The NCAA doesn't allow media to attend the so-called "secret" men's basketballs scrimmages you'll hear about this time of year, and scores and statistics aren't supposed to be kept and/or made public.So we rely on little birds to scrape together some details, however unofficial or secret they may be.
And a little bird who attended Nebraska's closed scrimmage Sunday against Kansas State, in Omaha, reports a Nebraska victory -- sort of.
The teams' top units played 30 minutes of man-to-man and 10 minutes of zone. Nebraska and Kansas State played to a tie in the man-to-man portion, but Nebraska won by seven in the zone portion.
The teams also played 10 minutes of man-to-man with the reserves, with Kansas State winning by nine.
Nebraska started the same starting five it used at the end of last season: Tai Webster, Terran Petteway, Shavon Shields, David Rivers and Walter Pitchford.
Other tidbits:
Nebraska's top six, which includes Benny Parker, is "really solid;" Pitchford, in particular, stood out offensively, as did Tai Webster, who was 3-for-3 on three-pointers; Nebraska's back-up big men need to be better; In the 30-minute man-to-man portion that ended tied, Nebraska missed at least six free throws.
