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Covid bonus year. Blaise should be a Junior and Keisei should be a senior.

Have to say on the rewatch that I enjoyed the announcing duo of Mark Adams and David Saltzman. A lot of times in a game where it's ESPNU you'll get a couple of guys that just show up but Adams in particular you could tell he really did his homework on both teams.

I distinctly remember them coming out in the 2nd half just jacking up 3s which isn't sustainable for a bad shooting team like that. That allowed us to live through our typical shaky 2nd half start. Poor coaching/execution on their part doomed them and we very much took advantage.

After it got to 33-28 with about 4 minutes left in the first half, Fred called timeout. Whatever he said really worked.

There was a kicking call that they thought was a foul. You missed it 40 seconds later when the announcers corrected themselves.

That was a night for the record books

Postgame notes *-With the win, Nebraska improves to 6-6 all-time in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge and picks up its first win in the event since 2018*-Nebraska improves to 2-0 all-time against Boston College with both wins coming in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge*-Nebraska shot 61.5 percent from the floor, its highest total since shooting 62.8 percent against Northwestern on Feb. 3, 2015*-Keisei Tominaga tied a career high with 23 points tonight, matching his 23-point effort last season against South Dakota. It marked Tominaga’s second career 20-point game. He has been in double figures in each of the last three games and five times this season, all coming off the bench.*-Tominaga’s 23 points is a season high for any Husker this season (Sam Griesel vs. Maine)*-Nebraska held Boston College without a field goal for over 12 minutes from the 3:11 mark in the first half to the 11:07 mark in the second half, outscoring Boston College 25-3 in that span*-Emmanuel Bandoumel matched his career high with six assists, matching his personal best set at Vanderbilt on Jan. 4, 2020 while at SMU.*-Nebraska put five players in double figures for the second straight game.*-Nebraska out-rebounded Boston College, 29-26, the fourth straight game NU out-rebounded an opponent.*-Nebraska’s 88 points was a season-high and highest total since scoring 93 at Penn State on Feb. 27, 2022.*-C.J. Wilcher scored all of his 14 points in the second half, including shooting 4-for-7 from behind the arc.*-Nebraska drained a season-high 12 three-pointers in the contest, including 9-for-13 in the second half.

Going to announce Rhule in front of his home crowd in Omaha

Personal best, probably

Nebraska 68 - Boston College 61

The Florida St game made things confusing because who is our point guard now? This was Derrick and this was Sam

Jim Molinari will be on the bench for Boston College He's still using the same headshot he took 14 years ago

Nebraska Cornhuskers (4-3) vs Boston College Eagles (5-2) ** B1G-ACC CHALLENGE ** Date: Wednesday Nov 30, 2022 Time: 8:15 pm Arena: PBA Broadcast: ESPNU Boston College Info Head Coach: Earl Grant Location: Chestnut Hill, MA Conference: ACC Nickname: Eagles Mascot: Baldwin the Eagle Last time out: Beat Rhode IslandOpening Line: Nebraska by 6.5 Famous Alumni: Jared Dudley, Dana Barros Other: The last (and only) time Nebraska played Boston College was 8:15 at the PBA on a Wednesday night on ESPNU (11/29/2017) Former Nebraska assistant Jim Molinari is an assistant for Boston College This is the last year of the B1G-ACC Challenge after 24 seasons as ESPN will no longer have the rights to air Big 10 games. Nebraska currently stands at 5-6 all-time. KenPom Analysis: Appears to be a dribble drive team that doesn't take (or make) many 3s. Thus far they're winning games with defense and their ability to turn teams over surely could bother Nebraska. Player to watch: Makai Ashton-Langford Expect the Senior Langford to spearhead any ball pressure on Nebraska. Leads the team in scoring and assist, poor outside shooter KenPom most used lineup PG SG SF PF C Pct 1 3 Jaeden Zackery 6-2 215 So 11 Makai Ashton-Langford 6-3 180 Sr 5 DeMarr Langford 6-5 220 Jr 24 CJ Penha 6-7 230 Sr 1 TJ Bickerstaff 6-9 220 Sr 12.0 2 3 Jaeden Zackery 6-2 215 So 11 Makai Ashton-Langford 6-3 180 Sr 45 Mason Madsen 6-4 195 Jr 24 CJ Penha 6-7 230 Sr 1 TJ Bickerstaff 6-9 220 Sr 10.5 Others to watch Demar Langford is MAL's brother. Another physical defender who can't shoot from outside Jaden Zackery was on of BC's best outside shooting threats last year, hitting 48%. For whatever reason he's been taking the ball to the hole more. Rarely leaves the court Div II grad transfer CJ Penha is their most reliable bucket in the paint at the 4. Bickerstaff is a rim defender and rebounder, unreliable touch. 6'10" Freshman Armani Mighty plays a few situational minutes per night but is generally unreliable. Cincinnati transfer Mason Madsen is a willing defender who leads the team in 3pt attempts, hitting 32.3% on the year Backup 4 man Devin McGlockton functions as the small ball 5. Good shooting glue guy. Freshamn backup PG Chas Kelley has struggled this year with his shot and turnovers. UNL Game Notes Probable starters for Nebraska 5 Sam Griesel G 6-7 25 Emmanuel Bandoumel G 6-4 0 C.J. Wilcher G 6-5 4 Juwan Gary F 6-6 13 Derrick Walker F 6-9 Bench 15 Blaise Keita C 6-11 30 Keisei Tominaga G 6-2 32 Wilhelm Breidenbach F 6-10 10 Jamarques Lawrence - G 6-3 12 Denim Dawson - F 6-6 33 Oleg Kojenets F 7-0 12 Sam Hoiberg G 6-0 31 Cale Jacobsen G 6-4 35 Henry Burt F 6-6 24 Jeffrey Grace III G 6-3 Injured 3 Quaran McPherson G 6-3 - Out for the Year Miles and Walker Presser Derrick isn't getting into why he was gone but they did dig into how they put in the system they used vs Florida St in their hotel ballroom and that the late start time helped. Defensively Keisei had 7 deflections and the team forced 17 turnovers The Skinny: Earl Grant is a GRIT guy. He cut his teeth as an assistant under Gregg Marshall and both Winthrop and Wichita St as well as Brad Brownell, two know GRIT coaches. Grant's mantra is "Gritty not Pretty" The one quote I saw from him was two sentences long and both sentences contained the word grit. Would not be surprised if his Halloween costume was Gritty, the Flyers mascot. You're not going to out-grit this man. Thus, expect a hard nosed Eagles defense that will try and jump passing lanes all night and hope that Nebraska can limit the number of pick-6 passes they've been carelessly throwing lately. BC has been so poor at shooting from outside and Nebraska has been so good at defending without fouling it seems like the Eagles will struggle to score 60 in this game. What is the limit on Derrick Walker turning into Royce White in Orlando? Last year he transformed from a 40% FT shooter into a 72% shooter while becoming one of the NCAA's most accurate shooters. Now he's bringing the ball up the court and initiating the offense. Nebraska is on to something here. How much will it make a difference in the W-L record? I think Nebraska matches up well with Boston College but expect the grit guys to make you sweat out the result. Prediction: Nebraska 68 - Boston College 61 View full article

Rhode Island vs BC condensed game Considering the score was 53-49 they probably got every make into this 6 minute video

He plays center at Tulane. He's basically the same size as Derrick Walker. When you look at his numbers, he really looks like Derrick Walker. No room for a post player who could handle the ball, was a good passer, and you could put on the floor as a freshman because we needed to pick up guys like Elijah Wood and Keon Edwards. STAR CITY BABY!!!

One problem with Kevin Cross was that he was a Doc, not Matt, recruit.

Part of the problem with Boston College is that they've been hit by the injury bug. Their starting center, the aptly named Quinten Post, has been out the entire year. Freshman contributors Prince Aligbe and Donald Hand have been out since being injured in game 2. I don't expect any of them back on Wednesday. Starting wing DeMarr Langford has missed 3 games but I think he'll play.

“If you have to ask, you’ll never know. If you know, you need only ask.”

B1G gets .5 for our defeat of Florida St as it was day adjacent to the challenge

Told my son that "Pitt is not good at basketball" but as a Nebraska basketball fan we've already had the 'when bad teams win' talk

We're going to fire Fred for Christmas? I mean, come on. He's going to finish the season and we'll see if he wins enough games to make it interesting.

I wouldn't put any weight either way into Trev making a joke about a 70 head coach searching process