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Payton Sandfort's Worlds Collide for Iowa-Nebraska Sweet 16 Showdown
Nebraska and Iowa meet for the third time this season in the NCAA Sweet 16, with Nebraska making its first-ever appearance and both teams having split previous games.
- On Thursday, the Nebraska Cornhuskers face the Iowa Hawkeyes in the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 at the Toyota Center in Houston, marking Nebraska's first-ever appearance in the Sweet 16.
- Payton Sandfort, whose brother Pryce Sandfort is Nebraska's leading scorer, played four years for Iowa and described the matchup as "It's like a Hollywood horror story almost."
- Nebraska enters with a 28-6 record after defeating Vanderbilt on Saturday, while Iowa is 23-12 following a 73-72 upset of top-seeded Florida; the Cornhuskers won 84-75 in their last regular-season meeting on March 8.
- Coach Ben McCollum led Iowa to its first Sweet 16 since 1999 after hiring replaced former coach Fran McCaffery, with redshirt freshman Cooper Koch emerging as a key contributor during the postseason run.
- The winner advances to the Final Four, with both teams' high-level play highlighting a competitive shift within the Big Ten this season and raising stakes for either program's tournament survival.
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Just: Rival Iowa makes a stakes-filled, Sweet and Salty 16 game for Nebraska
The circumstances surrounding Nebraska basketball's two games with Iowa this year make a stakes-filled, Sweet and Salty 16 game, writes Amie Just.
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