The 2026 NCAA men’s basketball tournament saw some classic Elite Eight games. On Saturday, No. 3-seeded Illinois and No. 1 Arizona punched their tickets to Indy. No. 1 Michigan joined them with a 95–62 rout of No. 6 Tennessee on Sunday. Then, No. 2 UConn stormed back from a 19-point deficit to stun No. 1 Duke, 73–72, and advance to the Final Four. Here’s everything we saw on Sunday.
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This article was originally published on www.si.com as Elite Eight Recap: UConn Advances to Final Four on Braylon Mullins’s Game-Winning Three.
