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MBB Game #25, (L, 64-102), Thu, 3/4 @ Iowa, 8:00 pm CT, BTN - TV (Game Thread)

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Huskers Fall to No. 5 Iowa - University of Nebraska

Lat Mayen continued his fine play with his first career double-double, but fifth-ranked Iowa took control early posted a 102-64 victory Thursday evening at Carver-Hawkeye
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MBB Game #25, Thu, 3/4 @ Iowa, 8:00 pm CT, BTN - TV (Game Thread)
Huskers (7-17, 3-14) vs Iowa (18-7, 12-6)

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Huskers Look for Third Straight Win - University of Nebraska

The Nebraska men's basketball team looks for its third straight win on Thursday, as the Huskers travel to No. 5 Iowa. Tipoff from Carver-Hawkeye Arena is slated
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The Huskers (7-17, 3-14 Big Ten) put together their best performance of the year in a 72-51 win over Rutgers Monday night. Lat Mayen had 20 of his career-high 25 points in the first half, as the Huskers never trailed and built a double-digit lead in the first 10 minutes and were in control most of the night. Nebraska shot 52 percent from the floor, while holding Rutgers to 39 percent shooting, including 3-of-23 from 3-point range. Derrick Walker added a career-high 14 points and six rebounds, while Trey McGowens added 12 points and five assists. :pirate:

SCOUTING IOWA
Iowa (18-7, 12-6 Big Ten) comes into Thursday's matchup playing its best basketball of the season, as the Hawkeyes have won five of their last six, including a 16-point win at No. 5 Ohio State last week. The Hawkeyes, who climbed to fifth in this week's AP poll, are led by reigning Big Ten player of the Year Luka Garza, who had 24 points on 10-of-16 shooting and 11 rebounds against Ohio State. Joe Weiskamp added 19 points, including five 3-pointers, while the Hawkeyes forced 13 turnovers and held Ohio State to 45 percent shooting.
 
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Oh, My!!! The Rutgers Game was So Much FUN!!! :pirate:

Let's Do It Again! :Woohoo2:

 





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InsideNebraska - Hoops Game Day: Nebraska at No. 5 Iowa

Here is what you need to know going into Nebraska's road game at No. 5 Iowa tonight at 8 p.m. CT.
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3 KEYS TO VICTORY​


1. Continue the chemistry
Nebraska's offensive flow, cohesiveness, and ball movement have been as good over the past two games as we've seen all season.
Thorir Thorbjarnarson and Kobe Webster have been instrumental in creating exceptional spacing and passing in the last two wins.
Trey McGowens has emerged as the leader on the floor - against Rutgers, McGowens controlled everything Nebraska did with the ball.
2. Keep Garza in check
Iowa senior Luka Garza has been the best post player in the country for the past two seasons.
He's the second-leading scorer in the nation at 24.3 points per game - shooting 55 percent from the field and 46 percent from behind the arc.
Simply put, the Huskers must do everything they can to make anyone else on the Hawkeyes have to beat them.
Nebraska's only chance is to keep Garza from taking the game over while also hoping his teammates have an off-night.
3. Bring the defensive intensity
Nebraska might not see a more potent offensive opponent this season than it will against Iowa.
NU has to play with the same level of defensive energy and effort it did in shutting down Rutgers if it's going to have any shot at keeping up with Iowa tonight.

"We could play great tomorrow and lose by 20. Iowa's that good."
— Head coach Fred Hoiberg on the challenge that awaits tonight against No. 5 Iowa.
 




Another Game-Primer :Salute: (from another site: :Redface:)

The Skinny:
Let's get this out of the way: Iowa is going to pass the ball around and either throw it in to Garza or else take a 3. Defensively after baskets they'll roll out some 2/3rds court pressure; it's all about trying to slow you down. Hopefully at some point Fran will get mad.

Really the more interesting thing these days is that Nebraska looks offensively like a Fred Hoiberg team. The players and the ball are moving around which in turn is generating open looks that guys are hitting. With as talented as Teddy Allen was, you could see why we spent so much time and effort trying to fit him into this offense. Everyone noticed the ball got stuck with him but the dynamic that might not have been so obvious was this deference often seemed to be intentional; why wouldn't we get the ball to Teddy more? The remaining team has seemed to step up their game and Hoiberg has seemly found the right PG for his offense in Trey McGowens: someone who is more than capable of getting his own shot at any time but realizes the importance of getting everyone else involved. McGowens also seems to be someone who doesn't need to hold onto the ball. Seems like we might be seeing the progress we'd been hoping for before Bryce McGowens gets to town.

Fred Hoiberg has typically had Fran McCaffery's number in the past but Iowa has one heck of a team. Between that history and the beatdown Nebraska put on Rutgers, the Hawkeyes won't be sleepwalking into this game. Feels like Nebraska can hang with anyone these days but do they have enough juice to play 40 minutes?

Prediction: Iowa 85 - Nebraska 72

Players to watch: Luka Garza
Garza is the odds on favorite to be the POTY in college basketball. He's among the conference leaders in points, rebounds, and blocks. At this point it's all about how much damage he's going to do offensively in addition to putting your bigs into foul trouble

Players to watch: Connor McCaffery
Nebraska loves to take away the paint so look for Nebraska to sag off of McCaffery on the paint at points to help down on Garza and is Connor hitting tonight
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