver the absolute goods!
(17:15) Darius Acuff is a baller … but they get a real test from High Point
(26:50) Texas beats Gonzaga! What a Cinderella story … ;)
(27:25) Michigan and Duke ultimately cruise into the Sweet 16
(53:55) Michigan State, Illinois, Houston all take care of business
(1:05:40) 5 Hour Energy Starting 5
(1:10:15) Sling TV game to watch on Sunday
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, welcome back to the Ion College Basketball podcast. That, folks, is why we love this tournament. |
| 0:20.2 | From 68 to 66, down to 64, down to 48, down to 32. |
| 0:24.9 | And as we talk to you live here, just crossed the midnight Eastern hour on a Sunday to our YouTube audience joining us live. |
| 0:31.4 | We appreciate you on Matt Norlander. |
| 0:33.8 | We have eight more to whittle away on Sunday, and then we will have a sweet 16. |
| 0:37.0 | I am joined tonight by Adam Finkelstein and making his eye on college basketball podcast debut. |
| 0:43.9 | Isaac Trotter. |
| 0:44.7 | Yes, we are going a trio, a Troika, a triumvirate after a fabulous duo of games that wrapped up Saturday |
| 0:52.1 | and basically helped salvage what was a |
| 0:54.1 | relatively quiet run from about the time the Kentucky Santa Clara game ended on Friday until |
| 1:00.2 | we got to, I don't know, the 9.15 or so p.m. Eastern Hour on Saturday night. Gentlemen, |
| 1:06.1 | thanks for joining. We're going to have a good time here. We got some snoozers to talk about, |
| 1:10.0 | but I'm really, really thankful, really happy that we get to start this show with what I think is maybe the best four or five game ever. And I don't care if it's recency bias. I'm leading all the way into that. And then we almost had high point. A couple of plays away from pulling off a stunner. Fink, Trotter, Great to have you here. And I think I tossed it to you real quick right off the top, man. |
| 1:29.2 | Just your thoughts on the tournament so far. |
| 1:31.2 | Welcome back. Fink, Trotter, great to have you here. And I think I tossed it to you real quick right off the top, man. |
| 1:29.2 | Just your thoughts on the tournament so far. Welcome back on the show. |
| 1:33.1 | Well, first of all, thanks for having me. This is what I love. Like, I love some upsets on Thursday and Friday. |
| 1:41.8 | And then I really like it. I know this is maybe a not the consensus, |
| 1:47.0 | but I love it when it gets a little chalky because I want to see the big boys on the second |
| 1:50.7 | weekend. So we had drama today, but we've got, we're going to have the matchups that we're |
| 1:56.0 | really looking forward to next weekend. So I couldn't be more excited. Trotter, quick thoughts before we dive into |
| 2:01.5 | obviously what was the best game of the day. Your just thoughts on to this point as we get through |
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