hhcmatt Posted December 20, 2017 Report Posted December 20, 2017 Nebraska Cornhuskers (7-5) vs Texas San Antonio Roadrunners (7-5) Date: Wednesday Dec 20, 2017 Time: 7 pm CST Arena: PBA TV Broadcast: BTN UTSA Info Head Coach: Steve HensonLocation: San Antonio, TXConference: Conference USANickname: RoadrunnersMascot: Rowdy the RoadrunneryLast time out: Beat Bethany Typical Rotation Depth: 8ishLine: Nebraska by 10.5 Tempo: LET IT FLY Style: High Assists/High 3pt Attempts4 Factors Good: Not turning the ball over on offense4 Factors Bad: Killed on defensive boards, putting teams on the FT line Four Factors Effective FG%: 51.2 165 50.5 159 50.9 Turnover %: 17.2 74 19.6 156 19.3 Off. Reb. %: 26.0 260 34.6 317 29.2 FTA/FGA: 35.4 148 44.2 317 34.1 Shirt not wear: Blue, orange, anything bird related Fun Fact: UTSA first started playing basketball as a school in 1981. They joined the Atlantic Sun in 1986. They then moved to the Southland Conference in 1991. After a stopover in the WAC for a year in 2012, they jumped to Conference USA in 2013 after is was raided by the AAC. Got that? Fun Fact: HC Steve Henson is an old Big 8 point guard who played for Lon Kruger at Kansas St. Henson has been an assistant under Kruger at Illinois, the Atlanta Hawks, UNLV, and Oklahoma. Fun Fact: UTSA has a win in the tourney, beating Alabama St. in a play-in game back in 2011 when they were still in the Southland Halftime: Miles Kids Camp shootaround Most Frequent Lineups over the last 5 games Nebraska PG SG SF PF C Pct 1 5 Glynn Watson6-0 173 Jr 11 Evan Taylor6-5 208 Sr 24 James Palmer6-6 210 Jr 14 Isaac Copeland6-9 221 Jr 32 Jordy Tshimanga6-11 268 So 15.1 UTSA PG SG SF PF C Pct 1 5 Giovanni De Nicolao6-3 175 So 22 Keaton Wallace6-3 170 Fr 11 Austin Karrer6-4 190 Sr 3 Byron Frohnen6-6 215 So 25 Nick Allen6-8 215 Jr 16.2 UTSA shoots a ton of 3s yet manages to almost always have someone on the court who doesn't Players to watch: Nick Allen The two leading scorers are freshmen guards Jhivvan Jackson and Keaton Wallace. Junior Nick Allen is their most efficient scorer, sporting a 66.7 eFG% against Div 1 opponents. UTSA is lacking in the height department and the 6'8" Allen is the only quasi-post player that's a big threat to score. The Skinny Welcome to the start of The Three Games They Must Not Lose™ Winter break home stand. The Huskers are starting to look like a team that could make some noise in conference after the Five Games of Death™ schedule but with only Minnesota in the unexpected outcome column have no error for margin in 2017. The run and gun Roadrunners are one of those pay game teams where they should act as a RPI hack but are also a combination of decent and offensively explosive enough to come in and win; Closer than expected games vs Tulsa, Bradley, and Oklahoma serve as notice. UTSA will want to turn this into a track meet and while Nebraska will probably get sloppy at times in this one the team is too veteran and too experienced in the ways of fast teams to fall into this trap. Expect Nebraska defensively to handle PG De Nicolao with Watson and Evan Taylor and Anton Gill to spend their times beating on the two high power guards Jackson and Wallace. The Roadrunners will take and make 3s but the key for Nebraska defensively will be to defend the paint with minimal help and fouling. The length of our frontcourt should be up for the task. Offensively I think you'll see us once again try and get Jordy going to start the game; I think we're looking at these two games as whether or not to relegate Jordy to the bench or even out of the rotation for a game as Stetson seems like the small ball opponent you might try the Copeland/Roby starting lineup. In the half court you're going to see Nebraska attack the paint all night against the hacking, non-shot blocking Roadrunners. Expect Nebraska to shoot at least 20 and hopefully make the majority. It will be tough to truly put away this team as their entire style is "frantic comeback." What you'd like to see tonight is putting them away enough early as they've capable of scoring in bunches and hopefully getting something going with our post game. Prediction: Nebraska 80 - UTSA 70 View full article Quote
HuskerPower #nato73 Posted December 21, 2017 Report Posted December 21, 2017 I think Jackson actually made the shot in the .gif above. hhcmatt, Bugeaters1 and Silverbacked1 1 2 Quote
hskr4life Posted December 21, 2017 Report Posted December 21, 2017 Kudos Dimes! This thing was nearly spot on. hhcmatt 1 Quote
hhcmatt Posted December 21, 2017 Author Report Posted December 21, 2017 1 hour ago, hskr4life said: Kudos Dimes! This thing was nearly spot on. Just needed to add 20 points a team. 50+ FTs! Quote
AuroranHusker Posted December 21, 2017 Report Posted December 21, 2017 That kid video of #50 is spot on to how Jackson for UTSA was "feeling it" last night. Quote
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