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We are the opposite of scared that Neal is going to make a three

"Usual" starters tonight for Nebraska Rollie Worster Brice Williams Juwan Gary Berke Buyuktuncel Braxton Meah

It would seem that tonight is a "blue out" and the Jays are wearing their white jerseys

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Nebraska Cornhuskers (3-1) vs #14 Creighton Bluejays (4-0) Date: Friday Nov 22, 2024 Time: 7:00 pm Arena: CHI Health Center Broadcast: FS1 Creighton Info Head Coach: Greg McDermott Location: Omaha, NE Conference: Big East Nickname: Blue Jays Mascot: Billy Blue Jay Last time out: Defeated Kansas City Opening Line: Creighton by 10.5 Nota bene: The rivalry has its own Wikipedia site The road team has won the last 3 games, the first time this has occurred in the rivalry Fred Hoiberg will face all active former Iowa St coaches this season: McDermott at Creighton and Steve Prohm at Murray St Steven Ashworth and Rollie Worster were freshmen on the same 2020-21 Utah St. team coached by Craig Smith Player to watch: Ryan Kaulkbrenner The Big East Pre-Season POTY isn't normally the main scoring threat for the Jays but in his 5th season the Creighton big man put up 49 in a game vs UTRGV team that refused to double-team him. Nebraska will make him the focal point and throw double teams at him whenever he touches the ball. While Kaulk hasn't scored over 13 against Nebraska in his career, his defense and rebounding have played a part in limiting Nebraska's offense and thus chance to win over the years Player to watch: Steven Ashworth The sharpshooting PG is really stroking it this season for a Creighton team that overall has struggled to hit from outside. Ashwoth is currently hitting a ridiculous 13-29 (44.8%) from 3 to start the season while the team is shooting 31.5%. Player to watch: Pop Isaacs The 6'2" combo guard shot 37.8% from 3 as a freshman and cratered at 29.3% when tasked as Texas Tech's goto scorer last season. He's a savvy player but his shot selection can be questionable at times. Others to watch Jamiya Neal - The big guard transfer from Arizona St will likely be tasked with trying to slow down Brice Williams. He's proven to be a valuable glue guy for the Jays but does not have a reliable outside shot Jackson McAndrew/Isaac Traudt/Jason Green/Mason Miller - These are all candidates for minutes at the 4 or even 3 for the Jays. The 6'10" McAndrew is their highest rated recruit in program history struggling to find his shot. Traudt is good when he gets to spot up for a 3 and can mix it up on defense. Miller arguably might be the best scorer right now but he's banged up. Jason Green hasn't taken off yet, might be banged up. The Jays with throw these guys against the wall to see what sticks tonight. Fredrick King The backup center is not Kaulkbrenner but given how little foul trouble Ryan K gets into King typically just plays to gvie him a breather UNL Game Notes Roster/infirmary report Possible starters for Nebraska 3 Guard Brice Williams 6-7 214 lbs Senior 4 Forward Juwan Gary 6-6 226 lbs Senior 24 Guard Rollie Worster 6-5 210 lbs Senior 34 Center Braxton Meah 7-1 264 lbs Senior 9 Forward Berke Büyüktuncel 6-10 244 lbs Sophomore Bench 0 Guard Connor Essegian 6-4 190 lbs Junior 2 Guard Ahron Ulis 6-3 190 lbs Senior 5 Forward Braden Frager 6-7 220 lbs Freshman 8 Guard Jeffrey Grace III 6-3 200 lbs Junior 12 Guard Gavin Griffiths 6-7 193 lbs Sophomore 20 Forward Justin Bolis 6-8 225 lbs Sophomore 25 Guard Nick Janowski 6-4 208 lbs Freshman 31 Guard Cale Jacobsen 6-4 195 lbs Sophomore 1 Guard Sam Hoiberg 6-0 185 lbs Junior 23 Forward Andrew Morgan 6-10 242 lbs Senior 35 Forward Henry Burt 6-7 222 lbs Sophomore Out for year 51 Forward Rienk Mast 6-10 260 lbs Senior Fred Hoiberg Presser Fred used the word "Jaysker" so I'd say he's invested in this as a rivalry game The Skinny: Two years ago Nebraska did what no one expected and dominated a game in Omaha. Creighton would go on to make the Elite 8. Last season the Jays took Nebraska to the woodshed in Lincoln. The Huskers would go on to make the tourney for the first time in a decade. The point is that while this game is very important for post season hopes and if extremely important as a fan, it's not necessarily going to dictate how the rest of the season will go. To that point both teams are trying to work out the kinks in tonight's rivalry game, ready or not. While Ryan Kaulkbrenner is firing on all cylinders, most of the Creighton shooters are not from 3 as shots from outside are currently falling at a Ryan Hawkins era level. The Jays have been augmenting their offense with transition points and Nebraska will likely punt on offensive rebounds tonight in order to make the Jays play in the half court. Nebraska's 3pt defense can be a slump buster for 3pt shooting teams but the Huskers likely take their chances. Braxton Meah has been more miss than hit this season so we'll see how he fares in this type of matchup where you'd hope height will help further neutralize Big Kaulk. How much is Nebraska's length in the passing lanes going to bother the Jays tonight? On the other side, Nebraska's 3pt shooting makes the Jays look like 2017 Golden State. While the Jays love to take away the 3 and roll out Kaulk in drop coverage, you have to wonder if they plan to pack the paint tonight against this Nebraska team that is hellbent on making it to the rim and getting to the line. Creighton doesn't really foul but you'll be surprised sometimes at the variance of a game where the unexpected happens. Things could get really ugly if Rollie Worster and Juwan Gary start hucking up 3s that the Jays will give them. I feel like Brice is going to be the focus of the Jays' defense. Who else will step up tonight. There's certainly a path for Nebraska to win this thing with some stifling defense and a breakthrough shooting night. Knock on wood but one thing Nebraska has yet to do this season is give up a 10 point run. Think Nebraska hangs tough but not sure if it's enough. Prediction: Creighton 75 - Nebraska 68 View full article

I think Kent has called 35 of these games, not the 41 as stated here. We've played Creighton 50 times since 1977. Warren Swain and Randy Lee called 11 of them from 1996 to 2005. From 1989 to 1992 Larry Moehlenbrink stepped in to call basketball games for KFAB as Kent was busy with station duties. It's possible that Kent called the 4 Creighton-Nebraska games during that time so it's possible he's called between 35 and 39.

To add context, last year we were getting our teeth kicked in at home 52-37. For halftime, out comes the "zooperstars", a series of inflatable mascots with names like "Snail Earnhardt Jr." who tend to perform their hijinks at baseball games. Spent the next 5 minutes seeing Snail Earnhardt's snail hole. It was the first time in my memory that the halftime entertainment was booed off the court.

Tom was funny because he'd make posts with typos in them not because of his typing but because he had a key on his keyboard that didn't work. He didn't want anyone to send him a new one though. He was one of the many guys from the old board that Dave started. Sorry he never got to see that first tourney win like he'd wanted.

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.

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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.

I had someone text me about that