• Nebraska improves to 21-9 on the season and the 21 wins ties for sixth on NU single-season win chart. 

 

• Nebraska improves to 18-1 at home, including a perfect 10-0 in Big Ten play. The 18 wins sets a school record for most home wins and the 18-1 mark is the Huskers' best home mark since going 11-0 in 1965-66.

 

• Nebraska was a perfect 10-0 at home in Big Ten play, it marks just the 11th time in school history and third since WWII that Nebraska posted a perfect home conference mark (others were 2017-18 and 1965-66)

 

• Nebraska held Rutgers to 32.8 percent shooting, its lowest since shooting 32.3 percent against Indiana on Jan. 9

 

• With 11 Big Ten wins, NU is assured of its first winning record in conference play since 2017-18. The 11 wins ties for the fourth-most conference wins in a season in school history

 

• Nebraska has held its last nine opponents under 43 percent shooting, dating back to Jan. 27

 

• Josiah Allick posted his first double-double of the season and 12th of his career with 10 points and a season-high 12 rebounds. Allick, who reached double figures for the ninth time this year, went over 1,200 points in his career. 

 

• Juwan Gary also joined Allick with a double-double with 15 points and 11 rebounds while adding three blocked shots. Gary now has five double-doubles for the season and eight in his career. 

 

• It marks the thired time this season Nebraska had multiple double-doubles in a game (also vs Oregon State on Nov. 18; at Kansas State on Dec. 17). 

 

• Keisei Tominaga led NU with 18 points, including 12 in the second half. It was the 10th time he paced NU in scoring this season. He now has 982 career points is 18 away from reaching 1,000 career points at Nebraska. 

 

• Nebraska won the rebounding battle 44-40 and is 14-0 this season when out-rebounding its opponents.

 

“Yeah, it was the perfect night for our seniors to go out the way they did, and you know, I told them after the game, ‘I’ll never forget my senior night, it burns me up inside. I was 3-for-16 against Oklahoma and it was a miserable night and I still think about it. I went home and I kicked the lamp over and broke it and it still lives with me.’ So to send these guys out like that was a perfect ending. You know it’s just sad, emotional, it’s Keisei Tominaga’s last game in Pinnacle Bank Arena, for everything that he’s been through in the last three years, and what he’s meant to our program. And what Josiah has given us in a year is just absolutely remarkable. You know for Josiah, set the tone for us early in that game. And you know, we just got out-toughed in the game in Piscataway. You know, Kevin McHale was here at the game today, and he’s a mentor to me I took a lot of things from him, and he said he wanted to come and say a few words to our guys after the game and that’s all he talked about, was just the effort and how much he loved watching us out there competing. And you know, the first five minutes everybody was down in the stance and putting on plays and all over the glass, and we got a top-50 player and you know, Charles Barkley says he’s the best player he’s ever played against, talking to the guys about effort and sacrifice and playing to the guy next to you, it’s a pretty cool message. Just a fun night, proud of them, and a good chance to get some off-days this week with the bye-week, and get ourselves prepared and put a game plan in and you know, hopefully finish this thing the right way on Sunday.”

 

“I thought on the offensive glass especially, we were relentless, we were all over the place. That putback dunk by Juwan (Gary). But again, it started with Josiah (Allick) early in that game. Brice got in there and got a couple as well. And they still got 19. That’s still a lot of offensive rebounds, but we battled with them. We got 14 of our own. And that’s who they are, that’s what they do. We talked about rebounding and taking care of the ball. And hell, we improved by six, they got 25 when we played them in New Jersey. I thought the effort was exactly where it needed to be. They’re so good, they play so hard, that Rutgers team, Steve Pikiell has done a fantastic job with a lot of injuries that they’ve had. (Mawot) Mag is such a huge part of that team. They guard you, man. They’re just all over you. To find a way, and we couldn’t just quite pull away. We missed I think four out of five free throws, Keisei misses a point-blank layup. They kinda just hung right there. If we would’ve finished plays, I think it could’ve been a better margin, but, you know, we got the win, and that’s the important thing.”

 

“I just kept cutting and moving and so that was big at that moment of the game with the big three.  I think I just need to keep moving and growing to make my teammates better. Let the game come to me and live in the moment.” 

 

“It meant a lot to me, I’ve been here for three years. The crowd was amazing and for a moment like that to happen it meant a lot to me.”

 

“The biggest thing for me was just going out strong. Like I said in the presser yesterday, this is a team that punked us last time we played. I just knew obviously at the end of the day sometimes you play your best basketball, and it doesn’t go your way. But I knew going into this I wasn’t going to let it happen that way. I wasn’t going to let us get punked in front of our home crowd after all the improvements and consistency we showed at home this year. I made sure that was my whole approach that they’re not getting us on the glass. 

 

“We failed at it in the first half with 10 turnovers but the biggest thing is trying to match their physicality and not let them jump past us in the passing lanes. We definitely fell victim to that in the second and did a better job of responding and kind of adapting to that pressure. Obviously, they’re the best defensive team in our conference and even with the 10 turnovers, I knew that if we just took care of that we’d be fine.”

 

“Fred’s done a fantastic job, that’s a really good basketball team. You can’t spot them on the road like that. They have a lot of shooters, and guys that made threes at the end of the shot clock that we weren’t expecting. I thought we got off to a really good start, and we had to fight through a lot of adversity to get back in the game a little bit. But he’s a really good coach and it’s a really good basketball team.”

 

“Obviously that was an emphasis that they placed. He is a really good coach… In the beginning of that game, they were really the aggressors. Every way, they got down first for loose balls, they got second shots chances. That was really how they scored in the first (few minutes). They did a really good job and we obviously need to do a better job boxing out.”

 

“Yeah, I mean, their seniors are really good. He made some shots with the shot clock going down. He made twos today. We’re always trying to limit his threes and his opportunities, but he’s become a really good basketball player. In his first year here, it was a three or nothing, and now he’s able to do a lot of different things. And seeing him play with emotion and that kind of thing. So he’s a hard guy, but they’ve got a lot of pieces. Isolating him, and Wilcher can really shoot the ball, Mast is good, he causes problems, Allick plays so hard. They have a lot of guys, so when you try to take away something, then other guys are able to do different things.”