{"id":202066,"date":"2026-03-23T05:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T05:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/202066\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T05:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T05:22:12","slug":"folgueiras-plays-hero-as-no-9-iowa-stuns-no-1-florida-in-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/202066\/","title":{"rendered":"Folgueiras plays hero as No. 9 Iowa stuns No. 1 Florida in Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TAMPA, Florida (KCRG) &#8211; Iowa men\u2019s basketball shocked Florida on Sunday night to advance to the Sweet 16, 73-72.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It\u2019s the 1st time since 1980 that Iowa has beaten a No. 1 seed when they won vs. Syracuse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Alvaro Folgueiras hit the game-winning three with just five seconds left.<\/p>\n<p>Alvaro Folgueiras on how the game-winning shot happened<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Folgueiras\u2019 father died when he was young. Alvaro is from Spain, and his mother still lives there. His mother was this weekend\u2019s games. It was her first time seeing him play in college in two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cHer coming back after two years, seeing where I am right now and how much I worked to be where I am right now, for her, is a great feeling. Because she sent a kid to America without knowing any English, with nothing but dreams and hunger. This one is for her and my dad. He\u2019s watching up there,\u201d said Folgueiras.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Tavion Banks led the way with 20 points. Folgueiras had 14 points, and Bennett Stirtz scored 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Iowa will play Nebraska in Houston on Thursday at 6:30pm in the Sweet 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCRG. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Florida (KCRG) &#8211; Iowa men\u2019s basketball shocked Florida on Sunday night to advance to the Sweet 16,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[93141,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-202066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-sports-iowa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}