Late Iowa 3-Pointer Eliminates No. 1 Seed Florida

The Florida Gators will not get a second chance at back-to-back National Championships. Playing just down the road from their campus in Tampa, Todd Golden‘s team got sent home by a late three-pointer from Iowa.

Styles make fights, and Iowa slowed down Florida in the first half to turn it into a rock fight. The Hawkeyes led for almost the entire first half and built up a 12-point lead at the 14-minute mark. It was not meant to last.

You could feel the momentum in the arena tilting toward Florida. The Gators stormed back to take the lead, but Iowa wouldn’t go down without a fight, even when it looked like the game was lost.

Iowa’s star Bennett Stirtz cut the deficit to one with a minute to play,…