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The Huskers continued to struggle on the defensive glass in the second half, and turnovers began to mount as well as they got a little sloppy with the ball. However, the Hawkeyes secured nine offensive rebounds and converted them into 17 second-chance points while Patrick McCaffery scored 16 points and hit five of Iowa’s nine 3s. Griesel scored 14 points and Tominaga added 11 on a combined 10-for-15 shooting. Nebraska shot 57.1% from the field with six 3-pointers in the first half as the veterans did the heavy lifting early. Griesel ended the half with a bucket in the post to pull Nebraska within four at 43-39. Iowa fired right back with another triple in transition, however, sparking a 10-1 (all on 3s including a four-point play) run to put the Hawkeyes back in front. Griesel knocked down another 3 on the following possession to make it an 8-0 run for a 36-33 Nebraska lead. Iowa built the lead up to five at 33-28 on its sixth 3-pointer of the game before the Huskers got in on the second-chance action with a put-back from Wilhelm Breidenbach and a 3 from Sam Griesel after an offensive rebound. However, Iowa got back in the game by asserting itself on the offensive glass against the smaller Husker lineup, ripping off a 12-0 run with three 3s and a three-point play to surge ahead. Nebraska got off to a dream start, hitting six of its first eight shots including four 3s to race out out to an 18-9 lead. I think they hit like eight or nine 3s in the first half, so they had really good energy coming out, but we always had an answer and that’s just the resiliency that we’ve seen from this group since day one that we’ve been together.” So it’s tough to be the home team on senior night and we wanted to use that to our advantage.

“It’s difficult, honestly, when you have such a big emotional attachment to a school to kind of hone in on those and you get a crazy rollercoaster of emotions. “I’ve been a part of two senior nights and lost both of them,” Griesel said.

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Kris Murray scored 22 points but it took him 22 field goal and five free throw attempts to get there as he went 3-for-13 from 3. Patrick McCaffery went 6-for-10 from 3 and scored a game-high 23 points, but Nebraska limited his looks in the second half. The Huskers held the Hawkeyes to 36.5% shooting for the game including 32.4% from 3. You look at Derrick’s stat line, almost a triple-double, but he really didn’t get it going offensively until late, missed a couple inside that he normally would finish, but again, once we got the ball into Derrick and played through him, I thought he made some unbelievable decisions.” Jamarques got up and got us off to another really hot start he just continues to get better every time he steps on the floor. “Wilhelm knocked down a huge one for us I thought he played terrific today. when he got back in there at the end, those two layups and the 3 were huge,” Fred Hoiberg said. Derrick Walker did a bit of everything with nine points, 12 rebounds and a career-high-tying eight assists. Sam Hoiberg and Wilhelm Breidenbach chipped in nine points apiece off the bench on a combined 7-of-12 shooting including 3-of-6 from deep. Keisei Tominaga got the Huskers off to a great start and finished with 11 points. Wilcher scored 12 points on 5-of-7 shooting (2-of-4 from 3) with five rebounds. Jamarques Lawrence tied his career high with 15 points on 5-of-8 from while adding five rebounds and four assists to his line.Ĭ.J. Griesel led Nebraska with 16 points on 6-of-10 shooting including a season-high three 3-pointers, and he also grabbed six rebounds and dished out three assists without a turnover. We know that each of us are going to make mistakes throughout the game, but when we have each other’s backs and the staff has our backs, it really helps put together a whole 40.”

“Every game there are going to be times we’re going to mess up, but like I talked about before, it’s all about the resiliency and the togetherness of this group. “It felt like it was a complete 40 today,” Sam Griesel said during a post-game radio interview. The Huskers put up 81 points with just five made free throws on eight attempts and had a Big Ten season-high 19 assists on 31 field goals. However, Nebraska made a season-high 14 3-pointers, connecting at a 53.8% clip, and shot 58.5% overall. Iowa grabbed 21 offensive rebounds and forced 15 Nebraska turnovers, leading to 51 Hawkeye points off the extra possessions (30 more than Nebraska scored in the same categories). Nebraska won six of its last eight games.

500 during the regular season at 16-15 (9-10 Big Ten). With the win, the Huskers secured their first season sweep of the Hawkeyes since joining the Big Ten and finished above.

Nebraska made plenty of mistakes on Sunday afternoon in Iowa City, but basketball is a make-or-miss game and the Huskers did a whole lot of making, especially in the second half, to spoil Iowa’s senior day, 81-77.

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