March Madness 2026

Nebraska is playing Vanderbuilt. It's a close game with the Huskers up by 4 in the first half. The Nebraska Cornhuskers are one of the
best teams to watch in the country.
 
White Lightning said:
Nebraska is playing Vanderbuilt. It's a close game with the Huskers up by 4 in the first half. The Nebraska Cornhuskers are one of the
best teams to watch in the country.
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Enjoying the game so far. Nebraska rolling with 5 Whites at most times. For Vandy, Nickel is a good player too.

Halftime. Cornhuskers up by 7 with the OKC crowd fully behind them.
 
Earlier today sophomore Matas Vokietaitis lead Texas over Gonzaga with a cool 17 points. He’s quickly becoming one of my favorite players of the tournament.

As for Gonzaga, they’ve really fallen to a pretty run of the mill Caste team and most years they don’t advance to the 2nd week. They were actually much better when they were majority gym rats. Glad they are gone.
 
Pardon the 3rd straight post, but the Fighting White Illini are close to advancing to the Sweet 16 with an easy win over VCU. They play 6 White athletes in a rotation of 8 and are a very good dark horse team to advance to the Final 4. Tonight they are lead by Peja Stojakovic’s son, who has 19 points off the bench.
 
Freethinker said:
Pardon the 3rd straight post, but the Fighting White Illini are close to advancing to the Sweet 16 with an easy win over VCU. They play 6 White athletes in a rotation of 8 and are a very good dark horse team to advance to the Final 4. Tonight they are lead by Peja Stojakovic’s son, who has 19 points off the bench.
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Quite the turn around for a traditionally caste team!
Freethinker said:
Earlier today sophomore Matas Vokietaitis lead Texas over Gonzaga with a cool 17 points. He’s quickly becoming one of my favorite players of the tournament.

As for Gonzaga, they’ve really fallen to a pretty run of the mill Caste team and most years they don’t advance to the 2nd week. They were actually much better when they were majority gym rats. Glad they are gone.
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Good for Texas and the big Lithuanian!
 
White Lightning said:
Nebraska is playing Vanderbuilt. It's a close game with the Huskers up by 4 in the first half. The Nebraska Cornhuskers are one of the
best teams to watch in the country.
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It was too close for comfort but Nebraska holds on to advance to the Sweet 16!
 
4 seed Nebraska's win was closer than it needed to be over 5 seed Vandy. Substitute Braden Frager (a true freshman, and you can guess how low his high school recruiting ranking was) finished strong.


Vanderbilt almost won it for the bad guys at the buzzer:


A great Madness set of moments!
 
Great win by Nebraska. Thank goodness that last shot didn't go in. They would have been showing that for eternity during March Madness.

Looking forward to watching Illinois in the Sweet 16. Also looking forward to Purdue, Iowa State, Florida, UConn, Virginia, and Arizona winning today. Iowa and Utah State are good teams for us also but they're playing stronger white-friendly teams so better if Florida and Arizona advance.
 
THANK YOU Phall for the excellent Intro Summary to March Madness!!
Thanks for that nasty Dunk highlight too!

Watching Iowa State ( starting 3 White's) vs Kentucky ; big fan of Collin Chandler ( one of the highlight dunk's earlier this year) Hits a 3

Had Florida vs Arizona in the Championship ( i know what a stretch lol)
Too bad Florida has to face Nebraska in the Sweet 16

Yes indeed Freethinker...
Texas 7 foot Center Matas Vokietaitis from Lithuania one of my new favorites
 
Backup guard Dylan Darling finds himself on the floor for some reason at the end of the St. Johns / Kansas game. He's the only white player that's been on the court for some time now... foul trouble to the starters? He decides to end the game himself.

 
Iowa vanquishes Florida tonight at the death.

Alvaro Folgueiras, the sixth man from Spain (possibly Basque?) puts in the dagger before the final bell. Florida can't respond in time.



I'll be interested to see what kind of team Todd Golden fields next year.
 
Phall said:
Iowa vanquishes Florida tonight at the death.

Alvaro Folgueiras, the sixth man from Spain (possibly Basque?) puts in the dagger before the final bell. Florida can't respond in time.



I'll be interested to see what kind of team Todd Golden fields next year.
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This is a case of white on white crime. I like Iowa but really wanted Florida to have a chance to go Back to Back Titles. They have 2 high
flying white guys that both bring back memories of Tom Chambers. They also are high on the NBA Draft Radar so I was hoping to see
them play a little more. That being said Iowa also has plenty of our guys to watch! Great tournament so far. Bring on the Sweet Sixteen!
 
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Phall said:
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A lot of White friendly squads advanced to the sweet 16. In the South, Iowa, Nebraska and Illinois are all excellent options. Hopefully one of the 3 vanquish the odious Houston squad. UConn vs Michigan St ensure a 2 White starter squad competing for a Final 4. Purdue is another great team but Texas and Arizona are also pretty palatable. Arkansas needs to be dispatched. In the Midwest, Iowa State with 3 White starters would be great. However, Michigan and Tennessee offer something. Alabama is the black land mine here.

Still some work to do but the Final 4 could be exceptionally White friendly if things break our way.
 

Darling's layup seals St. John's tournament win over Kansas​


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(reminder that this is the only white player on the team)
SAN DIEGO -- Dylan Darling had not scored. With 3.9 seconds left and the score tied in a game that No. 5 seed St. John's once led by 14 points, Darling had no business holding the Johnnies' fate in his hands against 4-seed Kansas.

And yet, there he was, slashing straight into the paint and laying up the ball with such forward momentum that he never saw it go in.

"I just heard everybody going crazy," Darling said after St. John's 67-65 victory Sunday in the second round of the NCAA tournament. "It was pretty cool."

While Red Storm coach Rick Pitino barely reacted to the winner, Darling was mobbed by his teammates. After Kansas had used its remaining four fouls to run seconds off the clock, Pitino's options had been limited. Darling knew there wasn't enough time for Pitino's intended playcall, so he made a suggestion.

"This is the amazing thing, and the funniest thing I've ever been involved with," Pitino said. "[Darling] comes up to me and says, 'Run power,' which is a high, back-screen pick-and-roll. So, I walk away, and I said, 'Wait a second: He hasn't scored a bucket, and he wants to run a play for himself."'
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Darling had taken four shots during Sunday's game before the final play and missed all of them. Pitino, though baffled by the junior guard's confidence, couldn't help but respect the audacity.

"I just can't imagine a player today, in today's world, with all the scrutiny, wanting the ball when he's shooting terrible," Pitino said. "It was the only play we could run -- or you could try to throw it into the high post area.

"But as soon as [Darling] said to me to run power, I knew he could get to the rim because he hadn't done a damn good thing the whole night, so I knew he was going to do it."

Darling offered his take.

"I don't think Coach really had a choice at that point in time," he said. "I probably don't deserve this. I was pretty bad all night long, but my teammates held it down tonight."
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I didn't realize that the Miami (FL) coach Jai Lucas was the only black head coach in the round of 32! Whitlock doesn't count Houston's Kelvin Sampson (I sure do though), who calls himself Native American. There were nine other black head coaches in the field of 68; none of them made the 2nd round.
 
Coaching carousel updates:

Randy Bennett of St. Mary's has been hired by Arizona State
Gerry McNamara of Siena has been hired by Syracuse
Scott Cross of Troy has been hired by Georgia Tech

All three of these coaches made the tournament with "white-friendly" rotations and rosters. None of the schools hiring them were very "white-friendly" at all. It would be nice if they stick with their winning formula going forward. I'll be interested to see if they bring along any of their current players to their new destinations.

Joining the list is apparently Jerrod Calhoun from Utah State, taking over at Cincinatti. Utah State should be whiter, but the same dynamic holds.
 
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Purdue in a close one….

Nebraska and Iowa a Whiteout! Shame one will go home shortly.
 
Freethinker said:
Purdue in a close one….

Nebraska and Iowa a Whiteout! Shame one will go home shortly.
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What a start to the Sweet 16!

How often do you see all 10 players on the floor White?? Oh Iowa just put a Black dude in ...

Purdue 3 ; Texas 2 ... 5 / 10 on the floor.
 
TwentyTwo said:
What a start to the Sweet 16!

How often do you see all 10 players on the floor White?? Oh Iowa just put a Black dude in ...

Purdue 3 ; Texas 2 ... 5 / 10 on the floor.
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I would imagine Nebraska vs Iowa is the Whitest Sweet 16 game in decades. Maybe in a half century?
 
Purdue ended up advancing on a last second tip in. Loyer 18, Smith 16 and Cluff 11.

In the other game, Nebraska went cold and Iowa stayed hot pulling away for their first Elite 8 since 1987. Stirtz 20, Sage 19, Folgueiras 18, Koch 11. For Nebraska, really only Sandfort with 25 and Frager with 16 brought their A-game.

So far the first 2 teams in the Elite 8 are CF approved….now we need Arizona and Illinois to take care of business in the late games.
 
Illinois and Arizona on the verge of advancing and bouncing all-black Houston and Arkansas from the tournament!!! Great night of hoops.
 
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