A 2-0 begin is up for grabs when Nebraska hosts Florida Worldwide on Saturday afternoon in Lincoln, Neb.
Nebraska opened the season Monday with an 86-53 house win over West Georgia, with Fred Hoiberg incomes his 2 hundredth profession win as a school coach. The Cornhuskers received 22 factors off the bench from redshirt freshman Braden Frager, the third-highest scoring output for a Nebraska participant in a collegiate debut.
“Simply seeing that ball go within the hoop form of actually helped out so much with it,” Frager stated. “I do not actually go on the video games otherwise relying on the opponent. I simply need to go on the market and play and have enjoyable.”
Maybe extra spectacular was the efficiency of senior Rienk Mast, who had 10 factors and 11 rebounds in his return to motion after lacking final season attributable to harm. It was his twenty seventh profession double-double, his seventh in two-plus seasons with Nebraska.
FIU started play Monday with a 101-49 drubbing of Florida Nationwide, an NAIA college. The Panthers gained their opener for the primary time since 2022-23 behind 25 factors, seven rebounds and 6 steals from senior Larry Olayinka, a switch from Samford.
FIU shot 52.7% from the sphere and 39.3% (11 of 28) from 3-point vary and outscored the Conquistadors 54-26 within the paint. The Panthers pressured 25 turnovers, together with 15 steals.
Eighth-year coach Jeremy Ballard is one win away from 100 for his tenure however is doing it with an all-new roster.
“It is invigorating as a training workers to get a full new staff, and we’re reteaching all the pieces from floor one to everybody, and that is superior,” Ballard stated through the preseason. “It actually ignites the instructor in you as a coach. Each drill, each set, each idea, our identification and tradition. Now we have to make it possible for we’re actually going above and past to outline that as a result of we’ve got such a brand new staff.”
FIU’s final win towards a power-conference foe got here in 2004 at Florida State. Nebraska has gained 9 straight non-conference house video games.
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