Game Day Essentials: Game #13 vs Texas A&M CC

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Nebraska Cornhuskers (5-7) vs Texas A&M Corpus Christi Islanders (4-8)

 

Date: Sunday Dec 28th, 2019
Time: 1:00 p.m. 
Arena: Pinnacle Bank Arena (15,000, 29th largest in D-I)

Broadcast:  BTN

 

**RED PANDA DAY!!**

Texas A&M CC

Head Coach: Willis Wilson
Location: Corpus Christi, TX
Conference: Southland 
Nickname: Islanders
Line: Nebraska by 12.5

Typical Rotation Depth: 9+

KenPom rank: 293

Previous history: None

Shirt not to wear: Green, Blue, Hawaiian 

Offensive Style: Shoot 3s

Defensive Style: middling

 

Players to watch:  Myles Smith

The junior pg dominates the ball, leading the Islanders in scoring. Smith is shooting 40% from 3 and is one of the better FT shooters in Div 1.

 

Players to watch:   Jashawn Talton-Thomas

The 6'5" senior guard leads the team in rebounds, assists, and is 2nd in scoring

 

Roster points

	PG	SG	SF	PF	C	Pct
1	12 Peyton Smith 6-2  195  Jr	2 Myles Smith 6-0  190  Jr	32 Nolan Bertain 6-4  185  So	4 Jashawn Talton-Thomas 6-5  210  Sr	14 Elijah Schmidt 6-8  220  Sr	15.2

 

 

The Skinny:

Defense is the Islander's calling card but they haven't defended all that well this year. Nebraska should be able to work inside if they need to today and/or drive the lane as TAMCC has little to no rim protection.  On defense Nebraska should be able to force turnovers vs this sloppy team. However, they'll also need to be prepared to defend for 30 seconds because the Islanders will take and make those last second 3s.  

 

If Nebraska has a sense of urgency, they'll break this thing open early and cruise. If they don't and let TAMCC hang around, this will be another trouble game.

 

Prediction: Nebraska 74 - Texas AM 62

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