MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WOWT) – For the primary time in a decade, the Nebraska males’s basketball will take part in March Insanity.
The No. 8 seed Huskers (23-10) tackle No. 9 Texas A&M (20-14) within the first spherical of the boys’s NCAA Match South Area on Friday in Memphis.
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Head coach Fred Hoiberg’s squad is making their first look on the nationwide stage since 2014 when Tim Miles was the workforce’s head coach. Now, this Husker workforce — led by the scintillating, electrifying Keisei Tominaga — will look to make historical past as the one Nebraska males’s basketball workforce to win an NCAA Match sport.
The Huskers are 0-7 all time in March Insanity.
Hoiberg is aware of what it takes to win in March, having been to 4 tournaments because the coach of Iowa State, and he believes his Husker squad is supplied to offer Nebraska followers an opportunity to rejoice a event victory for the primary time ever.
“I’m assured,” Hoiberg stated in his press convention Thursday. “Our group has been by means of lots. We’ve been by means of quite a lot of highs and lows. And I do assume we’re taking part in nearly as good as we’ve performed all 12 months proper now.”
GAME INFO
- WHEN: 5:50 p.m., Friday, March 22
- WHERE: FedEx Discussion board, Memphis, Tenn.
- WATCH: TNT
- LISTEN: Huskers Radio Community
- VEGAS ODDS: Texas A&M +1.5, O/U 148.5
Tominaga is a large a part of that success. He averaged just below 15 factors per sport as Nebraska’s main scorer by means of the common season.
Now, the 6-foot-2, 179-pound Japanese sharpshooter has an opportunity to grow to be a figurehead of this 12 months’s event for a nationwide viewers that’s at all times ravenous for a darling to get behind.
“I’m so pleased with [Tominaga’s] progress over the past couple years,” Hoiberg stated. “His first 12 months at Nebraska, there have been some video games he simply couldn’t play. He simply acquired overwhelmed by physicality. Now, he doesn’t again down kind anyone. he’s at all times gonna go on the market and offer you an effort. I’m simply pleased with him for all the pieces he’s finished to make him the kind of participant he’s now.”
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