{"id":214962,"date":"2026-03-22T02:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T02:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/214962\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T02:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T02:20:09","slug":"camden-heides-unlikely-3-pointer-propels-texas-past-gonzaga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/214962\/","title":{"rendered":"Camden Heide&#8217;s unlikely 3-pointer propels Texas past Gonzaga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 Jordan Pope and Matas Vokieaitis each scored 17 points, Camden Heide hit a game-sealing 3-pointer and Texas became the first team in five years to go from the NCAA Tournament\u2019s First Four to the Sweet 16, beating Gonzaga 74-68 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>First-year coach Sean Miller\u2019s 11th-seeded Longhorns (21-14), who lost five of six entering the tournament and looked underwhelming in their First Four win over N.C. State, will face either No. 2 seed Purdue or No. 7 seed Miami on Thursday in the West Region semifinals San Jose, Calif.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38856545\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Camden-Heide.jpg\" alt=\"Camden Heide (right) celebrates after hitting a big 3-pointer in the final minute of Texas' 74-68 win over Gonzaga on March 21, 2026 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.\" class=\"wp-image-38856545\"  \/>Camden Heide (right) celebrates after hitting a big 3-pointer in the final minute of Texas\u2019 74-68 win over Gonzaga on March 21, 2026 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The last First Four team to reach the Sweet 16 was UCLA, which made it all the way to the Final Four in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Graham Ike led third-seeded Gonzaga (31-4) with 25 points, but the Bulldogs struggled to generate much secondary scoring.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.44022504;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38856553\" width=\"850\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Jordan-Pope.jpg\" alt=\"Jordan Pope, who scored 17 points, celebrates during the second half of Texas' win over Gonzaga in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.\" class=\"wp-image-38856553\"  \/>Jordan Pope, who scored 17 points, celebrates during the second half of Texas\u2019 win over Gonzaga in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. AP<\/p>\n<p>Coach Mark Few\u2019s team bowed out in the second round for the second straight year after reaching the Sweet 16 in nine consecutive tournaments, a run that included two losses in the national title game.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 Jordan Pope and Matas Vokieaitis each scored 17 points, Camden Heide hit a game-sealing 3-pointer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2692,4861,48876,80673,3112,154,27,29,537,28],"class_list":["post-214962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-basketball","tag-gonzaga-bulldogs","tag-march-madness","tag-march-madness-2026","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-sports","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}