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Last year was worse than I even remembered

To me the keyword was "couldn't" I think what happened was that Essigian checked into the game before the second free throw, and he did so before Meah. So I think what technically happened was Meah had to check in for Essigian which made Connor ineligible to come back in. I think this is a scenario that's so rarely happens that it didn't occur to Shon Morris on the broadcast

One downside to NIL is that it's so corporate that they put out what I'd consider subpar merch. Any of the local guys would come up with 10 Juwan shirts better than this

It's different it's just a little off because we're playing so early in the season. We're playing in Hawaii this season. The last time we did that the Creighton SID trolled us at 3am because he was hate watching our game. The one time we won at the CHI Center was because we had a guy on the team who cared about beating those guys. Let's beat these jags!

Kent was on the microphone at the Coliseum the last time we played these guys in 1975, his second season. https://huskerhoopscentral.com/2024-25/RadioBroadcasts/2024-11-17 Nebraska vs St Marys.mp3

With St Mary's taking a FT to try and go up 3 with 5 seconds left, Brice and Braxton came in for Sam and Ulis. St Mary's made the FT and then we took a time out. Would it have been possible for us to sub back out for Meah or since we put him in at that point did he have to stay in?

Seemed like a combination of wanting to have a rim protector after getting our teeth kicked in vs Illinois and Texas A&M and then getting our 5th choice in the transfer portal. Just seems nuts that we're trying to Alonzo Verge him into Derrick Walker over the course of a season.

I figured we were going to have issues running two types of offenses or defenses but it turns out we have issues putting a guy who shouldn't play more than 4 feet away from the rim 4+ feet from the rim most of the game.

Brice is 31-34 this season on FTs. Has a decent chance to breaks James Palmer's make record and maybe a chance at the attempt record.

Unless Fred has to win a certain number of games to keep employed I don't think burning redshirts is the way to go here. I have to think that if Janowski was remarkedly better than anyone else we're rolling out at the 1 or 2 that he'd already be playing.

Box Score

We've made 20+ FTs over the first 4 games. I've made it back to 2010-11 and haven't found a 4 game stretch where we've done that. We've taken 25+ FTs over the first 4 games. I've made it back to 2010-11 and haven't found a 4 game stretch where we've done that. I assume both streaks will end at Creighton considering how stingy they are at giving up points at the line but we shall see.

Notes from UNL *-Brice Williams finished with a game-high 28 points, his highest scoring effort in his Husker career (college career high is 32). Williams’ previous Husker best was 27 in the opener against UTRGV. *-Willliams has reached double figure in eight straight games dating back to last year with his 28-point effort. He now has 19 career 20-pont games, including four in his last seven games dating back to last season. *-Berke Büyüktuncel set a career high with 15 points, topping his previous college career high of 13 against Stanford when he was at UCLA last season. Büyüktuncel, who has been in double figures in each of the past two games, also set a career bests with three steals and three blocks. Büyüktuncel had 13 of his 15 points in the second half. *-Andrew Morgan had 10 points off the bench, the third double-figure game by a Husker reserve this season *-Nebraska went 25-of-29 from the foul line in the loss, its best night from the foul line of the season and best since going 14-of-14 at Illinois on Feb. 4, 2024. The Huskers have shot at least 80 percent from the line in each of the past three games. *-Nebraska falls to 1-2 against Saint Mary’s all-time *-Nebraska falls to 2-1 in games played at the Sanford Pentagon

Maybe one thing that contributed to the slow start was the fire alarm going off multiple times at the Huskers' hotel overnight

The lineup for the last shot was Brice, Berke, Meah, Gary, and Rollie. It looks like the play was for Meah to screen so Brice could get up a shot. Seems like you could do the same thing with Morgan who at least would be a threat. I think you want Berke in there because he's at least a guy big enough to get off a shot. I think you want Rollie in there so you can get the ball up the court. You could have Brice do this as well. The question I'm asking is why was Gary or even Connor in there over Meah.